Acid Jazz vs. regular Jazz

What is the difference? I keep on hearing about "acid jazz" and I dont know what that means........

 

acid jazz is basically jazz on speed. it's usually pretty fast and there's alot of complicated rhythms... listen to some mmw or bad plus and you'll see what i mean.

 

I don't think all acid jazz is fast or complicated though. Though I haven't heard much at all. It blends lots of different types of music (mostly black) like funk, soul, and hip-hop. One great thing about jazz is there are so many different forms, some good and some bad in my opinion. Though I don't think alot of good things are being done with it lately. As opposed to something like rock, which I think is almost dead. It hasn't seemed to evolve into much over the past 10 years or so.

 

Thanks

 

eh, i always thought just jazz in general was influenced by blacks...

nah, but i am almost positive that it means jazz that's a little more hyped up, at least that's what everyone down here uses to call it.

 

ok, i don't agree with you on the first one, but i stand corrected on my definition of acid jazz... just checked my sources...

 

ooh, now I have another one......wtf is 'trip-hop'? Trippy sort of hip hop?

 

Not exactly. Its a form of electronica and unlike most commercial hip hop its more about the music than lyrics. and usually alot more complex. It can blend anything from rock, funk, jazz, etc. DJ Shadow's Endtroducing is probably one of the best Trip-Hop albums ever made.

 

jazz is a general term for music that has some element of syncopation and a swing feel(usually), and has had a variety of styles over the years like the trad jazz of louie armstrong, the big band stuff of duke ellington, charlie parker and bebop, dave brubek and "cool" jazz, john coltrane and way out jazz, and the soul jazz of jimmy smith etc. most jazz takes a pop song and sort of plays around with it and solos over the top and almost recomposes it by changing the chords etc.

acid jazz is named after a record label and a compilation album series. it is very jazz-funk oriented. Corderoy are another Acid JAzz group that were quite famous.

trip hop is experimental electronic hip hop sort of music like Portishead.

 

Coltrane's later work was very experimental and i guess would go inthe catagory of free-jazz, a little like Ornette Coleman. After Coltranes death, Pharoah Sanders elaborated on the same idea quite a bit.

I wouldnt say trip-hop is very experimental at all. But I'd say Prefuse 73's work is. But he wouldnt be considered trip-hop really, but definatly electronica. Hip-hop based and incorporating many different types of music including glitch.

 

Cool, thanks everyone
I love portishead, I just never thought about what genre of music they were....now I know.

 

Ok, I hate to be a bug......
but while we are on the subject:&
is there a difference between trance music and techno music, or electronica? or is it basically all the same thing? See I never really thought about this stuff before......now Im quite curious

 

Trance, techno, and trip hop are kind of like sub-genres of electronica. Electronica is the main type of music, like rock being the main genre and things like progressive rock or metal are some sub-genres.

 

ah, ok. And I know Im becoming quite annoying so I promise this is my last question.......
how does trance music differ from techno....cause I always thought it was the same thing.

 

they may not be much different actually, if at all. someone else can answer that question for you though.

 

ok thanks nightwanderer for the replys

 

The Industry has labeled Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and other Jazz artist with a style of jazz that's not time sensitive. The funny thing about this, is the diference from the US and Europes definition of Acid Jazz. So, All Jazz has different moods, more so than any style of music. You can dance, listen, love, sing, pray and etc. Don't let the market place a name, with the word Jazz to separate us. We all know that we love it.

 

I always thought of techno as a more general musical term, while trance I think applies more specifically to music with very repetive and danceable beats and spacey effects, to produce an atmosphere conducive to "trance dancing" sometimes assisted by mdma, lsd, or any of the others in the alphabet soup of drugs.
I've also heard trance broken down into "progressive trance" supposedly geared more towards the sensual MDMA dancing experience, and "psytrance" (psy=psychedelic) geared more towards the LSD headtrip experience. Electronic music isn't really my thing, so maybe someone else could explain this better.

 

There's a massive difference between techno and trance, to most people interested in "electronic" music, at least. I'll try and keep it as simple as possible, though (and without dealing with the sub-genres); trance is more melody driven, and techno is more percusively driven.

Compare the sounds of Paul Oakenfold, (trance; usually, lol) to the Chemical Brothers (techno), and there's your difference.

 

i'd like to add, in agreement, that i think of dancing with techno and spacing out or just listening to trance.