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V/A - Jazz Protein TAPE Newspaper Lead singles “WIRED” and “BrokenCompiled by Los Angeles based artist and collector Kye Potter for PRE ECHO. Heres 14 tracks of instrumental music from the 80s and one each from 79, 92 and 09. The synthesizer is the common instrument but musically the common thread is a jazz lead, played mostly on saxophones, a trumpet and a few keyboards. The jumping off point was a top 10 list by James Moss, from 2017, of private or experimental smooth jazz he just called it Smooth. The opener is