Things About Voodoo Ray

"I got her to sing something over the top of the beat I was doing and laid her singing over the track down on one channel, grabbed one bar of her vocal and played it backwards over the same time as the forward singing. It created a really hypnotic effect - she kind of swam in and out of the acid sound."

8) it DOES sound really cool when you play it backwards on top of the normal track like this

14) this track is better than "Hot Lemonade" but it's not much better.

the berlin sessions was pretty lame, huh??

mark my words, there WILL be an acid house revival. It is imminent.

zomg

surprisingly bleep'n'bassy = much of soundhack + errorsmith's work as smith'n'hack. one time i was working out to "bio rhythms 1" and "bio rhythms 2" and the smith'n'hack album on shuffle on the stereo and i couldn't tell where one began and one ended.

i keep hearing people saying "OMG SKULL DISKO = BLEEP'N'BASS" but even aside from my lingering suspicion that dubstep is just ... bad i don't really think dubstep is energizing enough to function like bleep music.

Vahid another good example of what you're describing above tis the use of that (amazing) Nightmares on Wax track "21st Century Kong" on Herbert's Let's All Make Mistakes mix (put aside your Herbert emnity for a moment).

Oh HELL yes. Sadly, I lost my copy in a move, and must make do with a shitty cassette dub.

2. This record is really slow.

3. I don't know if berlin sessions was lame, but it definitely should have been broken up into individual tracks. Also, he just marketed the record wrong. If it actually was what it claimed to be on the cover instead of some berlin reaktor shit we would all be creaming about it. I left it on the shelf.

4. That record he did for Sender Berlin awhile back wasn't too bad.

i always thought the voice was saying "BETA" or "DATA" for some reason

berlin sessions: i can be as boring as richie hawtin too

-- bo janglin

this did make me chuckle, it is maybe a bit too smooth, a bit too much impenetrable minimalness. I haven't gone back to it that much since I bought it so perhaps that should tell me something.

what about these remixes?

Frankie Knuckles mixes (3 variations from original Warlock '88 12")

Flim Flam/The Posse mix (from German Flim Flam '89 12")

Ricky Rouge mix (by Gerald himself presumably from '89 release)

James Reynolds 'Voodoo Ray Americas' mix (from CBS '90 12")

I like The Berlin Sessions fine...it's not boring...but it's pretty monochromatic...and when you go back to "Voodoo Ray" and "Hot Lemonade" you remember how colorful (and blissfully exotic) Gerald's music could be...

I've never heard "Hot Lemonade" but always wanted to.

I found Gerald's old business card (from when he lived in NY) last week. It's on clear plastic.

It's also featured on the PlayStation 2 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas by Rockstar Games

most likely thanks to Tim Sweeney!

i have vol 2 of this comp series. i bought it on a whim because it was in a $5 bargain bin.

it's ... different. it's not exactly what you'd expect. only about 1/3 of it (boneshakers, tricky disco, a couple other tracks) are what i'd call bleep'n'bass. the boneshakers track is obviously awesome. yes, it does sound quite a bit like shackleton / appleblim / skull disco, except faster and busier.

the rest of it is either belgian rave / british imitators of belgian rave or weird west-coast-breaks. i mean, a lot of it sounds like what the crystal method or mephisto odyssey were getting up to on the city of angels label.

it's interesting in the sense of hearing the links between belgian rave and hardcore, or between hardcore + belgian rave + west coast breaks, but only in a vague sociological sense. it's hard to listen to without a creeping gross feeling of "am i actually listening to outtakes from the blade soundtrack???". i mean, really, on some of the "ravier" tracks i keep expecting someone to scream "MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!!!"

Boneshakers - One Step Ahead (crazy ethnic-styled bleep'n'bass, like LFO + bongos)
Zero Zero - The Sanity Clause (Stoopid) (LA rave music a la "james brown is dead" ... ill chuck d sample)
Psychopaths - Nightmare (early darkcore ... rudimentary "mr kirk" stylings)
Toxic - Original Style (SUAD flavors)
100 Hz - Catching Spyders (In This Place Remix) (slow and eerie bleep'n'trance)
Kromozone - The Rush (more like bleep'n'rave)

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<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

https://soundcloud.com/thevinylfactory/jeremy-deller-english-magic-ep

This track is a composition of the classic British songs 'Voodoo Ray' by A Guy Called Gerald covered by the Melodians Steel Orchestra, an English/Trinidadian steel band, based in South London.

with Twitch remixes forthcoming also.

YES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ00VnFoBFs

sorry.
unlike me, but i'm going to be the curmudgeon here.
i hate steel bands.

http://youtu.be/O-6kM9TXaEI

i blame the klf/acid brass ..

did you miss Jeremy Deller (Acid Brass supremo) in the url?

can't wait to hear this.

huh i actually listened to black secret tech today as it happens

(kelela 'bankhead' seemed like half an agcg track so i went just with that instead)

did you miss Jeremy Deller (Acid Brass supremo) in the url?

nope.

the remixes are apparently mega.

i spent a couple of seconds trying to "like" that post :-/

I just came here to post that Jeremy Deller link!!!!! There are not enough <3's in the world for this.

ARE THERE SERIOUSLY TWITCH REMIXES?!?! OH MY GOD

http://vimeo.com/76361863

SERIOUSLY FREAKING OUT RN

http://gu.com/p/4c4bd

I had a box of spoken-word records that I’d go through to find stuff that would fit in with the music. I always wanted to use this Derek and Clive skit [Bo Duddley] but there wasn’t much memory in the sampler so when Peter Cook said “voodoo rage” it came out as “voodoo ray”.

I didn't know this! It's probably up thread though.

And indeed, it is. You can't get anything past ILM.

I heard that Peter Cook thing literally yesterday.

I did wonder.

I played it again, literally today.

I didn't realise that "not only" is it Peter Cook saying "Voodoo Ray", "but also" it's Dudley Moore shouting "LATER" from the same source ("Bo Dudley" from "Derek and Clive Live")