Andrei wrote:
quoted 14 lines On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, jacob z. wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, jacob z. wrote:
>
> > one of the things i like about it is the way
> > it plays around with musical conventions - taking the production language
> > of house and the lo-fi textures of scratchy jazz records and making
> > something, to my ears, novel.
>
> I don't have the cd anymore so this is from memory, but I remember
> listening to the album and noticing there wasn't anything jazz-like about
> it. Obviously it's not constructed like jazz, but harmonically and
> especially melodically it wasn't "jazzy". The thought struck me that the
> whole sampling of jazz records angle was more just marketing.
>
> Andrei
I can hear the jazz sounds coming through -- like the voicings of the chords,
and the overall ambience/vibe. It's not on an overt level, though, the
connection is almost subliminal because he's mutated his samples so much.
John
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John von Seggern
http://www.digitalcutuplounge.com
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