"The DJ/club thing is where we come from and is still the source of inspiration for us and our music," say Jazzanova.

Others make claims these self-effacing Germans would baulk at: that they are "at least two steps ahead of their imitators" and have "created a new way to configure the dance music album".

The six members (three DJs and three producers, loosely speaking) came together back in 1995 in Berlin, long before the city became painfully fashionable. They met at the magnificently-named Delicious Doughnuts Club and their first track, 1997's Fedime's Flight, was immediately championed by the likes of Gilles Peterson.

They play out any future-looking sounds which take inspiration from the boys' first great love, jazz. In practice, this has meant anything from hip-hop, Afrofunk, boogaloo, d'n'b, soul and Latin sounds can be found in their sets.

Their Mixing album embodied this self-proclaimed "genre-hopping musical variety", veering through R&B and electronica to classics from Bahamadia and Carol Williams.

A focus on percussion and warmth are the two constants, and the style is "a song-oriented mix rather than mixing track after track."

Their approach to remixes is notoriously fastidious and loving. Respect for the track is paramount and the ensuing efforts to "capture the very essence" of the artist often take three months or more. The results often shift between tempos and styles.

In the late Nineties they collaborated with another likeminded German label Compost to set up the JCR imprint. Later came the Sonar Kollectiv, based on their ethos of "cultural exchange and networking with other artists". The label forms an alliance of Berlin musicians and acts as a "trainee programme" for many fledgling producers.

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