[uzziah]

i'd really like some reccomendations for jazz and electronica albums ( i know they're not related

jazz: i really enjoy instrumental jazz. classic jazz, not "smooth jazz" that really makes me cringe

i have miles davis' kind of blue, and a history of jazz 5-cd collection by ken burns (i'd reccomend that to anyone)

thoughts?

electronica: well, i have some moby (don't shun me please

), and some Ray Muns.

would love some reccomendations to get me started in these two genra i'm loving more and more

 

[clarke68]

Don't know a thing about electronica, but this oughtta get you going for a while in jazz:

John Coltrane
Blue Train
Giant Steps
My Favorite Things
A Love Supreme

Miles Davis
Cookin'
Sketches of Spain
In a Silent Way

Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
Soundtrack from 'Alfie'

Thelonious Monk
Monk's Dream

Oliver Nelson
Blues and the Abstract Truth

Horace Silver
Song for My Father

Dave Brubeck
Time Out

Charles Mingus
Ah-Hum

 

[ATAT]

Digitonal! 23 things fall apart / The centre cannot hold
the violin / electronica combination is just genius... just.. yeah very wonderful

Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll [1998] - just really really good bass and rhythms... i love it ..

The postal service - The District sleeps alone tonight

delerium - Euphoria / Chimera - very good vocals...

 

[uzziah]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATAT Digitonal! 23 things fall apart / The centre cannot hold the violin / electronica combination is just genius... just.. yeah very wonderful Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll [1998] - just really really good bass and rhythms... i love it .. The postal service - The District sleeps alone tonight delerium - Euphoria / Chimera - very good vocals...

fantastic. i know where to buy common cd's, but where online can i buy these? preferably used and cheap

 

[uzziah]

found Decksandrumsandrockandroll and bought it! i'm really starting to love this music

 

[Davey]

There are actually quite a few in recent times combining electronica with jazz, although it wouldn't be a pure form of either, of course. But if you wanna get your feet wet in that combo, it doesn't get much better than the French composer working under the name of St. Germain and his album from 2000 called simply Tourist. Released on Blue Note. Here's the link to amazon and some stuff they say....

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...21728?v=glance

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Smooth, downtempo grace flows through the veins of St. Germain, a.k.a. noted French composer-producer Ludovic Navarre. His record is a sensual flow of jazzy textures, Latin rhythms, and bass-ridden beats, hovering on the verge of techno, jazz, or experimental headphone music without tipping its hand too far in any direction. The result is irresistible: class with an edge. --Matthew Cooke

Amazon.com
Techno and house music producer Ludovic Navarre is--along with Laurent Garnier, Air and DJ Cam--one of the biggest names in French electronic music of the past decade. His ability to imaginatively blend jazz elements with recent dance-music styles has been demonstrated before, but the seamless quality of this release is stunning. Compared to someone such as Amon Tobin, who obviously (although brilliantly) creates sampled collages, St Germain makes it pleasantly difficult to identify the boundary lines between "live" performance, programmed electronics, and sampled sound. Part of the credit must go to this album's musicians, including Pascal Ohsé, Eduoard Labor, Alexandre Destrez, and Idresse Diop (at least some of whom are francophone Africans making their mark in the post-colonialist European Afro-jazz scene). The CD's opening piece, "Rose Rouge," is centered on an edgy piano rhythm and a looped vocal fragment from jazz singer Marlena Shaw. The dub-inflected "Montego Bay Spleen" features Jamaican jazz guitarist Ernest Ranglin, who offers a clean, warm, neo-Wes Montgomery style filtered through his years as a session musician-architect of ska and reggae. And Edouard Labor's raspy flute tone on "So Flute," its role as much rhythmic as melodic, adds a Latin flavor to the mix. "Sure Thing," another high point of the release, is built around a vocal and guitar sample from blues guitarist John Lee Hooker, borrowed from the soundtrack to Dennis Hopper's film The Hot Spot and noteworthy on its own as probably the only time Hooker, Miles Davis, and Taj Mahal ever played together. Navarre's skill in selecting musicians, finding sample sources, and assembling cool, streamlined grooves adds up to quite an accomplishment. --Bob Bannister

