Polski opis

Gatunek :	Big Beat / Dance / Club / Ambient
Rok Wydania :	1997
Jakość :	VBR ~222 kbps JointStereo
Okładki :	Nie

Opis:
Pochodzą z Birmingham. Mike Stokes (aka Michael Barrywhoosh) oraz ex-basista grupy "Pop Will Eat Itself" - Richard March (aka Barry Island) to dźwiękowi punkowcy zestawiający wszelkie możliwe brzmienia i rytmy według sobie tylko znanych zasad. Soniczni klowni z wyobraźnią DJ’a Shadow'a i aspiracjami Fatboy Slim'a, tworzący bardzo pogodną, zwariowaną muzykę taneczną.

Poznali się w 1995r. na imprezie u znajomego, gdzie Mike był DJ-em. Jak później wspominał: "Cośtam grałem a jemu się to spodobało. Potem prawie się pocałowaliśmy... ale zamiast tego postanowiliśmy robić razem muzykę bo byliśmy samotni." Odkryli w sobie wspólną miłość do tworzenia dziwnej, pokręconej i pełnej pozytywnej energii muzyki.

Już jako Bentley Rhyhm Ace zaczynali w szeregach big-beatowej wytwórni Skint, pod znakiem której w 1997r. ukazała się ich pierwsza płyta zatytułowana poprostu "Bentley Rhyhm Ace" (jak sami mówią "To świetny tytuł"). Wydawnictwo zawiera remixy wcześniejszych dokonań duetu wraz z kilkoma nowymi kawałkami. Najbardziej znanym utworem z płyty jest "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out".

Cechą charakterystyczną Bentley Rhyhm Ace obok dziwacznych bitów połączonych z psychodelicznymi melodiami są też odjazdowe koncerty, którym często towarzyszą niezwykłe i dziwaczne kostiumy i rekizyty.

 English description

Genre :	Big Beat / Dance / Club / Ambient
Year :	1997
Quality :	VBR ~222 kbps JointStereo
Covers :	No

Description:
He was an unemployed tarmaccer and lighting whizz. The other was a barman and the bass player from Pop Will Eat Itself. Together they are Bentley Rhythm Ace, Britain's brightest beatsmiths with the technology to create a new boogie.

The Bentley's were born in Birmingham in late '95; Mike Stokes (aka Michael Barrywhoosh, shorter, the ex-road layer) and Richard Marsh (aka Barry Island, the ex-bass thing) met at a party were Mike was playing some psychedelic pop tunes. "I was playing records and he really loved them. Then we nearly kissed... but we didn't, so we made music instead. We were lonely."

A shared love for the Sunday Studley car boot sale led to the pair picking up odds and sods, bits and bobs and hundreds of dodgy records (twenty for a quid, usually called 'something a go-go') with which to pilfer Ace noises from for the project B.R.A. The "serious with a smirk" Bentley sound was born with the E.P. Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out (summer '96) featuring bizarre beats and sampled seals of the 'Carbootechnodiscobooto'. A monthly residency at the lengendary Heavenly Social ensued and their purist-baiting follow up Late Train To Bentley On C caused instant pogoing on the nation's big beat-friendly floors.

If the Bentleys are musically and sampledelically influenced by the JAMMS then their live show seems to go for some top costumed KLF action. Behind a huge polystyrene car replete with old skool disco lights they dressed up as scousers in shell suits at the Ministry Of Sound, at the Rocket they were ravers with Vicks in their masks, sporting policeman's helmets and boiler suits with 'East' on the front and '17' on the back. In Iceland over the New Year they dressed up as Vikings, though they admit "some people didn't like that".

So what's the album like then? Well it's eponymously titled - which means it's called Bentley Rhythm Ace. "Great title", they say, "It's even spelt the same". It starts off with Let There Be Flutes a multiple beats assault with slippin' and slidin' bass and that good old fashioned wind based instrument. "I was fixing a friend's car", says Bentley, "we got good karma rebate because we heard these flutes coming from this house we were parked outside. I threw stones at the window and it was a girl I knew and she's ace on the flute!". Forthcoming single Midlander (There Can Be Only One) is a slo-strung rumble where radios are retuned with hammers and guitars are dragged behind a battered Sherpa van racing to the nearest Balti house. "It's about tough blokes from the Midlands like ourselves", they confess," What's the average Midlander like? I dunno, cos there can only be one and there's two of us so we're still rowing about it". Why Is Frog, Too? is remixed with a trancier slant. It's spookier than the original with a whopping great breakdown. Mind The Gap is a rejigged wiggy version of Late Train and Run On The Spot concludes side one, with an ancient slimming album scratched up, multiple handclaps that sounds like some old bloke playing the spoons, trumpet parps and a grooovy guitar that altogether sounds like a crazed Hair Bear Bunch party. Ace!

The boys stroll through the sunshine in straw skirts for Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out before burning through Brum in the Rag Top Skoda Car Chase with it's spooky scattershot beats and 70's horror film vibe. "A friend of mine had a convertable Skoda', they explain, "We were driving through Kings Heath and everyone thought we were in a posh sports car". Whoosh! is the Bentleys at their funkiest and Rankin' Roger of The Beat turns up on Who Put The Bom In The Bom Diddle Bom Bom? Rankin' is joined by police cars, elephants and sinister snarls over Caribbean blues. They like Space Hopper to running through all rooms of the Brummie club if the same name before signing off with the Return Of The Carbooter's Disco Hardcore Jumble Roadshow. "The best version we've done'. It's faster with hundreds of beats per second with the guitar, mad acid and the barking seal still intact. Ace again! Perverse, party friendly and fun in a 'what the f*** is this?' sort of way. Bentleys gonna sort it out? Better believe it.

Source: bibainfo.pl