Artists
With the massive popularity of their hit single Groove Is in the Heart, Deee-Lite brought the colorful sights and sounds of New York's club culture into the mainstream.
French electronic duo Deep Forest fused traditional indigenous music from around the world with relaxed ambient beats.
The jazz-funk stylings of Karl Denson's Tiny Universe are influenced by acts such as James Brown, Maceo Parker, and Parliament-Funkadelic.
Eumir Deodato has been a pianist / keyboardist, producer, and arranger on over 450 albums, and has won 16 platinum records.
Though they were not the first to synthesize jazz and hip-hop, Digable Planets epitomized the laid-back charm of jazz hipsters better than any group before or since.
Dimitri from Paris takes inspiration from the Continental jet-setting faux-jazz of the 1950s and early '60s, as well as disco and his long years of experience as a house DJ.
Acknowledged as the artist who put Japanese hip-hop on the map, DJ Krush remains one of the world's most inventive sculptors of lush, atmospheric breakbeats.
DJ Shadow's Josh Davis is widely credited as a key figure in developing the experimental instrumental hip-hop style associated with the London-based Mo' Wax label.