King-A-Groove records, is Montreal's newest independent label driven by and created to serve the new lounge, downtempo, electronic, chillout musical talents from Montreal, Mexico and all points beyond. King-A-Groove is listening — out for new generations of independent musicians looking to give them the opportunity to have their own creations distributed, broadcast and enjoyed through out the known universe.
King-A-Groove promotes artistic world collaboration, no mater the artists location (thanks to the technology) and also includes consultation and graphical solutions to support the musical concepts imagined by its artists — helping to conceptualize the work of the author for the furtherance and propagation of the art and out of respect for their roots.
King-A-Groove believes in peace, coexistence and the unity of cultures of the world through music.
Perfect Toy Records caused quite a stir in and beyond the worldwide nu-jazz scene since its formation in spring 2002. Label founder Marcus Hacker, known as former head of lower Bavarian based Spinning Wheel Records, vinyl junkie and DJ, started his new Perfect Toy Records imprint as a reservoir for organic and authentic music.
Based on 60s' and 70s' jazz, funk and soul music, as consistently featured on appropriate old school compilations, recent publications more and more included current trends in 2004 club music. "The soul in music is decisive for releasing it or not", label founder Marcus Hacker mentions. "There is no stereotype or categorical thinking. Perfect Toy Records is not a compulsory nu jazz label, releases focus just as well on deep house, broken beats, hip hop or minimal techno, if the music fits with my flavour".
Thus, besides funk compilations like Creative Musicians, the shortly in 11/04 released Movements series or jazz bands like {Hipnosis} the label repertoire contains progressive sounds a la Zero Crossing or Talk. The project-oriented work, the collaboration with live projects like Mokadi or Liquid Loop and the implementation of computer technique for getting musicians into modern club sounds most of all amuses the label bosses. Soul has 1000 faces, get into this music and you will find it within every Perfect Toy release!
Scenario Music was formed in 1999 with the intent of bringing quality Italian made music to the international community. The name Scenario is a latin word which meaning is the same in several languages and we thinked to join it to the word that we love more — music.
Describing any form of music is an exercise in frustration, words can only approximate the feeling that a piece of music inspires. In our case we've settled on blunted beats, our artists produce modern interpretations of jazz, deep house, downtempo, bossa-beat, nu-lounge, whatever you want to call it, this is the sound than spans generations and all walks of life. In the end it's all just jazz... or house, depending on the way that you look at it.
The first label compilation Bossa'n'Go has been chosen by over 10 000 people (repeated and exceeded by the second chapter of the series) and it was appreciated by the most important Italian music magazines such as "Acid Jazz", "Rockstar", "Rumore" and "Blow Up". Scenario Music acts are Brazilian Wax, Sinclair, Cocktail Mood, Grand Central, Safe Noire, Estrela Guia, Hammond Express (Francesco Gazzara' side-project), Mono Deluxe and Ganesh.
We hope you enjoy our offerings, and we welcome any feedback. If you are interested in submitting material, please visit our website. Thanks for listening. Our mantra: "Good music by good vibes".
