Word: funk
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Acid jazz, the supple combination of electronic derived grooves with a hip soft-jazz sentiment has blossomed recently into a full fledged genre of its own, led by high-octane performers like Karl Denson and Soulive. The Baldwin Brothers bring a broad streak of funk and mischief to their sound, courtesy of some wicked turntable action which keeps the goofy samples flowing. The record begins with a nerdy interviewer asking, “What are the instruments in your group? I better write them down...
...hours of trying to dance haphazardly to implosive quasi-funk is enough for a day, which is why Plaid garnered the most cheers and excitement. Besides their relative fame, as former members of the Black Dog—a pioneering techno outfit—and as one of the Warp label’s most acclaimed artists, Plaid throw all pretensions out the door. Their music is quirky and experimental, even resembling some of the insectile funk and robo-talk that had preceded them. Yet it’s a perfectly logical extension of the Detroit techno, electro...
...underwhelming to these eyes. Rather than tuning instruments or hyping the crowd, they stayed true to the geeky stereotype and hooked up their laptops. The performance that followed was surprisingly high-octane, considering their poignant and wonderfully nuanced records. Sheathed in Plaid’s trademark heavenly synths, the funk came like a double shot of adrenaline and a breath of fresh air. The biggest response, other than to Mira dropping a booty ghetto-tech track at the end of her set, was the ominous “Pino Pomo.” From Rest Proof Clockwork, the track?...
...like DJs, if you like hip hop, if you like funk, if you like rock’n’roll...then Scratch Tour 2002 is your musical dream. No, Scratch Tour 2002, which hit Boston at the Avalon Ballroom on March 19, is your sound utopia and your DJ nirvana. Avalon was equipped with a row of turn-tables running the length of the stage, a jam-packed crowd of fans, a small break-dancing circle and a big screen running everything from live feed of the DJs’ hands close up, to the bouncing crowd to unrelated...
...first to step up to the tables, showed the crowd why he is such a legendary figure in the history of turntablism, dropping a set of funky, old-school tracks. Jazzy Jay was a founding father of the hip hop DJ culture. Mixing in ’70s funk beats with cow bells and sound bites from a speech by President John F. Kennedy ’40, he composed sequences of impeccable timing, deep bass and infectious rhythms. His skills illustrated and made real the lyrics he scratched with: “Musical rhythms can mess with your head...