VA New Jazz: Compiled by Jazzanova (2008)

All of the tracks on this CD are made by artists who have managed to bring jazz music into the club scene, rocking capacity audiences and winning fans all over the world. For those of you who ask yourselves whatever happened to that much hyped genre that emerged as the big cool thing in the late 90s "nujazz", just like "post rock", the term never really had any relevance - innovation is a natural development in the evolution of any music and the DJs and musicians who earned the title nujazz never lost their love for this sound. Indeed, they have kept on producing, evolving and playing their own style of music in the only way they see fit so that today the jazz scene is stronger in clubs than it ever was.

Berlin's Jazzanova collective formed in 1995, after DJing with one another at a club called Delicious Doughnuts. Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, Axel Reinemer, and Jürgen von Knoblauch shared a common goal of blending their collected inspirations together to create a new, sophisticated sound, with debts owed to nearly every form of dance-oriented music from the past several decades.

Legendary electro-house collection with 14 albums studio-mixed by the famous Stephane Pompougnac, resident DJ of the luxurius Hotel Costes in France. In 1999, Pompougnac published his first studio mix, "Costes: France et Choiseul" (Vol 1 of the collection) that achieved a huge commercial success. Pompougnac continued to release more volumes and his first three mixes collectively sold nearly half a million copies. The collection includes all the 14 volumes released from 1999-2011 (except 2 best-of compilations). Note that there is no Hotel Costes Vol. 13 compilation as there is no room 13 in Hotel Costes. Enjoy one of the most popular electronic music collections around and relax with the mesmerising mixes of Stephane Pompougnac.