acidjazz

They’re both Japanese. Let’s just get that fact out of our way at once. Why oh why are japanese so good with jazz?

It’s probably the same as electronics. They take revenge from the western world by doing the things they take from westerners better than the west. Yes, don’t be fooled by their smiling toy faces, Japs are mean little bastards when it comes to jazz.

With this classic yet never out-fashioned maximal style of nippon-jazz (just the way GP likes it), they’re creating, in their own terms, an impact similar to their elder brothers Kyoto Jazz Massive or like what Jazztronik has done with
acid jazz…With more italian suits and golden teeth of course.

Soil and Pimp Sessions - No Taboo
Soil and Pimp Sessions - Suffocation
Jazztronik - Rita
Jazztronik and more goodies on Trees Lounge a great compilation on songs about Hawaii..
Listen to the latest Beyond Jazz radioshow featuring Jazztronik and more..

(from his 2005 EP on Hi-Fi Terapi)

Mr. Horne is a talented musicman from Bergen, Norway and this song is off his debut release on the yummy Norwegian label Hi-Fi Terapi. Espen is not a newcomer in the scene though, he has released many records on the ever-successful Stereo Deluxe label as Bobby Hughes and on the Tru Thoughts label as Kinny & Horne with Caitlin Simpson.

This return to a local label, sees him doing a brilliant cover work of Bill Withers’ Ain’t no Sunshine (Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone/It’s not warm when she’s away/Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone/and she’s always gone too long/Anytime she goes away).

Chopped up beats, retro organs, and beautiful urban acidjazz interpretation by Kinny, takes the song to such a level, that we previously thought only Dani and Herbert could achieve. Up there with the Sonar Kollektiv and Compost releases, I’m sure Mr. Gilles Peterson is cranking it up everyday. :)

Download Espen Horne - Ain’t no Sunshine
Download samples from other Hi-Fi Terapi artists (Norwegian Jazz & House)
Buy Hi-Fi Terapi releases