Freestyle crew members EzBoy, Say Vegin, Howie en Outspan offer you the coolest tracks of last month.
July / August 1999

	EZ Boy real name: Bruno Fierens a.k.a.: B.F. icq n°: 2665138 e-mail: ezboy@hotmail.com
Some grooves are quite jazzy
1 Jacob : Misunderstood EP : NLC Can be easily mistaken for a real Glenn Underground EP, but it isn't. 2 Naked Music NYC : If I fall : Fur & Femur Music Lazy hazy dazy fat fat sloooowww beat and tasty phasings 3 East West Connection : The More I get (album) : Chilli Funk Extraordinary acidjazitis ! 4 Solaris Heights : Elementis Specialties : Guidance Chilly deephouze for private parties at house 5 Playin' 4 the city : Sh Blues : Straight Up Filtered super moody deephouzer 6 Ray Mang & Lee Tong : Not so fantastic : ? Includes that irresistable funky touch 7 Spacetime Continuum : Double fine zone : Astralwerks Unique fuzzy techjazz blend 8 GU : Fly with me (Mark Grant dub) : Guidance These 2 deep forces combined give you this flying result 9 The Juice : The Brother : CC Records Easy paced deep moody groover. Sure. 10 Marcus Todd : Smove Movement : Kool Groove Smove it is, deep it is
Retro of the month
EZ's classic's shop was closed during summertime

	Howard real name: Howard Djalti a.k.a.: Howie icq n°: 34040960 e-mail: bizare@uptomail.com
House Singles
1 DJ Sneak : Platforms E.P. vol.1. / 83 West records 2 Iz & Diz : What we need EP / Silver 3 U.S. Collective : Please yo'self - Ra Ra / SI Project 4 Stacy Kidd : Chicago L.I.F.E. / Riviera 5 Monotone Fantastique : Diamonds and Dolphins / Wally's Groove World 6 The men who are worth more : The men who are worth more / Raincity  7 J.A.W.S. (Jori Hulkonen) : Polar Pimp / Push and Pull 8 Jacob : Misunderstood / Nite Life Collective 9 Solaris Heights : Elementis / Guidance
Oldies
Roy Ayers : You might be surprised : CBS 1985  Roy Ayers : Let's do it : Polydor 1978  Mandre : 1 : Motown 1977
Compilations / Albums
Various : Points in Time 003 / Good Looking 1999 (see review) Soul Ascendants : Variations / Nuphonic 1999 (see review) José Padilla : Souvenir / Mercury 1998 (see review) Various : More Space to Dance / Alola 1999 (see review)

	Say Vegin real name: Bart Holvoet a.k.a.: El Barto, Jay or Hey icq n°: 11995924 e-mail: sayvegin@xyberweb.com
Bedroom House & Jazzy Chill-Out
1 Solaris Heights : Elementis (Guidance) midtempo afterhours deep-house vibes 2 Jacob : Misunderstood (NLC) a new chicago-house talent, highly influenced by GU 3 Various  : Serve Chilled 2 (DiY / Diversions) abstrakt house, pure homelistening stuff 4 Streetlife Originals : Sidewalk Stories LP (Paper) eclectic mix of house, dub, chill-out and breakbeats 5 Terranova : Turn Around (!K7) dark and melancholic downtempo trip-hop with female vocals 6 Paul Hunter : Red Hook Project 1 (Guidance) this label is getting more eclectic with every new release, smooth acid-jazz tunes 7 GU : Fly with me [Mark Grant rmxs] (Guidance) magical afterhours house-breaks 8 Various : The Lords of Svek vol 4 (SVEK) swedish tech- & deep-house compilation 9 Chris Gray : Emotional Distortion (deep4life) very spacey house, quite weird really  10 Vick Lavender & GU : P.M. Blues (NLC) more jackin' and less funkin' but still has deep groovz & spacey moogz 11 Kid Loco : She Woolf Daydreaming [live mix] (Yellow) sensual lounge music. a bit cheesy though
Old-Skool Jazzy & Funky Stuff
1 Roy Ayers : Vibesman [Live at Ronnie Scot] (Music Club, 95) excellent live album, great atmosphere and super long tracks 2 The Blackbyrds : Unfinished Business (Fantasy, 76) Donald Byrd & Co. let you hear their difinition of funk 3 Brass Construction :  5 (UA, 79) no message please, just dancin'  4 Various : Diggin' Deeper 4 (Columbia) new volume in the rare-groove-funk-latin-soul-acid-jazz series

