[kaas]

i heard the acid jazz things at To view links on the forums you must be a Registered & Active user for at least 24 hours. So why not introduce yourself & make a few posts first :) (in the downtempo section) and i'm fairly impressed maybe some of you got some nice idm'ish recommendations??

[Railman]

infected mushroom, shpongle, jaga jazzist, mr. scruff?
perhaps some of the more experimental st. germain stuff?

i love it when i type rhyming posts

[neviatha]

When i think of acid jazz i tend to think of groups or artists like Corduroy, Roy Ayers, the James Taylor quartet or Jamiroquai etc. I could be wrong but i always thought of Acid Jazz as a more modern approach (although stylisticaly the same really) to the sort of Jazz funk from the 60'/70's. I always thought that the main differance was really the emphasis of Acid Jazz being by british artists centered around the Acid Jazz label. Lots of high energy grooves , classic bass licks with lots of hammond organ and flute and horn solos.....

Here is an example of corduroy:



If you asked me ten yeas ago if i thought acid jazz was downtempo or IDM.... i would more than likely have replied "no way" and "what's IDM"(as IDM is a term i only really started hearing the last few years and if you explained it was electronic music i would have said that acid jazz was more of a live group experience).

Having said that i do know that there were numerous DJ's spinning these grooves back then as well.... and what goes up must come down there must've been the more chilled out opposite of these groups.... i guess that's where Nightmares on Wax (the only group i recognised on ishkurs guide to 'Acid Jazz') come into it, i did like them at the time and i think they are on the warp label!

In Edinburgh there many venues playing this kind of music at the time.... and when we were clubbing regularly sometimes we'd stop in to henry's, the bongo club or cafe graffiti to enjoy some of the local varients of this style... the groove-diggaz, or true blue and even on a couple of occasions mr Reuban Wilson. Great times.... not an unhappy face in the room! Always jumping!

[neviatha]

Actually if anyone knows of any electronica with the same kind of groove, passion and intensity of music like this i would love to hear it....

[Mindmusic]

i love this music...

[raytrace]

yeh in fairness when I saw this thread I was thinking of that Galliano type stuff etc., which is emm DEFINITELY not my 'kettle of metal'...

[kaas]

corduroy is nice, tnx neviatha

@raytrace: To view links on the forums you must be a Registered & Active user for at least 24 hours. So why not introduce yourself & make a few posts first :)? not really what i was looking for...

[raytrace]

yeh it aint anythin id be listening to either lol - the only song I liked that was ever tenuosly connected with the original 'Acid Jazz' scene - talkin' Loud and all that stuff - was 'Apparently Nuthin'' by The Young Disciples - that was pretty good IMO

[neviatha]

Originally Posted by kaas

corduroy is nice, tnx neviatha

No worries...... Corduroy are a great band! I wish they were still going!


Glad you like!!!