Jazz Fusion Music

Memories of a Loser

“Memories of a Loser” presents Juan Belda & The Bit Band at their most focused and fully realized. Blending jazz, rock, electronics and experimental composition, the album refines the core elements that have defined the project into a more cohesive and direct musical statement. The result is a record that moves with clarity while preserving its exploratory edge. Structured compositions and open passages coexist naturally throughout the album, driven by a strong sense of atmosphere and interplay between musicians. This balance gives the music both direction and freedom - never static, never predictable. The presence of long-time collaborators such as Jorge Pardo, Pelayo Arrizabalaga, Enrico Barbaro, Juanjo Ortí, Javier Colis and Markus Breuss reinforces the collective identity at the heart of the project. Alongside original material, the album incorporates reinterpretations fully absorbed into its language, blurring the line between reference and transformation. “Memories of a Loser” is not a departure, but a consolidation - a point where the sound of the Bit Band becomes sharper, more deliberate and unmistakably its own.

The Bridge To Total Freedom

Hitting somewhere between Eli Keszler’s offbeat jazz scope and King Britt’s broken beats, Philly native Malk expresses a restless soul in the livewire beats and zig-zagging keys and instrumentation of ‘The Bridge To Total Freedom’. He properly gets inside his thang on highlights including the lokey burner ‘Pete’s Groove’ and scuffed drums and drones of ‘Charlie’s Back Pocket’, with exceptional work in the tension between high velocity drums and calm pads and chords in ‘Rough Sentences’, and the laid-back, latinate hustle of ‘A Link To The Future’. “As with his work with Hip Hop trio Mahatma X and his more electronic hued solo offerings, it's impossible to pin his sound down to any one particular genre. With THE OT X-TET he points his feverish, scattershot productions in a jazz direction, most notably with a respectful nod to Madlib's Yesterday's New Quintet project. After spending a year in London, ostensibly to further his academic career, he immersed himself in the capital's burgeoning new jazz scene and The Bridge To Total Freedom was the result of fevered late night sessions, coalescing in a much more realised and nuanced set of tracks in comparison with his previous outings. Yes, you can call it jazz but this is jazz MALK style. Retaining all the hallmarks of his skittish production style, the eleven tracks that make up the album seamlessly merge live drumming and instrumentation with programmed beats and samples that reference the many oddball memes that preoccupy this talented producer's febrile imagination. From the get go it swings and it grooves with spacey keys sketching the album's multifarious earworms.”

TGAAZ at AZZ

The Geese at Astra Zeneca, abbreviated as "TGAAZ" for apparent copyright reasons, is a collaboration between Rodney Carpenter (of The OT X-TET) and Henry (of Mahatma X/MADDOGG/SCRAN), as well as frequent collaborator Darian Smith. The name might seem odd, but it references a literal gaggle of geese that live, work, and play on the grounds of the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical campus situated just outside the proverbial bastion of boredom that is Wilmington, Delaware. Visible from I-95, Henry would travel weekly between the group's Sweet Chunk HQ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, looking outside his car window to see this regular cast of characters. Rain or shine, they would be there, always seeming to live without a care in the world, completely oblivious to the looming logo of corporate misery they've chosen as their home. Their first album, "TGAAZ at AZZ," is the product of a single, 3-hour improvised session recorded with one microphone in the living area of their Philadelphia warehouse in the summer of 2022. Afterwards, MALK took this recording and isolated, reworked, and expanded it to create 13 off-kilter experiments. Sitting somewhere between free jazz, instrumental hip-hop, and perhaps some punk, "TGAAZ at AZZ" is a frantic, challenging approach to the intersection of jazz and beat tapes - yet it's spoken with a playful, familiar lexicon. HONK HONK

Meet the Worm!

9 track album Silver wings in the moonlight flying high up above. Mastered by: banshee.wave Originally released 9 March 2023. - WFWM #0078

rinsse with mike clark

When the legendary Mike Clark, drummer for Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters, Brand X, and much more joins divisively weird queer jazz industrial collective Rinsse; you get a trip hop extravaganza with high tech electronic synth guitar by burnet207, world class saxophone by David Lackner (of Galtta Media/Blue Jazz TV), minimalist ashbury bass by "Jamband" Josh Brown, and of course the needlessly awesome drums of Mike himself!! For fans of Massive Attack, Portishead, Bjork, Poison Girlfriend, funky jazz fusion, and IDM!

Khyron Picks Vol. 1

Khyron Label started in the 2010s as a music clearing house for electronic musicians/composers/multi-instrumentalists: "Jamband" Josh Brown & burnet207 who met in Minneapolis, MN in the 2000s. As the founding members of Rinsse, they started using Khyron Label on bandcamp as an outlet for their prolific musical outputs as well as releasing stuff by Skoal Kodiak, Knife World, Slapping Purses, Jacob Sugarman, & Little Foot as well as collaborations with Dr. Dijital & legendary jazz drummer Mike Clark. The musical style and art are always changing but the experimental music vibes chime throughout. This is a compilation to explain a little bit about our first 140 odd releases from over the last decade so. Thanks for listening. credits released January 2, 2026

Sanctuary Hearts EP

5 track album

Nostalgia