... Mad sound effects, comic noises, old samples and bizarre loops are all order of the day with this album from Bentley Rhythm Ace. This album experiments with unknown styles of dance music that can be best described as 'mad' or possibly 'bonkers'. This unimitable style that BRA have built up ... Read review
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...day with this album from Bentley Rhythm Ace. This album experiments with unknown styles of dance music that can be best described as 'mad' or possibly 'bonkers'. This unimitable style that BRA have built up is what really makes the album. It's truly hilarious, even though I don't think it is trying to be, and features such tracks as "Return of the Hardcore Jumble Carbootechnodisco Roadshow", "Ragtopskodacarchase" and "Who ... more
This self-titled debut album is not exactly uncategorisable but it certainly branches off from the dance genre in a direction rarely seen before. Mad sound effects, comic noises, old samples and bizarre loops are all order of the day with this album from Bentley Rhythm Ace. This album experiments with unknown styles of dance music that can be best described as 'mad' or possibly 'bonkers'. This unimitable style that BRA have built up is what really makes the album. It's truly hilarious, even though I don't think it is trying to be, and features such tracks as "Return of the Hardcore Jumble Carbootechnodisco Roadshow", "Ragtopskodacarchase" and "Who put the Bom in the Bom Bom Diddleye Bom"... incredible! I'm surprised that BRA have managed to make every track sound different considering that there can surely only be a limited amount of different sounding combinations with the way they make the music, but they achieve originality with flying colours.
Advantages: original, good songs Disadvantages: a par on the new one?
The prequel to ‘For Your Ears Only’ is just as good as it. While, there may be less tracks, there are perhaps, in some cases, slightly longer. The first track, ‘Let There Be Flutes’ is an epic 9:00 minute masterpiece, combining many different instruments to get you in the mood for what’s to come. And that would be ‘Midlander (there can be only one)’, a big beat drum & bass frenzy that changes tempo halfway, and back again towards the end. Followed ... ...almighty ‘Bentley’s gonna sort you out!’, an obvious take of the chemicals ‘Brothers gonna work it out’. Last but not least comes ‘The Return Of The Hardcore Carbootechnodisco Roadshow’, a name which spawned its B-side buddy ‘This Is Carbootechnodiscoboototechno’. This jungle, western rave thriller finishes off the CD finely. What has been shown, though is that you can have eleven tracks of fun filled funk and frenzy, for less than eight quid. Awellpricedamountoffunifyouaskme. ...
billdaily 07.08.2000
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Product details
Title
Bentley Rhythm Ace
Performer
Bentley Rhythm Ace
Genre
Electronic
Sub Genre
Trip Hop / Big Beat
Release Date
05/1997
Original Release Year
1997
Label / Distributor
Skint / Republic Of Music/Universal Music
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Format
Performer
EAN
5025425505522
Additional notes
Album Notes
Mix British psychedelia with saucy 1970s jazz fusion cut with a kilo of soul, add a dash of artificial techno-babble, and you've got Bentley Rhythm Ace. Oddball in the extreme, Bentley mix perambulating beats with synth tomfoolery and dancehall bebop. This energizing debut is one of the more intriguing slices of electronica splashing down the 1990s pike. "Let There Be Flutes" nearly postulates an unholy union between progressive rock and trip-hop (prog-hop?), while "Ragtopskodacarchase" is peripatetic drum 'n' bass, the rhythms wound tighter than a psychopath's brainwaves. It's as if extra-terrestrials dropped down to witness the birth of the new British invasion, hightailed it back to the stars, and returned with Bentley Rhythm Ace.
Album Reviews
Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) - Ranked #23 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year." NME (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #9 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Let There Be Flutes
2.
Midlander (There Can Only Be One)
3.
Why Is A Frog Too
4.
Mind That Gap
5.
Run On The Spot
6.
Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out
7.
Ragtopskodacarchase
8.
Whoosh
9.
Who Put The Bom In The Bom Bom Diddleye Bom
10.
Spacehopper
11.
Return Of The Hardcore Carbootechodisco Roadshow
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