Acid Jazz
Acid jazz (also known as club jazz) is a musical genre that combines elements of soul music, funk, disco, particularly looping beats and modal harmony. It first developed in America in a simplistic form from artists such as Sonny Stitt who infused funk, gospel, jazz, and other popular genres with a recurring backbeat. In the UK it developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music for the UK. Read Full BioAcid jazz (also known as club jazz) is a musical genre that combines elements of soul music, funk, disco, particularly looping beats and modal harmony. It first developed in America in a simplistic form from artists such as Sonny Stitt who infused funk, gospel, jazz, and other popular genres with a recurring backbeat. In the UK it developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music for the UK.
While acid jazz often contains various types of electronic composition (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is just as likely to be played live by musicians, who often showcase jazz interpretation as part of their performance. The compositions of groups such as The Brand New Heavies and Incognito often feature chord structures usually associated with jazz music. The Heavies in particular were known in their early years for beginning their songs as catchy pop and rapidly steering them into jazz territory before "resolving" the composition and thus not losing any pop listeners but successfully "exposing" them to jazz elements in "baby steps".
The acid jazz "movement" is also seen as a "revival" of jazz-funk or jazz fusion or soul jazz by leading DJs such as Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson or Patrick Forge, also known as "rare groove crate diggers".
While acid jazz often contains various types of electronic composition (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is just as likely to be played live by musicians, who often showcase jazz interpretation as part of their performance. The compositions of groups such as The Brand New Heavies and Incognito often feature chord structures usually associated with jazz music. The Heavies in particular were known in their early years for beginning their songs as catchy pop and rapidly steering them into jazz territory before "resolving" the composition and thus not losing any pop listeners but successfully "exposing" them to jazz elements in "baby steps".
The acid jazz "movement" is also seen as a "revival" of jazz-funk or jazz fusion or soul jazz by leading DJs such as Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson or Patrick Forge, also known as "rare groove crate diggers".
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Virtual Insanity
Jamiroquai Lyrics
Ooh, hey hey, oh
World we're living in
Let me tell ya
And it's a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big that should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we'll be doing for us?
And I'm giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can't see, I can't breathe
No more will we be
And nothing's gonna change the way we live
'Cause we can always take but never give
And now that things are changing for the worse, see
Whoa, it's a crazy world we're living in
And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these
Futures made of virtual insanity
Now always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, other new technology
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground
And I'm thinking what a mess we're in
Hard to know where to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties of earth that man has made
And now every mother can choose a color
Of her child
That's not nature's way
Well that's what they said yesterday
There's nothing left to do but pray
I think it's time I found a new religion
Whoa, it's so insane
To synthesize another strain
There's something in these futures that we have to be told
Futures made of virtual insanity
Now always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground, whoa
Now there is no sound
If we all live underground
And now it's virtual insanity
Forget your virtual reality
Oh, there's nothing so bad (happiness)
Oh yeah
I know, yeah
(Ooh)
Futures made of virtual insanity
Now always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground, oh
(Livin' in, virtual insanity) Now this lie that we're living
It's all going wrong, it's out the window
(Livin' in, virtual insanity) You know that there is nothing worse than
(Livin' in, virtual insanity) A manly man, there is nothing worse than
(Livin' in, virtual insanity) A foolish man, yeah
Virtual insanity this world we're living in
Yeah, the world is all I have
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Jason Kay, Derrick McKenzie, Simon Katz, Toby Smith, Wallis Buchanan, Stuart Zender
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Jamiroquai Official
Thanks everyone for tuning in...we had an incredible 2000 people watching! I'm going to answer a few more questions below.
The Sixth Company
I remember this on muchmusic before i left for school
Chase Hadley
Shite! I missed it! Perhaps next time 🤙
Aaron Gutierrez
LETS GO
Wilfredo Carlos
Hi JK any plans of touring Manila Philippines ?
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Dre- -Day
This song was truly ahead of its time. It's an appropriate anthem for today's world we're living in. Virtual insanity.
RandyLahey54
Like a funky Black Mirror episode.
フミフミ
10代の時にこのPVみて鳥肌立って興奮したよ。音楽的にも映像も新鮮で新しい時代だと思った。今みても古臭さとか全く感じない素敵な一曲。
NixTL
The world is a better place because of this song. Thank you, Jamiroquai!