i like jazz music. i like electronic music. i dont like either-ors.
having said that, let’s talk about some guys who might see this equally. first off is a wonderful four-men jazz group around sebastian studnitzky that calls itself portico quartet. they have been praised for their cool and uncomplicated yet unique and fascinating deep sound scapes. and i totally agree: their latest release islas (real world recordings) gets me literally every time i listen to it!
second is someone i have been talking about earlier before. he is calls himself sbtrkt, he is from london, and he does something that some people call ‘future garage’. he is well respected (and played) by guys like sinden, mary anne hobbs, and gilles peterson and he did some really awesome remixes for the likes of modeselektor, basement jaxx, gorillaz and (of course) jose james. until today i’m not yet sure what it is, but something about his sound is just unique - and it really gets me.
now what happened was quite lucky: sbtrkt revisitd and remixed a tune by portico quartet. what came out is a stunning little three-track-ep that does not loose the hypnotic sound of portico’s original and yet kind of gets the groove in there. my today’s repeat-all-album.
so check out portico’s original (by the way a beautiful video, shot by york tillyer).
and click play for sbtrkt’s point of view:)