Album Description
Exclusive Import only 2 CD set includes a three track bonus CD which features an exclusive mix of 'Sure Thing' (Todd Edward's Deepline Remix) along with two mixes of his first single, 'Rose Rouge' (Blaze Early Shelter Mix) & (Spiller Rogue Mix). Signed to Blue Note for the world this is a great jazz/dance fusion record. Perfect for those dinner party's! Limited edition. Slimline double jewel case. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.


http://www.epinions.com/content_65112215172

 

[BlackJackSkanz]

Checkout this thread:
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showt...ght=electronic

Given that you mentioned Jazz/Electronic in the same post I am assuming that you are looking for electronic more on the jazz vibe. Also here is a great site for hearing the differences between different types. A lot of fun.
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

and
http://www.triphop-music.com/

So I would suggest you look for Trip Hop and maybe some Acid Jazz. Some recommends.
Air -Premiers Symptomes
Air -Moon Safari
Air -" 10,000 Hz Legend"
Air -Talkie Walkie
Andrea Parker -The Dark Ages
Andrea Parker -Kiss My Arp
Angélique Kidjo / Cassandra Wi -Phonography
Avalanches -Since I Left You
Avalanches -Frontier Psychiatrist
Baby Namboos -ancoats2zambia
Basement Jaxx -Kish Kash
Basement Jaxx -Rooty
Baxter -Baxter
Death in Vegas -Dead Elvis
Deltron 3030 -Deltron 3030
Dimitri From Paris -Sacrebleu
Dimitri From Paris -A Night at the Playboy Mansion
Dirty Vegas -Dirty Vegas
DJ Abandon -This is Trip Hop 2 (Disc 2)
DJ Abel -Circuit Sessions 00
DJ Cam -The Beat Assassinated
DJ Cam -Mad Blunted Jazz
DJ Food -Kaleidoscope
DJ Food -A Recipe for Disaster
DJ Food -Refried Food
DJ Food -Quadraplex
DJ Krush -Cold Krush Cuts/Back In the Ba
DJ Krush -Zen
DJ Krush -Milight
DJ Krush -Holonic: The Self Megamix
DJ Krush -La Femme Nikita
DJ Krush -Code 4109
DJ Krush -Cold Krush Cuts/Back In the Ba
DJ Krush -Trance and Tori Amos
DJ Krush -Blade
DJ Krush -Kakusei
DJ Krush -Kakusei
DJ Krush -Kakusei
DJ Shadow -The Private Press
DJ Shadow -High Noon
DJ Shadow -Solesides Greatest Bumps
DJ Smash Presents -Phonography
DJ Spooky -Riddim Warfare
DJ Spooky -Necropolis: the Dialog Project
DJ Vadim -Conquest of the Irrational
DJ Vadim -Life from the Other
Elysian Fields -Bleed Your Cedar
Elysian Fields -Queen of the Meadow
Elysian Fields -Bleed Your Cedar
Esthero -Breath from Another
Freestylers -Pressure Point
Freestylers -Don't Stop the Rock
Freskanova -Rough Technique Vol
Goldfrapp -Black Cherry
Gorillaz -G Sides
Groove Armada -Lovebox
Groove Armada -Doin' It After Dark
Groove Armada -Vertigo
Groove Armada -Goodbye Country (Hello Nightcl
Halou -Wiser
Handsome Boy Modeling School -So
Herbalizer -Sometimes
Herbalizer -Blow Your Headphones
Herbalizer -Something Wicked This Way Come
Herbie Mann -The Beat Goes On
Hooverphonic -The Magnificent Tree
Hooverphonic -Blue Wonder Power Milk
Hooverphonic -A New Stereophonic Sound Spect
Hooverphonic -The Magnificent Tree
Howie B -Turn The Dark Off
Howie B -Folk
Jazzanova -In Between
Jazzanova -Jazzanova EP 1
Kenny Dope -Unreleased Project
Kenny Dope -Saint Germain Des Pres Cafe II
