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A Guy Called Gerald

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Gerald Simpson (born 16 February 1967), better known as A Guy Called Gerald, is a British DJ, record producer and musician. [1]

57 relations: A Guy Called Gerald, Acid house, Bill Laswell, Black Secret Technology, Blue Beat Records, Bowers & Wilkins, Breakdancing, Chicago house, Columbia Records, Derrick May (musician), Detroit techno, Drum and bass, Electro (music), Electronica, Finley Quaye, Goldie, Herbie Hancock, Hip hop music, IMO Records, Independent record label, Jazz fusion, Juan Atkins, Jungle music, Kevin Saunderson, Key Radio (Manchester), Lady Miss Kier, List of jungle and drum and bass artists, Lou Rhodes, Manchester, MC Tunes, Melody Maker, Moss Side, Music of Jamaica, Newbuild (album), Pentecostalism, Perlon, Peter Gabriel, Record label, Rham!, Riverside Studios, Sampling (music), Simon Reynolds, Ska, Skin Games, Sony Music, Sound system (DJ), Sound system (Jamaican), Stu Allan, Studio !K7, The Haçienda, ..., Trojan Records, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Voodoo Ray, Wallasey, 28 Gun Bad Boy, 808 State. Expand index (7 more) »

A Guy Called Gerald

Gerald Simpson (born 16 February 1967), better known as A Guy Called Gerald, is a British DJ, record producer and musician.

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Acid house

Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago.

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Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955, Salem, Illinois, and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner.

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Black Secret Technology

Black Secret Technology is the fourth album by UK electronic producer and acid house pioneer A Guy Called Gerald, first released in February 1995 to widespread critical acclaim.

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Blue Beat Records

Blue Beat Records was an English record label that released Jamaican rhythm and blues (R&B) and ska music in the 1960s and later decades.

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Bowers & Wilkins

Bowers & Wilkins, or B&W, is a British company that produces audio equipment, most notably loudspeakers.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.

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Chicago house

Chicago house refers to house music produced during the mid to late 1980s within Chicago.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Derrick May (musician)

Derrick May (born April 6, 1963), also known as Mayday and Rhythim Is Rhythim, is an electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States.

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Detroit techno

Detroit techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by Detroit-based artists during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Drum and bass

Drum and bass (also written as "drum 'n' bass" or "drum & bass"; commonly abbreviated as "D&B", "DnB" or "D'n'B"), is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from rave and jungle scenes in Britain during the early 1990s.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Finley Quaye

Finley Quaye (born 25 March 1974, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish musician.

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Goldie

Clifford Joseph Price, MBE (born 19 September 1965), better known by his stage name Goldie, is an English musician, DJ, visual artist and actor from Walsall.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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IMO Records

IMO Records is a specialist online retailer of vinyl and electronic dubstep, drum and bass, and hardcore dance music.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins (born December 9, 1962) is an American musician.

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Jungle music

Jungle is a genre of electronic music derived from breakbeat hardcore that developed in England in the early 1990s as part of UK rave scenes.

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Kevin Saunderson

Kevin Maurice Saunderson (born September 5, 1964) is an American electronic music producer.

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Key Radio (Manchester)

Key Radio is a local radio station owned and operated by Bauer Radio as part of the City 2 network.

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Lady Miss Kier

Kierin Magenta Kirby (born August 15, 1963), better known as Lady Miss Kier, is an American singer, DJ and fashion icon.

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List of jungle and drum and bass artists

This is a list of jungle and drum and bass artists.

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Lou Rhodes

Lou Rhodes is an English singer and songwriter from Manchester, now living in Wiltshire.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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MC Tunes

MC Tunes (born Nicholas William Dennis Hodgson, 28 March 1970) is a British rapper from the Moss Side area in Manchester, England.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Moss Side

Moss Side is an inner-city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England.

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Music of Jamaica

The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles.

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Newbuild (album)

Newbuild is the debut studio album by English electronic music group 808 State, released in September 1988 by Creed Records.

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Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism or Classical Pentecostalism is a renewal movement"Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals",.

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Perlon

Perlon is an electronic music record label founded in Frankfurt, Germany, based in Berlin, and run by Zip and Markus Nikolai.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rham!

Rham! Records was a British independent record label based in Wallasey, Merseyside formed by Peter Leay and Barry Lancaster-Smith in 1987.

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Riverside Studios

Riverside Studios is an arts centre on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, England, that has played host to contemporary performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Skin Games

Skin Games were a British pop/rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Sound system (DJ)

A sound system is a group of DJs and audio engineers contributing and working together as one, playing and producing music over a large PA system or sound reinforcement system, typically for a dance event or party.

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Sound system (Jamaican)

In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.

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Stu Allan

Stu Allan is a British dance music DJ who worked for Piccadilly Radio and Key 103 in Manchester in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Studio !K7

!K7 Music is an independent record label and music company based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music.

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The Haçienda

The Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England, which became famous in the Madchester years of the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Trojan Records

Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Voodoo Ray

"Voodoo Ray" is a 1988 acid house single by Gerald Simpson, recording under the name A Guy Called Gerald.

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Wallasey

Wallasey is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the northeastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula.

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28 Gun Bad Boy

28 Gun Bad Boy is the third album by house music and drum and bass pioneer A Guy Called Gerald, released in 1992.

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808 State

808 State are an English electronic music group, formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guy_Called_Gerald

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