stephanie (nnine@yahoo.com)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:31:19 -0800 (PST)
> yeah he does do some cool stuff but most of it's
> only japanese import
Ladies and gentlemen, I maybe talking out my ass. the
cd i have was in the import rack at tower, but i don't
know for sure where from. i'll try to remember to
bring it in tomorrow.
> i want to relax please!
OK!!
btw, towa tei may have been my intro to "acid jazz" as
it were. I guess I heard easy listening in 95 or 96,
maybe at the college radio station, not even sure who
introduced me to it. I lent it to my portuguese prof
b/c I was so smitten with the brazillian influence
(I'd been listening to all milton nascimiento and
wasn't aware of people reinterpretting that stuff at
that time...if only i'd found far out recs back then!
oh how my life would be different!) anyway I lent it
to my prof and she said in her great northeastern
brazil accent, "I think this is what they call 'acid
jazz.'" "huh", I thought. "Who knew?"
Then I didn't pursue much of what we talk about on
this list (besides the odd dj krush album and such)
until last year when i was bored with everything i was
hearing in my isolated scene, finding solace in
records like Nu Yorica 2 on soul jazz which filtered
down to my local store. Every time I heard something
interesting and looked it up, it was mentioned on this
list, no matter where it fell on the musical spectrum.
After that happened like 4 times I decided I would
save myself a lot of web searching if I just signed
up. so here i am, still confused, but with a much
richer vinyl collection.
Currently I am crazy about the entire west london
sound, that house-not-house/nu jazz/neo electro stuff.
I'm totally overwhelmed by that whole scene and can't
keep up with all the key players and records I need to
have. I feel like making a crib sheet out of an
article about that crowd from the most recent Straight
No Chaser and hanging it on my monitor so I know what
to look for when it's mentioned. When did this thing
start?? (And where was I napping when it happened??)
Has its history been written yet, that I may be
enriched with that knowledge?
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