A Guy Called Gerald: "Black Secret Technology"
1996/97, Juice Box (London) UK. JB30
Machine Room Recording Studio
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Track Listing:
1. Hekkle and Koth - 4:32
- This tune is both rhythmicaly and technicaly driven forth into a cosmic
bliss of altered sounds, samples, and fusions of disconnected beats via the
drum'n bass avenue. This is an excellent intro. Directed towards the
fantasia of corrupted yet wonderful jungle sounds of a guy appropriately
called Gerald.
2. So Many Dreams - 4:42
- Jungle with voices that can make anyone jiggle their mind into their own
dreams. The title is accurately defined here, as the collage of layered
beats causes many images to emerge as if your eyes are closed.
3. Alitas Dream - 4:56
- No, AGCG is not just worried about titleing his tunes with 'dreamscapes'
involved, but he definetly relies on distorted elektronik beats and drums
to produce that wonderful effect of dreaming. This tune will get your hands
taping on whatever table your at in any situation!
4. Finley's Rainbow - 5:34
- Would you like to know the truth? This song will put you to tears if your
asleep on your couch after a hard days work. The wonderful sounds and
voices of a man talking about mistifying the morning sun and rainbows and
love and the weather? A definite jungle groove here. It slowly evolves into
a pulsating beated drum loop which is wonderful. "mistify".
5. The Nile - 4:14
- A jazzy introduction to a rhythmical high tech intelligent jungle/drum'n
bass track. The ambient effect is definetly hidden underneath the ever
present tingling of blips and beeps and drums. Excellent noise here.
6. Energy - 6:37
- Drum'n bass in all its great colors. This song has a wonderful aura of
sounds which can be defined as ambient. "I feel your energy" is looped over
and over, with wonderfull effects, and in all the right times. AGCG is the
Godfather of Jungle vs Ambience.
7. Silent Cry - 5:16
- The title suggests precisely what one might feel if one was trapped in a
world which cries silently into a chaotic world of noise. This tune seems
to fuse all chaos into a harmoniously laid back throbbing sound. The bells
which lap each other between the beats will knock you over. Who would think
that a crying man yelling would make you feel so good? It does.
8. Dreaming of You - 6:12
- Gerald once again redefines what drums can do to the mind. Imagine
yourself inside a huge plastic ball of sound bouncing all around you. Drums
splashing within your mind, and sounds which float and twist into all kinds
of different colors. What an amazing effect dreams can have if you're
listening to this tune.
9. Survival - 5:38
- "A Tingling Sensation" which reaches into the depths of altered beats
into the jungles of thought which Gerald is emerged into. A seemingly
familiar flute glues the drums and the bass together while the elektronik
sonic bleeps drift peacefully.
10. Cybergen - 4:32
- If your body doesn't twitch in circles while listening to this track,
then you must be dead! The technology of manipulating beats is totally
apparent here.
11. The Reno - 5:18
- The soundscape here is way ahead of its time. If you've never exposed
yourself to the sounds of jungle and harmony, then welcome to The Reno.
This tune travels in your veins so quickly that you won't even realize what
muzik is until this one trak is heard. Very nice.
12. Cyberjazz - 4:50
- "You're going to be a bad mother fucker!" is the introduction to this
track. If you're in search of a tune that involves drum'n bass with a spice
of jazz, ambience, voice, jungle, dub, and intelligence, then you've found
what your ears are REQUIRED TO HEAR. Funked out jungle and ambient textures
qualifying you to soar into future worlds. This is the meat of ALL BEATS!
13. Life Unfolds Mysteries - 3:23
- If you need an anesthetic for sleeping during the midnight hours, or a
toke on some fat elektronik dube, just "Smoke on It Man!". This track will
put you to sleep, then make you wonder how pulsating beats pounding
coherently and loudly work together. An explosion of drums in the finale.
14. Touch Me - 4:48
- A furious sequence of adjustable beats spinning together as if they were
welded as one entire unit. This track will have you wondering if in fact
drums are falling from your ceiling! Excellent collage of heavy drumming.
Track Notes: -
Album Notes: - thanks to: Juan Atkins, Derick May, Aquasky, Goldie, Bjork,
Wax Doctor, Alex Reece, Photek, and a host of others!
Review:
Overall Sound Composition (1-10): 9
Overall Percussion Composition (1-10): 10
Overall Rhythm Composition (1-10): 9.5
Album Rating (1-30): 28.5
Summary:
A Guy Called Gerald has been working for a few years to produce an album
which correctly defines a new genre of intelligent elektronik jungle.
Gerald is the Godfather of Drum'n Bass/Jungle/Ambient~Trance/Jazz.
"Rhythm's reflect my frustration to know the truth about my ancestors who
talked with drums."
>> Gerald deep in the jungle <<
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