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Exclusive two CD Asian tour edition couples the Swedish Electronica duo's 2001 sophomore album and the remix EP that followed soon thereafter. The two CDs come packaged in a DVD amaray box. Not electronic music with a touch of Jazz, but Jazz sparingly laced with electronics. Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson, both from Sweden's main university-town Uppsala, were the first two jazzheads in their hometown to lose interest in the perpetual Hammond organ-licking of Jimmy Smith. Instead, they embarked together down the more rewarding paths of Hard-bop and raw Latin beats, avoiding fusion's tendency to dilute the original spirit of Jazz. Waltz For Koop has been played, charted and loved to death by people like Kruder & Dorfmeister, Jazzanova, Rainer Trnby, Les Gammas, and Gilles Peterson.