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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: BadDog on April 20, 2005, 07:09:09 pm
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Sorry for this posting area but a quick question. My son needs some retor fusion music for a homework project. I have an 80 GB library but no idea what type of music this is. Does anyone have an idea what typr of music this may be or sound like? Could you give an example of a band that might sound like that? I was thinking maybe something like Crystal Method but I really have no clue.
Thanks,
Tim T.
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retor fusion sounds like a nuclear reactor, and a science project
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Fusion is a type of modern jazz. Modern as in like since the 70's I think (disclaimer: I seriously hate jazz, and fusion is probably the worst jazz possible so I may have no idea what I am talking about)
The fusion part describes the mixing of two styles, and the retro part refers to a throw back to older styles.
Swing out sister seems to be an example of this genre possibly...
Most assuredly not the crystal method. ;)
check out this link
http://www.apassion4jazz.net/timeline.html
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Jaco Pastorius / Weather Report would be considered Fusion, I reckon.. There are free download links at mp3.com:
http://www.mp3.com/weather-report/artists/6570/summary.html
Hope that helps..
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This search may help in determining how the word "retro" changes things:
http://www.google.com/search?=en&q=%22retro+fusion%22+music+genre
I think this band could work as an example:
http://www.retrotransitauthority.com/
and here's a free live concert download:
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=20141
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Thanks guys, I think that did it for him...
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I am glad my comment "sounds like a nuclear reactor" helped
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The word Fusion has been so liberally used since the late '60s that it's become almost meaningless. Fusion's original definition was best: a mixture of jazz improvisation with the power and rhythms of rock. Up until around 1967, the worlds of jazz and rock were nearly completely separate. But as rock became more creative and its musicianship improved, and as some in the jazz world became bored with hard bop and did not want to play strictly avant-garde music, the two different idioms began to trade ideas and occasionally combine forces. By the early '70s, fusion had its own separate identity as a creative jazz style (although snubbed by many purists) and such major groups as Return to Forever, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Miles Davis' various bands were playing high-quality fusion that mixed some of the best qualities of jazz and rock. Unfortunately, as it became a money-maker and as rock declined artistically from the mid-'70s on, much of what was labeled fusion was actually a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B. The promise of fusion went unfulfilled to an extent, although it continued to exist in groups such as Tribal Tech and Chick Corea's Elektric Band.
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Allmusic.com - The Worlds only source for music information...
...as long as you're just looking for american music or international hit music ;-)