Wm. ERROL PACE (wm_errol_pace@hotmail.com)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 03:39:51 GMT
Acid Jazz-philes,
Isn't it also insulting to assume that only a segment of the population
makes R&B music? I say let's bring Teena Marie out of retirement and let
her be the greatest Torchlight Slow Jams Singer she always was but it would
also be nice if she would incorporate Downtempo Acid Jazz into her music.
Just a thought. Who qualifies as Nouveau Soul?
dear list: I hated the latest issue of Urb "the future issue" .The most
Insulted part was the part about R and b music .The notion that new soul can
be made by including jungle and techno influences. I imagine black people
thinkig"Is the girl crazy" ? R and B is the music that consistently has to
marry innovation and mass appeal with formualic production and
mechanization. Given the constraints these guys operate under they have
quite a job . The future of soul isnt some four four stuff though im sure
this is some place for it. Im also tiredd of hearing about the detroit crew
of techno inventors. Gee they are in every other issue > i liked Big fun but
hey it was a while ago.
>From: "christopherotto" <cotto1@gl.umbc.edu>
>To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
>Subject: Re: spin
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:42:38 -0800
>
> > 3) call '99 the year of the "house music revival"
>
>when was the first house era?
>
> > The way trends pop up and die off is so disgusting
> > because they're a complete fabrication by publications
> > like this. Magazines of this calibre never have
> > existed to celebrate music or any of the joy it brings,
> > only to shout about what's currently (and thus definitely
> > not permanently) cool. I could care less about being
> > "commercial" vs. being "indie", who cares if Spin is
> > "commercial", it's irrelevant: it's not about the music.
>
>wordemup. my favourite parts were:
>
>1. their wholsale appropriation of design style from the face the other
>year
>2. "the big beat invasion"
>4. the fashion spread about bboying that looked like it was video grabbed
>from beat street
>
>also the articles that talk about modest mouse as if they were part of
>fluxus or something are a little hard to look at- it is kind of hard to
>find
>a balnce though in music writng between media theory type stuff and saying
>thing slike " this shit is dope" but when it works it is great
> the face, surface, urb, and xlr8r have some decent stuff sometimes on
>this
>tip.
>
>christopherotto
>
>
>
> >
> > Jonathan
>
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