Closing off his series charting the course between jazz and techno, Jimmy Monsta Funk brings us his final batch of 5 selections of that embody these two genres working off each other. Having started Part 1 which with Techno After Jazz, followed by the second installment looking at Jazz Before Techno, he’s now ending us with the appropriately titled Time After Time, looking at the fusion between the two stylings of music.
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In the world of DJing and record selecting the need to define tracks by genre never goes away, if only for record shops to be able to put records into nice neat piles.
Electronic dance music (for want of a better term) has always been influenced by what came before, either directly through sampling or indirectly through the use of standard motifs, styles of singing or classic melodies and percussion. The world of techno in particular has been linked with jazz and drum & bass has also been influenced by the music born and forged in Harlem and New Orleans over 70 years before.
Over the next three weeks, I aim to give you some tracks that are techno influenced by jazz, jazz as a precursor to techno or a modern fusion of old styles and feelings.
PART 3: A Fusion Of A Fusion
Bringing to an end our three week odyssey into the connections between jazz and electronics, the following five releases wouldn’t be out of place in either a jazz or electronic environment.
1 – Underground Resistance – Amazon (4 Hero Remix)
A collision of two electronic heavyweights, sounds like Weather Report gone techno!
2 – Photek – Rings Around Saturn
This track is built around a sample from Astral Travelling by Pharoah Sanders, the combination of bass-line and drum edits have yet to be beaten!
3 – Miles Davis – Panthalassa LP
Bill Laswell’s remix project of tracks from In a Silent Way, Get Up With It and On the Corner brings jazz standards to a new audience. As if to cement the relationship between old and young, there was a second edition of the album released with remixes from DJ Cam, King Britt, Jamie Myerson and Doc Scott.
4 – Innerzone Orchestra – Bug in a Bassbin
Carl Craig’s tribute to his jazz roots, played by people in the ‘trip-hop’, ‘techno’ and ‘drum and bass’ communities. DJ Fabio claimed on a radio show that this was massively influential on what he released on his label ‘Creative Source’.
5 – Ron Trent – Altered States
This track was made by Ron when he was 15! A simple mixture of percussion, synths and strings and a stone cold classic.