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CULTURE GRAPHIC DESIGN
ANDY GILMORE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
For a while, this designer/illustrator from Rochester, New York, has been creating ripples in the art world. Many of his complex, geometric images resemble etches produced by Spirograph toys from >>>
MUSIC SOUL / JAZZ / BROKEN BEAT
MICHELLE AMADOR ALBUM REVIEW
Roy Ayers. Roy Ayers. Roy Ayers. That's the name that springs to mind when listening to Higher. >>>
MUSIC JAZZ
ELAN MEHLER ALBUM REVIEW
This New York pianist looks like a jazz man, sounds like a jazz man, and yet makes music >>>
CULTURE ART
BLEK LE RAT UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
With Bristolian graffiti artist Banksy fetching a whopping £322,900 at Sotheby's in 2007 for >>>
MUSIC ELECTRONICA / HIP HOP
DORIAN CONCEPT ALBUM REVIEW
With his floppy blond locks and second-hand T-shirts, Dorian Concept personifies nerdiness >>>
MUSIC JAZZ / BROKEN BEAT
KAIDI TATHAM ALBUM REVIEW
Kaidi, like other broken beat practitioners, shuns the limelight. But if you've been paying >>>
CULTURE ART
TAKASHI MURAKAMI UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
It's a cliché to call Takashi Murakami "Japan's answer to Andy Warhol", but there are some >>>
MUSIC NU JAZZ / CHILL
LARS BARTKUHN ALBUM REVIEW
Some say material on this album sounds a bit like Pat Metheny. They're mistaken. There's >>>
MUSIC BROKEN BEAT / SOUL
2000 BLACK ALBUM REVIEW
Major labels make it painless for fans to buy their wares anywhere in any format. Wanna >>>Take a break from hype, as we give you the inside track on the sights and sounds of the metropolis. Whether you're into nu jazz, neo soul or simply leftfield culture, you can rely on Commercial Break's fair-minded reviews. There's no hard sell, no agenda, just honest verdicts
CULTURE FILM
ALAN J PAKULA'S ROLLOVER
Economists have, with some justification, been criticised >>>
ALBUM REVIEWS
Soul / Jazz / Broken beat
Michelle Amador
Higher
Nu jazz / Chill / Folk
Lars Bartkuhn
The New Continent
Acoustic jazz
Elan Mehler
The After Suite
Electronica / Hip hop
Dorian Concept
When Planets Explode
Jazz / Broken beat
Kaidi Tatham
In Search Of Hope
Hip hop / Neo soul
Q-Tip
The Renaissance
Broken beat / Soul
2000 Black
A Next Set A Rockers
Jazz / Neo soul / P-funk
Karen P
…broad casting
Neo soul
Erykah Badu
New Amerykah Part
One: 4th World War
Acoustic jazz
Soil & "PIMP" Sessions
Planet Pimp
Nu jazz / Broken beat
Various artists
Jazz Re:freshed Vol. 1
Neo soul
Dwele
Sketches Of A Man
Soulful house
Fanatix
This Thing Of Ours…
Hip hop
J-Live
Then What Happened?
Nu jazz
Sonar Kollektiv Orchester
Guaranteed Niceness
Acoustic jazz
The Neil Cowley Trio
Loud… Louder… Stop!
Nu jazz
Two Banks Of Four
Junkyard Gods
Hip hop / P-funk / Dub
4hero
…mixing
Soulful house / Soul
Reel People
Seven Ways To Wonder
Neo soul
Natalie Gardiner
California
Broken beat
Various artists
Broadcite Acetate
Soul / Funk / House
Opolopo
Rf Presents Opolopo
Broken beat / Neo soul
Flowriders
R.U.E.D.Y.
Neo soul
Jill Scott
The Real Thing:
Words And Sounds Vol. 3
Neo soul
Angie Stone
The Art Of Love & War
Neo soul / Broken beat
The Politik
(Bêmbè Sêguè
& Mark de Clive-Lowe)
The Politik
Neo soul / Hip hop
Jill Scott
Collaborations
Downbeat / Folk
The Cinematic
Orchestra
Ma Fleur
Broken beat / Neo soul
Brotherly
One Sweet Life
Soul / Broken beat
4hero
Play With The Changes
Broken beat / P-funk
Bugz In The Attic
Back In The Dog House
Broken beat / Soul
Domu
Return Of The Rogue
Soulful house / Soul
Peven Everett
Power Soul
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