Tab Two - Belle Affaire



Tab Two have been hailed as the German pioneers of Acid Jazz, consisting of Hellmut Hattler on bass and Joo Kraus on trumpet ("Tab" stands for "Trumpet And Bass"). Forming in 1991, they combined Acid Jazz with Hip-Hop, Trip Hop, Drum'n'Bass and other styles.

Belle Affaire was released in 1997. The muted trumpet, moving basslines and hypnotic rhythms make for a very pleasent aural experience.

01. Let It Flow
02. Lieblingslied
03. No Flagman Ahead
04. Sad News
05. Mind Movie
06. Club Mambo
07. My Horn
08. Belle Affaire
09. Watchagonnado
10. Public Meditation
11. Not-A-Lot
12. Vorfilm

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Anonymous said...

LINK IS DEAD :-( PLEASE RE-ISSUE! PLEASE PLEASE

aj said...

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Anonymous said...

1. Vorfilm
2. Let It Flow
3. Spot Of Choice
4. Think Tank
5. Sad News
6. Belle Affaire
7. Club Mambo
8. Public Meditation
9. 20th Century Party Waste
10. Eine Kleine Filmmusik
11. True View
12. Love's The Melter
13. Cure O'Soul

Track list according to Amazon ;-)

Anonymous said...

dead again. Could You repost?

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Embarto said...

Re-upload pls!

Ex said...

love them. had the chance to see them several times and talk to them. very nice guys.

What is 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 developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music.

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".