Re: Philosopher Kings

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3 Apr 96 17:54:01 EDT


>Umm, no offense Kristin, but we were given some of those promotional CDs
>to give out at our night in Ann Arbor and, well, they stunk. Now, I've
>never seen them live, so I can't criticize, but the CD was, to put it
>nicely, over-produced pop drivel. And they look like an ad for
>Levis 501. Acid-jazz turned alterna-mainstream.
No disrespect meant, I just had to say something. Just
>an opinion. Peace-
B-Licious

Gotta agree. They seem like the first conscious attempt to market a band as aj
(besides US3 who were really marketed more as a hip hop/r&b group). I got a
flyer advertising their cd and it set them up pretty well without ever using
the words "acid jazz," but claiming the band was trying to mesh styles of hip
hop, funk, jazz, and rock. Sounds like it's straight out of some record exec
meeting.

On to the real thing, last night I heard the latest release by the Thievery
Corporation on Eighteenth Street Lounge records and it was way cool. More
spacey sounds like the first realease. Dig it!