After two decades and more than 500 releases, Compost Records started to bundle some of its finest tunes as Various Artists digital download compilation albums. The variety and full spectrum of Compost’s repertoire has never or rarely been presented in form of a musical genre compilation. These releases will be compiled or DJ-mixed by Compost’s artists and are available as digital downloads, except in some rare cases very very limited as 500 CDs.

After releasing the well-received Compost Nu Jazz Selection Volume 1 (released November 2017) and Volume 2 (released July 2019), Art-D-Fact and Rupert & Mennert again join forces. The third Compost Nu Jazz Selection probably is the most diverse one so far. The track selection process was a pleasant ride through a lot of groundbreaking releases between 1999 and 2004. Selection #3 also contains some memorable tracks which were only released on vinyl by Compost Records, for example the wonderful Grand Unified VIP Mix of Joseph Malik's 'I Don't Want' and Steppah Huntah's energetic broken-beats creation 'Walk This Step'. The continuous mix of Compost Nu Jazz Selection Vol. 3 kicks of with the powerful multi-tempo remix by Quantic (Tru Thoughts label) for Kyoto Jazz Massive's 'The Brightness Of These Days'. With 'Corso' and 'Catalpa' Beanfield features with some true percussion-rich listening pearls. Both tracks were part of the classic 'Human Patterns' longplayer, released back in 1999.

After two successful selections we are very proud to release yet another chapter. It was a real honour again to listen through all these wonderful bits from the rich Compost catalogue and to be able to create a new selection + the continuous mix. Enjoy this selection with (electronic) music from the highest quality standard, covering (electronic) music genres like broken beats, future jazz, jazzy (deep)house and UK garage. Hopefully Compost Nu Jazz Selection Vol. 3 will be remembered as a pleasant music journey containing Compost-highlights from back in the days to cheer you up a little in these strange times. Lots of respect to all the producers/artists involved. Selected, mixed and presented with love for the music. Will we be back for a new chapter? Time will tell!

About Art-D-Fact, Rupert & Mennert

Art-D-Fact, from The Netherlands, is what we call a passionate music enthusiast. For years and years he did non- profit music related activities varying from DJing (border crossing genres), writing reviews for both online and printed magazines like DJBroadcast and the www.dance.nl platform (and still does), (online) radioshows and creatively creating music selections / soundtracks for different purposes.

Rupert & Mennert are living in The Netherlands. In very small villages. From there they send their music into the wide world. They are the self-proclaimed archivers of the Compost Vault. This already resulted in loads of Compost Selections (Jazz, Downbeat, House, Experimental, Ambient, Remixes, Vocals, Tech House). They remix tracks (Ensemble du Verre, Timo Garcia, Marbert Rocel), make avant-garde music together with Me Raabenstein (Lagerfeltz) and are always looking for new projects!