At the beginning of the 1990s music computers have become cheap.
And they are easy to use.
This results in DJ culture, Techno, Drum and Bass.
Also some Jazz musicians become part of this new music culture,
such as Jojo Mayer
I had a key experience,
when I met a Rave.
I thought it was dance music,
I expected something like this:
I didn't hear Drum and Bass or Jungle music for the first time,
But I've seen for the first time how 800 people dancing.
This has completely destroyed my idea of what is possible.
Because the beats I heard there sound more like what Tony Williams does,
and not like the normal club sound.
This was extrem syncopated, and a high rhythm culture.
I thought: Ok, I can not allow myself to ignore that.
Jojo Mayer is inspired by the drum machines
and develops a new way of playing.
By trying to play these beats I've never tried to sound like a machine.
Basically I made the opposite of what the techno culture made with the drum machine.
They have made an abstraction of a real drummer …
… and I made the abstraction of a drum machine.
In a Club of his neighborhood, Downtown New York,
He organizes concerts every week.
The slogan is: Prohibited Beatz.
Just after only a few weeks these concerts were very well known in the scene of New York.
For me, the intuition is important.
To lure people into it …
… in this state of trance.
The African element.
A very old, archaic element …
… while drumming to communicate that.
The band NERVE is formed from the Jam sessions.
Jojo Mayer, keyboard player Takuya Nakamura and bass player John Davis.
NERVE sounds rebellious,
But for Jojo Mayer it is about the continuation of a tradition
I think, I can only make the DNA of Jazz accessible to a younger audience …
… through their aesthetics, which they understand.
And that's what I do.
I don't make electronic music, but it sounds like it.
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