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Thu DRUMS

DJ mix to move your body.  Not trying to overcomplicate or conceptualise. This is what dance music was made to do. Make you move and groove. Enjoy.

Peace
Gerald

Ontological Shock

This is not a DJ set - it's a live jam session of A Guy Called Gerald original music NO LOOPS using Reason X 2 incorporating acapellas. Recorded at The Deaf Institute in Manchester at The Red Bull Music Academy.

I wanted to prove that you can switch from techno into jungle live using reason... some people like it, some people hate it when I do this.... I started doing Jungle in 1991 - does anyone remember how cheesy techno got in 1991? This is WHY we created Jungle. 

Techno and house basically sold out... The only reason I came back to doing techno was because there were friends of mine pleading for me to do it...people who enjoyed the stuff I was doing in the late 80s. So if anyone has any kind of beef with anything to do with jungle let me remind you about your 90's times with your dummy in your mouth and your Vicks vapour rub!
Raw to the core.

http://www.guycalledgerald.com

Recorded Live In Session on 29 Jan 2010


LIVE in Manchester

A Guy Called Gerald will feature in the next issue of The New British entitled: 
LEGACY launching 4th Dec. At the Apple Store (Regents Street.) 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNewBritishMag
Twitter: @thenewbrit 
Instagram: @thenewbritish 

THE NEW BRITISH Exclusive Mix | A Guy Called Gerald

A Guy Called Gerald @ Carnival Boat Party 2023
This was one of those nights. Hidden and secluded, down a long path with 80 friends on a boat and a thumping soundsystem somewhere deep in London. 
And we are bringing together (almost) the same line up. 

Very, very, limited tickets @ https://ra.co/events/1896720

Pocket Radio invites Heads N Freaks to curate a series of intimate parties alongside the live stream at this special little venue in South London. This first party sees two of the UK dance scene's originators and continuing pioneers in a rare appearance together playing extended sets.

They are joined by Will B (Heads N Freaks, Super Culture, Four Directions) & Ophilion (Pocket Radio)

Expect a journey into the deep and unexpected through house, disco, techno and beyond.

HeadsNFreaks Carnival Boat Party 2023

XXX mix

The fourth track in the A Guy Called Gerald Live Sessions digital series. 

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G-Dance

If you are a techno person and you listen deeply into this music you will hear the beginnings of one side of my inspiration to make electronic dance music.  This is the music I grew up listening to.  When I hear some of the reactions from some of my American brothers.. musically they actually thought I was living around the corner from them - which I was, musically. It's funny, we could have almost communicated the same then as you can online now through music. Brothers if you are reading this - don't forget it - we still have an open line of communication. Some people think it's all about the $.
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Gerald 
Still deep in the Jungle
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rastafarian folk song - cymande
clap ya hands - the meters
easin in - edwin star
intimate frends - eddie kendriks
cant turn me away - sylvia striplin
turned on to you - 80s ladies
you caught me smilin - sly and the family stone
dont stop the music - yarbrough and peoples
genius of love - tom tom club
rapture - debbie harry 
hydraulic pump - p-funk
dog talk - k9 corps
nobody can be u - steve arrington
encore - cheryl lynn
just a touch of love - slave
rock creek park- the black byrds
last night a dj saved my life - indeep
set it off - harlequin 4
super rap inst - grandmaster flash 
etc etc ;)



A Guy Called Gerald's 70's-80's Funk on Da Chill

Free Flow Mix

The music from my teens. My tribute to Kool DJ Herc.

"He was a young Jamaican American and he just wanted to throw a party. His uncle had given him the best sound system in the neighborhood, yet he had no venue to play at and he was broke. What Kool Herc chose to do could have been done anywhere, but because it happened in New York, he forever changed the world.

