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I've only just come across this site while searching for something totaly unrelated...

Even if the music sucks (not heard any yet)... I like the site design...

www.k-o-o-p.com

Anybody know anything about Koop?

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I've only just come across this site while searching for something totaly unrelated...

Anybody know anything about Koop?

Being totally unrelated is the essence of koopness.

Their Summer Sun video is nice and jazzy...liked it.

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KOOP

Waltz for Koop

by Adrien Begrand

Relax and Give In . . .

When you hear the new album by Swedish duo Koop, your first instinctive thought is, "This is a jazz album." Even when you notice that this CD is filed under the electronic category in your local record store, when you give it a listen, you're thinking this is a jazz album. Techno, jazz, acid jazz, call it what you will; the bottom line is, these guys from Stockholm have created the most seamless combination of jazz and electronic I have heard in a very long time.

Members Oscar Simonsson and Magnus Zingmark let the jazz do its thing, smartly keeping the electronic enhancements to a minimum. Yes, there are samples (primarily the drums and the odd bassline here and there), but Koop know the purpose of the samples are to provide the rhythmic foundation, with live instruments like bass, flute, vibes, bongos, and the five guest vocalists providing the soul. The result is an album that sounds incredibly natural, with more focus on structure than improvisation. Not to say that it's stiff; contrarily, Koop combines various influences from several forms of jazz, such as modal jazz, bossa nova, big band, West Coast "cool" jazz, silky-smooth European jazz vocals, and John Coltrane-styled solos, turning it all into their own version of jazz fusion.

Read the rest of the Waltz for Koop Review from popmatters.com

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Koop are cool, calm and collected. With a copy of Songs for Swinging Lovers under one arm and a beatbox in the other, they make some seriously good music. Check out this excellent BBC session from November 2002.

Players: Yukimi Nagano (vocals), Magnus Zingmark (perc and samples), Oscar Simonsson (keyboards), Ola Botzhen (drums, perc), Martin Hoper (bass) and Mattias Stahl (vibes).

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