United Future Organization (known also as
UFO) is a group made up by two Japanese DJs Tadashi Yabe and Toshio Matsuura,
and Raphael Sebbag (a French expatriate). They are one of the exponents of the
Japanese Acid jazz movement and are also known for disk jockeying in many
European and American clubs. As a band, they have worked with various labels
such as Verve Records and Talkin’ Loud.
This song in concrete, "Loud
minority" was part of the single that made them emerge from the land of
the rising sun to jump to the old continent scene ("Loud
Minority/Moon Dance", 1992). The tune is about how most Acid Jazz DJs and
bands feel like: as a "loud minority". A music genre that has not got
that massive commercial acceptation that others have. But the core of the
message is a claim against jazz purists that think that modern jazz movements
(like Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Fusion or even Free Jazz) are not jazz at all.
So
now we are not only talking about DJs and Acid Jazz bands, but how jazz
musicians of these styles/sub-genres feel discriminated by some circles of this
world. And let me tell you that this kind of purist and classical idea it is
ridiculous. It is ridiculous for the only reason that Jazz is a movement that
has been reinventing and evolving since its birth (from Swing to Bebop, from
Bebop to Cool Jazz, and so on), searching for new forms, new ways, new rhythms…
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