Hot Casa Records is an afro soul & tropical funk label & created in 2003 in Paris and now managed by Dj Julien Lebrun . The idea of the label was to produce forgotten artists and rare vinyl gems from the past by licensing directly to the musicians or the labels and also record and develop upcoming new talents.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
HOT CASA RECORDS holds a strong tie to the traditional way of producing and making music with few principles on mind : we try to always press our release on Vinyl 7 inch or LP, try to have an original artwork signature, and try to promote classic soulful sounds with social content with a dope sound quality.
We came from a Soul, jazz culture and raised during the Hip Hop golden era, looked for the perfect loop and the ultimate break . We travelled all over the years from India, Brazil, Russia, US and especially African continent to look for the lost golden tapes from the past. As a really independent and small family structure, we appreciate all the support and hope to see you at the clubs and gigs.
WHERE TO FIND OUR RELEASES
A treasure trove of wonderful tunes currently available via the following distribution companies:
www.pusher distribution.com (worldwide)
– Forced Exposure (Usa)
– Broken Silence (Germany, Italy, Spain)
– Big Wax ( France) )
and digitally via Finetunes for all the regular platforms like: I tunes, Fnac, Virgin, Juno…
THE FOUNDERS
Julien Lebrun
Soul jazz and Afro funk Dj, he’s a rare groove records digger. He’s also musician in the french « nu jazz » band Hi Perspective, known for their remixes of Ravi Shankar, Astor Piazzolla, Furyo soundtrack, advertising for french mobile company and collaboation with Osunlade’s label « Yoruba »with tracks featured Nadirah Shakoor (Arrested development), Siji (BBE), Jimmy Abney, Santos..
Resident DJ in prestigious place like ManRay restaurant (Sean Penn and Johnny Deep) in Paris and open the one in NYC. He also did the compilation vol 1, 2 and toured from Miami, Los Angeles, Moscow… from 1999 to 2003.
He was resident dj in Hyatt on the Bund in Shanghaï in 2008 and did the compilation « Hyatt in Tokyo ».
As Resident dj, he organized every sunday since 1999 the Jazz Brunch in le Reservoir, with the upcoming soul jazz band from Paris.
In 2010, he was resident dj in Sir Winston, Murano hotel, Baxo, and Kube hotel.
In 2013, he’s resident dj at l’Avenue. Sound consultant for Peninsula Hotel Tokyo, Rech Restaurant from Ducasse group .
Globe trotter, he’s always try to travel in Benin, Senegal, Burkina faso, Brazil, India to find records and the original musicians to licence directly golden funky treasures from the 70’s.
Manager and artistic director of Setenta, the latin soul band from Paris since 2006 and records in his studio artists such as Franck Biyong, DjeuhDjoah, Setenta…
STAY TUNED !