Kid Koala -Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Kid Loco -Kill Your Darlings
Koop -Waltz for Koop
Kosheen -Resist
Kosheen -Hide you
Kosheen -Resist
Kruder & Dorfmeister -DJ Kicks
Kruder & Dorfmeister -The K&D Sessions
Lamb -Fear of Fours
Lamb -Lamb
Layo & Bushwacka! -Low Life
Lion Rock -City Delirious
Lionrock -An Instinct For Detection (Disc 2)
Lo Fidelity Allstars -How To Operate With A Blown Mind
Lo Fidelity Allstars -Don't Be Afraid of Love
Lovage -Music to Make Love to Your Old
Massive Attack -Blue Lines
Massive Attack -Mezzanine
Meat Beat Manifesto -Original Fire
Mono -Formica Blues
Morcheeba -Big Calm
Morcheeba -Who Can You Trust?
Mr Scruff-Mr. Scruff
Mr Scruff-Keep It Unreal
Neotropic -Tumble Weed EP
Neotropic -15 Levels Of Magnification
Nightmares on Wax -Carboot Soul
Nightmares on Wax -Mind Elevation
Nightmares on Wax -A Word of Science
Nightmares on Wax -Euphoria: Old Skool
Nightmares on Wax -Chill out Album
Nightmares on Wax -Mind Elevation
Orbital -In Sides
Oxygiene 23 -Blue
Park Avenue Music -To Take With You
Pepa Deluxe-Super Sound
Portishead-Portishead
Portishead -PNYC
Portishead -Dummy
Prefuse 73 -Vocal Studies + Uprock Narrati
Prefuse 73 -One Word Extinguisher
Pressure Drop -The Cream of Trip Hop 3
Prodigy -Music for the Jilted Generatio
Propellerheads -Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Red Snapper -Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper
Red Snapper -Making Bones
Roni Size & Reprazent -New Forms
Ruby -Short Staff at the Gene Pool
Ruby -Salt Peter
S'Apex -Audiodesign
Scout -Nu:electronica
Sol Brothers -That Elvis Track
Soulstice -Tektonics
Soulstice -Illusion
Squarepusher -We Are Reasonable People
Squarepusher -Maximum Priest
Squarepusher -Hard Normal Daddy
Squarepusher -Selection Sixteen
Squarepusher -Go Plastic
Stardust -Music Sounds Better with You
Stereolab -Miss Modular
Stereolab -The Free Design/Escape Pod
Stereolab -The Groop Played 'Space Age Bachelor Pad Music'
Stereolab -Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab -Dots and Loops
Strata 3 -Strategic Manoeuvres
Supreme Beings of Leisure -Supreme Beings of Leisure
Supreme Beings of Leisure -Divine Operating System
Télépopmusik -Genetic World
The Ballistic Brothers -London Hooligan Soul
The Ballistic Brothers -Rude System
The Black Dog -Spanners
The Chemical Brothers -Exit Planet Dust
The Crystal Method -Vegas
The Crystal Method -Tweekend (Australia/NZ Tour Bonus Disc Edition)
The Orb -Live '93
Thievery Corporation -The Mirror Conspiracy
Thievery Corporation -Sounds From the Thievery Hi
Tosca -Different Tastes of Honey
Tosca -Opera
Tosca -Suzuki
Tricky -angels with dirty faces
Tricky -Juxtapose
Tricky -Blowback
Tricky -Maxinquaye
Tricky -Pre-Millenium Tension
Underworld -Beaucoup Fish
United -The Cream of Trip Hop 3
UNKLE -Psyence Fiction
Ursula 1000 -Covert Operations
Ursula 1000 -The Now Sound of Ursula 1000
Ursula 1000 -All Systems Are Go
Ursula 1000 -Kinda' Kinky
Vangelis -Blade Runner (OST)
Voyager -Future Retro
Zero 7 -Simple Things

 

[saint.panda]

What about electronic jazz? Bugge Wesseltoft - Moving , St.Germain - Tourist, just to name two of the most prominent representatives.

