All that jazz and electrifies

Simply Jazztronicked!















i am in the impulse of rushing to rock corner in Gardens, for cd shopping again after listening to FreeTEMPO. hard not to, especially when 4shared.com is blocked [again] and i fail to bypass the proxy.

anyway, i think i might have a thing towards music produced by dj's, but not the overly hyped type, of course! to name one, clazziquai, a fantastic project by a korean dj whose genres are a mixed of groovy, classical, jazz, electronic, house and some bossa nova. on the other hand, FreeTEMPO which is initiated by japanese dj takeshi hanzawa fuses jazz and electronic and most of its music blends in some element of sway, lightness and some kind of "wanna-break-free". schweet. i love the album covers' concept alot. imaginative and vintage looking, like one of those laser discs i used to see in music stores.

to be fair, i think some of the pieces sound familiar to each other-mostly played around one main theme and style or start with a similar rhythm but given a different twist while developing. redundant they may sound but one can still make out the difference between two pieces. the only thing ordinary about FreeTEMPO albums which matches the other albums out there would be this fact: "in every album, there will be only one most distinguished track". haha, i can't deny that favouritism is hard to avoid.

simply put, FreeTEMPO delights me. the first track i listened to should be immaterial white. this makes great listening because it feels fresh, something different from the usual tracks played in my player. speaking of the media player, my music library is expanding exponentially, consisting of musicians whom i've never heard of until i downloaded their albums and savour their music.

how irony can that be? these musicians are internationally renown and yet we have no idea! and to add to that matter, it is almost impossible to find their albums in regular music stores here. perhaps, their fame is only defined among the jazz musician community and people who have been avid fan of the genre. one thing, malaysians are generally good jazz musicians. some of the malaysian band i heard in youtube is really amazing.

some of my favourites:
mercedes benz mixed tape-compiles works of new and promising musicians. genres-jazz, nu-jazz, tri-hop, soul, folk song, indie, house, lounge

hotel costes-i've only manage to download the 2nd and the 10th album. thumbs up for lounge and chill-out.

kenny-g -ahh...classic. who would've not know him? jazz, of course!

michael buble-nice voice, and good looking too. haha

ryuichi sakamoto-ahh, this man is genius. can't describe him. during my internship i listened to his forbidden colours everyday, every minute and second, for 2 continuous week. it's like caffeine. can't do without it. yeah, i was that crazy then.

clazziquai-korean music. thumbs up.

norah jones-i don't really have her songs in my list but i listened to her few songs and quite like it. she's really a jazz pianist.

yundi li-ok! this one is not jazz pianist. he's a classical pianist. virtuoso pianist.

i sense the list is growing and growing. it's always like that. once you browsed for one particular musician, you will inevitably stumbled across another musician. and it makes me itchy all over.

*scratch scratch*