Yan Tregger & Parisian Soul - I Want A WomanTed Scotto began his musical life as a trumpet player, but got his foot in the door of production soundtracks when he composed the theme for the 1968 French animated series Les Shadoks. Soon taking on the pseudonym Yan Tregger (chosen for its nonspecific, English sounding connotations), Scotto wrote and recorded more than thirty library records, ranging from funk and R&B tunes to deep dives into the then prevalent Italo Disco sound. He also continued

Expect to hear further Fusion Moves in the coming months

Lew E turns in two stompers for a limited vinyl only release

Nouveau nous

Gi Gi puts on a riveting synthesis of seemingly distant varietals

He just dropped them at the studio

Devin Dare is back on Stilove4music for a disco banger on A Side and a magnificent basement soul joint on B side

in mixes and throughout homes

It is akin to something Madlib might dream up whilst lost in Japan collaborating with Min'yō players at a recording session

Although it will be almost two years to the day since his last solo endeavor

Norman Nodge

If this album had been produced by ai the prompt would have been: create the perfect mix of daft punk - homework crossed with Brian Wilson - pet sounds containing shades of Moby - play but with the complexity and scope of the avalanches - since i left you

we have Dorothy Ashby’s spiritual piece featuring Koto and spoken word “For Some We Loved” from her classic album “The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby” originally released in 1970 on Cadet and Frantz Tuernal’s “Koultans” originally released in 1986 by l’AMEP (Association Martiniquaise d’Enseignement Populaire) which was also a school in Martinique