stephanie (nnine@yahoo.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 15:17:01 -0700 (PDT)
> Also, can anyone give me the 411 on the Quartet
> album?
going through the last few days' mail...
I haven't done any reading about this album, bios on
the members or anything, but I did buy it without
hesitation. I guess it's a jazz quartet playing the
songs, but it's "produced by peshay". It's mixable,
i.e. the beats are reliably steady, so I guess it was
electronically sequenced.
it's about 6-8 tracks on 2 pieces of vinyl, half of
which are sort of that slack-jawed "jazzy" dnb style,
(think Labello Blanco) but the rest of it is so
exciting I'll forgive it. I believe there's a
downtempoish piece on there, but it is mostly
true-holistic-jazz-meets-reality-check-beats and it's
orchestrated just beautifully. Again, I've been lying
in wait for this style to emerge, and I'll go through
a stack of 100 bad techstep records to find a gem like
this. (and I'm not kidding! You should have seen the
piles of shit I went through last time I was in
Breakbeat Science just for about 7 records that I
actually bought!)
Can anyone recommend more stuff along these lines?
(see my diatribe from earlier this summer where I
demarcate "jazzy" from "jazzed out" ;) I've been
listening to the stuff off the Test label and
Metalheadz artist Sci-Clone as far as jungle labels, I
pick up anything that says Bill Laswell, and I'm still
wet behind the ears but often pleasantly surprised as
far as finding this kind of forward-thinking jazz
breaks on non-jungle labels.
have a great weekend,
stephanie
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