First mentioned around 2012, the name Modern Trash Quartet initially served as a repository for ideas and jams that producer Felix Elbert, aka Lokke, recorded with friends in his studio. Most of these rough sketches were one-take recordings with bass, guitar, and keys on drum loops from flo könig. The projects soon gathered dust on the hard disk because they were poorly recorded, contained mistakes, or were simply never fully arranged. When saxophonist Chris Schock, with whom Lokke had been playing in various live projects for years, started playing melodies over the unfinished projects, it turned out that the most interesting parts of these songs were the little mistakes, the "garbage" of these sessions. Out of this creative process, Modern Trash Quartet emerged as a catchall for all the jams that were flawed but still compelling. Even though the quartet doesn't aim to create jazz, the genre always smuggles itself back into their music . They've so far made contributions to 2 compilations (Fela Tribute and Sun Disturbance), prior to their debut EP, "Smuggle Jazz," which we have the honour to release with them. Smuggle Jazz consists of 3 dancefloor ready tracks fused with funk, acid jazz and disco and two ! Stay tuned for an expanding sonic journey from this dynamic and genre-defying ensemble!