Tom Wieland is a digger, a vinyl addict - some would say junkie - who gets his kicks from finding rare forgotten vinyl either in his home city of Vienna or in one of the cities he is invited to play all over the world. Tom who also produces tracks for Compost Records has hosted a show on samurai for a long time now, almost as long as the station has been running and although we rarely feature his shows we thought it's about time we did, because whether it's Tom himself spinning or one of his handpicked guest shows they're always deserving of the limelight and will help you discover the new music that Tom does hidden deep in the dusty shelves where old and nu Europe meet.

Jazzanova is a 6 man team of music lovers from Berlin. Working together in some form for nearly 20 years now they all met up in the late 80's in a transitional Berlin where they discovered a shared love for rare vinyl, be in Jazz, funk or Soul. Working separately on productions initially their first collaborative output, the Latin percussive 'Fedime's Flight' was promptly snapped up by Michael Reinboth for his Compost Records label, a partnership they continued through the Jazzanova Compost sublabel JCR that released theirs and an acclaimed collection of artists throughout the 90's. A split from JCR led the collective to founding their own label, Sonar Kollectiv that has subsequently released music from Jazzanova and new signings from the burgeoning scene of German artists that are exerting a massive influence on the world's electronic music sounds.

www.jazzanova.net