RE: Bomb the Dissent; Re: hip hop top 10 / in my case

From: Orlando Andrade (oandrade@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 20:13:31 CEST

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    At 05:12 PM 7/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
    >Dunno - but here in the UK "acid jazz" has certain conations - in that it
    >refers to the London label "Acid Jazz" who produced bands like Brand New
    >Heavies and Motherearth etc.. early '90's type UK sounds - considered
    >quite "cheesy" by todays musicians.
    >Ok so Giles Peterson's origins are from this scene but I would be suprised
    >if he refered to his music nowadays as Acid Jazz. ??
    >
    >That said I'm not complaining about the naming of the list - because as
    >you quite rightly put it we are discussing all kinds of musical genres
    >here and most of them are very difficult to "class" (as a lot of good
    >music is)... so the name doesn't really matter...

    Back to this conversation again? This list always ends up coming back to
    "What is acid jazz?", "Ok, can it still be called acidjazz?", etc. I'm
    going to ask if we can skip it this time.

    About the hip-hop, rap, old school conversation. I notice everyone
    mentions the old hip-hop stuff, the established classics. The recent
    quality too, Roots, J5. I like to point out this lists old favorites DJ
    Krush and DJ Shadow. Plus for the new commercial hip-hop/rap everyone
    seems to love to hate, I like to point out Neptune's production. I think
    these producers sound great, along with their very own singer. Its not
    exactly jazzy, and the people they produce for don't exactly have the best
    or smartest lyrics. But their production is really smart and fun
    too. These guys are the only way I could listen to radio. If I did anyway.

    Just saying some stuff,
    Orlando.



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