That 5th month of  2K1 was something of prolific, leading us to decide having an overview from a place to another, from NYC to Chicago and the so called old Continent (thanks to President Bush, second of the name…).

Much was being said around MAW's possible split, due to the fact that the label which had just left its NYC office hadn't have official announced its new location at the time, but also as one half of the pair – Louie Vega – had launched his own imprint called Small Wonders. Not to mention the fact that the traditional bag of Miami goodies given to the label afficionados during the WMC'2001 had been something of quite light compared to the precedding years, containing only two promos. The first one featuring R&B star James Ingram back in full effect with "Lean On Me" b/w some borcica exercise called "Work" from MAW featuring Puppah Nas-Tee & Denise. The second one, Roy Ayers's "Our Time Is Coming" and Lynae's "Life is But A Dream". Meanwhile, Blaze who hadn't made the Conf' because of the celebration of Shelter's 10th Birthday on 03/17, was to have the afroid "Jump 4 Love" featuring Palmer Brown as the first off-shot to be taken from the Afro Abstract Lounge new installment, providing remixes for Da Lata ("Pra Manha") and most notoriously the shiny "Changin'" for soul/jazz diva Linda Clifford (West End). Was also question of a Shelter nite in Miami the following year that would finally never happen. Guess that's the way (sometimes) life goes…

François K who'd enlightened us like usual behind the decks in Miami, had lots of thangz around at the time. First on his Wave Music label with the debut single of an Oska based collective called A Hundred Bird doing "Batonga" on some afro tip, but also the very sublte "The Strong EP" from Timewriter aka Papillon on some deep abstract territory. Not to mention a couple of remixes for Mondo Grosso with the memorable "Butterfly" and Finlay Quaye's "Spiritualized" alongside Matthias Heilbronn who would provide us with a terrific dub. Meanwhile other Body & Soul resident, Joe Claussell who'd release the remixes of the stunning" Homelands" for UK based Indian musicologist Nitin Sawhney on his own label (Spiritual Life) + some revamp of "Tonton Willie" for African singer Salif Keita on Blue Note. Meanwhile Ibadan which was to release the CD version of Jerome Sydenham & Kerri Chandler's Saturday LP dropped T-Kolai's magnigicient "Exodus" and Antonio Ocasio, two new cuts called "Rizmo Puro" and "Fenix" on his Tribal Winds imprint. Osunlade providing us with his Yoruba Mixes of the soon to be sought after "I might Do Something Wrong" by Tortured Soul featuring Christian Ulrich (Central Park).

From the Windy City, Anthony Nicholson would release no less than three 12's on Clairaudience including the light Dazzle featuring Charlotte Hunt's "Dance With Me", Figarro's "Runaround" and some wink to George Benson's classic "Nature Boy" on Space 7 vs Hipnotic… This, right before some remixes of the enormous "Revolution" awaited on King Street/NiteGrooves…  Meanwhile, Glenn Underground who scored one of the best sets at the WMC, playing his memorable "Conquistador" that would be included on the following volume of the Body & Soul series, left us with the delicate "Your Life" on Nite Life Collective. On a more in yer face tip, Ron Caroll would build his effective "You're Angel" on the rhythmic part of Change featuring Luther Vandross's disco funk classic "The Glow Of Love" (Afterhours).

We was much talking about some return from hip hop band A Tribe Called Quest at the time ; the aforementioned seing their memorable "Bonita Applebaum" revamped with much subtlelity by Sir Piers & Si Ashton (KOS). Meanwhile, Kaidi Tatham who was already around was on his way to drop the ultra groovy "Betcha Did" featuring Izzi on Bitasweet, leaving Frankie Valentine giving us another piece of afro latin jazzy work of his own called "Midnite Sun" (Rekawa).

Had tunes from almost everywhere at the time on the (Old) Continent from Norway's Slowsupreme with "Green Tea" (Jazid), Italy's Trio Mafua with the festive "Incompatibilidade de Gênios" (Airplane Records), Trüby Trio's remixes of "Food For Thought" by Kim Sanders (Zeitgeist/Polydor), meanwhile Compost label was ready to unleash its Compost 100 comp. From France, Llorca was to enlight our days (and nights) with "Indigo Blues" featuring Florida's Nicole Graham (F-Com) ; Martin Solveig being on a sort of humoristic mood with "Mr President" (Mixture) when Former Rotax associate, Teddy G was on his way to launch his Jazz Up label. The cherry on the cake being provided by Barclay label with the release of those seminal six vinyl box sets by Fela, vol. 3 and 4 in the series.

IDM RE-EDITS 05/01 TENNERZ
LINDA CLIFFORD Changin' (West End)
NITTIN SAWHNEY Homelands –Joe Claussell Remix (Spiritual Life/Outcaste)
MONDO GROSSO Butterfly – François K Remix (NiteGrooves)
TORTURED SOUL i Might Do Something Wrong – Yoruba Main Mix (Central Park)
T-KOLAI Exodus (Ibadan)
FINLAY QUAYE – Matthias Heilbronn Dub Mix (Epic)
RON CAROLL You're My Angel (Afterhours)
KAIDI TATHAM featuring IZZI Betcha Did (Bitasweet)
LLORCA featuring NICOLE GRAHAM Indigo Blues (F-Com)
BLAZE featuring PALMER BROWN Jump 4 Love (NiteGrooves)