Release : Rodney Hunter - Hunterville
Artist : Rodney Hunter
Album : Hunterville
Genre : Lo-Fi
Source : CDDA
Label : G-Stone Recordings
URL : http://www.g-stoned.com
Date : 11-09-2007
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 196kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 13
Time : 65:12 min
Size : 93.05 MB
1 Hunterville (Intro) 0:30
2 Huntermatic feat. Shadee 6:46
3 Wanna Groove? feat. Jay Sebag 5:47
4 Glamour Girl feat. Aphrodelics 4:43
5 No Stoppin 5:03
6 Definition Part 2 feat. L'Enfant Terrible 6:32
7 Physical feat. Earl Zinger 5:26
8 Latina Thrilla 6:38
9 Sync Your System 5:53
10 Part Of The Mind feat. Zeebo 5:34
11 Universe feat. Jay Sebag 6:40
12 Voodoo feat. Didier 4:28
13 Love (Outro) 1:12
Rodney Hunter is dead-on when he says that he's been "around the block" more
than once. His musical career spans 20 years starting off as an underage bassist
of the Austrian band "Mordbuben AG", later on becoming a member of the legendary
"Moreaus" along side Peter Kruder, DJ DSL and Sugar B, leading him to launching
his own label and production company Uptight with Werner Geier, storming the
Billboard Charts, receiving a Grammy nomination with Uptight Productions,
delivering remixes for Omar, Gravediggaz, Doug E. Fresh, Freakpower, Cornershop,
Shantel, Martine Girault etc, hit supplier for the HipHop formation Aphrodelics
and reputable others... Yes, Rodney Hunter, skilled bass and drum player, has
come a long way.
In 2004 his well received and critically acclaimed solo debut album "Hunter
Files", was released on K&D's G-Stone Recordings. More than three years later
the Hithunter returns with this well worth the wait follow up, smoothly
circumnavigating the burden that usually comes along with making the "second
album". Like no other musician Rodney Hunter determines and consequently
declines the catch phrases of the Quincy Jonesish Groove-grammar. He builds his
"Hunterville" - a modern funk metropolis- in star architect manner, knowing
about today's requirements only too well. Its foundations and unshakeable truths
based upon the heritage that artists such us Herbie Hancock, Chic, Average White
Band, Kool & The Gang or the before mentioned Quincy Jones have left behind.
Kruder and Dorfmeister, Rainer Trⁿby, the Stereo MCs,à they all have been
falling back on his productions for years now simply because his musical output
easily fits in any DJ set around the world. Although his productions are state
of the art Rodney Hunter never forgets his roots, unifying different genres from
funk to electro, downtempo to house, dub to hip hop to his very own "Hunter
sound". "Timeless, modern Funk and Soul" is Hunter's favourite description for
his sound, and we can easily let this statement stand for itself." More than
ever this formula applies to "Hunterville". Tastefully adding some R┤n┤B along
the way is certainly no handicap either.
It's up to the listener to call them "tracks" or "songs", that this music works
simply can not be denied.
Last but not least, excessive and meticulous mixing sessions with Peter Kruder
and with Michael Jackson peering from his "Thriller" album cover always keeping
an eye on things, have created an album that fulfills all demands of today's
definition of funk.
In other words: between "Billie Jean" and the latest Techno smash outta Germany
only one will keep his sure place no matter if this showdown will happen on an
iPod or in the club.
Without a doubt Hunter determined, he continues to follow his own path. He might
not be wearing diamond socks but this can only be due to the fact that we're
talking about understatement here, a gentleman's only luxury in this world.