Well the story has it that "acid-jazz" is a term invented in London anyway.
I'm a bit curious though - the liner notes of the "Stolen Moments/ Red Hot +
Cool" album appear to put down the term, preferring to use "street jazz" or
something like that. Was that putdown a "US vs. UK" thang?
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To: ben@eugine.ludens.co.jp (Ben List), acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU
From: jra@europa.com (Jim Ayson)
Subject: Re: french rap questions
At 07:39 PM 9/15/95 +0900, Ben List wrote:
>Incidentally, I occasionally run across rap from other countries
>here in Tokyo. I've managed to locate the recently mentioned
>Malaaz (with prod by La Funk Mob), Sens Unik and Les Sages Poets
>albums a couple months ago and additionally some Rap from Greenland
>(Nuuk Posse), Turkey, Korea, Germany and others. My exposure to
>the Swedish scene is limited to a single by Sherlock (who sound
>like Tribe Called Quest in style and sound), and a "gangsta" group
>called "Inifinite Mass" that I couldn't help but find a bit
>laughable (probably because I never quite understand the appeal of
>that sound, much less understand why anyone would want to mimic it).
Seems to be an international rap survey going on. I might as well as mention
that there is also Filipino language rap and hiphop here in the Philippines.
One group - I think it was Masta Plann, even labelled their homegrown sound
as "FlipHop". If anyone out there picks up the signals of the Asian music
video channels Channel [V] and MTV-Asia, check out FrancisM, whose music
always tries to impart positive values to Filipino youth.
>From the same video channels I've seen hiphop acts from Taiwan, Indonesia
and Malaysia as well. A couple of years ago, I met this Malaysian producer
at a music industry convention in Manila who thought Teddy Riley was God ...
turns out he was a producer of Malaysian "new jack swing". Gee - this stuff
must be more universal than we thought... what's the old song by War... 'The
World is a Ghetto' ... <g>
Now if only there was some decent Filipino acid-jazz scene to speak of....
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