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A1 People - The Yellow Album
album from Hydrogen Dukebox ('02.10.12)
CD (DUKE106CD / import from UK): 1943 yen
LP (DUKE106DJV / import from UK): 1785 yen
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ファンク・エレクトロ・テクノを
融合させ、新しいサウンドを生み出す
A1-PEOPLE 最新アルバム
ファンク、エレクトロ、テクノを融合させ独自のサウンドを叩き出す、エレクトロ代表A1-PEOPLEが
前作「The Visit」から約1年半の充電期間を置き恐るべき新作をリリース!!
テクノの先駆的グループ"PENTATONIK"の中心人物"Simeon Bowring"と"D*NOTE"のワールド・ツアーにスクラッチ＋MCでの参加や、ACID JAZZ界の重鎮"SNOW BOY"らと共に活動していた事で知られる"DJ -Zine"そして"Tom Crook"の3人からなるA1-PEOPLEは、常に「エレクトロ」に対して過剰な思いをぶちまけ、独自のダンス・サウンドを確立させている。
そして今作「The Yellow Album」は、本国イギリスの音楽誌「NME」で、
「ロンドンのエレクトロ、テクノファンの新しい風となる作品」
とまで言わしめた最新作は、テクノ、エレクトロファンもクラブDJにも、もちろんお薦めする大推薦盤!!
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Black Ice |
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Casio Rock |
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The Reason |
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Crazy Electro Music |
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Freak |
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I Live |
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Evel Kneivelz* |
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Detroit Style* |
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Other People |
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The Whole Wide World |
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North Star |
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Rhythm Machine |
A 1 P E O P L E T I M E L I N E
(A1 People are Simeon Bowring, Tom Crook and DJ D-Zine)
2002 Oct. Soon to be released The Yellow Album, this is the one: warped vintage keys, soaring Numan-flavoured synth melodies, noodles, vocoders a-plenty and a few techno throws. The Yellow Album has more energy than a Duracell full of angel dust
2002 Aug. Simeon from A1 People starts a new club night with Andrea Parker at Herbal, Kingsland Rd ﾔWord Of Mouth ﾕ
2002 Aug. Simeon starts to produce Andrea Parkers forthcoming album.
2002 July A1 People play storming showcase gigs, one at Cargo and the other at Catch 22 - gig of the week on XFM - night is rammed
2002 Jan. A1 People start a digital funk club night in Brixton, their home turf, called Casio Rock. Guests include Andrew Weatherall, Keith Tenniswood, Freq Nasty and Andrea Parker. Casio Rock becomes most successful night at the Dog Star for ages and Casio Rock, the single, is released off the forthcoming album The Yellow Album..
2001 June A1 People start electro funk night at the Forum Bar W1 called Freaky Deaky
2001 March Tom from A1 People is put up to play the part of Shaggy after he ﾕs described as ﾔ having a face like a bag of broken biscuits ﾓ doesn ﾕt get the part as he has no acting experience, decides to stick to his first love of making music.
2001 March The Visit comes out - a six track mini album which explores the beats side of A1 People
2000 Simeon joins Apollo 440 as the bass player and tours Europe.
Tom DJs Wembley Stadium for Oasis
1998 Aug A1 People release debut album Fresh Juice - which combines old-school bounce with futurist studio wizardry. Hard 808 kick drums, analogue bass and dialogue samples crazy just crazy.
Fresh Juice is album of the week in The Sun
TRACK at 333 is T H E electro club night put on by A1 People and Hydrogen Dukebox , in fact it ﾕs the only electro club night around at the time. As for Shoreditch there is tumble weed blowing around outside the club at closing time.
1997 Simeon forms A1 People, signs to Hydrogen Dukebox ﾐ releases the electro classic ﾕGoin Down ﾕ as a reaction to the slick over produced house music being made at the time.
B E F O R E A 1 P E O P L E
1981 Tom buys a Casio VL Tone keyboard from Argos with his hard earned paper round money.
1983 Simeon buys his first 12 ﾓ record ﾔYou remind me of Gold ﾕ by the Human League, which is still in his DJ box today.
1991 Techno pioneers ﾔPentatonik ﾕ, formed by Simeon, start to play London warehouse parties with the likes of Orbital and The Shamen.
1992 DJ D-Zine joins D*Note as scratch DJ and rapper; tours the world and releases Tower of Babel.
1993 First release from Pentatonik on Kudos Records- ﾔCatalonia ﾕ is single of the week in NME.
1994 First Pentatonik album ﾔAnthology ﾕ is released to wide critical acclaim.
D-Zine teams up with Snow Boy for Acid Jazz album.
1995 Pentatonik releases ﾔCredo ﾕ which becomes single of the week in Record Mirror and Music Week.
1996 Pentatonik put on hold whilst Simeon learns how to DJ and start A1 People
N O T E
After banging on about the joys of electro for years, whilst steadily leaking out tasty tracks that fulfil the trio's bleepin', bouncin', gritty', giddy, ass-shakin' criteria, A1 People (Simeon Bowring, Tom Crook and DJ D-Zine) have just finished making the album we've been waiting for.
Mixing up the raw power of warped vintage keys with speaker stressing basslines, soaring Numan-flavoured synth melodies, occasional noodles, vocoders a-plenty and a few hypnotic techno throws, 'The Yellow Album' has more energy than a Duracell full of angel dust.
The tough, sweaty dancefloor grooves and dirty, fuzzed-up beatbox tricks give much of the album a larger than large appeal, but crawl behind the bassbins and you'll discover that on tracks like 'The Reason' and 'Freak', A1 People also occasionally dip into rusty robot-style melancholy.
As a whole, this is a fierce and funky set that works hands down as a cohesive album, but plunder a few of the heavier cuts and you've got yourself the kind of party starting essentials that only the pulse-less could ignore.
And lets not forget the A1 People live experience which is a get-off-the-noodles-and-get-back-on-the-dancefloor style of tough electro grooves, full of freshness and sweaty inspiration.
"As a new wave of synthcore spreads across the country the Londoners are finally being appreciated." ﾐ NME