another track from a compilation and this one comes courtesy of florian schmitt aka clifford gilberto on the ninja tune compilation "funkungfusion". the title of the song "i wish i was a motown star" intrigued me but so did a number of the track on the compilation but it was a track and an artist that i hadn't heard prior to buying the compilation.
from hearing the first seconds of it i understood that the name of the game is jazz in the way that say, tom jenkinson/squarepusher or amon tobin makes jazz music. that means deconstructing the music into pieces and then re-assembling it while still retaining the core foundation. this track in particular reminds me of kid606's ragga jungle breakcore madness except for the all of the ragga; jungle; breakcore & madness.
i know that doesn't make sense but i think breaking it down like this is more sensible: it's a regular cool jazz track with chopped up parts and a drumprogramming that sways between ballistic and something that fits the music. this is what make it brilliant and it stimulates the jazzloving part of me and the lurking a.d.d.-freakazoid that tries to shake legs to the crazy fast rhythm of the song.
the only question remains is if the base of the song is a sample or original and since this is on the ninja tune label the logical answer would be that schmitt has gone nuts on some track. you never know and according to his own biography, he is a classically trained pianist and has played in jazz ensembles and bands so your guess is as good as mine. i choose to believe that it's a prerecorded part of his own history and that he went nuts on that.
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