Kool Herc brought the party to the people and set up his sound in the streets."

http://hackyourcity.com/2010/06/19/dj-kool-herc/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhisX4mVoDI&feature=player_embedded
 
TRACK LIST

Jazzy Jay - Cold Chillin in the Spot 1985
Just Ice - Cold Getting Dumb
u t f o- roxanne
t la rock - its yours
ll cool j - r ock da bells
z 3 mc's - triple threat
schoolly d - i don't like rock'n'roll
The B Boys - Cuttin Herbie
wiz kid - play that beat
man parrish - hip hop bebop
whodini - magic's wand
tyrone bronson - the smurf
newcleus - push the button
cybotron - clear
Riuichi Sakamoto - riot in lagos 1980
hashim - al naafiysh
project future - ray-gun-omics  1983
warp 9 - light years away
jonzun crew - pac jam
g force - feel the force
jonzun crew - space is the place
extra t's - e.t. boogie
newcleus - jam on it
pumpkin - king of the beat 1983
davy dmx - one for the treble 1984
afrika bambaataa & the jazzy 5 - jazzy sensation 1981
run dmc - sucker mc 1984
keith le blanc & malcom x - no sellout 1984
slick rick & doug e fresh - la di da di 1985
rammelzee vs k-rob - beat bop 1983
mantronics - get stupid fresh 1985
mc shan - marly marl sctatch 1985 
the escapades of futura 2000 - futura 2000 1982
Grand Wizard Theodore & Kevie Kev Rockwell - Military Cut-Scratch Mix
Wildstyle - Rap/Basketball Battle



Bboy 80's Hip Hop with A Guy Called Gerald

To celebrate the 10th edition of our weekly podcast we have teamed up with @thump to present an exclusive mix by British electronic royalty, A Guy Called Gerald, in anticipation of his headline appearance at Manana Festival in Cuba this May. Scroll down to see what he had to say about the mix.

See A Guy Called Gerald Live at Oval Space 17th April: bit.ly/1R7YAdT
Join us at Manana 2016: www.mananacuba.com/overview
Join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/manana.cu
https://soundcloud.com/manana-cuba

++ How and where was the mix recorded? ++
It was recorded at my studio using other people's music.

++ What was the idea behind the mix? ++
The idea was to have bass orientated theme but with a melodic flow.

++ How (if in any way) is the mix influenced by Cuba? ++
Most of the melodies I picked I feel have a latin flavour to them.

++ What excites you most about the journey to Santiago? ++
I'm looking forward to going somewhere on the planet that is not American influenced. I grew up listening to Mongo Santamaria. Cuba is just across the way from where my parents come from: Jamaica. I think there are deep ties throughout the Caribbean. I'm sorry I'm not a religious person but I'm into deeper feelings. I'm going there to taste the spirit. The musicians I've heard are unbelievably talented and I believe I have something to share.

++ Are you going to be preparing for the trip in any way? ++
Yes, I'm bringing all my music, ready to jam.

a guy called geraldHousechicago housedetroit techno


Manana Cuba Mix 2016 EP.0010

Full track: 
https://aguycalledgerald.bandcamp.com/track/the-swaggle

The Swaggle

Hacienda Warm Up at Eastern Bloc Records, Manchester 02 July 2016

Riding in an airplane can be scary. You are required to relinquish your control and, to top it off, you are confined to a small seat, sometimes for a considerable length of time. But, do not worry. There are a lot of tricks that you can use to help yourself relax and maybe even enjoy your next flight.

Relax into your Flight - DJ Set

Radio 1 - 1 in the Jungle - 17 May 1996

A Guy Called Gerald - Jump DJ Mix - 03.08.10

These were my favourite tunes I was spinning out at this time. most of them were older tracks then. It's a shame melody is missing from much of what is released at the moment.

A Guy Called Gerald - DJ Mix - Berlin Oct 2005

Sorry but this music is your Daddy. If you like it or not these are just a few of the foundation bricks that built your house. Dubstep etc is just lego baby. It's not a diss. I just kick myself when I see how ungrateful MFs are.  

Anyway 1984-1988 HAIL THE TRUE SKOOL. 


GCG

My Skool Mix

Long Late Night Drive (DJ Mix)

All compositions written, produced &amp; performed (not DJ'd) by A Guy Called Gerald using Propellerhead's Reason only.
  
Recorded live at Labyrinth Festival 10th Anniversary, Naeba, Japan Sept 18th, 2010. 

