I big fan of drum & bass, jungle, raggacore, all that good stuff. But I think its cooler when someone is playing drum & bass beats on a real drum set. I know of few bands like Scassa Monakee and COSM that have real drummers. Just wanted to see if anyone knew of other bands?
It's not jungle, but four bands that mesh organic and electronic well are : Tortured Soul-they remind me of Jamiroquai, but better. Deep and housy. They're from new york and I've seen them 3 times. When you listen to them, remember it's a 3 piece. SuperSystem-Talking headsish electro clash. Holy Fuck- improvised, experimental, broken beat sickness. They're from Canada and I saw them come through the states. old school battery powered casio keyboards run through effects pedals, live drums, hookups equipped on an old film splicing machine. This was some impressively sick stuff. Afro Celt Soundsystem-Similar to COSM with a more world music inflluence
ive heard of afrocelt....ethnic elelectronic stuff. its ok. check out these guys... Zilla (percussion / ethnic / jam / electronic ---very good) Pnuma Trio (acid jazz, jam, electronic, dance) Ozric Tentacles (house, electronic, dance, techno, prog rock, experiemental) to name a few of my faves...
check out the jungle jazz initiative ! we from jersey and mesh together jungle/dub/jazz/funk/trance/psytrance/latin. its the band i do live shit with (im a jungle/downtempo/psytrance dj). www.myspace.com/thejunglejazzinitiative