Member Since: 2/13/2007
Band Members: Move&Groove Collective is a Milan-based collective of DJs who are passionate about rare groove and cool soundz, from rar grooves such as deep funk, latin & boogaloo, northern & modern soul, to contemporary ones, such as nu' jazz, broken and brasilian stuff.
Move&Groove formed in September 2002 from the artistic collaboration between Piergiorgio Capozza and Nick RecordKicks the first coming from the Associazione Culturale Fez - a movement based in the Italian town of Bari and lead by Nicola Conte - and the second from Vitaminic.
After a few months enter in the M&G collective Mr Claudio Audio (from Electric Escargot that was a prime-mover organizer in the italian lounge scene events like Jet Set Gallery@Tunnel club in Milan) and the couple of djs I Panema (a.k.a. Steven Perry&Viner).Since its first year, Move&Groove has been organising dancefloor jazz, funk, soul, nu jazz & nu bossa Club Nights in Milan, among which are the "Move & Groove" @ Surfer's Den Club, Sunday Connection @ Dynamo Club nighters, and events such as Frank Popp @ Ragno D'Oro. The crew also starred at the "Fez Festival" together with Nicola Conte, Koop, Minus 8, Gilles Peterson. Then at the "SoulShaker " nighters organised by RivieraBeat in Bologna, at the Venice Film Festival, and at the Summer Lounge Festival in the Italian region of Puglia together with Kyoto Jazz Massive, Rainer Truby, and many more.
During its numerous one-nighters Move&Groove hosted Michael Rutten, Keb Darge, Paul Murphy, Andy Smith, Rob Luis, Ian Wright, James Maycock, Andy Lewis, Spiritual South, Eddie Piller, Henry Storch, Jazzman Gerald, Boogaloo Investigators, Gazzara, Minus 8, Frank Popp, Soulstance, Gerardo Frisina, Link Quartet, Dublex Inc, Zidhan&Kamien, Montefiori Cocktail, Sam Paglia and many more.
Sounds Like:
nu jazz, motown, broken beatz, stax, philly sound, disco, R&b, rare groove, deep funk, dancefloor jazz, brasilian sound, northern soul, latin boogaloo, rocksteady soul, library music, nu bossa, jamaican ska, temptetions, nicola conte, acid jazz, breakbeat, sissy funk, supremes, yvon baker, big maybelle, rico rodriguez, clash, herbaliser, deodato, mowaks, sharon jones, pete thomas, keb darge, fat boy slim, gilles peterson, stereolab, marvin gaye, 4 hero, jam, harmless rec, roy ayers, compost, unique, mr scruff, martha & the vandellas, komeda, willie bobo, ubiquity, gladys knight & the pips, alan hawkshaw, parliaments, james brown, quantic, eddie bo, otis redding, drum magic, snowboy, antibalas, trojan soundsystem, bobby womac, alton ellis, smokey robinson, !!! , tru thoughts, specials, keith mansfield, link quartet, ian wright, jimmy smith, ray barretto, zero db, lou donaldson, geno washington, jimmy mc griff, booker t, jtq, style council, cal tjader, dobbie gray, meters, jaques dutronc, freestyle, darrow fletcher, truby trio, capitols, joe bataan, big boss man, velvelettes, maceo parker, dj shadow ... and many more of course
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie