Reviews
Of BackRoomSounds Productions
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P-Funkateers
- Final Fling (LAY) Oct
05
Nasty` nasty funk outing from the P-Funkateers
on Look At You. This three-tracker recalls the classic sound of
Parliament` Bootsy Collins and Curtis Mayfield with a dope house
edge. The A-side is a slamming disco-driven vocal funk bomb withplenty
of wah wah guitars` strings and chunky drums doing major damage
on the floor. On the B-side BackRoomSounds turns it out with two
slamming mixes` a filtered` housey main mix and a stripped down
percussive dub that'll make for some great mixing moments. Nice
funk/soul vibe that'll appeal to fans of the current mega-hit
'Precious Love.'
www.nrgmusic.com
HD2000 - Never Forget
March 05
Hardrive 2000 / Never Forget (BackRoomSounds Remix) (CDR/UK) Another
club classic get its deserved 2005 update. This time the still
lovely Hardrive 2000 project meets Sam from BackRoomSounds and
gets a smooth and quite danceable reconstruction to find itself
again on the international dancefloors and in the CD players of
the leading tastemakers everywhere.
www.deepvibes.de
Cielo Sumario (Sounds Like Soul)
July 04
Backroomsounds feat. Gisela / Cielo Sumario (SoundsLikeSoul/UK)
If you’re just about to think “Oh no, not another LATINHOUSE
tune”, you might really think twice before judging this track
fast. The more often I listen to it, the hotter it seems to get.
Sam Gibbon’s latest musical adventure is with its spoken
Spanish lyrics filled with an uplifting and positive message and
a hypnotizing bass line is a pure winner on the dance floors and
became very quickly one of my top tunes for this summer!
www.deepvibes.de
Northern Soul - (Device)
Jan 04
Device is the relatively new offshoot of Soulfuric and here they
give us another wicked production from BackroomSounds. Sam Gibbons
delivers two mixes -the main mix is guitar filled jazzy house
cut with retro style keys that will please Maw/ Restless Soul
fans. While the dub mix is more simple, where the keys have been
looped making into a soulfuric style cut that causes dancefloor
mayhem. Without a doubt the best Device release to date.
www.soundslikesoul.com
Northen
Soul (deVICE)
"deVICE kick of the new year with an EP showcasing the talents
of both Backroom Sounds and Primo. Both these offerings are more
akin to their parent label, Soulfuric, than the releases that
have come before them. “Northern Soul” from backroom
Sounds is a gentle but funky number infused with live bass, guitar
licks, and rhodes a plenty. Primo delivers “Drop The Funk”
which does exactly what it says on the tin. The ingredients are
not dissimilar to the A- Side but the flavour is completely different
possibly as a result of the inclusion of horns and a really cool
piano. Both tracks appear in Main and Dub versions leaving you
spoiled for choice on both counts. If this is anything to go by,
you’re going to hear a lot more from both of these artists."
www.JJazzproject.com
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P-Funkateers
- Final Fling (LAY) Oct
05
Essential tune. P-Funketeers / Final Fling (LookAtYou/US)
Ok I admit, that every time, when I think that discohouse is finally
done and I'm beyond being bored with it, something strange happens.
Something like the release of 'Final Fling'. This one sets quite
some retro disco energy free, but with a nasty coolness rarely heard
before. The original mix from Nick Moss aka Groove Assasin is the
one that already set Miami's WMC this year under pressure and it's
the perfect peaktime tool to catch the crowd. If you want it even
a touch trippier, check out the exciting BackRoomSounds mixes with
their MURDER bassline. Slamming package and my favorite release
on LAY this year so far!
www.deepvibes.de
P-Funkateers - Final Fling (LAY)
Oct
05
Reviewed by Dean Serafini
This
collaboration between Nick Moss, (Groove Assassin) and Sam Gibbons,
(Backroom Sounds) has a raw seventies feel to it that carries you
off on a rather funky little journey lasting around eight minutes.
