Jojo Mayer & Nerve

Drummer Jojo Mayer initiated Nerve in spring '98 as an experimental platform for a handful of New York musicians interested in the current stream of electronic music styles in DJ culture such as "drum and bass", nu skool breaks, nu-jazz, abstract funk, electro break beats etc., trying to detect and explore recent developments in "intelligent" electronic dance music. His basic idea was to reverse engineer the textures and rhythms of contemporary digital production within a live performed context. Live drums, bass, keyboards and live interactive sound processing - no loops, sequencers, or pre- production. All sounds are performed in real time! By cross-pollinating DJ culture with the syntax of jazz interaction and utilizing sound processing techniques usually applied in studio productions (real time audio deconstruction), Nerve has been formulating a highly skilled, kinetic and dynamic hybrid of improvisational performed music, which is completely unique to this date. Within a few months of its existence, Jojo Mayer's Nerve has generated a tremendous amount of enthusiastic response among New York's downtown scene and the media, which led to the creation of "Prohibited Beatz", a multimedia party/event which has established itself as the prime platform of this movement. Nerve's current core line up consists of Jojo Mayer (drums, beats), Tacuya Nakamura (synths, sampler, trumpet), John Davis (bass and low frequency manipulation) and Roli Mosimann (real time audio deconstruction). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.