 

[rellik]

dj mark farina stuff

mushroom jazz, especially mushroom jazz 4

it is amazing

 

[Asr]

Electronica is a huge genre, you'd have to specify what you like. It spans the likes of IDM ("Intelligent Dance Music"), breakbeat, techno, trance.....

But here's a short list of all the major electronic artists that have emerged since 1990 and proven themselves with a string of solid CDs:

- Aphex Twin (IDM, UK)
- Autechre (IDM, American)
- The Chemical Brothers (breakbeat/techno, UK)
- The Crystal Method (breakbeat, American)
- The Prodigy (breakbeat/prog-rock, UK)
- Fluke (breakbeat, UK)
- Future Sound of London (IDM/surreal electronic, UK)
- Juno Reactor (trance, UK)
- Kraftwerk (techno, UK)
- Leftfield (techno, UK)
- Orbital (trance, UK)
- Underworld (techno, UK)

Most of my sub-genre labels are oversimplified, but you should get the idea. And as you can see, electronica is overwhelmingly dominated by the UK.

Not many American electronic groups exist...

 

[drminky]

IMO Jazz and electronica make sublime bedfellows. There are many good examples of this (BlackJackSkanz covers a good deal of them).

Check out the 'Ninja Tune' and 'Compost' record labels - they pretty much specialise in this sort of music.

BTW a good deal of the freshest modern jazz these days is coming out of scadanavia and germany, (and the uk to some extent) and is commonly known as 'nujazz', as is known for its crossovers into electronica (not always, but often)

Three to get you started:

Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday
Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep
Koop - Waltz for Koop

 

[Chef Medeski]

Any albums fromt he following artists:

They are all funk artists which is a mix of Jazz and Electronica

-MMW
-The Bad Plus
-Galactic
-Soulive
-Charlie Hunter

Try those out for fun.

 

[BlackJackSkanz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by drminky ...Check out the 'Ninja Tune' and 'Compost' record labels - they pretty much specialize in this sort of music...

I would second that vote. I have been accused of being a Ninja Tune junkie. Also add Om Records, Catskills Records, 18th Street Lounge Records, & Warp Records.

As for the UK comment earlier, yes there is some truth to that comment but it is a bit exaggerated as the whole genre has spread to other shores and a good number of examples come from the USA, France and elsewhere. In fact that is one of the coolest things about electronic like jazz, you can listen to an artist from Japan, Finland or UK and you never have to cross language barrier. Besides if you want to be technical everything we call electronic music today got its start with DJs in Detroit back in the mid to late 80s. It's only because Detroit House went to England, was repackaged as Acid House and became a big hit that most folks assume UK in the same breath. Down the pike Trip Hop gets its start in Bristol but strikes a cord around the world and now is thrives more outside of England than within.

I am not going to have to many suggestions for living Jazz musicians. So I am keeping my ears open for others on that note(s)

 

[bwu]

some other records i like that are electronica-tinged jazz:

jaga jazzist - any, but i like the stix
matthew shipp - nu bop, equilibrium, goodandevil sessions, etc
el-p - high water

lots of stuff on thirsty ear's blue series (like the shipp and el-p) would qualify.

 

[s m @]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bwu some other records i like that are electronica-tinged jazz: jaga jazzist - any, but i like the stix.

Agreed. But to start in jazz, I don't think you can do better than the first Miles quintet (w/ Coltrane et al)--'relaxin' maybe. Or if you want something a bit more rockish you could go with his 70s stuff, 'bitches brew', 'jack johnson', or 'on the corner' would be good.

For electronic, Boards of Canada ('geogaddi'), or Amon Tobin ('permutation') would be a good start......

Living jazz artists (this is not necessarily starter stuff): Jarret/Peacock/DeJohnette are one of my favourite trios. Younger and good are Ken Vandermark, the NYC scene (William Parker/Shipp/David S. Ware....), and Brad Meldhau.