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release information
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artist : A Guy Called Gerald
title : Proto Acid - The Berlin Sessions
date : Aug-22-2006 cat nr : LI011
style : Techno label : Laboratory Instinct
bitrate : VBRkbps format : Album
filesize : 116,8 MB source : CDDA
release notes
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Big thanks to BOSS for their release yesterday. For the debut release
here at MAEM, we present you with the CD version. Since this is a mix
album, I have ripped it as mp3/cue to ensure your acid experience is
seemless. Enjoy!
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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 Gerald's Diehold Studio on February
11th, 2006. With one exception ("Auto Rebuild," the third track, is a
remake of 808 State's "Automannik"), the album's 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, "To All Things What They Need", in many ways, the most
obvious being the absence of singing. Asked why he decided to make
Proto Acid wholly instrumental, Simpson doesn't mince words. "On my
last two albums, I felt pressured to include vocals," he replies.
"Nowadays, 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 can't hold anyone's hand. Some
things just donÆt need a vocal". Asked to describe the album's
sound, Simpson says, "To me it's proto acid; it's how I feel
house/techno music would have sounded if the whole rave thing hadn't
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 r'n'b club today? Things have splintered and fragmented
and floated so far apart that funk seems to have dropped through the
cracks. I'm one of those preserved creatures that basically loves to
use genres as a palette. So when I say proto acid I'm saying this
stuff has direct lineage to Chicago and Detroit in the mid-to-late
80s." "For 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 acid's
a part of everything I do." At this stage in his career, one might
assume that Simpson has covered every base imaginable, but apparently
that's not so. Referring to the new release, he says, "It's the
culmination of a dream I've had since I started making music, and
that's to take the studio into the club; this album is snapshot of
those possibilities."
playlist details
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Proto Acid - The Berlin Sessions
01. A Guy Called Gerald - Marching Powder
02. A Guy Called Gerald - The Strip
03. A Guy Called Gerald - Auto Rebuild
04. A Guy Called Gerald - Space 1999
05. A Guy Called Gerald - Droid
06. A Guy Called Gerald - Nasty
07. A Guy Called Gerald - The Slink
08. A Guy Called Gerald - Transition
09. A Guy Called Gerald - Andromeda
10. A Guy Called Gerald - Monday
11. A Guy Called Gerald - Clock
12. A Guy Called Gerald - Downstroke
13. A Guy Called Gerald - Bumpt
14. A Guy Called Gerald - Plaything
15. A Guy Called Gerald - Merlot Brougham
16. A Guy Called Gerald - Xray
17. A Guy Called Gerald - Feel The Heat
18. A Guy Called Gerald - Skitzoid
19. A Guy Called Gerald - Night Flight
20. A Guy Called Gerald - Scaffolding
21. A Guy Called Gerald - Bass-O-Tran
22. A Guy Called Gerald - Robogroover
23. A Guy Called Gerald - Voltar
24. A Guy Called Gerald - Sweet You
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71:23 min
information and greetings
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within the electronic field. Quite simply, if we like the sound, we will
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