hello, Techno and jazz can very much share the same vocabulary if you look beneath the surface window dressings and look at the actual music. It is all about 7ths, 9ths, and 11th's using a I-II-IV chord progession. Techno can totally do anything musically that can be done in jazz. Yes, there isn't the use of poly-rhythm, or odd time signatures that is common in some jazz, and the musical structure is utterly rigid, but the chord voicings, progressions, and musical scales are totally compatible and even necessary for that good ole' Detroit'y feel.
I-II-IV is about a jazz as it gets. I think Detroit musicians site jazz because of a similar emotional feeling. Because really, good techno is just a few bars of jazz dragged out for 4 minutes with a funky-a** shuffeled 909 rhythm behind it. take care, mt ps philosophical techno discussions are for wankers, I used to be one of those wankers until I discovered that talking about dance music is one of the most profoundly unimportant things you can possibly do. You are going to be dead in a few decades, stop wasting your time blabbling and fretting about this silly crap. err, ok, end of public service announcement. martin clark wrote: > > Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:41:56 +1100 > To: "darw_n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 313@hyperreal.org > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [313] ? > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 17:58 6/12/00 -0800, you wrote: > > >i am sorry but itotally disagree with you. in everything i have ever > >heard/ read about d techno i do not see any relationship between d > > >techno and improvised music or jazz. > > i agree. i think the answer as to why detroit producers want to be seen > to be linked to jazz is in how they perceive it. > > There's a common afro-futuristic-struggle and emphasis on innovation aka > 'meaning' in jazz that they want percieved in techno. > > But structurally they're far apart. Until you do some serious [sic] > genre-welding, like the Innerzone orchestra. Which is no bad thing... > > martin > np: Coltrane 'live at birdland' > _____________________________________________________________________________________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