	Outspan real name: Roel Derudder a.k.a.: Rebel, Jay or Hey e-mail: outspan@iname.com
Rebel's quest for old-skool joy in contemporary grooves
1 AlexKid : jazz course : F-Comm After St. Germain (Ludovic Navarre) and Aqua Bassino (Jason Roberston), a new master in jazzy deep house has risen from out of the F-Communications basement. Where his first ep contained a mix of drum'n bass and disco, this second ep has a disco track, two downbeat tracks and this supa dope sax trip. A-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y Freestyle. 2 Jacob : misunderstood : Nite Life This unknown house artist rocks your ears instantly. Although he really sounds like Deep Dude GU who is constantly worshipped by the Freestyle team, this is not GU himself. EZ bass, spacy moogs and neat production : this is definitely someone who is clearly as familiar and mad about GU's music as we are. He fooled us good however, but apparantly we just misunderstood... 3 Jazzanova : atabaque : Ubiquity There is life back in Germany. Jazzanova is now challenging Fila Brazilia and Nightmares on Wax for the position of best contemporary dope on vinyl producer. This track is definitely the proof that they're going for third base and maybe stealing home. No pot, no fun. 4 Nor Elle : moon b252 : Vermont Taken from the excellent compilation 'Transatlantik Lounging', this drum'n bass track takes the genre 'to the depths of the ocean' as compiler enrico riva says it. I didn't know sax sounded so smooth at -11.000 feet. 5 Greyboy : return to the mountain : Ubiquity Man, this is so old (five years) it actually belongs in the old-skool section. Too bad I didn't pick it up back in those days. Maybe it is because his first album -'Freestylin'- was a bit over-hyphed. But when I stumbled upon his more mature second album 'Land of the Lost', I knew that this man had something to tell. Unlike Dj Shadow and the rest of the you-buy-me-or-you're-not-hip crew, this man really manages to put soul in his music.
Outspan's fat bag of raregroove goodies
1 Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin : unicorn : Pablo Bop-master meets jazz psycho in this fantastic moog-spiced jazzfunk masterpiece. No further comment. 2 Johhny Hammond : for people only : Milestone From the mega-album 'Don't Let The System Get You', this former acoustic organ-player now juggles with ARP synths and slide-bass. This one's destined to make you feel high. Essential by all means. 3 Roy Ayers and Wayne Henderson : step into our life : Polydor Title track of this rare album on which the vibezman and trombone player/tuxedo wearer Wayne Henderson combine their funkiness to come up with lots of variety. A love song in which Roy can't keep himself from shouting silly noises into the picture, a disco-bomb, a typical Ayers Guide Into the Proper Use of The Vibraphone and the beforementioned slow blow gem which makes your ears tingle every second of its long-spanned beauty. 4 Dave Grusin : friends and strangers : GRP This 1980 track is spacy and yet so funky, it feels like dancing on the moon. Dave received a helping hand from some of his friends however : Marcus Miller plays bass and Harvey Mason (drummer with the legendary Headhunters) slaps a both moody and juicy drumbeat together. If it weren't for the Gillespie, Hammond and Ayers albums, this would have been a perfect number one. 5 Ahmad Jamal : m.a.s.h. theme : Columbia Some popular tunes become fantastic jazz tracks when interpreted by the right people. The children song 'These are my favorite things' is now a timeless masterpiece by John Coltrane, and the Latin classic 'Cubano Chant' was played by numerous jazz-greats (Cal Tjader, Art Blakey,...). This theme song from the American television series suddenly becomes extremely moody in the hands of Miles Davis former Jewish piano player Ahmad Jamal. Original composer Johhny Mandel had no other choice but to approve.