A Guy Called Gerald
"Darker Than I Should" / "Gloc" and "Nazinji-Zaka" / "Hot foot"
Juice Box

Single Of The Week:

The Week Mr "Voodoo Ray" is now at the forefront of "intelligent hardcore", hence these two 12-inch records of densely textured ambient jungle. "Darker" and "Nazinji" offer ethno-pagan cyber-jazz which picks up where 808 State's "State Ritual" left off, while "Gloc" is so sensuously disorientating that it could be from My Bloody Valentine's forthcoming jungle-influenced LP.

[Reviewer: Simon Reynolds]

A GUY CALLED GERALD
JB 20
(JUICE BOX PROMO)

Well now, this is interesting! A 10" pressing on a 12" piece of vinyl, limited (unfortunately) to 500 copies and available through Vinyl Distribution. Gerald has certainly seemed to mellow over certain releases, but his ability to combine unusual sounds and rhythms remains. The A-side here is totally blissful, coming at you from a completely different angle than many other releases currently around: mellow keyboards merge with a string backing that runs like silk almost the whole way through the track before being joined by jazzy horns and other lighter effects. The beats, in contrast, are something else - utterly industrial and hard as nails; you know your speakers will be in for a bashing. An innovative release from a gifted musician and definitely one to track down.

4½ / 5

[Reviewer: DJ Woodmix]

GUY CALLED GERALD - 'The Glock' (Remix) (White Label)

Gerald has grasped hardcore and changed the style of bang bang bang to nice melodic music.

[Reviewer: Eastern Bloc]