Re: No Subject

From: Rochelle Mahon (rmahon@paradise.net.nz)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2001 - 04:31:59 CET

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    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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