When it comes to trying to define what music belongs to what category
there's no end to the circular debates. Forget about it and just listen.
But in regards to the original question, Acid Jazz cannot be a sub-branch
of drum and bass because chronologically speaking the term Acid Jazz came
about before the term Drum and Bass ( as we know it... though there is a
Triston Palmer roots record from the 80's called Roots Radics and Drum and
Bass). The term Acid Jazz came to existence in the late 80's as a response
to the Acid-House movement, popularized by those in the UK who enjoyed
going clubbing but dancing to jazz and rare groove and not to 303's and
909's. Drum and bass came to be in the early 90's as a term for the new
style of beats that were modeled after the hip hop 12"s played on 45 RPM,
with all the accessories of the beat stripped out except for, as you
properly observed, the drums and bass.
If you want to learn more about the genres, search the archives for a post
from Gen Kanai from about 6 months ago, with a link to an interactive
music map that does a great job describing all the many children of
dance/club/electronic music.
Nat
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, miroslav. wrote:
> This is a debate that probably can't be really ever be
> resolved to everyone's satisfaction...I would tend to
> think of it the other way around. I like to emphasize
> the "jazz" in characterizing things as acid jazz or as
> to how closely you can hear it in their sound.
> Although the argument of how much jazz influences
> whatever types of music out there is worthy of its own
> entire library, Drum n Bass seems to come in a decent
> variety of flavors. I have, however, heard
> Grooverider and LTJ Bukem on the internet acid jazz
> channel I like to listen to (spinner)...Bukem and Good
> Looking Records would be the first to proudly admit
> that they certainly tend to be much closer in sound to
> jazzy influences than others in the D n' B scene.
>
> --- Shawn Kuo <shawn@tradename.com> wrote:
> > Can AJ be categorized as a sub-branch of Drum and
> > Bass?
> > Literally Speaking D and B is all music that has a
> > bassline witha drum pattern.
> >
> > confused sz~~~
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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