tectactoe
09.23.22 | Wowza. Can't believe it's been 17 years. My sputnik account is college-aged. Weird. But happy to still be here (despite some intermittent absences over the years).
"Freedom ratings" don't mean much other than provide a highly subjective gage of how... eccentric / unorthodox / extreme / unconventional the albums are relative to one another. (Again, subjective.)
Recommendations for more free jazz always welcome. And fans (or those looking to get into it) will hopefully find something they enjoy here. |
tectactoe
09.23.22 | Oh yeah, and my anniversary is technically tomorrow but I never use this site on the weekends so π€·ββοΈ |
ArsMoriendi
09.23.22 | I was 9 years old when you joined Sputnik, hmmmm |
MoM
09.23.22 | Really is! |
MoM
09.23.22 | Not jazz, but I have to rec it: Navicon Torture Technologies: Pure-Skin
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mynameischan
09.23.22 | Donβt see many active 05 join dates these days. Glad youβre still around |
tectactoe
09.23.22 | Danke, chan. Pretty sure I originally joined mxtabs for guitar tabs (I guess i wouldβve beenβ¦15 at the time) and hung around on sput after it βtransitionedβ (merged?) for a few years before basically going totally AWOL for, like, four years. then came back intermittently following that and have tried to remain active for the last ~four years now. the classics never go out of style, I guess! π
Thanks pizza, and thanks for the rec, MoM. Will check soon. |
MoM
09.23.22 | Hope you like it! |
Minortimbo12
09.23.22 | smooth jazz
you can't resist it
let it take over your soul
and relax |
MoM
09.23.22 | https://annihilvspowerelectronix.bandcamp.com/album/pure-skin-purified
Hereβs the url. Itβs such a bitch to find for some reason |
tectactoe
09.24.22 | Danke ππΌ |
MoM
09.24.22 | Youβre welcome! |
tectactoe
09.24.22 | tfw jazz list with no miles davis or charles mingus π«£ |
MoM
09.24.22 | No Bitches Brew?! What?! |
tectactoe
09.24.22 | Love the album, my favorite Davis behind IN A SILENT WAY, but donβt think it fits the bill for βfree jazzβ or even free jazz tangency. Avant-garde? Sure. But there are still structures, motifs, themes, etc., that are mostly absent (or significantly more sparing) in free jazz. Davis and Shorter go off but the rest of the band keeps things βalignedβ, so to speak. |
MoM
09.24.22 | Agreed! Itβs so beautiful. Like a world put into sound |
evilford
09.24.22 | 17th holy shit congrats |
Thibs
09.24.22 | Bookmarked. Nice job with your 17 years |
evilford
09.24.22 | I salute you my sir |
YoYoMancuso
09.24.22 | does your account have a driver's license yet? |
evilford
09.24.22 | Yoyo why the fuck are you not reccing Thriller
You had ONE job |
IsisScript80
09.24.22 | ^ Indeed, and STILL no-one has directed attention to the Czech band, Fugazi. WTF is going on?!
Congratulations anyway, tec. |
tectactoe
09.24.22 | Thanks gents.
No driverβs license for my account yet, but it IS getting prepared to enlist for the armed forces. |
Bedex
09.24.22 | 66 is so good blessed be thee for featuring it |
tectactoe
09.24.22 | Wow RIP Pharoah π³ |
MoM
09.24.22 | RIP!
Also, forgot to say, happy Sputversary! |
Trifolium
09.24.22 | Coooooool list! Congrats-worthy feat. Congrats! |
tectactoe
09.24.22 | Thanks MoM and Trif π¬ Just another reminder of how old Iβm getting, as If my latest birthday (11 Sept) wasnβt enough π© |
tectactoe
09.25.22 | I wanted to title this list βthe freer the jazz, the freer the peopleβ but it was too long π’ |
EvoHavok
09.25.22 | Impressive milestone, congrats! |
GiaNXGX
09.26.22 | amazing list. Olatunji concert slightly more of a 4.5 in my books but like you mention itβs all subjective. |
someone
09.26.22 | Could use some Trespass Trio and Joe McPhee |
combustion07
09.26.22 | Been meaning to dive deeper into some of the jazz so your list definitely has come at a good time and got bookmarked immediately. I enjoy the few here that I've heard.
