Future Jazz

Ladies and Gentlemen, we bring you the future, a world where sonic boundaries blur and beats are streamlined to their essential groove capacity — where the all-star DJ/producer collective Bugz in the Attic makes with funky broken-beat standard bearers like "Booty La La," where Bugz master AfroNaught has his way with some finely chopped nü-jazz grey matter on "Now or Never feat. Alison David," and where the white-hot fusions of P'Taah give the aural impression of "Staring at the Sun."

Warp into Next Steps for more Future Jazz Essentials.

Travel the world on waves of sound as our Future Jazz Essentials hits the broken-beat hot spot of London, home to producer-extraordinaire Seiji, who digs up some retro-disco sounds for a groove that's anything but "Rubbish." Settle in below the equator, where New Zealand whiz kid Mark de Clive-Lowe & Abdul Shyllon harness the rhythms of the planet with a wash of bossa nova'd electronica on "Tide's Arising," and then head to the good ol' U.S. of A., where John Beltran twinkles up some "Starlight Memories (As One Remix)" of old-school Detroit techno.

Next stop, Deep Cuts, for more far-reaching future jazz.

Once upon a time, bringing the far reaches of future-jazz genius to your own personal chill space was a laborious and time-consuming process. But the future is now, friends, and amassing the collaborations of go-to dance-soul diva Bembé Segué — "Cravo e Canela (IG Culture Remix)" with IG Culture, "Slide," with Mark de Clive-Lowe, and "Traveling," with de Clive-Lowe and Capitol A — is as easy as a download. And while you're at it, it's just as simple to beam yourself to a Brazilian beach party with Truby Trio's sambalicious "A Festa" or land on a high-tech Tokyo dance floor with Yukihiro Fukutomi's "Action."

No need to wait for the future to come to you — all the flavors of future jazz, and then some, are ripe for the download in our solid set of supercharged, new-day electronica. We've got everything from the tight and gorgeous beats of Phuturistix's "Beautiful" to the tripped-out down-tempo neo-jazz hues of Atjazz's "Colour." Meanwhile, Japanese brothers Kyoto Jazz Massive score a soundtrack for space-age lounge lizards with "The Brightness of These Days (Feat. Vanessa Freeman)" and Nubian Mindz bring an urban drum 'n' bass grit to the warm tones of a shimmering "Red Sky." Look ahead and hear tomorrow…today.