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EMERGED 1996 · WHAT IT GREW OUT OF JAZZ, ACID JAZZ, HOUSE, ELECTRONICA · 5 TRACKS TO START WITH, 3 SOURCES

Jazz players and jazz textures sitting on electronic production, from jazz-house to band-based improvisation with electronics. Norway's Bugge Wesseltoft and his 1996 album New Conception of Jazz are credited with breaking it across Europe. The name came into use in the late 1990s, and St Germain's Tourist later sold about 1.5 million copies.

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