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John William Coltrane (Hamlet, North Carolina, September 23, 1926 – Huntington, New York, July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. American jazz great John Coltrane emerged in the 1950s, playing tenor and soprano sax with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. A leader of "hard bop", in the 1960s he led his own groups and changed the face of jazz with experimentation and improvisation, his later recordings reflecting his belief that music was a form of spiritual expression. Read more on Last.fm

Delilah Holliday, a homegrown DIY icon of North London, United Kingdom, makes downtempo electronic art pop. Read more on Last.fm

Roy Davis Jr. is a professional DJ specializing in house music on many different labels including Large, Ubiquity, Nice+Smooth Ultramedia and Scion. Davis grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Davis was turned on at an early age by house pioneer Lil' Louis. Davis began his own production company named Phuture in the late 1980s. In the 1990s Davis teamed with Chicago vocalist Peven Everett and recorded the hit song, "Gabriel". The track garnered large amounts of airplay in radios and clubs all around the world. Read more on Last.fm

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Dante Terrell Smith (born December 11, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), better known by the stage name Mos Def and Yasiin Bey, is a rapper and actor. He began rapping in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics in 1994, and then formed the duo Black Star with Talib Kweli in 1998. As a solo artist he has released the albums Black on Both Sides in 1999, The New Danger in 2004, True Magic in 2006 and The Ecstatic in 2009. In regards to changing from Mos Def to Yasiin Bey, he announced the name change in 2011. Read more on Last.fm

Lady Shaka (Shakaiah Perez) is a New Zealand DJ and producer who has performed internationally, including multiple sets for online music broadcaster Boiler Room. Born in New Zealand of Māori, Tahitian, Cape Verdean, Tokelauan, and Samoan descent, Lady Shaka currently resides in the United Kingdom. Read more on Last.fm

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Jeshi’s journey to making Universal Credit, his open-hearted and heavy-hitting debut album, began with a desire to take his music further, to say something he’d not yet said on EPs like 2020’s BAD TASTE or The Worlds Spinning Too Fast. Universal Credit is an album that gifts humanity back to the demonised and lays bare the truth behind the prejudice; that nobody is immune from hardship and that luck plays a major role in everybody’s fate. Read more on Last.fm

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distraction4ever is a music duo founded by musicians Beau Geste and Splitshift in 2021. Based on the collision of guitar and bass in a post-rave ambiance, this duo mixes different post-punk influences with Russian new wave inspired vocals. distraction4ever’s music can be characterized by broken amps, analog synths, fast drums, textural exploration and distorted vocals. The group’s first album, Please Don’t Think About Tomorrow, was recorded Read more on Last.fm