It seems like we're talking about a lot of different subgenres of music here, so I'd like to create a new topic that will hopefully home in on whatever it is I mean by the above.

For people in the SF Bay area, perhaps we could organize a sort of listening party (or some other way of sharing music without running afoul of the law, <cough cough>) if there is interest.

Examples I like:

Zero7: Simple Things
Marc Moulin: Top Secret
De-Phazz: Detunized Gravity, Death by Chocolate
Hotel Costes #'s 2, 3, 4, 5
Mushroom Jazz #'s 1 and 4 (though I prefer #1 in a mix with other CDs; the beat gets a little too monotonous for me at some points when I listen to it straight through)
Llorca: Newcomer
Lemon Jelly: ky

Examples I don't like:

Nuspirit Helsinki
Jazzanova
Mushroom Jazz #'s 2 and 3
De-Phazz: Godsdog (though it has some good tracks)
Lemon Jelly: Lost Horizons

(most of these are OK but not worth my listening time)

Some things that probably aren't Acid Jazz but sort of fall in the same cognitive category for me that I like a lot:

Rinocerose: Installation Sonore
Fourtet: Dialogue, Pause
State of Bengal: Visual Audio
Loop Guru: Duniya
Plaid: Double Figure, Rest Proof Clockwork
A Grape Dope: Missing Dragons
RjD2: Dead Ringer
St Germaine: Tourist