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[riley]

What exactly is Acid Jazz? I've listened to some stuff that is in a jazz vein but not quite, so I want to know what you guys think.

Next, has anyone heard of Steriod Maximus, (not the poster, sorry) and can reccomend something similar to it? I tried Pandora but it didn't recognize the group.

[robot]

for similar music see other ipecac bands:

http://www.myspace.com/ipecacrecordings

you may wanna start with something that mike patton was involved in -- mr. bungle or fantomas to start.

ennio morricone is more classic. but he might be what you're after, too.

ROBT.

[Totti]

[Oreovictim]

The Mahavishu Orchestra would probably be the first acid-jazz bands. Can't go wrong with their Birds of Fire CD.

[Stevie_B]

Check out some of Gilles Peterson's compilations for good samplers of acid jazz, and bands like Brand New Heavies, James Taylor Quartet. Galliano, Thievery Corporation and Corduroy.

Acid jazz is basically just laidback, modal (or 'cool') jazz that sometimes makes use of loops and synths and what-have-you, and often involves middle class white British types appropriating US black iconography and culture (think of all the clubnights and bar sessions you've ignored called things like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly'). It has its highpoints, but a lot of it is very pretentious and wanky.

[Stevie_B]

Check out some of Gilles Peterson's compilations for good samplers of acid jazz, and bands like Brand New Heavies, James Taylor Quartet. Galliano, Thievery Corporation and Corduroy.

Acid jazz is basically just laidback, modal (or 'cool') jazz that sometimes makes use of loops and synths and what-have-you, and often involves middle class white British types appropriating US black iconography and culture (think of all the clubnights and bar sessions you've ignored called things like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly'). It has its highpoints, but a lot of it is very pretentious and wanky.

[BS.Dos.]

To the best of my knowledge, Acid Jazz, in the UK at least, was a modestly popular musical genre that emerged into the broader underground music consciousness sometime after the initial House music explosion around the early 1990's, the appeal of which was possibly though not entirely, a direct result of the changing tastes of fickle music lovers who'd grown increasing bored and dissatisfied with the widespread prevalence of highly programmed and repetitive 'digital' dance music and, who sought something more than the largely 'faceless' digital dance music scene offered.

Being (initially) largely analogue in nature, the sound of Acid Jazz can loosely be described as being one which embraced all the musical reference points along the axis of funk, jazz and Northern Soul to name but a few. As this new 'alternative' sound found a wider audience, it wasn't long before the growing number of acts who championed the sound found a vehicle for their music by way of the appropriately and brand savvy named Acid Jazz Records. While acts such as Galliano, The James Taylor Quartet and Corduroy enjoyed modest success, it was through bands such as The Brand New Heavies and, to a lesser extent, Jamiroquai that both the sound and label found it's biggest audience.

In retrospect, the appeal of the genre was relatively short lived. Both popular culture and the musical climate of the time was in the throes of transition with highly experimental, cross-genre styles of music being the order of the day and, it wasn't long before newer sounds became the preference of choice for many (think Trip-Hop and Lounge House etc) who viewed Acid Jazz as being perhaps just a little to 'woolly' and 'noodley' for their more mainstream "Let's 'ave it!" musical taste.

For anyone looking for an entry point into the sounds of Acid Jazz, then I'd personally suggest taking a look at the Rebirth Of Cool

[Stevie_B]

[BS.Dos.]

Your reply wasn't there when I started typing mine.

[Stevie_B]

[BS.Dos.]

I'd actually finished it, then closed the window by mistake meaning I had to type it out again, which took another 20-minutes.

My MS is closed today so I've got the day off. Just killing time before the hoff opens.

[Stevie_B]

[Dome Vans]

[BS.Dos.]

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