Album: Trüby Trio

DJ Kicks, !K7

As Rainer Truby conceeds in his sleeve notes, Acid-Jazz has become a dirty word. Rightly so in most cases. Some of that genre's more outrageous crimes are committed in this mix – Africanism's prose poem about an Egyptian Princess springs to mind. But then the Trio move onto the music that evolved from that overly earnest scene, and create a stunning mix of deep house, nu jazz and latin beats. There are four of their own tracks, all excellent. And then a sequence of three tracks by artists I hadn't heard of, that's so good I'd sit through a week's worth of Acid Jazz just to hear it.