Phole – Pleasing

360_Phole_Pleasing_cover_285“Phole writes melody driven jazz trip hop that is lovingly produced and manages to allow you to either pay attention or drift off.” Phole Is a producer and pianist from Groningen, in the North of the Netherlands. At 18 he got his first piano lessons and a year later started to produce downtempo beats as “Phole”. Inspired …Read More

RUK – Progress

RUK_Cover_500Though the members of Runaways U.K. were unfortunately lumped in with the ubiquitous trip-hop genre (a.k.a. instrumental hip-hop), they didn’t get the fame and fortune of others like Portishead and Massive Attack. Perhaps this is because A.J. Kwame and Joe 2000 don’t embellish their records with tortured sirens wailing that nobody loves them or croon …Read More