I really don't expect to get any acid jazz info back from this post, but any baltimoreans on this list who would like to tell me the most interesting thing I can do with a few hours of spare time tonight, please let me know...before 5 pm.....
Jay B
ObAjazz.....been listening to a few great albums lately in the electronic/sample side of our music spectrum....Visit Venus is jazzy and satisfies me like ice cream on a sunny day....the Free Zone "variations on a chill" is one of the best buys for your buck, 2 CDs over an hour long each and continuously mixed at points for $22.00, ranging from smooth slow stuff to fairly good jungle.....Finally got a journey into Ambient Groove Vol II. on quango so I could have that Fila Brazilia track on CD...their "harmonicas are shite" is also a killer, does anybody have album info?.....also got Takemura's Child's View, which, along with Outside's "the rough and the smooth" are two albums that lean much closer to the acid jazz side sort of thing and definitely deserve their place in the albums of the year list that I think I saw in One the One....Finally, I was a bit disappointed with my second New Breed purchase, I had been staying away for a while and broke down and bought "Loungin", wh!
ich is by all means allright, but something's missing, the songs are too repetitive, the beats are too trebley, maybe it's the cheezy piano sound on one track (if you're going to use a piano in your song, I think you have to use a real one unless your samples are perfect), I dunno...have to give it another listen I suppose, I do remember liking the Prunes track but that's about it...finally, I had to describe the music I like to a person I met the other night, and I guess I found a good catch-all term that describes every thing that's discussed in this list that is really NOT acid jazz (don't mean to start it all again, but when I said that term he instantly started talking about Jamiroquai and BNH which I like too but wasn't talking about at that point)....."experimental electronic music", it's the best I've uttered so far (much better than trip hop) and I'm going with it....
Damn, I started babbling again.
Jay B