I have to agree, I grew up on "Indie" music (for want of a better word) and
its probably only in the last 5-6 years I've gotten into
dance/downbeat/nu-jazz/whatever, but I arrived here by listening to people
like the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays in the early nineties, and before
that New Order, then into guys like Potishead, Massive Attack and Tricky...
after that this kind of music became my staple listening diet. I think I
can pinpoint the 2 moments that sent me over here... hearing "Dummy" for the
first time at a friends place, I went out the next day and bought it (this
was before it was well known), and hearing a "Give em enough dope" Wall of
Sound comp. in a record store, both these moments had the "wow what the hell
is that?" effect that I still crave when hearing music.
Its interesting that currently in British indie music there's again a
guitar/dance crossover happening, people like Doves; Radiohead of course
being the best known example of this... I love music that crosses over
genres and fuses elements, I think that is probably one of the main
constituents of "acid jazz", and is why everyone has had so much trouble
defining it.
Cheers
Rochelle
on 3/3/01 9:01 am, Lamourenfuite@aol.com at Lamourenfuite@aol.com wrote:
> I found this rather interesting as I too grew up on indie rock and
> "alternative music."
> I am curious how many others on this list are the same. I still listen to it
> as well as the music discussed here. I am currently reading the bio of
> Creation Records (I collected them as a teenager) which documents a period
> of time (1988-1990) when those who listened to 60s garage, punk, new wave
> gravitated and opened their minds to dance music. Some would argue that it
> was really just the ecstasy working, nonetheless I believe this was and is a
> very important time in the development of genres of dance. Some of the acid
> jazz purists would argue, "No man it was only blue note and r n b that got
> me." Ok then you are cool.
> What is so fabulous is that these folks in Britain for example, long known
> for melodies, guitars, pop were fascinated by these American house records
> and then interpreted them in their own way and helped launch probably the
> most fruitful dance scene in the world.
> Hey as much as I enjoy the records on Compost and other labels mentioned here
> one of my favorite all time bands is the Tindersticks and the one man MOMUS.
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