So the other day while meandering around St. Marks I was deciding between an eight dollar copy of Sonny Rollin's Saxophone Colossus or a set of self/co-produced remixes from vibraphonist and funk/soul/jazz composer Roy Ayers. So instead of Rollin's timeless classic I decided to go with the more adventurous purchase and happened upon one pretty interesting album. "Virgin Ubiquity, Remixed" off Rapsterr records (2006), is an exotic mix of house, drum and bass, chopped up funk, and eerie 90's throwback that leads to a deep cutting sound that has a slippery nature overall (if that makes any sense). I get that feeling about a lot of downbeat house music, the slippery part, but I feel that this music manages to parse the questionable impression that I get from that sound- and that I would only really expect to hear in a Spanish jean store. Overall Ayers, I find, stays close to his roots and doesn't let this musics ambitious modern sound loose sight of the type of person to be buying Roy Ayers remixes. This is the type of downbeat easy to feel music that is so synonymous with hip-hop, with beats tastefully unbridled by too much instrumentation or vocals, which allows for a more sophisticated effect. I am not that educated on the issue of dance music but I know that there is some I like and some I don't, I think I like this.
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