You are definitely one of the earliest join dates I've seen here still active! Congrats on the 17 years man. Does anyone know the exact time Sputnik came into existence? Also when mx came to be in general? I used to know but that's dissolved from my memory bank over the years. |
tectactoe
09.26.22 | Thanks dedex & Gia.
@Gia: If I were to switch anything, it would be OLATUNJI (5.0 -> 4.5) and KATYUSHA (4.5 -> 5.0). Part of me feels like I might've made a bit of a mistake there. But the OLATUNJI recording is just so...iconic, I dunno, and the way Coltrane transforms two well-known tracks into something almost unrecognizable except for a few short bursts of the motif, its just the epitome of "free" jazz to me. You're not wrong, though, and my goal is to eventually stretch this list into 100 entries, after which I can and will re-assess some of the positioning π
@someone: Will check Trespass Trio. Technically Joe McPhee plays on that The Thing record (29). Not sure why the Sput entry doesn't label it as "The Thing w/ Joe McPhee" which is exactly what's written on the album sleeve lol. But yeah I need to familiarize myself more with his solo discog. The only albums I've heard all the way through are OLEO and AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE but I don't have a rating for either - been too long and/or not familiar enough with them.
@combust: Thanks man, hope you find some good stuff on this list. Hope to expand it to 100 eventually but I didn't want to add anything I haven't rated at least 3.5 or higher, so I'll need to dig a little deeper. Honestly I don't remember much about the inception of this place, I do remember coming to mxtabs.net all the time for guitar tabs, though. And eventually at some point, ultimate-guitar.com kinda took the reins as the best place for tabs. (There was another really popular tab website back then, too, but I forget the name now. 911tabs maybe?) I feel like Sputnik was started as a satellite site (lol) of mxtabs and once mx got usurped by UG, it fizzled out and sputnik remained. |
tectactoe
09.26.22 | Thanks Dewi! Have not heard of them - but I like their aesthetic from what I see. Giving me Bohren & der Club of Gore vibes. Will check! |
WatchItExplode
09.26.22 | God damn! Had no idea tec was from the mx days. Thanks for hanging around with us. I appreciate your contributions and taste. |
tectactoe
09.26.22 | Thanks man. Wish I had more time to write reviews, admittedly. Maybe it's high time I went through and wrote about some of my favorite that don't have any review yet. (One can dream... π) |
SandwichBubble
09.26.22 | I'm so sorry I mean congrats. :) |
tectactoe
09.27.22 | Iβve no one to blame but myself π© |
kevbogz
09.27.22 | never seen a free-er list o7
peep black flag - the process of weeding out if u haven't heard. honestly, just do a lil skim thru it, one of those "i appreciate what they're going for but skip" kinda things |
combustion07
09.27.22 | "I feel like Sputnik was started as a satellite site (lol) of mxtabs and once mx got usurped by UG, it fizzled out and sputnik remained"
Lol I see what ya did there! It's wild to me that this whole thing spawned from a tab site tbh. I'm glad it all happened as it did though. I love this website.
"Carries both the splendor and the density of a dying star; a tornado of sound - equal parts beautiful and brutal - from which there is no escape."
Goddamn man you were out here killing it with them summaries! Hope you get around to reviewing more. Read through the ones you have and they made me wanna jam each album so now I will! |
tectactoe
09.27.22 | @kev - had no idea Black Flag had a jazz-influence free-improv-ish style record. Will indeed check it soon.
Thanks again Dewi and combust :) |
tectactoe
09.27.22 | Will eventually expand this to 100. |
EyesWideShut
09.28.22 | Ahh Mxtabs, trying to learn how to play the intro of the Metallica song One haha |
tectactoe
09.28.22 | that and crazy train, of course. |
tectactoe
09.28.22 | actually i think Smoke on the Water was the first song i learned on electric guitar. bass guitarβ¦maybe Dazed and Confused? Or Chick Magnet by MxPx lmao |
