GAIA LIVE MIXES. JAZZANOVA - PART 3

Actually, Jazzanova's mix was hardly longer than one side of 90-minute cassette, so there is not so many tunes to recall. Well, there was one more Extended Spirit classic, that I really wanted to post, but was very surprised to not find on YouTube. At least I found this amazing soul tune, that was actually closing the set. Just a beautiful late 70's rare groove song - perfect for that early August morning.

From the next post I'll be going through the third mix - the most mysterious, the most exciting and the most packed up with discoveries - the "Big Chill" mix.

GAIA LIVE MIXES. JAZZANOVA - PART 2

As I'm going through the mixes that I recorded from Gaia Live in 1999, I realize that, in an odd way, after years and years of record diggin' and listening to thousands of albums from different genres and ages, I still couldn't locate the majority of tracks, included there. In their mix, Jazzanova put a lot of rare jazz, that I never heard being played by anybody else. So, besides those exceptional moments that I can't post here (because I still don't know their titles), there were special moments, which actually (as I figured out 3-4 years later) were produced by the collective themselves. Just like this amazing remix, which was definitely one more step towards my love of jazz and Brazilian grooves.

GAIA LIVE MIXES. JAZZANOVA - PART 1

The next mix that I'll be going through is by Jazzanova. Today, this collective of DJ's and producers needs no introduction, but back then, on that warm August night of 1999, this was actually the very first time I heard about them. And this was an exciting introduction, full of not only new, but also old sounds - some kinds of jazz that I never thought even existed. This mix was very much my first step into the Nu Jazz-Future Jazz-Broken Beat perspective, but back then I couldn't imagine where would the following tunes lead me.

I still wonder, how much of the material presented in this mix is originally by the band or its members' various incarnations. However, this opening tune (which in the mix has a slightly different beginning, than the officially released version), was mesmerizing in how it was constantly growing, developing, changing. And then - the chorus with its beautiful vocal sample. Even the low quality of RealAudio dial-up stream couldn't hide its fresh innovative sound. More breathtaking discoveries were yet to come...