HOUSE MUSIC

TRACKLISTING

1 . Kikumoto Allstars - Everybody
2 . Kikumoto Allstars - I'll Make You Jack
3 . Kikumoto Allstars - Still Can't Stop The House
4 . Kikumoto Allstars - Bending Time
5 . Kikum oto Allstars - DCO
6 . Kikumoto Allstars - Last Train To Chi-Town
7 . Kikumoto Allstars - Sagittarius
8 . Kikumoto Allstars - Warehouse Days < br> 9 . Kikumoto Allstars - Just A Feelin
10 . Kikumoto Allstars - Jack T he House
11 . Kikumoto Allstars - Shed
12 . Kikumoto Allstars - Hous e Music



INFO
DJ Hell's International Deejay Gig olo Imprint brings the debut album release from AustraliaÙs Kikumoto Allstars: H OUSE MUSIC!!! In the spirit of the original Chicago Acid House of Marshall Jeffe rson, Larry Heard and Adonis, and with the intensity of modern dance, comes Kiku moto Allstars aka DJ/Producer Cam Farrar.

"The inspiration for this album came from the original Chicago House from the mid 1980's. The tracks from this era have an innocence and purity that I felt was somewhat lost in modern e lectronic music. I wanted to capture all I loved about this music but put it in context with where we are today."

Kikumoto Allstars holds a candle to the original style of the thing we callÙHOUSE MUSIC!Ù This debut album is acid, is analogue, is heavy, is jacking, is melodic, is dark penetrating male vocals versus sexual femme vocales, is Bass... is here to make you move and not forget the pioneering roots that bought us all to the dancefloor.

Cam Farr ar was first drawn to electronic music when he saw Devo on Australian television in the early 1980's. As a teenager, inspired by punk and new wave, Farrar began his career in bands, hitting the skins and song writing. With the 90's dance mu sic revolution underway Farrar was swept up. Australia was now experiencing its own halcyon days with warehouse and bush parties beating through the musical lan dscape.

As an album we have two very distinct halves, the first being more musical and quite modern in terms of Production, but designed to map the l andscape ahead. The first track, EVERYBODY is basically the "synopsis of the alb um..." The bassline drives the whole track; Complete with authentic Fairlight or chestra stabs." On IÙLL MAKE YOU JACK, we find " a song about dancing!. A bassli ne and drum machine, reminiscent of the old acid house trax of 1986-1987."

CAN'T STOP THE HOUSE, is an immediate classic, featuring Fi-B Haven and ly rics from the 1987 Thompson & Lenoir track 'Can't Stop the House' with some of m y own. We love the track and thought it would be cool re-introduce it to the wor ld."

BENDING TIME is designed for the breakdown moment, and maybe a d ry ice machine. "A track that began as a minimal drum track probably became the most complex track on the album. The inspiration came from the 1985 Virgo / Mar shall Jefferson track 'Rhythm Track' however morphed into a pitch bent, time war p that twists and ties itself into knots before spitting itself out into another galaxy.

DCO is reminiscent of Mr Fingers principle of taking "a sim ple track, and a incessant arpeggio that frantically bounces along like a bus dr iver on speed pushing through peak hour traffic!"

The aptly titled LA ST TRAIN TO CHI TOWN is a good follow on from the Larry Heard inspired DCO, taki ng the listener on a musical journey throug Mr. Fingers home town of Chicago. La yers of heavy chords and beautiful melodies, which were "improvised and recorded in one take that was quite a bizarre and magical moment. It reminds me of trai n travel watching the scenery flashing by, lost in the music, lost in my head.!" Continuing the musical oddysey intgo SAGITARIUS, Kikumoto Allstars "answer to M arshall Jefferson's Virgo. This one would be on high rotation if I were an astro naut travelling to distant constellations."

Back down on earth but sp inning through Time Space we come to the final part to the album. WAREHOUSE DAYS , is, as the songs name sake suggest, about the dancefloor and the environments that gave birth to this genre of House Music. If we were being literal here we w ould be talking about the infamous club of 80's Chicago. But right now, in 2009, we need to talk about the places more personal to us, our Generations Warehouse s, the place where Kikumoto Allstars "truly discovered dance music. Reminiscing about one of those special underground parties, in a warehouse, in a city, some where."

With JUST A FEELIN we are kept in this enviroment! The song aim is "to capture the adrenalin and anticipation you feel at the club at the be ginning of a great set. Keeps teasing to give you something but pulling it back and not quite letting go." Which leads nicely to JACK THE HOUSE; "the first true Kikumoto Allstars track. It's all about the TB-303, still sounding fresh in an old skool way." SHED is pure dark dancefloor material and "inspired by parties a t the docklands in Melbourne, Australia when I was growing up. Nameless tracks, nameless people all smiling, all dancing to the beat of a drum."

Fi nally, we come to HOUSE MUSIC, a tribute the world we know and love, but done wi th a tongue firmly in-cheek. "Displaying the great simplicity of house music we know and love, nice chords, fat bassline, big drum rolls and a repetitive vocal hook. As it says on the box, H-H-H-H, H-H H-House Music!

Kikumoto Al lstars and International Deejay Gigolo Record would like you to know that all"th e tracks on this album were produced using the analogue synth's and drum machine s that defined the original house music - Roland TR-909, TR-808, TR-707, SH-101, JX-8P, Juno range, and the TB-303 - paying homage to the Roland Corporation's T adao Kikumoto, the brains behind these now legendary machines."