Think bass, strings and retro vocals and you’ll begin to get
the idea. There are three mixes included all of which will do a
handy job on most dance-floors. It’s not the easiest of tracks
to describe so I’ll keep it simple: you’ll be needing
this…
jjazzproject
Northern Soul (deVICE)
Jan 04
This project is under the watchful and experiences
eye of the Soulfuric people. All the stranger then that a US based
label under the Soulfuric umbrella should release a track called
'Northern Soul'. Okay the producer BackRoomSounds is British, but
its still interesting to see the long and historical tentacles of
northern soul reaching across the pond to a US label. I can only
assume that the producer of this track is a true northern fan, because
he certainly knows what a soulful instrumental should sound like.
Jazzy and vibrant to the end, combined with a bpm that will need
the nimblest of feet to deal with the testing but will-funky pace.
Primo's (Jim Sykes) 'Drop The Funk' keeps the jazz house flag flying
high and his work breezes along at an equally devastating rate of
beats. Muted horn, energetic guitar loops and jazzy keys are sprinkles
over the pumping and slick production that's as ripe as any Tappert/Pomeroy
production." Yogi Haughton
Northern
Soul (deVICE) Feb
04
In what could be the start of quite a long running
series, Soulfuric offshoot Device introduce two new (-ish) UK producers
on one EP, hence the title Nu-Breed! The first track, Northern Soul
comes from Manchester's
Sam Gibbons (better known as BackRoomSounds) and with its deep rhodes
and guitar licks contains all the right elements to get you grooving.
The second track from another Northern producer Primo contains some
more
jazz-funk overtones and whilst probably not as lively as the first
cut, it still makes a welcome addition to the overall package. (Curtis
Zack) 3/5
Northern Soul (deVICE) Feb
04
"This label is fast gaining a reputation for quality house.
A bit more chilled out than Axwell's 'Wait A Minute'. Primo serves
up 'Drop Da Funk', which is a piano-laden late night jazz house
instrumental. 'Northern Soul' from BackRoomSounds is more of the
same, except you could move it into a peak-time set. M7/M8"
Kris Keegan |
Furous
Funk: (18-11-03)
A hidden gem of a producer, Sam Gibbons aka Backroomsounds has come
up with a belter! Furious Funk is indeed funky and soulful, disco
even if you must, with an amazing sax, lush keys and a bassline
that makes you wanna shake your groove thang. Couple that with the
female vocal "music, life and soul" and before you know
it your ass will be a shakin. The a side has a remix by Graham of
the Audiowhores with a brs afro soul mix on the b side, which is
more percussive led but loses none of the funk. Hats off to some
more badass UK produced house, let's hear it for the boy(s)!
Furious Funk:(28-10-03)
This song is really one that combines all different
styles. It's a mixture of Funk, Jazz, Soul and Latin.
For the latin house lovers The BRS Afro Soul Mix will do it for
you. The guitar rifs are funky with slightly a soca feeling. Adding
the Sax that gives the song an uplifting feel which sets it out
to be one of the big TUNES this fall.
For the more soulfull house lovers Word Of Mouth Mix remixed by
Audiowhoreshas quite the same elements without the latin feel but
will also stirr the
crowd. Highly recommended.
www.djdeniboi.nl
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Furious
Funk: (21-10-03)
I guess the title says it all of the track and
the always funky Word Of Mouth once again tear up the groove in
fine style. This provides a lesson in jazzy Rhodes chords with a
full-blown Sax driving the energy levels skyward. The BRS ‘Afro
soul Mix’ then gets rough with tribal beats and
pounding basslines. Tasty.
Greg Fenton
Soularis (Guidance Recordings)
Semi-Precious Records
Update music reviewer...
Furious
Funk:
I don't know, when or where this bomb will be released - but whenever
it will be around, don't dare to miss it! TUNE alert. Hottest excitement
on the dancefloor is promised! Sam Gibbons is the man behind this
track and if you listened to his mixshow on DeepVibes last month,
you know what to expect. Pure funk - it may be furious - but that's
what we need to shake our bodies: true furious freaking rocking
funk!
www.deepvibes.de
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Kay
Gee: (14-05-02)
CITYSOUNDS EXCLUSIVE AND ITS A MUST PURCHASE
A fresh hoy, new 12" from BackRoomRounds MR SAM GIBBONS, this
track is best described as along the same lines as 'The Audiowhores'
Production but trust this is rather tasty sampling the classic kay-gee
70"s classic groove. A real puchy main room slab of chunky
well produced house/music we like this it will fly! |
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