eh> He started playing acid jazz when he got
eh> slotted to play a secong room at a house event in Chi-town and he
eh> wanted to play something different than his norm. Then he put out the
eh> Mushroom jazz tapes, and eventually started that club when he moved to
SF.
> i also hate the
> way that a/j gets ghetto-ized as "warm-up" music in
> so many clubs here (even in hiphop circles). i've gone on record as
saying
> that it's b.s. to tell a visiting dj what to play, but i really hate it
when
> it seems that people play to expectations about l.a.--there's a lot of us
> that want to hear something different.
>
eh> Personally, we like to hear acid jazz and deep house at the same event
eh> (or from the same dj set ...as Mark often does). House and acid jazz
eh> often have a lot of the same influences, not to mention having the
eh> same producers (i.e. Ashley Beedle, Masters at Work, Julius Papp, to
eh> name a few).
i'm not saying that events should be just one bag of music all the time--on
the other hand, music that i've spun as an "acid-jazz" dj is pretty diverse
(jazzy & abstrakt hiphop aka t-hop, latin--both brazilian & afro-cuban, dub,
bhangra, dancehall, jungle/d&b, african--rai, juju & soukous, english &
french breakbeat stuff--best name i could come up with--rare groove, funk,
straight-ahead jazz, and even house). what i *am* saying is that in l.a. (i
can't speak for other cities) if you mention/advertise a house room (or dj)
at an event, and an acid-jazz or abstrakt (avoiding the "t" word) room (or
dj)
it's assumed that the non-house stuff is for chilling *not* dancing. i've
had people come up to me and ask "when are you going to play some dance
music" when i was playing break oriented stuff w/heavy beats because they
were expecting house. i've played the exact same tunes in a non-house
setting and had the room go off...
the energy seems to only go one way, or it's always the same arc w/the house
oriented djs i hear here. if you hear acid-jazz in their sets, it's at the
beginning or end as warm-up or cool-down music. this is what i mean by
"ghettoization". if you know of people that break out of this let me know
--i'd really like to hear them!!
eh> Considering how small our dance community is as a whole, it seems
eh> smart for us to draw from each others crowds ... house kids getting
eh> introduced
eh> to acid jazz and acid jazz folks opening an ear up to house music
eh> ...could benefit us all! : )
i'm definitely down w/the cross-pollination idea. it's happened in the
music
that's being created, it needs to cross over to the listening/dancing
contingent. i'm not an anti-housist, it's just that every now & again
certain things happen that get my panties in a wad (like when "dance music"
changed its definition *from* "music intended for dancing" to something more
specific--how could james brown not be dance music?)
-t
p.s. you & allison should come down to sunday brunch @ hyperdisc--bring
some
records!!
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