A GUY CALLED GERALD/BENNO BLOME - Time To Jak
A GUY CALLED GERALD / BENNO BLOME -
Time To Jak
Sender
12"
"Time to jack" - what a call to
attention, a jolt to the brain synapses, here retrieved from its
auspicious mid-late-eighties chicago origins. A Guy Called Gerald was of
course the man there at the time, running exclusives to an increasingly
hectic Haçienda dancefloor, presiding over the epicentre of what proved
to be an uncontrollable global explosion. By way of tribute to another
inspirational forefather, his rousing original is coolly modified, the
bass beefed up for a new generation, the acid mesmeric as ever, lent a
fresh dynamic and frankly sounding totally awesome. For the flip welcome
Benno Blome, a recent compadre from Gerald's new adoptive home of
Berlin, giving the darkness of the original a more contemporary twist
for the '06. With Blome you sense less of a line of continuity with the
original, but offset against the raw power of the Gerald monster,
working very well indeed as an alternative, melodic, elegant, dynamic,
tangible and hypnotic . Buy!!