Acid jazz

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but we make our peace with it, and we discover acid jazz.

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Mm-hmm.

Um, and he had a, a solid avant-garde lineage.

Um, acid jazz starts to come around and say, like, "You know, if you blend these things up and play them on the most embarrassing synthesizer you can fi- you can ever find-

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Mainly

two in a row from Acid Jazz Records.

The James Taylor Quartet.

Keep the dream alive.

Alright, that last track was called Party Don't Worry About It Vocal Mix from the New Jersey Queens.

It's off a really interesting compilation, a collection from Acid Jazz Records called Totally Wired 4.

There's a number of these.

Picked it up very cheap somewhere once upon a time, I can't remember exactly where.

But yeah, I don't know loads about the Acid Jazz scene, I know Giles Peterson was a big part of that sound.

Yeah, I really like this record and yeah, there's some other interesting bits on it.

We're very, very gently dipping our toe into the electronic music sphere now.

Nor me.

But my hunch is it seems unlikely, right? And I've mentioned a couple of years back an act called The Soul Revivers, who were released through Acid Jazz.

And it's a collective mixing funk, lovers rock, roots reggae, helmed by two legendary reggae producers, Nick Manessa and David Hill.

And the project features this ever-evolving array of guests, and for their second studio outing, Holding It Down, that means people like Johnny Clark, Earl Sixteen, Vin Gordon, Susan Cadigan, and modern figures like Coco Rocco's Miss Morris, Anushka Nangui, and Ash Walker.

And the attention to detail just continues all the way through.

Nick Robbins, who does a lot of the mastering for that label... has delivered a really great master of it, and Frank Merritt at the Carvery has then been brought in to cut a lacquer.

Now, this is where things get interesting, because normally when we're talking about these Acid Jazz LPs, they are pressed in-house at GZ, and they're cut in-house at GZ, whereas what's happened here is they've done the master, then sent it to someone else to cut a proper lacquer of that vinyl, so it sounds superb.

It's then been housed in a poly-lined inner sleeve.

some fantastic contemporary dub there from soul revivers uh great 45 that is called furthest dub i played you the other side of that uh just week before last on the show here um so i had to because i mean great single and really good dub cuts on both sides of that wow um 45 single there.

I think it came out on Acid Jazz.

Soul revivers are Nick Manassa and David Hill, who used to be in Ballistic Brothers.

And just brilliant, brilliant.

I don't know.

The genre is acid jazz, Matt.

So which is exactly what the name implies.

Right.

They were nothing.

They're out there and they're playing this.

They're playing this acid jazz.

Matt, I'm a boy from Louisville, but I'm a boy from Fern Creek.

He has appeared as a sideman on 400 recordings, saw him perform twice at Jazz at the Bistro.

And before that, you heard some acid jazz.

We went on an acid trip.

We took some acid.

Music by the James Taylor Quartet with their reading of a Marvin Gaye classic, After the Dance.

It features Omar on vocals, James Taylor Hammond, B3 organ, Nigel Price on guitar, Andrew McKinney bass, Adam Betts on bass.

Now, Acid Jazz is a mixture of jazz, funk, soul, and hip-hop.

And the James Taylor Quartet was formed in 1985 in the United Kingdom.

And then one-on-one, it's the co-holder of the POW Tag Team Championship, Kanoa, against Logan Steele.

And then a one-on-one battle of veterans, it's Smooth Jazz, a.k.a. our old friend Acid Jazz, taking on Trick Davis.

Plus you'll see 2026 Keymaster, Axel Labrio, Medix O'Bannon, and more.

And then Sunday, September the 13th, Gali Lucha Libre will be at Fiesta La Vinia in Highland Park, and the wrestling begins at 2.30. All right, after a break, we're going to take another deep dive into the upcoming short film, The Spot, as we welcome a pair of guests to talk about their roles, Shaq Jordan and Vero Delgado.

But anyway, they are the Soul Revivers.

They are Nick Manassa and his friend David Hill formerly of the Ballistic Brothers and they have a group called Soul Revivers and that there is called Shouting Dub brilliant single out on Acid Jazz label and Featuring also Matic Horns and Dougal Kasten.

So there you go.

And, you know, anything that Nick Manassa does always sounds great.