Super-Sonic Jazz is on a mission to share the best music with the world. Not only new releases but also timeless classics and hidden gems from history. In our new recurrent column ‘KC’s Classics’ Super-Sonic Jazz founder and DJ Kees Heus (KC the Funkaholic) shares his most beloved tracks with us.
My love for bruk started way back when we still called it broken. The first song that captured my heart? Neon Phusion & New Sector Movements - The Future Ain't The Same As it Used 2 B (Listen on YouTube). Underground futuristic electronic jazz fusion, it was a whole new universe. I hoped planet earth wouldn’t t let broken pass into the future too quickly but it did, like any another insignificant trend. But a small group of pioneers left our planet and took shelter in deep space. Not on planet funk or on one of the satellite moons of British dance culture like dubstep of jungle. They started colonizing the BritJazz planet and in more than a decade a new generation started to form. Kamaal Williams as the new recruit and IG Culture surrounding him with a new breed, the Selectors Assemble and the everlasting push of legends Dego and Kaidi Thatam. Together creating a brand new satellite called Bruk, forever spinning and merging around planet BritJazz.
Artists like Neon Phusion cannot be found on Spotify, but I curated a playlist with what I could find on the platform. As music magazine Wax Poetic states 'bruk is once again causing global repercussions' as it once spreaded over the globe in the early ages of broken beat. Back in the days it landed in Berlin with Jazzanova, Amsterdam with RedNoose District and ofcourse in Philly.
A few highlights of my little Spotify playlist are:
Critical Point aka pretty boy Vikter Duplaix from Philadelphia. I remember hearing his track Messages first in a set of King Britt when it still was on a white label. It blew my mind. I travelled back to Philly with King and knocked on Vikter’s door, begging for a promo.
The second song I would like to mention is the collab between Philly and London. The lovely Lady Alma (Alma Horton) and the brilliant 4Hero, The song Hold it Down for me is a modern day club classic, in the same category as Michael Jackson's Rock With You. If Alma was born in the disco ages she would have been a diva. Disco producers Gamble and Huff of Philadelphia International Records would of signed her next to Patti Labelle or Jean Carne or Two Tons of Fun would have had a third member.
Enjoy my Spotify playlist: The Early Days Of Broken, Bruken or Bruk, whatever you wanna call it. 2021, alive and kickin.
Written by Kees Heus (KC the Funkaholic). Follow Kees on Instagram and Soundcloud.