DOWNLOAD: Cobblestone Jazz - What You Want + Traffic Jam
More often than not, a electronic group's name provides little insight into their sound. Yet the Canadian trio Cobblestone Jazz lives up to its name, cobbling together techno-oriented tracks with electronic instrumentation, funky licks and jazz sensibilities. While their live performances are renowned for their freewheeling, improvised sprawl, Cobblestone Jazz write focused tunes that whip dance floors into shape and get toes tapping at home. "What You Want," first found on their debut album, 23 Seconds, plays up their jazz influences, its bleepy cadence and dusky drum programming laying the smouldering groundwork for Rhodes organ vamps and scat vocals coursing through a vocoder. But techno heads would be wise to dive into the titular track from their "Traffic Jam" EP, wherein Cobblestone Jazz balance warm and bubbly oscillations with cool, jazzy counterpoints. It's enough to make you rethink any hesitations about the intersection of jazz and techno.
Sounds like: Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts, Minilogue, Henrik Schwarz
Cobblestone Jazz - What You Want (edit)
Cobblestone Jazz - Traffic Jam
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