A Guy Called Gerald - Flo-Ride
UK 2005 12"; Sugoi: SUGOI -01-W [Promo - apparently limited to 150 copies]
UK 2005 12"; Sugoi: SUGOI -01-12
UK 2005 MP3; Sugoi; SUGOI -01 [Beatport]
5:01 Flo-Ride
4:11 Under The Way
3:55 Visitor
Released:
12" Promo Released: July 2005.
12" Released: 26th September 2005.
MP3 Released: 7th December 2005
Reviews:
Credits:
Written and produced by A Guy Called Gerald.
Press Release:
"Acid house pioneer A Guy Called Gerald unveiled details of his new
independent label Sugoi this week with a detailed critique of the state of
mainstream house culture.
"By the early 90's in the UK, house music had a smiley face label stuck on
it and had been homogenised – it was basically stuck in its own groove,"
the 808 State/ Voodoo Ray legend declared.
"Even today, listening to some of the newer (what's supposedly) dance
music and seeing the superstar DJs who appeared out of the pseudo house
scene, only fuels my rebel energy," he continued.
The outspoken artist also lifted the lid on DJs using sound engineers to
write all their music declaring ‘Not many people were actually making the
music – it was mostly samples.’
"Every time I got to a studio and started setting up my equipment I would
always get the same surprised look from the engineers and then they’d
start complaining about producers / DJs coming in with a load of records
to sample and expecting the engineer to write the tune," he recalled.
"If half the hit music from the 90s had the true credits on the sleeve
notes it would probably be a lot of writing credit going to those studio
engineers."
Sugoi opens for business on September 5 with the release of Gerald’s new
single FLO-RIDE.
Comments:
First release for Gerald's new label, Sugoi.
