Verve opened up its vault to techno remixers for its Mixed/ Unmixed series, scoring massive hits like Felix Da Housecat’s reworking of Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman”, bringing a classic jazz vocalist to the dancefloor while still making something groovy. Techno and jazz have been having an odd and surprisingly strong courtship as of late. The countless amount of amateur mashups that go up every day seem to tell us that genre doesn’t matter - it’s just a matter of knowing what works and what doesn’t.įlash forward to right now. Rock and rap were born to be mixed up together. Yet every once in awhile, something just clicks. This, and countless other combinations (opera and new age, anyone?) have been the hilarious tourist traps of the pop-music landscape. It’s fun to see country and rap hook up to form “crap”, notably in the form of such artists like Cowboy Troy and songs like “Over and Over” by Nelly and Tim McGraw.
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