sessions

Embarking on the music scene through DJing and streaming through his passions with grit,  Kengo Oshima sets up an afternoon session with diligent groove selects painting his current vibe, and taking you for an hour into his musical journey; upping the volume for our latest session.

Kickstarting as part of the Cuban Brothers, Kengo expands as an artist under the monicker BLcKBLT and also co-founded the 4 To The Floor collective, hosting a weekly show on Soho Radio London and running an awesome monthly party in London.

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This year’s main feature on the Nepetalakton Series in context of the only jazz month of the southern hemisphere MAMA JAZ brings on board jazz virtuoso Nicola Conte.

MAMA JAZ reaches their high ending note for 2019 and the only jazz month festival of the southern hemisphere celebrates the International Jazz Day with a very special session, and our main feature of the Nepetalakton Series; an hour-long mix of mystical jazz, with a dose of tribal and spiritual 70’s vibe, from the multi-versed virtuoso, producer, composer, bandleader and DJ Nicola Conte.

Mr Conte currently leads the Spiritual Galaxy Band and recently released his jazz-infused Free Your Mind EP on Schema. To add, his enormous discography ranges on a 20-year span of music releases, housed on labels such as Far Our Recordings, Schema Records, Universal Music and Blue Note.

For this session, recorded at a studio in Bari, Mr Conte proposes carefully handpicked tracks, all taken from original issues vinyl albums, and narrates an hour-long story about the musical atmosphere he currently dwells in.

With productions out on Jakarta Records, HHV.DE and Urban Waves Records, and along the lines of blessing the globe with an upcoming album;

This time from Berlin via Paris to Mauritius, Bluestaeb takes you on board through the music up in his current soundscape, with an hour of the freshest beats and groovy classics to get you soul’ed out.

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Heavy record collector from Darker Than Wax and Host of two weekly shows on The Lot Radioand Red Bull Arts New York; Marcus Aurelius Rosario a.k.a Mawkus takes up everything at a time and joins the electrocaïne session for the special jazz series Nepetalakton; in context of MAMAJAZ, the sole annual jazz festival of Mauritius.

Mawkus lays out an energetic set crafted with spellbinding music and captivating voice samples, steered through his sheer DJing experience and dedication to jazz, narrating an hour-long story full of compelling rhythms and drum patterns.

Further to this session, Mawkus gives a helping hand to the NYC-based non-profit Building Beats, teaching youth from all over the city’s five boroughs on how to DJ and make beats.

‘Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, charm and gaiety to life and everything.’ – Mo Kolours. Half-Mauritian, half-British, the music producer, percussionist and vocalist returned to the land of his father to grace us with an exclusive set that highlights his unique mastery of rhythms. Part hip-hop, part funk, part dub, part electronic, this session will take you around the world while you will still be dreaming of chilling in paradise. Member of the 22a collective Mo Kolours released his third LP Inner Symbols, on 22 June via Five Easy Pieces.