G-MAN - MOONBASE ALPHA G-MAN

“The order of the day is bass, sub-sub-bass, trowel-in-your-ear-hole bass,

enema-bass, internal injuries bass.” – Simon Reynolds, 1994

Circuitry Electronic launches with a release that stands as a statement of intent -

an artist with few true peers within English electronic music, with an album that

jumps out of the speakers and slaps you around the chops.

G-Man is Gez Varley - one half of Sheffield pioneers LFO, and thirty years into his

solo career, with his first vinyl album release since Avanti on Force Inc way back in

2002.

Speaking to DJ magazine in 2014 Gez recalled his early days working with Mark Bell

as LFO: “We were influenced by groups like 808 State. Unique 3, Nightmares On

Wax and also stuff like Kraftwerk, Detroit techno and early electro. So when we first

hooked up and made tunes together we just wanted to rock the dancefloor at our

local club The Warehouse”. Their eponymous track ‘LFO’ – a classic of the bleep

and bass techno movement – was one of the first releases on the Warp label, gate-

crashing the UK’s Top 20 whilst annoying Simon Mayo along the way.

Having worked with the likes of Richie Hawtin, Karl Bartos, Laurent Garnier, Art of

Noise, Radiohead, YMO and Alan Wilder, in addition to the LFO output, you'd expect

Gez to know his way around a techno dancefloor rhythm and drum pattern, and this

is an inventive funk-filled journey that never veers too far into experimental territory

yet avoids the cliches and generic tropes that too often lose the listener when techno

manifests in album form.

As the inaugural release on the Circuitry Electronic label this album plugs all the right

sockets; stay close for further electronic expansions on the theme on the label in the

coming months.

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1) MoonBase Alpha
2) Fidus Tempas
3) Moon Dust
4) Mon Cherie
5) Paris 92
6) Scarbeck
7) Space Charmer
8) 989