Jimi Tenor - Tesla

Name: Jimi Tenor - Tesla
Uploaded: 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released in early 1997 on Warp Records — the UK label synonymous with post-rave experimentalism and IDM — Jimi Tenor's 'Tesla' emerged at a moment when European underground electronic music was fracturing into subgenres: downtempo, nu-jazz, and acid jazz. Tenor, a Finnish artist who had moved through Berlin, New York, and Barcelona,…

1997 · Mid-90s European Electronic Underground (1996–1998) · music video

1997Mid-90s European Electronic Underground (1996–1998)Mid-90s European avant-garde electronica / Warp Records art-music underground

What this video is

Released in early 1997 on Warp Records — the UK label synonymous with post-rave experimentalism and IDM — Jimi Tenor's 'Tesla' emerged at a moment when European underground electronic music was fracturing into subgenres: downtempo, nu-jazz, and acid jazz. Tenor, a Finnish artist who had moved through Berlin, New York, and Barcelona, represented a uniquely transnational avant-garde voice. The song's name invokes…

Why it matters

Documents the intersection of Finnish avant-garde sensibility with Warp Records' mid-90s electronic art-music roster. Represents a rare artifact of nu-jazz/downtempo crossover video practice in which formal radical minimalism (single-take, zero-edit) functions as genre critique. Historically…

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