RE: downtempo in movies


Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@best.com)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 14:21:29 -0800



At 1:48 PM -0800 12/2/99, Moonlight wrote:
>American downtempo musicians?

Hive _Working w/Sound_
Company Flow _Little Johnny from the Hospital_
_NY Vibeology_ (forget the dj's name, but it's not on the package anyway;
it's marketed as a comp).
DJ Wally _Genetically Engineered_ (is that the title?)

DJ Shadow maybe comes close to Portishead & Massive Attack? In my book,
it's a different kind of music, if only for the vocal/instrumental split.
AND he (& the rest of the guys on this list) kick their ass anyways.

Q-bert? Would he fit this niche? He's great.

>
>American Jungle?
>I like DJ SoulSlinger and 1.8.7, though YMMV. DJ Spooky. We's "sqrt(-1)."
>Ming & FS.
>Mocean worker is from NYC, right?

Hive (again) _Devious Methods_
Pish Posh (aka DJ Wally, again) _Up Jumps the Boogie_ (great, underrated
album-- on a subdivision of Rawkus!)

There's also a comp called Digital Dust on that same Rawkus subdivison
(Rawkuts?) which is pretty excellent.

DJ Spooky & We could both be quoted as excellent examples of US "downtempo"
(sheez, let's go back to trip-hop) as well.

>
>American Techno?
>Carl craig. Josh Wink.

Not (thump) my (thump) cup (thump) of (thump) tea.

No one's mentioned Taran's album as a "classic" of downtempo, which I'm
pretty sure I'd rate it as. Lots of Compost stuff, though I was kind of
underwhelmed by the A Forest Mighty Black full-length. Also:

Vibert _Big Soup_
Up Bustle & Out & London Funk Allstars
Lionrock
_Bombay the Hard Way_

I'd best stop now.

                                         Jason Witherspoon

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