Gen Kanai (gkanai@earthlink.net)
Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:46:40 -0700
All I know about Groove Armada is that Jason Bentley is spinning them a lot on
KCRW and I really like what I hear.
Fatboy Slim is supposed to remix a Groove Armada track coming up...
taken from the NME site:
"
Midsummer. Saturday afternoon. You and your buddies park up your runabout old
bangers in the middle of the big city and you lay back on the windscreen. You
can just about stand the heat on your shoulders while the car stereo pumps out
the music. And the music in question simply has to be Groove Armada.
It should come as a bit of a surprise, therefore, to learn that GA - aka Andy
Cato and Tom Findlay - recorded the sublimely classic nu-funk sounds of
'Vertigo' in a remote cottage in the Lake District. It's an album that meanders
through modern dance genres (utilising jazz, hip-hop, soul, house) with its
head in the clouds, while golden oldie tunes are sampled at will and guest
vocalists drop in for the odd embellishment. Such carefree logic comes to its
zenith on the beatific lilt of 'At The River' where a sensual female vocal
repeats the couplet: "If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air/Quaint little
feelings just here and there" over the coolest of acid easy-listening
breaks and
mellow trumpet balm.
In the world of electronica, about as organically sublime as it gets.
"
http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990605124624reviews.html
At 01:05 PM 9/9/99 -0500, Hendra wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>This probably my first letter but I just heard a song which I think are
>really groovy its by GROOVE ARMADA...the song title is AT THE RIVER...
>Any of you guys heard them yet if you have like how long they've been
>around?
>
>Hendra
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