Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) is one of the most original electronic music artists working today. As a result, FlyLo’s upcoming full-length Cosmogramma is being hailed by those that have heard it as a paradigm-shifting opus (FlyLo himself calls it a “space opera”) that will change electronic music forever.

José James just might be the male Sade. Like her, this soulful crooner uses his smokily seductive voice to effortlessly fold himself into the listener’s consciousness. But while this young, New York-based singer starts with jazzy soul as his root force—his haunting vocals recall everyone from Billie Holiday and Chet Baker to Bill Withers—he’s smart enough to know that his smoothness will stand out best when placed against edgier textures.

Sexy, jazzy, and above all, magical – that describes BLACKMAGIC, the latest podcast from Gilles Peterson, available completely exclusively on KSPACE. In its nearly half-hour of non-stop music, BLACKMAGIC focuses on one of Gilles’ latest, greatest discoveries – 21st century crooner José James and his second album of the same title, along with samplings of his 2008 debut The Dreamer and other influences that make up his sound.

Friends We Love is now 2.0. Our good friends
 Mike Vargas and Moni Pineda have recently re-launched their visual web community with loads of new features with easy click through functions,
 all stylish placed upon a very clean and captivating design. Initially
 when FWL started out a year ago, the focus was to capture the 
inspiration and motivation behind some of our favorite creative
 talents through their show Artist Profiles – from Invader to K’Naan, Bobbito to Gilles Peterson (Sportswide), J.Period to Jose James to Zap Mama and Jonathan Levine…..

There’s a whole lot to be said about CLASSIC for sure !  but most of all it’s kinda that ease comfort and timelessness that probably best expresses the word. We’re very proud of our 1966 Classic original with its sport and cultural heritage, and with that in mind we welcome you to step into our [...]

Celebrations the world over continues strong. Southport Weekender starts tonight and I can’t think of a better way to give thanks to such a historic Obama week then with 3 day victory dance party. Europe’s most loved music festival showers 5,000 faithful dance lovers with their favorite top names in soulful dance music (and [...]

We give a whole lot of updates here about José – all with good reason no doubt. José will be back in London on June 14th guesting with and celebrating Flying Lotus’s new Los Angeles release in a dope car park in Shoreditch. He also has finished the video for ‘Park Bench People’ which you [...]

Our favorite ‘dreamer’, young José James has just completed his May tour which stretched from Cambridge to Norway to K-Space Amsterdam (to debut his new video ‘Park Bench People’) to Rome (with Nicola Conte) and ending up in St Petersburg. Speaking of new videos, José has also completed one with J.A.M (the Soil & “PIMP” [...]

Let’s do some maths, shall we. Calculate the following: One Mighty Warp Records plus the exponential power of Flying Lotus (seen above at Benji B’s Deviation) multiplied by the complex fraction of Digital Mystikz doubled with the cubic formula of Danny Breaks then divided by the linear equation of Jose James. Okay now add [...]

José James, our man from New York, and his crew are making all kinds of efforts to promote his excellent new ‘The Dreamer’ album. Today, the lp hits the shops worldwide while The Dreamer tour continues. What’s more; Dutch dance music platform DJBroadcast has launched an exclusive podkast, featuring several album tracks and remixes.

You will need no convincing that his much anticipated album ‘The Dreamer’ is well worth picking up on 28 January ! on vinyl and CD mind you. It also ties in with the Brownswood Recordings winter sale where you can get some Brownswood Bubblers, Ben Westbeech, Elan Mehler and the mighty SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS. [...]

The exceptional and multi-talented Jose James is a very welcome addition to the already impressive line up of Gilles Peterson’s World Wide Awards. The New Yorker will perform together with Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson band at the WWA at Cargo London 5 January. These are busy times as he is also about to embark upon a [...]

Musically it’s true of course ! This clip is just a small example of the recent magic of SOIL&”PIMP”SESSIONS together with Jose James at the grand finale at London’s Bush Hall of the Brownswood Loves Jazz Tour. Do excuse the sound quality cause it’s shot on my mobile but you can also check more clips [...]

Before the embark upon their European Brownswood Loves Jazz tour, playing in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin and London, Gilles Peterson’s label announces a couple of freshly cut releases. The José James track Blackeyedsusan comes with a remix by broken beat don IG Culture.
The Japanese jazz collective SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS is next in line with a [...]

Jose James , has spent his summer hanging with his buddy Gilles Peterson on Brownswood street. The two are prepping for Jose’s album, digging through crates, and enjoying the English summer as much as possible. To tease the craving fans, waiting for the Jose James album that is up for release in 2008, Brownswood [...]