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Freestyle crew members (EzBoy, Say Vegin, Howie & Outspan) and Friends
offer you the coolest tracks we discovered in the year 2002

say logo3.gif (5257 bytes) Say Vegin
e-mail:
bart@freestylegrooves.com
Essential releases for 2002
Múm - Finally We Are No One - Fat Cat
Markant - Vice Versa - Markant
Syntetika - 100% Syntetika - Shaped Harmonics
KOOP - Waltz For KOOP - JCR
Nautilis - Sketches - Planet Mu
Various - Documenta II - AgendA
Transcendent Minds - Lunar Visions - Karma Giraffe
Soulive - Clap! - Blue Note
Soulsavers - Beginning To See The Dark - City Rockers
Ruzina Frankulin - Electroblue EP - Starbaby
Takagi Masakatsu - Eating - Karaoke Kalk
Various - Men With Boxes - DUB
Seiji - 3Dom - Bitasweet
Essential older releases discovered in 2002
Slim - 0097 - em:t 1997
The Solid Doctor - Beats Means Highs - Pork 1996
Various - Ambient Systems - Instinct Ambient 1995
Future Beat Alliance - Audio Photos - Delsin 2000
Mode M - Inner World EP - Void 1997
Union Jack - There Will Be No Armageddon - Platipus 1995
Best Live Performances of 2002
KOOP & Earl Zinger at De Kreun (Bissegem-Kortrijk)
Múm at Botanique (Brussels)
Howard
e-mail:
howie@freestylegrooves.com
2002 Essentials
1. 100% Syntetika // Shaped Harmonics
2. Markant: Vice Versa // Markant Records
3. Mum: finally we are no one // fat-cat
4. The other people place : Lifestyles of the laptop café // Warp
5. Boards of Canada: geogaddi // Warp
6. Protocol: ndc e.p. // Isophlux Rec.
7. Delarosa and Asora: crush the sight-seers // hefty records
8. John Tejada & Titonton Duvanté: Freaky Deaky EP // Residual Rec.
9. Fizzarum: Series 500 (Ser.514) // Domino Rec.
10. funckarma: solid state // dub
11. Isan: Salamander // morr music
12. Pre Fuse 73: The '92 VS '02 Collection // Warp
13. Metamatics: From death To Passwords // Hydrogen Dukebox
14. Plaid: P-Brane EP // Warp
15. Bjorn Torske: Trobbel // Tellé Rec.
16. savath+salvas: the rolls and waves ep // hefty records
17. Various artists Natural Instinct: native sampler three / theory recordings 2001
18. Koop: Waltz For Koop // Jazzanova Compost Records
19. The Collection: Internal Bass Rec. presents the first then 12" <vinyl cuts>
20. Patrick Forge PF01 // TrusttheDJ rec.
21. DJ Marky & DJ Patife: The Brasil EP // V Recordings
22. 75 Moods (Ralph Lock (Berlin): My Love 
23. Jon Cutler feat. E-man: It's Yours // Legato (Distant Music)
24. Glenn Underground: Essentials I // Cajual
25. Davidson Ospina: Chronicles // Henry Street
   
ezgr.gif (46613 bytes) EZ Boy
e-mail: bruno@freestylegrooves.com
10 new albums that really moved me in 2002 in order of movement
1) Tomasz Stanko Quartet : Soul of things : ECM
Amazing subtle redefinition of contemporary soft jazz
2) Till Brönner : Blue Eyed Soul : Universal
Hard to define deep funky nu-millenium soul 
3) Nils Petter Molvaer : NP3 : Sula
Nu-jazz-rock weirdness à la carte
4) Syntetika : 100% Syntetika : Shaped Harmonics
Mid-nineties ambient electronic sound redefinition
5) Move D - Namlook : Home shopping
Masters of jazz-ambient @ work
6) Künstler Treu : Humuhumunukunuku-aqua'a : Eleganz
Upgraded shopping mall music for chilling home listeners
7) Aural Float : Freefloat : Elektrolux
Space Night guru serves his menu of space music
8) Nils Landgren - Esbjörn Svensson : Layers of light : ACT
Northern Europe soft jazz interpretation
9) Govinda : Erotic Rythms from earth : Earthone
Delicious blunted beats cocktail
10) Erik Truffaz : Mantis : ECM
Unique French acid-jazz-funk workout