Artists
One of Italy's foremost DJs and label entrepreneurs, Leo Young began DJing at the age of 13, and was given his own local radio show not long after.
Utilizing hip-hop, jazz, New Orleans R&B, blues, and rock in their gumbo, Lettuce is a New York-based collective that updates the sound of classic '70s funk.
At the beginning of their career, Level 42 was squarely a jazz-funk fusion band, contemporaries of fellow Brit funk groups like Atmosfear, Light of the World, Incognito, and Beggar & Co.
U.K. funk band Light of the World has the distinctions of having a tight head shot of a pre-stardom Sade on their self-titled debut LP cover and having guitarist Jean Paul "Bluey" Maunick as a band member.
Chicago acid jazz outfit Liquid Soul was formed in 1993 and quickly emerged as a Windy City club favorite.
Live People Ensemble is the conceptual jazz ensemble from Moscow, Russia, that delights jazz lovers with original compositions, as well as original arrangements of jazz standards.
Ludovic Llorca is a composer who spent his youth in the north of France, learning music-making with computers. While he chose his family name as an artist alias, he also uses different monikers for various projects.
Giving their own style of dance music that combines funk and trip-hop, The London Funk Allstars could be heard through the stereo of any given dance club or party in their native UK.