Mentz - Westwind

lebel - serein
genre - jazz, nujazz, mix
release date - 2010

Westwind is a selection of tracks by Mentz, otherwise known as Stephan Raab. Stephan has roots with the legendary netlabel Tokyo Dawn Records and continues to write jazz blending found sound and live instrumentation. serein.co.uk
Mentz on MySpace and on GNs.

tracklist
01 Mentz - Introduction II
02 Food - Becalmed
03 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Sharbat Gula
04 Colorlist - Living Mausoleum
05 Polar Bear - A New Morning Will Come
06 Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Equilibrium
07 Mentz - Crayons
08 Cinematic Orchestra - Exit Music (For A Film)

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Mentz - Relocate EP

netlabel - tokyo dawn records
genre - nujazz

Mentz from The Hague makes lush cinematic jazz music. Being sample-based only, Mentz´s music has that crispy vinyl flavour. On the Relocate EP, Mentz has taken the most fragile of sounds, making the music breathe. Living in a city where an international court, a national government and a tolerant drug policy go hand in hand, 28 year old Stephan Raab makes his music between work, coherent conversations and daydreams. fant00m.fokusrecords.com
Mentz on MySpace.

tracklist
01 Introduction
02 Tumble
03 Sleepy
04 Shackles

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Mentz - Lines

label - esc rec
genre - jazz
release date - 2013

Mentz is Stephan Raab, a jazz fanatic and music collector from the Netherlands making (small) musical collages for many years now. With roots in the early days of internet music (member of "tracker scene" groups like tokyodawn records and others), he developed a love for the limited possibilities of sample based music production. This concept is still the foundation for Mentz music. Building layers of found sound, recording other musicians and using these recordings as individual sample resources, he creates strange compositions with a unique warm sound. escrec.com
Mentz on GNs

tracklist
01 Introduction IIII
02 Dots
03 Paper
04 Sun [out]

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Mentz - Piani EP

label - humanworkshop
genre - nujazz
release date - 2009

Mentz has graced us with another lovely 'n dusty EP. Open your finest bottle, light your smoke, kick back and hit repeat! humanworkshop.com
Mentz on MySpace and on GNs.

tracklist
01 Los
02 Introduction II
03 Vast
04 Squares

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Matam & Master's Voice - Good Netlabels vol.3

netlabel - gns
genre - nujazz, downtempo, hip-hop, turntablism, mix
release date - 2009

Netlabels and turntablism – two seemingly very fresh notions, yet without them for some guys our world would appear unbearably miserable. Matam and Master’s Voice – the authors’ of the Good Netlabels third compilation - definitely belong to these people. You may know the first gentleman from goodnetlabels.blogspot.com, and the other one, as he admits, is the most useless but still third element of tablism.com, famous European scratch board.

Not so long ago mixtapes were rather a peculiar sign of modernity. Nowadays, tapes became a synonym of the past. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, Matam and Master’s Voice approached this invention as they should in the present- day. Breaking the schemes, they’ve made a mixtape together, and their collaboration was based only on contacts via the internet. Thanks to that, we’ve received a unique mix full of netlabel’s Nu- Jazz, Downtempo, Hip- Hop, and some pleasant, quality scratches.
Matam on MySpace.
Master's Voice on MySpace.
Thanks to:
Axunarts.pl, Radio Rewers, Poznan HipHop, 80bpm and Nicolas, Arek.

tracklist
01 Vangel vs. DJ Unkut - Listen
02 Ozmatic & D-Lam - Incredible
03 Aphilas - Lifelong Fiction
04 Dysposable Heroes - Maynerd's Digital Techniques
05 Mr. Moods - A Little Something (Vombat Radio version)
06 Cmy - Subway blues-hop + Spisek - Pisze do Ciebie (acapella)
07 Kixnare - Time Travelling
08 Mentz - Frames
09 Stavros - Włoczega brudnego break'a
10 Prof - Pod prad
11 Roszja & Lu - Fantastyczna wyspa
12 Nas - Made You Look (P-Plan rmx)
13 Icek - Linguistics (Jurassic 5 rmx)
14 NPoT - Szczytowanie

