NOW! A Guy Called Gerald & Jungle Drummer – LIVE in AGCG HQ, Berlin (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/tRNp)
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All four 12″s from the album Tronic Jazz The Berlin Sessions are now released.
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A Guy Called Gerald will perform LIVE on Berghain’s 6 stack Function One soundsystem for the first time this Friday 05.11.2010.
Showtime is 22:00 – 01:00.
FRIDAY 05.11.2010
..GET PERLONIZED! – SUPERLONGEVITY FIVE
Berghain – 22:00 Start / “Superlongevity Five”
A Guy Called Gerald LIVE | San Proper LIVE | Shackleton LIVE | Portable LIVE | + Jörg Franzmann VJ
Panorama Bar – 03:00 Start / “Superlongevity Five”
+ Perlon Guests | Sammy Dee | Zip | Audio Werner
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It’s clear to me now that the music I’m making is about 359% away from the music that’s being produced in 2010 and calling itself techno or dance music.
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Tagged a guy called gerald, dance music, house music, japan, labyrinth 2010, live, minimal techno, psychefunkatech, techno
A Guy Called Gerald will be hosting a Producer Masterclass at The Producer’s Conferences in both Stockholm (Oct 9) and London (Oct 23) this month.
The Producers Conference – Stockholm, Sweden – October 9 2010.
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Tagged a guy called gerald, producers, propellerheads, reason
Tomorrow : Labyrinth Festival Japan Set Time : Sunday 13:30 – 15:00
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Loopmasters presents A GUY CALLED GERALD next up in their Artist Series.
Deep Techno Sessions is a collection of atmospheres, ambient loops, chord progressions and Progressive Drum samples created for future producers who mix Detroit, Berlin and Retro-Progressive influences to shape the dance sounds of tomorrow.
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Tagged loopmasters, loops, producers, samples
13 different flavours of digital electro funk composed in the many styles I’ve moulded over the last 20 or so years. Tronic Jazz was an experiment delving into a world of the soft synth to find ways to sculpt analog sounds from digital waveform. I wanted to show that you don’t need to have these machines necessarily to make these sounds. This I needed to do after visiting friends who had taken on the vintage analog fetish I had in the mid to late 80′s – getting the “old school analog warm sound”. Back then these machines were kind of all I could afford. From this admittedly my sound was born and I still feel this is the basis of my sound today but I don’t believe anybody needs the machines to do it. In the 80′s, 90′s, 00′s and now in the 10s I feel a part of the experiment is to progress regardless of musical trend. Especially today where I feel there are some desperate lost souls that would like some direction. I think chasing the dosh has made some composers / dj-producers dumb down what was the cutting edge future of dance music and I’d like to hear other people’s opinions…
Out 10.05.10 on Laboratory Instinct
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This is a recording from a live session I did in Manchester last month for Red Bull Music Academy. It’s been causing a bit of confusion for people.
I wanted to prove that you can switch from Techno into Jungle live on the fly… some people love it, some people hate it when I mix up these two genres…
I know Jungle is a really “old” form of electronic dance music and there are some people who just discovered Techno and maybe there are certain people who just discovered there was a form of music called “Jungle Techno”… maybe even when the drugs wear off they’ll figure out the entire story and not just the latest trend. I thought it would help if I could give a bit of background.
I started making Jungle in 1991 – does anyone remember how cheesy Techno got in 1991? This is WHY we created Jungle. Techno and House basically sold out… The only reason I came back to doing Techno was because there were friends of mine pleading for me to do it…. people who enjoyed the stuff I was doing in the late 80′s. So if anyone has any kind of beef with anything to do with Jungle let me remind you about your 90′s times with your dummy in your mouth and your Vicks vapour rub and your white gloves.
It’s funny I can’t recall seeing these styles in Detroit in 1988/89 or seeing these vibes in New York or Chicago either. I’m sorry but this was the time that influenced Voodoo Ray / Emotions Electric / Blow Your House Down / Pacific State…
A Guy Called Gerald
Still Deep In The Jungle
All Bass and NO Smiley Face…
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