Mon, 29 Aug 2005
Jackson and His Computer Band
Jackson and his Computer Band, Smash
LP, www.warprecords.com
Jackson is Jackson Fourgeaud and Warp has brought him to us
from his native Paris. In Jackson's words, what we have here is
"a style orgy, a psychedelic celebration of conflict". Just so,
and it all sounds pretty cool as well.
While France has most of the usual electronic genres covered,
there is also one which, with a light hand, draws from ethnic
and funk sources and creates something quite different from
what we're used to. I think what makes it different is the
subtlety. There is a different touch at work here and, to some
degree, different sensibilities about what's important.
One of the interesting generalisations about is that there
is no good modern music coming out of France. To some extent
this is true, but the key words are "coming out". There is a
whole lot that is there, and this is one part of it.
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