After 30 Years, Jam & Spoon’s Debut Album Still Proves Experimentation is Key

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Two tattooed men standing together, demonstrating the importance of experimentation after 30 years.

It may be from the 1990s, but dance music would not be what it is today without Jam & Spoon’s first album, Tripomatic Fairytales 2001.

Few albums have lasting staying power these days. Few influence an industry after thirty years too, but Jam & Spoon’s Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 is one of them. As Black Hole Recordings looks to celebrate another of the album’s milestone anniversaries, let’s look back at the waves this pebble made in the dance music ocean.

First, a primer – Jam & Spoon, the duo of Jam El Mar (Rolf Ellmer) and Mark Spoon (Markus Löffel), formed in the early 1990s in the blossoming and eclectic…