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Koop: Waltz for Koop

By Trevor MacLaren
July 17, 2002
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Electronica is the future of jazz-fusion! Swedish jazzophiles Koop have created the perfect electronic tribute to jazz. Waltz for Koop is simply fantastic! They have utilized loops from a variety of styles mixing it with live instruments, solos and vocals to create a new fusion of gorgeous jazz-pop. Although the past decade had many DJ's trying their hand at jazz, but they sound nothing like this.

Musicians such as DJ Spooky would melt together hip-hop and various genres with jazz, but they sound more like an extension of hip-hop than anything else. The tracks on here actually sound like great jazz! Since the day Herbie Hancock started mixing and experimenting with electronics in jazz on the genre destroying Future Shock , music would never be the same. Taking the new genre of hip-hop and releasing "Rockit" defined a whole new look at jazz. Koop have taken this experiment full circle. Instead of sounding like something entirely different -like Hancock's work- it pays tribute to the old school players and sounds.

What is interesting is that Koop realizing how many jazz fans feel about any type of fusion, they consider this to be an electronica release, but it is much more, it's the next level of jazz-fusion.

Track Listing

1. Waltz For Koop Feat.Cecilia Stalin 2. Tonight Feat. Mikael Sundin 3. Baby Feat. Cecilia Stalin 4. Summer Sun Feat. Yukimi Nagano 5. Soul For Sahib 6. Modal Mile Feat. Earl Zinger 7. In A Heartbeat Terry Callier 8. Relaxin' At Club F****n 9. Bright Nights Feat. Yukimi Nagano
Enhanced DVD: 1. Summer Sun (Video) 2. Glomd (Video) 3. Summer Sun (Markus Enochson Remix) 4. Relaxin' At Club F****n (Dorfmeister vs Madrid de los Austrias Version)

Personnel

Koop

Oscar Simonsson Magnus Zingmark
Dan Berglund - Bass Martin Hoper - Bass on Baby Ola Bothzen - Bongos Magnus Lindgren - Reeds and Flutes Mattias Stahl - Vibes

Album information

Title: Waltz for Koop | Year Released: 2002 | Record Label: Quango

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