As One - 21st Century Soul

Ten years after his British breakout, Kirk Degiorgio's As One project finally earned an American release (through Ubiquity), and it's as solid a jazz-breaks fusion as any he's done in the past few years (that's saying a lot). Sure, 21st Century Soul is less the sound of the future than a jumped-up, broken-beat vision of Herbie Hancock electro-jazz classics like 1972's Sextant, but there's no future like the past, and this is the catchiest, most innovative, futurist As One record ever recorded -- a confident blend of his early machine-in-motion techno with the organic, "influences" work of Planetary Folklore. Read More