A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology FLAC

Black Secret Technology is the best JUNGLE or JUNGLE TECHNO album of all time period. The production alone tells you this is no cut, paste and copy music. Sound quality on the original release is akin to a lot of the early jungle and drum and bass productions of that era. The reissue was cleaner sound wise and track listing changed, though personally I preferred the raw dark energy of the original release. This music is....... FOR THOSE WHO KNOW !! Celebrating all that is brilliant about BLACK MUSIC !! .....SELAH

New entry on NME's Indie LPs chart, 22 April 1995.

How is the sound quality on this pressing - I seem to remember people saying it was poor / low volume ? Or maybe that was just the CD version at the time.

That would be the original 1995 CD press you would be talking about. I have the 2008 remastered CD. Not sure about the LP record.

Track 4, "The Nile" was named after a nightclub in Manchester (On Princes Rd in Moss Side). The Nile was upstairs, and the club below was called "The Reno". Both clubs Gerald used to frequent, and he used both of their names for his tunes.

Only just discovered this yesterday reading Peter Hook's book about the Haçienda, which brought me here. Amazing.

I have a couple of the tracks off this LP on Dub Plates from my Kool FM days, still sound fresh even today....had me bouncing around anyhow....Well done G

You are kidding!! There was a guy called dub with Finley Q.. "It's a sin" vocal loop

An amazing work. totally recommended. for HIFI ears

amazing is the word..."finley's rainbow" such a briliant masterpiece

An amazing work. totally recommended. for HIFI ears

Surprisingly good; I wonder why it didn't get greater notice at the time.

why "surprisingly" ?? Album was known and respected within the scene when it came out...

Gerald Simpson is well and truly his own genre. This album is called a drum n bass or a jungle album and hence gets cast in the shadow of Goldie's Timeless released in the same year. This album is not a drum n bass album.Ditch the labels. This album has barely got a single snare drum in it. This is that weird paranoid in-between world you occupy in your twilight state. Beats sound like insects. Disembodied time stretched vocals drift in and out of some ether. Theres a tribal thing going on. Everything is hazy.Did he mean it to sound like this? Jungle's answer to U F Orb if you must.Does that help? Some might moan about the low-fi production but all you gotta do is crank up the volume and you will swear you can hear things youre not supposed to. Like echoes materialising eeriely from the mist hinting at some life form just beyond This album stands on its own like a lone cactus on the Skeleton Coast. It is the sound of Gerald Simpson sweetly f###ing you. www.monkeyswithtypewriters.com

A watershed LP of the 1990's and in electronic music generally. This is one of the first and still one of the best examples of Jungle Techno, now commonly referred to as Drum & Bass. Gerald is perhaps best know for his UK house track Voodoo Ray and and maybe as the creative force behind early 808 State tracks like Pacific 202, but this is by far and away his most complete work to date. Immensly beautiful and powerful music which broke the mould of 4 to the floor dance music established by Disco and soared into completely new sonic realms. It realises Stockhausens 1950's dream of a music set free from time. Through the revolutionary use of timestretching these early Jungle pioneers realised that samplers weren't just for nicking pop riffs and 909 drum loops but could completely discard time signatures and match any two samples by stretching or compressing. No more need for pitched up rave vocals... If you check other Rave /proto-Jungle cuts from this period like 28 Gun Bad Boy you can see the development of a style that was something completey new, not just a fusion of Techno, Hip Hop and Reggae but something more than the sum of these parts. There are tracks on Black Secret Technology that are very much of the time like Cybergen and the fairly random Life Unfolds His Mystery but on the whole this is the most coherent exegesis of Jungle flow you could want from one of it's pioneering masters. If you want to hear what Drum and Bass could be listen to this.