Reply to: RE>Bach, Betoven & Beats
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Has anyone ever tried mixing some good clasical stuff with some
"traditional" acid-jazz style beats? The idea just poped in my head and
I figure someone might have tried it before.
-=Pengo=-
Check Clubbed to Death, a Mo Wax release from about two years ago. I forget
who they bit, but they chewed off a rather large chunk. They then used the
chord progression and made it into a club track. Also, one of the Clean Up
releases from 1995 (I think it's Koop's Jellyfishes) grabs something
from...night of the....flight of the....damn I forget, but it has a descending
chromatic scale played by a flute with the first note held, and then it goes
back up....after about five or six notes.....you've heard the flute line....
don't know this track exactly, but somehow feel liking having heard
it... and the description of the flute line seems to match... is'nt it
"prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune", by Debussy? - by the way, the
french school of classical music around the end of last
century/beginning of this one (Debussy, Faure, Ravel, Satie) is often
quoted as an influence by jazzmen, and i would'nt be surprised that
artists involved in the music discussed on this list share it.
especially since they should learn from an harmonic point of view, but
as well for the texture of sounds, the "consistence" (sorry, my poor
english...) of the sound (check out as well Gustav Mahler as well for
that).
anyway anyway, as already cited, deodato has a few things using
classical themes, zarathustra, and also if i remember well something
from Stravinski's spring. and on the last mojo dancefloor jazz comp
there's the rendition of the bolero by Ravel.
salut
daniel