Soulection is a many-tentacled beast with Los Angeles-based co-founder and DJ Joe Kay at its center. The host of Soulection’s weekly radio show (broadcast on London’s Rinse FM and on the internet) as well as the label’s head of A&R, Jay Kay embodies the collective’s forward-leaning, electronic soul, funk and hip-hop sounds, weaving in jazz, bass and house influences. He’s come a long way since starting the Illvibes podcast out of his grandmother’s garage back in 2007.