Jeff Parker: Suite For Max Brown Vinyl LP Digital DJ Essentials Chromatics' cover of Cindy Lauper's

Chromatics' cover of Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" gets the deluxe treatment

It's a record that grows on you despite the debt you may feel it owes to its influences

make music that draws its influence from hip hop and dream pop

and his r&b-influenced singing completes the cipher

The aptly titled Brazil Dedication follows up his South Africa Dedication with 10 beats made of samples sourced from the South American country

Jeff Parker: Suite For Max Brown Vinyl LP Digital DJ Essentials Chromatics' cover of Cindy Lauper's"Though Jeff Parker collaborates with a coterie of musicians under the group name The New Breed, theirs is by no means a conventional *band* relationship. Parker is very much a solo artist on Suite for Max Brown. He constructs a digital bed of beats and samples; lays down tracks of his own on guitar, keyboards, bass, percussion, and occasionally voice; then invites his musician friends to play and improvise over his melodies. But unlike a traditional