Re: genre calling

From: Marco Pringle (freakymarco@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 23:58:09 CET

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    I like the term acid jazz, also. Unfortunately, it seemed
    to become a bad word in musical circles, sometime in the
    last couple of years. I've been told it was due to a large
    number of pretty crappy "acid jazz" (the genre, not the
    label) releases that came on the heels of all the early/mid
    90's BNH/incognito/galliano stuff. It really irks me that
    a perfectly good term would be abandoned due to some poor
    quality/bandwagon-jumping works associated with it. I
    mean, we still call rap and hip hop, rap and hip hop,
    despite the boatloads of questionable releases in that
    genre of music (and ditto for every other genre). Now,
    when i occasionaly write an 'acid jazz' review and I want
    to give a quick impression of the what the music sounds
    like, i'm stuck trying to describe the music with terms
    like downtempo, nu-jazz (I hate this term, BTW), or the
    generic modifier 'jazzy'. Either that or I'm stuck breaking
    it down into even more specific genres, like broken-beat,
    west-london, brazilectro, house-not-house, etc. - which I
    also hate. Why does everything have to have it's own neat
    little category?

    We need to start a PR campain for acid jazz, to refute the
    earlier associations with bad music, and get it back into
    common usage. Yeah. From now on, on my radio show and
    every review i write, any and all good music is getting
    called acid jazz, no matter what the genre. I'm just gonna
    confuse the hell out of people, and then when they're all
    confused, they'll be more willing to re-accept the term
    'acid jazz' as a describer of good music. I urge the rest
    of you to do the same...

    --- "Leslie N. Shill" <icehouse@redshift.com> wrote:
    > My dear friends and music lovers, the harder we try to
    > name what we love musically, the further we get from
    > anything real and the closer we get to institutional
    > tagging (UGGGH and BLECH!) Acid Jazz works pretty well
    > for me and the information I derive from this list and
    > the various contributors (you know who you are!) is very
    > valuable to me and it goes well beyond any wordy
    > definition, people seem to know what they like and, more
    > importantly, what is GOOD and that makes the difference
    > not the name of it.

    NP -
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    Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
    Breakestra - The Live Mix Part 2

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