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The Gospel According To Beatfanatic
The new album from Sweden's Beatfanatic (Dicey, Raw Fusion), his follow up to "Adventures in the...
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The follow-up album to 'Adventures in the World of No-Fi Beats on Raw Fusion'. This is a killer mix of dance tracks and Afro/Latin nu jazz. Beatfanatic's tracks have been featured on mix CDs from Gilles Peterson, Thievery Corp and Ursula 1000. Now with this new album, released on his own Soundscape label, he's ready to show the world what he's got.

“Very few artists can cut and re-edit the full spectrum of sounds with depth of soul and rhythm throughout. Beatfanatic is definitely one of them, having already demonstrated acute musical compositional awareness through his debut ‘Adventures in the World Of No-Fi Beats’ and Raw Fusion bestseller ‘Joaganda Capoeira/Cookin’. The man loves his records and a brief dip into the tracks reveals homage to several stellar standards - ‘Water No Get Enemy’ Fela hornlines, Marlena’s ‘California Soul’, Jimmy Smith’s version of ‘I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More Babe’ and on and on. Killer works such as the chunky Chi-house sermon of ‘Let Us Pray’, Broken Latin Rumba ‘El Ritmo’ and disco breaker pastiche ‘Boom Bangin’ (complete with ‘Hey Joyce’ interpolation’) reveal his gift for building the motions with emotion to produce a strong multi-directional beat down.” Amar Patel, Straight No Chaser (September 2005) "A thrill-a-minute romp through the world of nifty-fingered sampleadelica...The Gospel is never less than riotously funky, thrillingly breathless and thoroughly enjoyable." Matt Annis, I-DJ Magazine (July 2005) “I love it. Beatfanatic has done a better record than his first heavyweight LP. This is going down a storm everywhere.” - Adrian Gibson (Jazz Cafe/Mean Fiddler)

Beatfanatic – 'The Gospel According To Beatfanatic' – Soundscape 8/10
"New album of fisco-dazz-junk from the cut-up master on his own Soundscape label. "El Ritmo" is one of several tracks that display a love and respect of firing Latin sounds from the rythyms to the horns, the pianos to the vocals. Like A Sound is a groovy boogie-funk beatfeast with all kind of recognisable snippets woven together into a whole new thing. "African Love" (Album Version) is a swinging rhodes and flute number with some heavy Fela horn licks. "El Pito" is rollin’ Latin percs with snatches of flute, horns and piano. "Boom Bangin" is four to the floor boogie with Hip Hop vocal samples. "Planet Earth" (Beatfanatic Remix) is a big, bumpy party monster with expertly placed stabs, percussion and vocals. Crisp drums then bouncy organ riff introduce "Mighty Love." Nice female backing vocals float over funky clavinet and guitar. "Blow My Mind" featuring 12th Floor revolves around a cool Young Americans style guitar riff, bongos and bass to the fore. No one can match him right now for energy or quality of output. Initial pressings come with a bonus 12” or CD so don’t sleep." - Richard E (Solar Apple Quarktette/Further Out).

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