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I’ve had way too much time on my hands, so I decided to create a new genre of music. I call it TECHNO JAZZ. The idea is techno drum beats, jazz trumpets, and beat poetry. Rather silly, but I quite like it.

I got my friend to mix some mp3s together to see if the idea would work. We took and sped up the drum beat from Streets of Philadelphia, put the trumpets from the film Naked Lunch over it, and then laid Allen Ginsberg reading poetry over that.

Here’s the outcome.

The brilliant thing is no one can call it rubbish, because I’ll just say it’s too innovative for them, ala Throbbing Gristle. Yes, pretty soon all the hip cats will be sitting in cafes, reading Camus to TechnoJazz.

nick the stripper wrote:I’ve had way too much time on my hands, so I decided to create a new genre of music. I call it TECHNO JAZZ. The idea is techno drum beats, jazz trumpets, and beat poetry.

A bit like acid jazz then ?

Badlander wrote:

nick the stripper wrote:I’ve had way too much time on my hands, so I decided to create a new genre of music. I call it TECHNO JAZZ. The idea is techno drum beats, jazz trumpets, and beat poetry.

A bit like acid jazz then ?

No, it’s not like Acid Jazz. It’s very, very different.




I came up with the idea, googled around, found Acid Jazz and thought sod it, I’ll do it anyways.

Madness. I like your style.

It's far too innovative for me.

Pat wrote:It's far too innovative for me.

Philistine.

I like it, it's out there, but I think it could go further.
I'll pass it on to a more knowledgeable mate, and see what he thinks...

Keep it up!

@ Nick - Your Very Weird! - and that is meant as a compliment

well done

sounds pretty much like Tuxedomoon...

Compelling.
Interesting.
Different.

Do you get a free beret and oversized shiny white trousers hanging round your arse with each purchase?

Great stuff

Aye, thanks for all the - uh - compliments. I should thank my friend Max for helping me mix these together. As said before, these are demos to see if the idea would work. I’m planning on making a four track EP of original material in this style.

here's the latest track. It's not as out there as the last one and is more mellow.

Interesting indeed. Very Drum 'n Bassy drum, I'd say

Check these tracks if you can find them... I'll have a root about for MP3 locations later..

Geezer - Shut Up - Smitten 48

Dave the Drummer - Hydro 9 - Hydraulix

The first one I cannot figure where the sample is from but it sounds VERY Tim Leary..

The second one is the roughest techno tune ever to sample Gill Scott Heron's Television... it's still getting dropped four years after it came out!

http://www.truelove.co.uk

Go into the mail order section and you can choose tracks from the Smitten and Hydraulix labels..

its 99p a track but the two I listed are awesome and well worth the cash..

Thanks, Gottdammerung, I'll check those tracks out.

No probs.. I think the Heron-sampling track on Hydro 9 is Side A.. can't be sure.. ain't had my records out for a while dammit...

Nice experiment, on the first song I would mix the drums louder, they fall away a bit...

And sometimes there are some rather dissonant chords in there. Nice in Jazzmusic, but there is a difference between weird chords and dissonant chords

Second track is more coherent, but that synthy acid line starts to sound a bit annoying after a while... But LOVE the saxomophone!

IZ.