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Jazz and techno may not seem to have much to do with each other, but they keep grinding up against each other, from Herbie Hancock's percussive contributions to the language of electronic music, as well as his innovations in funky machine music, to genre fusionists like St. Germain (and every house DJ who has ever thrown an instrumentalist onto his set for "spontaneity") and even collaborations between Matthew Shipp and the Blue Series musicians with forward thinking hip hop artists like El-P and the late, lamented Antipop Consortium (we'll leave lightweights like LTJ Bukem out of this conversation). Perhaps, despite a whole aesthetic built around the mystique of machine music and its sci fi implications and anonymity, electronic musicians, particularly as they age, can smart over the neglect in esteem they suffer from antiquated concepts. The manual skill of instrument playing and the "live" experience are still exalted, and the jazz combo gets the most blind respect for this, even if the rockers get more ignorant sex thrown their way. Anyway, jazz, with its lengthy meditations and boilings of basic themes, has always provided some of the best sample material, as well as pioneering the musical concept so important to techno, the constant beat as platform for subtle and exuberant exploration. Jazz musicians, meanwhile, have always had an itch against all commercial sense to clash and dabble with the most innovative ideas in pop, and have long used electronic music as a futuristic tabula raza to mess around in...http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/music/laurent-garnier/public-outburst
Buckethead: Colma
Since you have enjoyed Buckethead.... ....maybe you'd find a few of these....interesting as well. Have a listen.....
