Something else to have got overlooked in the Great Monkeyboxing Php Update Disaster was this – Look Around – the most recent single from Renegades Of Jazz featuring Mani Draper. Over a suitably driving slice of original uptempo funk, the Oakland MC encourages punters to take a moment and consider the daily overload most of us are exposed to. Puts one in mind of Ferris Bueller in
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RENEGADES OF JAZZ (feat. MANI DRAPER): Look Around
THE MAENADS: Orpheus
The Maenads is the new project from Renegades of Jazz’s David Hanke and Kabanjak’s Ingo Möll and finds the pair venturing into the territory of atmospheric breakbeat electronica with current single Orpheus. Alright, don’t lose your heads (or tear anything to pieces – thank you, I’m here all week!) – but expect instead seven plus minutes of sweeping musical grandeur as lyric-less female
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LEHTO: Lovers
It’s been a while since the monkey heard of anything from the camp of Mr David Hanke a.k.a. Renegades Of Jazz a.k.a. Keno but here he is in yet another incarnation as Lehto with an original slice of soulful breakbeat music, Lovers. It begins in a glorious blissed-out state of grace, then gets all fired up when the drums kick in, has its moody bits, then its loud bits again and then finally
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RENEGADES OF JAZZ feat. ALEXIA COLEY: Magic Touch (Vinyl 7″)
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As regular MB readers will know, Renegades Of Jazz’s David Hanke is a tireless producer of original music and a man with Catholic tastes in both the music he produces and is inspired by. Party breakbeat, downtempo, afro, Latin and more besides – he’s certainly spread his love around. This time however, he’s all about the funky soul – a genre which, as regular MB readers
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MANKOORA: Sonór Tropicàl (Vinyl 7″)
Renegades Of Jazz returns to his experiments in tropical sounds under his Mankoora alter-ego after a short break of – oohh – only nine years or so with new vinyl 7″, Sonór Tropical. On the A-side, the title track is an understated piano-led Latin-jazz breakbeat shaker served with a side of violin and a deceptively chunky bassline. In fact, it’s exactly like a Latin version of those early
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BROWNOUT/ JUNGLE FIRE: Flaximus/ Comencemos (RENEGADES OF JAZZ REMIXES)(Vinyl 7″)
Matasuna Records’ first 45 drop of the new year is a double slice of Afro-Latin heat in the form of two Renegades Of Jazz remixes – and if you know Renegades Of Jazz, you know these will be a little bit special. It’s not actually the first time on vinyl, or even on 45, for the A-side – ROJ’s blistering b-boy mix of Brownout by Texan outfit, Brownout. This originally saw light of day on a ltd. ParisDjs
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VARIOUS: Motor Jazz: Them To Us
If you felt that it had been a while since there’d been anything out of the Renegades Of Jazz camp, your wait is over since compilation Motor Jazz: Them To Us has just been released. The collection has been assembled by ROJ’s very own Mr David Hanke and collates fourteen tracks by fourteen different artists including one by Renegades Of Jazz and another by Funki Porcini. Broadly
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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Neverthless
Since 2011, he’s invented the genre of ‘northern jazz’ and put out two albums’ worth of it (plus a remix LP of one of them), created an epically atmospheric Lucifer-themed concept album (plus a remix of the same), dropped an afro-beat inspired long player (and, again, a remix of the same) and now, creative powers as fertile as ever, David Hanke a.k.a Renegades Of Jazz, releases his
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KENO: Around The Corner
Rating: The new year is finally upon us but what lies around the corner from producer David Hanke? Appropriately enough, it’s a new sample-based cinematic downtempo LP entitled Around The Corner under the nom-de-plume Keno. Which means that ‘the producer with a thousand names’ (well, alright five at least) has added yet another moniker to a growing list that already includes
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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Moyo Zaidi (2017)
Naturally after Renegades Of Jazz’s full-length afro-funky Moyo Wangu outing last year, Moyo Zaidi was only to be expected. However, where Moyo Wangu (a.k.a ‘My Heart’) found producer David Hanke re-connecting with his early childhood in Tanzania, Moyo Zaidi (a.k.a. ‘Oi mate – let us have a go with your stems, I’ve got some ideas’) finds twelve remixers get in on the act with
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