The adventurous music they created in the 1980's has made the terms "electronic music" and "dance music" more or less interchangeable.
It's adventurous music, genre free and noisy, and at its best it has a naivete that may just win skeptical friends.
When people give adventurous music a hard time, I would say that music that is re-creative as opposed to creative isn't the only jazz.
But its mission to champion adventurous contemporary music has never faltered.
Given the East Village's cheap rents and history of adventurous music from punk to jazz, it seemed a good place to try.
But after last week's stay at the Village Vanguard, he has cleared up his allegiances; he's after adventurous music.
Still, "Digital Disco" brings together a number of electronic producers who are making adventurous disco-influenced music.
Superwoman Records was created to release "adventurous music by adventurous women."
The label, which has been the home for everything from mainstream jazz to compositionally adventurous jazz-related music, didn't quite bring out its real all-stars.
Even Peter Doggett refers to the 1990s as a time which produced some of Bowie's "most adventurous" music.