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Footprints 10 - For Human

genre - jazz, nujazz, mix
release date - 2009

Exactly 4 years ago in spring, 2005 the first Footprints mixtape appeared. During these years a lot of material promoting the music of the 1960s and the 1970s came out. The time for an aniversary mixtape has come. Matam rather left "keeping legends alive" idea - digging through pretty large amount of net-labels not only from Poland. In this almost one-hour set we can find tunes from many labels such as: Budabeats, Estrada Nagrania, Dirty Birdexx, Bump Foot, Moon Label, Humanworkshop, 16 Wersów, Test Tube or Tokyo Down. Matam completed the mix with dialogues form Jovita movie (1967) by Janusz Morgernstern so the whole thing refers to Polish PRL culture promotion. The author of the cover is a legendary RSO196. Hope you enjoy it! footprints-jazz.blogspot.com
More about Matam's mix and music on GNs.
Previous parts of Footprints are here.

tracklist
01 M.W.D. - Snake (budabeats)
02 Fizz - Midnight Haze (estrada nagrania)
03 Spisek - Kolejny dzien 3 lata pozniej
04 Laineet - Hyvia Aikoja (dirtybirdrexx)
05 Nienvox - Crosslights (bump foot)
06 Wade - What Do You Think (moon label)
07 Basic - Dinky Toy (humanworkshop)
08 Enbe - Dedicate to (16wersów)
09 Mr.White - Po to rodzisz się (estrada nagrania)
10 Anon - Pati (estrada nagrania)
11 TrianguliZona - Recapturing (test tube)
12 Leisure-B - Adaptations (humanworkshop)
13 Briskey - Le désir de l'Autre
14 Maed - Some Kind of Mystery (16wersów)
15 BandFX - Smoke Story
16 Mentz - Shackles (tokyo dawn records)

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Practice Avoiding Mistakes

netlabel - tokyo dawn records
genre - hip-hop, instrumental hip-hop, abstract hip-hop
release date - 2003

The TDR first LP release from 2003 distributed by Groove Attack and Caroline.

tracklist
01 Causes & Forces - There'll Be a New Purpose
02 Comfort Fit - Walls and Shells and Flexibility
03 Anthony Baggette - Summer in the Hood
04 Twice and Fedeb - Yellowstar
05 The Groove Guerrilla - That Day
06 Opossum - Mamaronie (feat. Bazooka Joe Gotti and Leeroy Brown)
07 Krii - Too Good to Waste (feat. Charlie One)
08 Comfort Fit - Kurz Vor Danach Ganz
09 Sherlock - Good Morning City
10 Blue Eyes - Phenomenal Man
11 Opossum - Too Late (feat. Missamadina)
12 Comfort Fit - Go On, Take It Further
13 Saine - Equanimity
14 Prymer & Blaktroniks - Pimp Knowledgy (Krii Remix)
15 Looza - Known
16 Mentz - (A)part From Footsteps
17 Lashawn - Of the Essence
18 Anthony Baggette - Brown Said
19 Prymer - Daydreamer (feat. Claudia Nehls)
20 Dharma One vs. Jukka Eskola - The Waves

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Tokyo Dawn Records – Margin London 7th Edition

netlabel - tokyo dawn records
genre - hip-hop, abstract hip-hop, nujazz
release date - 2005

This is a very special compilation exclusively made for the fashion trade fair Margin in London 2005.
These Fifteen unique tracks are perfectly in line with the Practice Avoiding Mistakes compilation we released two years before. You know: Dirty clapping Soul, Hip-Hop and finest House music from the hottest producers around. blog.tokyodawn.net

tracklist
01 Theriak feat. Blue Eyes – The crush
02 Mercury Waters – Pavement Pain
03 Comfort Fit – Something To Do
04 Causes & Forces – Another This, Another That
05 Project Delos – A saturday night on the moon
06 Mentz – Frames
07 Dirty Star – Dedication
08 Causes & Forces – Reality Drop (Aleem Sahild Ivory rmx)
09 Saine – listen up (instrumental)
10 E The Hot – To The Place
11 Brownsville – Smoke Punk (Club rmx)
12 Comfort Fit – Freeze The Cut (Opolopo’s Emotional Draft rmx)
13 E The Hot – Watchudoo
14 Kim Mantz – the very thought of you
15 Fujah – Timeles Supermoving

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