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> Why is it that whenever an electronic musician borrows from jazz it's
> always the corny middle-of-the-road boring lounge jazz that no real jazz
> head has taken seriously since my father was in diapers? Luke Vibert can
> appropriate this style to good *deliberate* ironic effect, but everybody
> else seems to think they're really jamming. I'd like to hear somebody
> take a good whiff of Albert Ayler or Cecil Taylor up their sampler. Why
> doesn't somebody take some chances?!?!
i whole heartedly agree, this predominating lounge jazz style is some
very very weak shit. how about throwing in a little Bix Beiderbecke or
Kid Memphis? something that actually stomps
imhomelette, j