[sdiy] My son's first groove

[David G. Dixon]

Steffan,

Your father is a jazz musician who hates Kraftwerk?!?  That sounds like a
contradiction to me!  Remember the words of Thelonious Monk when asked what
kind of music he liked: "All music."  When asked to clarify if this also
included Country and Western, he said, "Didn't you hear me?  I said ALL
music!"

Some electronica makes brilliant jazz standards.  Just ask Brad Mehldau, one
of the world's best jazz pianists, who is famous for interpreting Radiohead
songs in a piano trio format (including the unabashedly electronic
"Everything in its Right Place").

David G. Dixon
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Department of Materials Engineering
University of British Columbia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
> bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Steffan Davies
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:15 AM
> Cc: Synth DIY
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] My son's first groove
> 
> Steffen Juul <stffn at dibidut.dk> wrote at 10:16 on 2009-01-27:
> 
> > Try with Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up. My experiments so far
> > show that a "beat" how ever cheesy is sufficient to get the chair-
> > bouncing started. Be it YMCK, Lairs, Skreamizm or Stevie Wonder - or
> > something in the span of those.
> 
> My little twin brothers (currently four and a half) are currently
> _obsessed_ with Kraftwerk videos on Youtube. "The BLUE MEN!" they say,
> "The RED MEN!". Fills my heart with joy it does. Less so my (jazz
> musician and Kraftwerk-hater) father's.
> 
> S
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