another crew to check out who does innovative things with DJs & live band
is Organic Grooves (http://www.codek.com/organic.html).
They play hypnotic, mind bending grooves that consist of many layers of
sounds, the base being trip hop/acid jazz/cosmic grooves played by DJ
Sasha Crnobrnja, laced up with congas, bongos, dub rhythm guitar, moog,
melodica, and other instruments. Gives them a sound totally
unique. Spacey, tripped out, global riddims.
- Nat 
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, joni . wrote:
> hey AJers,
> 
> well i thought Lamb was pretty cool on summerstage in the park, but i don't 
> know if you can call the electronics guy a "DJ" persay.  He was doing alot 
> of interesting stuff using samples and, ya gotta admitt, the way he was 
> tweaking different sounds, especially her vocals, using the board was cool.  
> Although I wasen't completely blown away, the mind blowing qualities would 
> have been much better had we been in a club where the sound really had a 
> chance to resonate.
> 
> as for recent use of DJ's in or w/ other forms of music I'm kinda 
> disappointed in the recent rock/hip-hop groups.  what i think works best, 
> for my ears, is jazz and beats.  Trumpet, flute, piano...these can all work 
> well w/ the DJ.  Drummers may have a harder time fitting in to this 
> scenario, but still, w/ the right attitude this can work.  I'm not sure how 
> much of St. Germain or Cinematic Orchestra are live or live samples but 
> these two groups, especially Cinematic Orchestra, are representitive of the 
> kind of sounds that i think work particularly well together.
> 
> aaaanyway...
> 
> joni
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