John Davis - Flashcan LP - Citinite - Electro
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Track ListingThe hottest electro for the wildest freaks…Citinite compiles the legendary ’84 jams of funk master John Davis.John Davis was born in Anderson, South Carolina to musical parents, and started playing the guitar when he was seven years old. He went on to learn the bass guitar, drums and keyboards and began his musical career traveling around America singing gospel music with his father and his five brothers. In the 70s he joined the army and was stationed in Germany; when he left the army he continued to play with both local musicians and American acts who were touring the country. An experienced producer, in the early 80s Davis worked with Terry Lewis of The Time and in the 90s moved to Los Angeles where he played with Babyface and many other artists on the Solar Records label. The tracks compiled on the Citinite album “Flashcan” were written in 1984. John recalls, “I had a friend, Manfred Radtke, who had a small studio in Kitzingen, Germany. He offered me the chance to work in his studio and there I began to write songs in the style that I really liked, that came out of my soul and heart. One of my favourite bands was Zapp and they often worked with the voice box. At the time, music was very electronic and groups like Parliament were doing a mixture of smooth funk and electronics, and so I mixed them together to create my tracks”. The resuscitation of electro’s most influential producers continues with this reissue from 1984 of John Davis’ best work. With a funk quota that makes Prince himself sound like a bow-legged honky…while production techniques have evolved, it’s nonetheless clear that Juan Atkins’ early work owes a debt to ‘Laser Man’, I-F has spent a lot of time listening to the warm, vocodered melodies of ‘Dream Six-0’, and as for Undergound Resistance’s high-tech sound? Take a listen to the moody chords and angular breaks of ‘Electro-?’ to find out who Mad Mike’s mentor is. 4.5 / 5 Richard Brophy. [NITE-2 Media Condition » Mint (M) Sleeve Condition » Not Graded |
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| Artist | John Davis | ||
| Title | Flashcan LP | ||
| Label | Citinite | ||
| Catalogue | UKEXCL2x12 | ||
| Format | Vinyl Double Album | ||
| Released | 2006 | ||
| Genre | Electro |
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Some Other Artists in the Electro Genre• Mantronix • Kraftwerk • Les Rythmes Digitales • Hashim • Paul Hardcastle • Herbie Hancock • Coldcut • Harold Faltermayer • Shannon • Knights Of The Turntables • Goldfrapp • Yellow Power • Neville Brothers • Freak Electrique • Letroset • Tangerine Dream • Newcleus • Dopplereffekt • Egyptian Lover • Planet Funk • Two Lone Swordsmen • Holly Valance • Bangkok Impact • Joyce Sims • D Mob • Thrust • Sarah McLeod • Bill Withers • Calvin Harris • The Conservatives • Space 2000 • Dhar Braxton • Alpinestars • Russ Brown • Ca$hflow • Mode-M • Englandneworder • Splash • Project D • Motif • |
Some Other Artists on the Citinite Label• Her Bad Habit• |
Information on the Electro Genre
Electro (electro-funk, dance or electro-boogie) is a genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 and funk records. Records in the genre typically have electronic sounds and some vocals are delivered in a deadpan, mechanical manner, often through a vocoder or other electronic distortion.From its origins, the definition of the electro sound is the use of drum machines as the rhythmic base of a track; however as the style has evolved, and with the advent of computer usage in electronic music, the use of drum machines has become less and less practical and widespread. Electro drum patterns tend to be electronic emulations of breakbeats, with kick drums, and usually a snare or clap accenting the downbeat. The difference between electro drumbeats and breakbeats (or breaks) is that electro tends to be more mechanical, while breakbeats tend to have more of a human-like feel, like that of a live drummer. The definition however is somewhat ambiguous in nature due to the various use of the term.
Staccato, percussive drumbeats tend to dominate electro; with beats once mostly provided by the Roland TR-808 drum machine, the advent of computers in electronic music has outdated this old school method and are now used by the majority of electro producers the world over. The TR-808, created in 1980, has an immediately recognizable sound, and through the use of samples remains somewhat popular in electro and other genres to the present day. Other electro instrumentation is generally all-electronic, favoring analog synthesis, bass lines, sequenced or arpeggiated synthetic riffs, and atonal sound effects all created with synthesizers. Heavy use of effects such as reverbs, delays, chorus or phasers along with eerie synthetic ensemble strings or pad sounds emphasize the common science fiction or futuristic theme of the lyrics and/or music. Most electro is instrumental, but a common element is vocals processed through a vocoder. Additionally, speech synthesis may be used to create robotic or mechanical lyrical content. Some earlier electro features rapping, but that lyrical style has become less popular in the genre from the 1990s onward.
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