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i just thought of another word that i suppose means the same..... Fusion. there ya go... braindance or fusion. i suppose im just a big rephlex fan. HAHA. people look at me like im psycho when they ask what kind of music i make and i say braindance. cheers. d In a message dated 2/29/2004 7:25:32 PM Central Standard Time, info@noiseloop.com writes: whatever happened to the term braindance(combination of every and all

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It's a piece of marketing, that's all. I never heard anybody use it in real life.

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>i just thought of another word that i suppose means the same..... Fusion. >there ya go... braindance or fusion. i suppose im just a big rephlex >fan. HAHA.

fusion is a word that's already been used long ago to describe a certain type of groove-based jazz-rock. it differs from prog in that prog seems to have longer and multi-part song structures and has an emphasis on classical scales and modes, through there's sometimes jazz thrown in as well. i can't name any fusion bands off the top of my head, but i know they exist(ed). d. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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> >fusion is a word that's already been used long ago to describe a certain >type of groove-based jazz-rock. it differs from prog in that prog seems >to have longer and multi-part song structures and has an emphasis on >classical scales and modes, through there's sometimes jazz thrown in as >well. i can't name any fusion bands off the top of my head, but i know >they exist(ed).

Weather Report, Return To Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Headhunters and a ton of other (often ex-Miles players) ensembles. More than "sometimes jazz thrown in", the category was mainly a fusion between jazz with rock. jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

actually, miles is credited as starting the fusion thing with 'bitches brew' (largely as a result of his fascination/brief friendship with hendrix). and - again demonstrating the limitations of musical categories - a lot of "fusion" was exactly that - with musicians drawing from jazz, classical, rock and anything else. in fact, if "prog rock" describes music that fuses rock's timbres and instruments with classical structures, then a lot of fusion (david sancious, jan hammer, lifetime, al dimeola ,chick corea jean-luc ponty) was actually prog. The only distinction was that it was executed by people with sigificantly more technique than your average prog rocker. t

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> i can't name any fusion bands off the top of > my head, but i know they exist(ed).

Miles probably started it all - "Bitches Brew", "Agharta" and other 70s albums, then Weather Report (who in their own right would be worthy of discussion on this list b/c of Jaco's influence on Tom Jenkinson), Mahavishnu Orchestra ... all those followed in the 80s by Chick Corea's Electric Band, Allan Holdsworth, and a truckload others. Nowadays, Fusion has become synonymous with boring muzak-style music by virtuoso players who somehow have no taste (not just my opinion). Anyway, I think Braindance is a wicked term for this kind of musick they call IDM around here. :-) Just listening to Black Dog's Bytes - what a wonderful record - you can still hear traces of the 80s in it I think I think this message board rules! good fun to post and read here.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org