(C) 2010 A Guy Called Gerald 
info@guycalledgerald | http://guycalledgerald.com

LIVE at Labyrinth Festival Japan

Machine room studio jam from the early 90's featuring Navigator from the archives ;) 

Now available for download exclusively from aguycalledgerald.spinshop.com. 

Boomshakattack feat. MC Navigator

A smorgasbord of beats hand chopped and not copied interlaced with splashes of home grown melody actually conceived by the human mined.
a concept realised and formed at the diehold studio & sound lab 

A GUY CALLED GERALD diehold jam 7

A totally improvised set recorded live for BBC1Xtra using Reason again mixing up some old samples. Some of it is not technically squared off in the correct way for the non-dancing techno zombies :-). This is old school - going with the feeling.

LIVE JUNGLE at Icon - Recorded by BBC1Xtra

Some of the old sounds that shaped what you're getting today

The Old Jungle

after a hard night of heavy b-line programming and performance its nice to kick back and spin a few tunes :) 

AFTER THE AFTER SELECTION

part 2 take's it down lower bass to the bone 

AFTER THE AFTER SELECTION pt 2

TOUCH ME

Produced in 1991 with MC Tunes.  We had just started the Juice Box sound system and needed one-off promo tracks to play at the blues.

Digital Bad Boy

The Trip City soundtrack EP will be released on vinyl for the first time in June 2021, along with an incendiary incarnation of Trevor Miller’s novel. This is a mini-mix of all five tracks:

A1. Trip City 
A2. Valentine’s Theme 
A3. At The Mambo 
B1. FX 
B2. Soho Chances

Available for pre-order at https://velocitypress.uk/product/trip-city-book/ 

In 1989 when Trip City was first released with the soundtrack on audio cassette, there had been no other British novel like it. This was the down and dirty side of London nightclubs, dance music and the kind of hallucinogenic drug sub-culture that hadn’t really been explored since Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Maybe this is why Trip City is still known as “the acid house novel” and an underground literary landmark. 

Trevor Miller (excerpt from vinyl sleeve): “It was an overcast afternoon, early in 1989 when I went to visit A Guy Called Gerald at Moonraker Studios in Longsight, Manchester… You have to imagine or cast your mind back to a time before electronic music was largely generated via software or complex apps. Drum machines and sequencers were the gold standard – or all there was. So, the early pioneers like Gerald Simpson were literally inventing a ‘sound’ that didn’t totally exist, yet. I must confess, I was a little sceptical at first when Gerald opened a few beat-up holdalls and started lifting out a weird collection of 808s, 303s and the like. Still, he plugged them together like some mad genius and then literally conjured a soundtrack from thin air. I was staggered by his intuitive skill and virtuosity. I was energised by how he changed-up and dropped into different styles, without skipping a beat. From orchestral, through danceable, even the sombre power of Gregorian chants… Thirty-plus years later, I would like to think that the soundtrack is important because it sets the story in a time and a place. It’s an atmospheric companion piece that may well transport you back to those sweaty nights in a smoke-filled club when too many pills took hold. If it does – great. And if not, it doesn’t really matter because these are still terrific tunes that sound just as unique and emotive as when Gerald made them, all those years ago.”

Gerald: “When Trevor first gave me his manuscript for Trip City, I was excited by the experimental concept of writing music for a novel with the birth of British acid house as its backdrop. I wanted to create musical paintings which would evoke the story's atmosphere and illustrate its visions of a dark, seedy club scene and the characters lurking there. This reissue affords a rare snapshot of an evolving music scene and celebrates the history of electronic dance music over the past 30 years.”

Trip City Soundtrack Mix

BREAKING BEATS SINCE 1988. I refuse to compromise or follow trends when it comes to my sound. My music is purely for entertainment.
Booking: booking@allisrhythm.com 
http://www.guycalledgerald.com

In nine albums and over fifty releases that span a 30-year career, A Guy Called Gerald has built a genre busting body of work that stands out for consistent innovation, excellence and refusal to compromise.

A Guy Called Gerald

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