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A Guy Called Gerald
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Seminal house (and later drum & bass) artist from Moss Side, Manchester, England. His first and biggest hit, early Hacienda club classic ‘Voodoo Ray’ from the UK acid house explosion of 88/89, has proven to be one of the most enduring pieces of music from the period. Got his name because he sent his early demos to DJ Stu Allan, of local Manchester radio station Piccadilly Radio, who used to play the tracks on air introducing them as being by “a guy called Gerald from Moss Side”.
A Guy Called Gerald is the stage name for musician, record producer and DJ Gerald Simpson from Moss Side in Manchester, United Kingdom. He has proven to be among the most innovative modern electronic music figures to emerge during the 1980s.
He is perhaps best known for his early work in the Manchester acid house scene in the late 1980s and the track “Voodoo Ray”. At that time, he specialised in techno music produced using equipment such as the Roland TB-303 bass synthesiser and the TR-808 drum machine (he sourced much of his equipment from Johnny Roadhouse, a second-hand music shop that is otherwise the haunt of non-mancunian students).
Simpson was heavily influenced by his Jamaican roots; his father’s blue-beat, ska and Trojan reggae record collection, his mother’s pentecostal church sessions and the Jamaican Sound system (DJ) parties in Manchester’s Moss Side area where he grew up. |
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