Before the melding of organic hip hop with glitchy processing in Prefuse 73, Guillermo Scott Herren messed with ambient jazz and the chillest nooks of latin music. Many forget that Savath and Savalas brought Herren to Warp Records, leaving many of his records under this alias overlooked. Well, if you haven’t heard it before, now is the time to warm up to it, as we find ourselves smack in the middle of two releases. Stones Throw put out La Llama two weeks ago, living up to the expectations with an array of soundscapes and vocalists. Out in exactly two weeks is Golden Pollen, coming out on Anti, will showcase Herren’s own voice and instrument talents.

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With countless volumes of compilations and the short-lived lounge hits that comprise them, few stand out in the world of down tempo. The prolific (yet not wasteful) collective of DJs and producers known as Jazzanova hold down one of the finest records of quality in this genre. It’s been a couple of years since they’ve released something other than a remix album, and it’s about time we heard something new. In a brand new effort to fuse instrumentalists, mixing, and production, the crew drops Of All the Things, tomorrow, October 21st, giving us all a solid replacement for that Ibiza Chill-out Lounge Volume 134 we were thinking of picking up.