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Silvan Strauss is a producer, drummer and German Jazz Prize Winner who loves a bit of hip hop and likes to nudge the boundaries. His first LP was a beat tape dream - think golden age hip hop beats with a modern lick of paint.
On the new album the jazz gods won and he decided to lock a host of top notch collaborators including Joe Armon-Jones - whose June album I’m looking forward to immensely, in a studio for three days to see what happened. His trust was well rewarded with a constantly surprising selection of woozy wobblers, jazz licked head nodders, mushroom jazz, far out fusion, funktified grooves and conscious hip hop. This is one that will appeal equally to the old school hip hop appreciators and forward looking jazz jivers.
Playlist Companion
Find Strauss in the jazz licked, leftfield leaning Slow Hop Playlist
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