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Sound Habit · Yesterday · 38 min

Peter Legat (Count Basic)

Peter Legat is the creative force behind Count Basic, a band that you know if you are an acid jazz or smooth jazz fan. If you look at the band’s most streamed songs, number two is the big smooth jazz hit M.L. In The Sunshine, which spent 11 weeks at number 1 of the American New Adult Contemporary charts, and number one on that list is Speechless Drum & Bass. Drum & Bass was, and still is, as far from smooth jazz as it can get. And that, in a nutshell, is Count Basic. On this episode, we talk about the Vienna scene in the mid-90s, where downtempo and house had their big moment in the city; how his amazing Kruder & Dorfmeister remix album came about; how he ended up on a Kylie Minogue track; and then we dive into the records that inspired him.

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Peter Legat is the creative force behind Count Basic, a band that you know if you are an acid jazz or smooth jazz fan. If you look at the band’s most streamed songs, number two is the big smooth jazz hit M.L. In The Sunshine, which spent 11 weeks at number 1 of the American New Adult Contemporary charts, and number one on that list is Speechless Drum & Bass. Drum & Bass was, and still is, as far from smooth jazz as it can get. And that, in a nutshell, is Count Basic.

On this episode, we talk about the Vienna scene in the mid-90s, where downtempo and house had their big moment in the city; how his amazing Kruder & Dorfmeister remix album came about; how he ended up on a Kylie Minogue track; and then we dive into the records that inspired him.


 

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