'New Jazz Jungle: Remembering'

New Jazz Jungle: Remembering Pat Thomas 1997 - Newjazz.com Every now and then I hear a genre fusion that seems so obvious i feel like i expect to see a whole community of artists exploring. Pat Thomas strikes one of those with New Jazz Jungle, an energizing psychedelic combination of the highly rhythmic and flexible breakbeat chops of jungle with atonal and atemporal free improvisation. Rarely until the jungle-pop revival that we’ve been seeing recently have I heard much breakbeat alongside live instrumentation, and when I do it’s frequently similarly regimented, attempting to add analog tone to a dancey piece while keeping the beat. New Jazz Jungle shows that the breakbeat has a lot of potential as a semi truck speeding out of control, finding itself lost by it’s commitment to the grid, and allowing for some beautiful uncertainty out of a normally rigid sound. Remembering has to be one of my favorite tracks on it, with the aggressive plucked strings flowing through the mix like water…