I've got a huge amount of respect and admiration for Jazzanova's Sonar Kollektiv imprint: the German collective dabble in everything from nu jazz and broken beat, to folktronica and dub, all in an idiosyncratic, futuristic styleeeeee.
Jazzanova and Sonar Kollektiv has nurtured guys like Dixon, and the irresistible Ame (behind my fave dance music mix of the year, Ame Mixing on the Sonar Kollektiv label) who are rewriting the house rule book as we speak.
Jazzanova/Sonar Kollektiv were also one of the first producers to pick up on Joe Dukie, the frontman of Fat Freddy's Drop, perhaps the most mesmerizing and spell-binding dub/reggae/soul/techno, I've been privileged enough to see live.
It's the Sonar Kollektiv's label tenth anniversary - it's a label not a person so it's an anniversary not a birthday (pedant journo rears its head) - at Cargo on Friday and Peter Kruder guests.
