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 CPT 182-1 12" |
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A1. "Terms And Conditions Apply" The Entity Remix (producers of Buck 65) 4:39 |
There are essential records that mustn´t be missing in your vinyl rack. “Central Mixes” is definitely among those. A perfect audio trip to your Sunday morning mood... and everybody’s got Sunday morning moods! So get invited and take a listen to the refined art of beatmaking.
Starting off with an instrumental remix of “Terms And Conditions Apply”, made by The Entity, a production team mostly known for producing the canadian Rapper Buck 65. This remix convinces with a bass-backed bounce and resonates with moments of genuine inspiration. “Catch The Bus”, a previously unreleased track– seizes you after its very first beat. And once again it includes the typical that’s–what–we–love–him–for General Electrics organ sound and a soft breeze of classy jazzy guitar.
The Original Version of “Central Park” starts like a tricky and easy-on-the-hips HipHop tune but ends heavy as hell and in pure madness. This track is bullet proof that RV is able to take everything to another level.
Jel, son of Californias label Anticon adds his skills on the “Central Park” remix. His production has the raw energy of the best turntablism has to offer, combined with a subtlety not often found in electronic music.Also to be found on this vinyl is the original version of “Terms And Conditions Apply“. A light, mellow atmospheric mood melody surrounded by cool synths and assorted effects and squeakings. Last but not least welcome to Mr Salters „Badville“. Here´s another unreleased Goodie from RV which rounds off a relaxing journey across Beatworld.
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 CPT 178-1 12" |
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A1. "Facing That Void" Beanfield Remix 7:33 |
Let´s face the problem of your turntables´ autumn depression and stoke up that void with General Electrics’ first 12”, out of their debut album “Cliquety Kliqk”!
It´s quite terrific that Compost’s old stagers Beanfield attended to mix up for their new label friends. Beanfield combine experience, handicraft and stock-taking with up-front music and ended up creating this outer space version of “Facing That Void”, produced at their own ufo-command bridge.
Lyric- and spiritwise the track is supported by Lateef The Truth Speaker. The original version also contains a guest performance by Lateef´s old college friend Chief Xcel. After Xcel and Lateef formed a crew called SoleSides in the early 90´s, Xcel soon joined the legendary Blackalicious. Now, over a decade later, the two college friends celebrate their Hip Hop reunion with their project Maroons. Another blazing Cliquety Kliqk track “Techno Kid” gets a new style with a little help of Ben Mono. The Munich based DJ is a self-taught drummer, keyboard and bass player, and even knows how to pull a mellow-sounding highlight out of an already ingenious tune.
“Opaque Gender” is a brand new ass-kickin’ blowoff! Only to be found on this 12”! This is a classical allrounder which makes you dance on tiring days and gets you chilled out after sweeping nights.
Behind General Electrics hides RV (Hervé Salters), above all keyboard player, specialist of instruments from the 60’s and 70’s: Clavinetz, Hammond, Rhodes. RV marked his style within the Vercoquin band, accompanying M and, on the occasion of numerous invitations, in Shoki Shoki by Femi Kuti, in DJ Mehdi’s Spy Story, or, more recently, within the Qannum Collective
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 CPT 176-1/-2 2LP / CD |
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#1 General Electrics is a free electron
Behind this name hides RV (Hervé Salters), above all keyboard player, specialist of instruments from the 60’s and 70’s: Clavinetz, Hammond, Rhodes. RV marked his style within the Vercoquin band, accompanying M and, on the occasion of numerous invitations, in Shoki Shoki by Femi Kuti, in DJ Mehdi’s Spy Story, or, more recently, within the Qannum Collective. He is to be found on the forthcoming Blackalicious album, contributes his keyboarding skills to Lateef The Truth Speaker‘s and Chief Xcel’s project „Maroons” and their first album “Ambush”. And he reaches the orbit with Honeycut, a San Francisco-based trio that encompasses ‘soul-hop’ and various other styles and is gonna come up with an album on Quannum early spring 2005!
#2 General Electrics is boundless
Based in San Francisco, the French-British RV is a nomad. His album has been conceived in Paris, San Francisco and Seattle cellars and has been finalized in Berkeley, his present residence town.
#3 General Electrics is unclassifiable
General Electrics belongs to those bands, which cannot be classified in a specific style. RV draws with the same urgency from the pop music, the hip-hop, the electronic music, the soul and jazz. In this respect, Juju by Wayne Shorter fascinates him as much as Billy Jean by Michael Jackson, these influences extending from David Bowie to Stevie Wonder. With a very modest data processing equipment, RV mixes retro with electro, destroys and rebuilds, strokes then ill-treats sounds. Alternating instrumental with vocal tunes, RV achieves radical collages with Hip Hop, electronic and soul/funk music. “Cliquety Kliqk” is the outcome of this permanent mixture between “vintage” keyboard and electronic treatment. The result is a “modern” sound carrying with it the respect for the masters... which also is a visual experience, “Facing That Void” comes along with a fabulous video in tow!
"Facing That Void" is Arno Salter`s first-born when it comes to music videos and also involves the skills of T-Reid Norton (Tim Burton`s "Nightmare Before Christmas"!) and Kamela Portuges ("Being John Malkovich"!).
#4 General Electrics is sociable
General Electrics welcomes in three titles Lateef The Truth Speaker’s rhymes, the virtuoso MC from the Quannum stage (Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Maroons).
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"Providing the missing link between Gangstarr, Will Oldham and The Prodigy, Herve Salter's glitchy lounge electronics is the best thing to emerge from Compost Records in years."
Dazed&Confused
"Like the Beatles in a pub brawl with the Neptunes, excellent!"
Quantic / Tru Thoughts, UK
„A French-British outsider exiled in the USA releases a funky record with an old-styled modernity in which groove is king.“
Coda Mag
"Cliquety Kliqk is the sort of composition that would at times remind you of Beck for the intense musical load, of Lemon Jelly for the fun side of sound and samples and Serge Gainsbourg for the inventiveness in the use of the French language."
Funkymofo.net
"Sehr lässig und mit soviel Style, dass man sich sofort die Tage der ersten Ghettoblaster zurückwünscht."
DE:BUG
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