“Acieeeed!
So we had a neat idea: why not theme RA.303 on Roland’s seminal TB-303 synth, the sound of acid house? In order to execute this ingenious plan we turned to Gerald Simpson, undoubtedly the UK’s most revered proponent of the sound. This is largely thanks to a 1988 number named “Voodoo Ray,” which we guess you may have heard before. Gerald was also a founding member of 808 State, who themselves (or perhaps Gerald solo, but that’s another story) wrote an all-time classic in “Pacific State.” You may have also heard of jungle. Well, Gerald had a rather large hand in birthing the genre through his early works on his own Juice Box Records. The ensuing years saw the Manchester-born artist continue to innovate, releasing seminal full-lengths and restlessly pushing his sound in a forward direction. These days you can find Gerald residing in Berlin, working on his “gangsta tech” project, although we’ll leave him to explain that one.
On a basic level RA.303 comprises a stack of vintage acid house from Gerald’s collection, but he’s inviting us to guess whether the additional acid sounds that colour the mix come from a TB-303, an emulation, or perhaps both.”
Resident Advisor podcast #303 by A Guy Called Gerald [Mediafire]
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