A_Guy_Called_Gerald-Proto_Acid_the_Berlin_Sessions-(Laboratory_Instinct)-WEB-2006-BOSS

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|   |  Artist   : A Guy Called Gerald                                     |   |
|   |  Album    : Proto Acid: The Berlin Sessions                         |   |
|   |  Label    : Laboratory Instinct                Source : Digital     |   |
|   |  Cat. No. : LI011CD                            Size   : 171 MB      |   |
|   ª  Genre    : Techno                             StrDate: 2006-08-21  ª   |
ª   _  Quality  : 320kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo       RipDate: 2006-08-21  _   ª
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|   |  Gerald is back! Drenching Detroit-styled techno in sparkling       |   |
|   |  electroid acid killers, this set was recorded in one session       |   |
|   |  using two laptops and a DJ mixer at GeraldÆs Diehold Studio on     |   |
|   |  February 11th, 2006. With one exception (ôAuto Rebuild,ö the       |   |
|   |  third track, is a remake of 808 StateÆs ôAutomannikö), the         |   |
|   |  albumÆs 24 raw, club-oriented tracks are all new and were created  |   |
|   |  over the last year in Berlin. The collection departs from the      |   |
|   |  style of his last full-length, æTo All Things What They NeedÆ, in  |   |
|   |  many ways, the most obvious being the absence of singing. Asked    |   |
|   |  why he decided to make Proto Acid wholly instrumental, Simpson     |   |
|   |  doesnÆt mince words. ôOn my last two albums, I felt pressured to   |   |
|   |  include vocals,ö he replies. ôNowadays, I feel singers should be   |   |
|   |  put on a bale of hay with a piece of straw hanging out of their    |   |
|   |  mouths while playing acoustic guitarùkeeping it real, if you know  |   |
|   |  what I mean. I want to make music for clubs and sometimes you      |   |
|   |  just have to get down and dirty into the machines and, to take it  |   |
|   |  there, you canÆt hold anyoneÆs hand. Some things just donÆt need   |   |
|   |  a vocal".  Asked to describe the albumÆs sound, Simpson says, ôTo  |   |
|   |  me itÆs proto acid; itÆs how I feel house/techno music would have  |   |
|   |  sounded if the whole rave thing hadnÆt happened in England. When   |   |
|   |  I was younger, I would go to soul and funk clubs and you could     |   |
|   |  easily mix a techno/house track into your set without spoiling     |   |
|   |  the environment. Could you imagine playing a techno track at an    |   |
|   |  rÆnÆb club today? Things have splintered and fragmented and        |   |
|   |  floated so far apart that funk seems to have dropped through the   |   |
|   |  cracks. IÆm one of those preserved creatures that basically loves  |   |
|   |  to use genres as a palette. So when I say proto acid IÆm saying    |   |
|   |  this stuff has direct lineage to Chicago and Detroit in the        |   |
|   |  mid-to-late 80s.ö ôFor me, acid was all about the tweaking of      |   |
|   |  synths and riding a groove, you know what I mean? Like, before     |   |
|   |  the masses thought the Transistor Bass machine was a special tool  |   |
|   |  for doing acid house music, I was already bored with it and had    |   |
|   |  moved on to tweaking envelopes on other Roland machinery, so I     |   |
|   |  never really possessed that value for the 303 like everybody else  |   |
|   |  did. I feel like I followed my own path and was inspired by what   |   |
|   |  was going on in Detroit and Chicago but always did my own thing.   |   |
|   |  To me, the new album is acid and acidÆs a part of everything I     |   |
|   |  do.ö At this stage in his career, one might assume that Simpson    |   |
|   |  has covered every base imaginable, but apparently thatÆs not so.   |   |
|   |  Referring to the new release, he says, ôItÆs the culmination of a  |   |
|   |  dream IÆve had since I started making music, and thatÆs to take    |   |
|   |  the studio into the club; this album is snapshot of those          |   |
|   |  possibilities.ö                                                    |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  Tracklisting:                                                      |   |
|   |                                                                     |   |
|   |  01. Marching Powder                                         2:27   |   |
|   |  02. The Strip                                               1:25   |   |
|   |  03. Auto Rebuild                                            2:20   |   |
|   |  04. Space 1999                                              1:14   |   |
|   |  05. Droid                                                   4:10   |   |
|   |  06. Nasty                                                   3:24   |   |
|   |  07. The Slink                                               2:36   |   |
|   |  08. Transition                                              1:15   |   |
|   |  09. Andromeda                                               1:50   |   |
|   |  10. Monday                                                  4:37   |   |
|   |  11. Clock                                                   1:21   |   |
|   |  12. Downstroke                                              2:42   |   |
|   |  13. Bumpt                                                   2:50   |   |
|   |  14. Plaything                                               2:42   |   |
|   |  15. Merlot Brougham                                         3:26   |   |
|   |  16. Xray                                                    2:57   |   |
|   |  17. Feel The Heat                                           1:50   |   |
|   |  18. Skitzoid                                                3:25   |   |
|   |  19. Night Flight                                            4:41   |   |
|   |  20. Scaffolding                                             2:08   |   |
|   |  21. Bass-o-Tran                                             2:21   |   |
|   |  22. Robogroover                                             2:45   |   |
|   |  23. Voltar                                                  7:33   |   |
|   |  24. Sweet You                                               5:15   |   |
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|   |                                                             71:14   |   |
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01-a_guy_called_gerald-marching_powder-boss.mp35,64 MB
02-a_guy_called_gerald-the_strip-boss.mp33,25 MB
03-a_guy_called_gerald-auto_rebuild-boss.mp35,36 MB
04-a_guy_called_gerald-space_1999-boss.mp32,83 MB
05-a_guy_called_gerald-droid-boss.mp39,58 MB
06-a_guy_called_gerald-nasty-boss.mp37,82 MB
07-a_guy_called_gerald-the_slink-boss.mp35,99 MB
08-a_guy_called_gerald-transition-boss.mp32,89 MB
09-a_guy_called_gerald-andromeda-boss.mp34,24 MB
10-a_guy_called_gerald-monday-boss.mp310,58 MB
11-a_guy_called_gerald-clock-boss.mp33,10 MB
12-a_guy_called_gerald-downstroke-boss.mp36,20 MB
13-a_guy_called_gerald-bumpt-boss.mp36,50 MB
14-a_guy_called_gerald-plaything-boss.mp36,20 MB
15-a_guy_called_gerald-merlot_brougham-boss.mp37,89 MB
16-a_guy_called_gerald-xray-boss.mp36,77 MB
17-a_guy_called_gerald-feel_the_heat-boss.mp34,22 MB
18-a_guy_called_gerald-skitzoid-boss.mp37,84 MB
19-a_guy_called_gerald-night_flight-boss.mp310,75 MB
20-a_guy_called_gerald-scaffolding-boss.mp34,90 MB
21-a_guy_called_gerald-bass-o-tran-boss.mp35,39 MB
22-a_guy_called_gerald-robogroover-boss.mp36,31 MB
23-a_guy_called_gerald-voltar-boss.mp317,30 MB
24-a_guy_called_gerald-sweet_you-boss.mp312,03 MB