Friends

News Sites, Magazines, Online Communities
Soulstrut
Straight No Chaser
Wax Poetics

Boards and Forums
4Hero Forum
Sonar Kollektiv
Brownswood Worldwide
Bugz Board

Some Artists we like
4hero
aka Dego & Marc Mac, nice messageboard on there too.
Jazzanova
Berlin boys on a roll
Mark De Clive-Lowe
The man behind a million great tunes
Two Banks Of Four
Earl Zinger and Demus on the jazz tip
Bugz in the Attic
Original West London Broken-Boogie Creators
Domu
Busiest men in broken-biz
Jneiro Jarel
Dr Who Dat? leftfiel hip hop - from NY to Philly to Amsterdam
Dimlite
Swiss beat wizard No. 1
Kirk Degiorgio
Technosoul man aka Offworld and As One
MF Doom
Trippin' of da beat kinda...
Mr. Scruff
Manchester's beat shuffler # 1

Some Labels
2000 Black
Dego's imprint, currently only in japanese
Antipodean Records
Marc De Clive's Label out of NZ
Arision
Simone Seritella's (Big Bang) home
BBE
Nice Hip Hop, Nice comps and god bless - Virgin Ubiquity
Big Dada
Ninja's straight hip hop sublabel
Black Jazz
Legendary - spiritual, deep jazz music
Bling 47
Detroit deli beats
Blue Note
Nothing needed to say
Compost
Germany's most versatile label
Counterflow
Miami based: home of Five Deez, Plant Life,...
Counterpoint
Great Jazz Bizniz series and some nice artists - Fertile Ground for example
Delsin
It seems that deep techno has found a new hometown
DMS Country
Probe DMS and Jon Solo aka Spymusic, representing NYC
Eastern Development
Twisted hip hop and electronics
Especial
Japan's finest label from KJM
Ethermusic
New out of the UK, some nice signings and good compilations
Faces Records
Pablo Valentino's label
Far Out
All things brazilian - some straight, some twisted
Goya Music
Distributor of nearly all west london imprints and more (info about upcoming stuff)
Grand Central
Manchester's beat provider
G-Stone
K & D
Jazzman Records
Best reissue label ever
Jazzy Sport
Japanese beat droppers - great store too
Kindred Spirits
Dutch wild style
Mr. Bongo
Simply great brazilian music
Neroli
Italy's finest in broken, house and techno
Ninja Tune
UK's flagship for beat nodders
Peacefrog
former great techno label, nowadays dealing with various styles
Perfect Toy
Home of Les Gammas
Philpot Records
Deepest House music outta germany
Needs
Ace german house imprint
Planet-E
One of the most influential techno labels of our decade
Plug Research
Indie hip hop, leftfield beat music from the gold coast
Public Transit Recordings
Imprint owned by Mr. Moonstarr, loacated in Toronto
Raw Fusion
Swedish brandy, tastes pretty good
Reinforced
Most important, innovative drum and bass label to date - big respect
Rushhour
Great store - great records, great label - great releases
Sonar Kollektiv
Berlin boys union - besides Compost Germany's other big leftfield label
Soul Brother
Reissue label, also store
Soul Jazz
Another great reissue label
Soul:R
Top notch Drum and Bass label from Marcus Intalex
TrebleO
New label from domu & shifty, includes digital store
Sound In Color
New label out of the States: Sa-Ra, Spacek, Daz-I-Kue,... nice artwork too
Sound Signature
Detroit dirt digger, Mr. Theo Parrish's own
Stones Throw
Some madvillain's heading the best hip hop indie on planet earth
Suntzu Sound
New proper label from Seattle
Tru Thoughts
Home of Quantic, Alice Russel, Diesler,...
Twisted Funk
Marc Mac's own label
Ubiquity
Best stateside label for all kinda soulful music
UR
Legendary
Versatile
French's finest
Visions
Alex Attias homebase outta Switzerland
Warp
Also legendary uk electronic music imprint

Radioshows and Podcasts
Gilles Peterson Worldwide
GP's legendary one on BBC 1, still the best
Benji B Deviation
Former producer of Gilles's Worldwide show now hosting his own on BBC 1xtra
KCRW
Great radio station out of LA
Milkaudio
Different shows plus dj-mixes, regularly updated
Solid Steel
Ninja Tune Radio Station
Offtrack
Nice weekly show, hosted by dirk rumpff
BTS Radio
Super dope online show, monthly updated - very stylish site too

Onine Recordstores
DJ Friendly
Dusty Groove
If-Music
Jazzy Sport
Piccadilly

Nice Music-Related Designers
Aliaugur
Ayejay
Azlanddesign
Bradhowe
Kuildoosh
Kinseyvisual
Defumo
Deltainc
Doze
Graham Bates
Humus
HVW8
Freaked
Mochilla
PYMCA
Raspage
Swifty
Tyler Askew

Clubs and Venues around the World
Blacktronica
Cargo
Burntprogress
Plastic People
Birdland Vienna
Da Circle of Sole
Eyes Down
Fabric London
Herbal
Notting Hills Arts Club
Off-Centre
Paradiso
Rudemovements
Future Boogie
Warm