A Guy Called Gerald
Automanikk
CBS

THE name on the label is misleading. Gerald, as ever, is hardly with us, eternally off in his own world writing the soundtrack for clubs in some distant galaxy. It's fitting the flip is called "To The Other Side", Gerald, alternately hypertense (as here) and blissed-out, is always striving for some kind of trip, some distant alienation. This one's a warped, crowded Hi NRG House scurry which a female voice cuts through like a beacon. Well healthy.

[Reviewer: Unknown]

A Guy Called Gerald
Automanikk
CBS

Gerald quickly locks into a nifty groove, a groove he gets stuck in for the next five minutes while an uncredited girl wails away. The tedium of the number may appeal to zombies. Should be a smash hit in Haiti.

[Reviewer: ANDY ROSS]

A Guy Called Gerald
Automanikk
Subscape

Would Gerald have got where he is today if he'd been called Wayne? Or Dean? How about A Guy Called Nigel? Doesn't quite have the same ring does it? Still, the man who shot his `Voodoo Ray' all over the charts returns with a decidedly European feel for the title track of his LP. Minimal female vocals accompany electro "blimey there's some fluff on the needle" beats. The Daleks go disco.

[Reviewer: ELEANOR LEVY]

A Guy Called Gerald
Automanikk (Bass Overload Mix) (130¾- 130½bpm)
Subscape/CBS AGCG T2

Derrick 'Mayday' May remixed girls squawked ultra frantic juddering acid house racer, flipped by more jerkily acidic Future (128½-128¾bpm) and robotic guy intoned fiercely scampering twittery Derrick May The Force Be With You (130½bpm) Mixes, with further mixes to follow in a fortnight while already also separately promoed is its more loosely scurrying Live Gun Shot Mix (130¾bpm), only otherwise on the seven inch, and obviously very different slowly pulsing girl sung Album Mix (114bpm).

[Reviewer: JH]