> Hey there-
>
> Keith wrote: "However, it seems like the best talents in the experimental end of
> acid jazz are going towards jungle, which to me is a great loss. Most every
> Ninja Tune, Mo'Wax et al releases are either completely jungle or else half of
> the mixes are jungle. Does anyone see this as the first signs of a dying genre
> or is it a natural progression for this music?"
>
> Agree and disagree. I, too, hate the 'acid jazzers turning jungle' thing. But
> not because I hate jungle, but because I hate a lot of what these folks are
> putting out as jungle. I'm not accusing anyone of being trainjumpers (I only got
> into this sound recently myself) but some of these folks doing 'junglist' mixes
> who were doing AJ before don't do too good of a job at their newfound genre.
Aside from Outside's "To Forgive But Not To Forget," I haven't heard much
of what you folks are talking about, but I don't think it's a "move"
towards Jungle. Maybe people are trying to cash in on two scenes at once,
maybe people want to show the Jungle crowd what jazz is all about, or
maybe it's just that some artists feel the <112 BPM of most Acid Jazz
is a bit too restricting or overdone. Perhaps the Jungle feel is the (for
lack of a better word) "hippest" way of using a faster tempo without
making the music sound like "Speed Acid Jazz."
My band does some faster-tempo stuff, but the rhythms are more
samba-based than junglist/sped-up hip-hop stuff.
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