slow, funky, groovin' laid back music


Looking for something instrumental to put on late night, quiet with deep bass and soul. Not easy or "smooth" jazz, but more hip hop influenced. I like theivery corporation, but would like to hear more afro/jazz influence. Does that make any sense? Something like People Under the Stairs or Digable Planets or Erykah Badu or Jill Scott, but without the words. Recommendations welcome. Thanks
rosedanny
If you like NMOW and Thievery, a few other recommendations that might fit the bill:
1. DJ Krush--Jaku
2. Zero 7--Simple Things
3. Jose Gonzalez--Veneer
4. Adrian Sherwood--anything
5. Up, Bustle and Out--anything
6. Massive Attack & Mad Professor--No Protection
The first US-3 album is really good. Great beats, pretty laid back, and lots of excellent Blue Note samples.
Albert:

No problem, I've got plenty other things I can email offline.

I agree with Eslaudio's recs, and would include DJ Krush with Toshinori Kondo (sp?) who is a great Japanese Trumpet player. I'd also throw in DJ Vadim off of Ninja Tune label and since Zero 7 came up (great stuff) and Jose Gonzalez, I would recommend the Zero 7 remix of Jose Gonzalez, especially of "Crosses". The Erland Oye album some like, although I'm not sure how much i do at the moment, but I'm moody. I would also recommend the Kruder & Dorfmeister album K & D Sessions. Something that has lyrics, but is fantastic for this kind of mood is the Dan the Automator album with Mike Patton (faith no more) and Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields) called "Lovage: Music to make love to your old lady by" (Nathaniel Merriweather presents). It's funny, sexy, and sonically very nice. My wife loves Thievery Corporation (not me!). There's a dutch/french group called Stereo Total that's also fun. I'm getting kind of off topic here since there are lyrics in most of these groups, but who cares. I would also add, and this is killer, "Blue Break Beats" by grant green, and Red Clay by Freddie Hubbard.