Marshall Jefferson (born September 19, 1959, Chicago, Illinois) is an American musician, working in house music, in particular, the subgenres of Chicago house and deep house.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Jefferson
JD: I was talking to some guys in a record shop the other day and they were convinced that you are Sleezy D.
MJ: Nah. Sleezy is an actual person. If you ever met him, you’d never forget him. Oh man, he is… sleazy. Everybody who came to town [starts laughing] Sleazy would take them round. Everybody loved Sleazy…
thequietus.com/articles/13646-marshall-jefferson-trax-records-interview
With the
incessant burbling of the Roland TB 303 bass synthesiser underpinning a
heavily treated vocal, this Marshall Jefferson production helped to
define the intense acid sound. An uncannily accurate depiction of a bad
trip, it ushered in a new age of dark side psychedelia.
Jon Savage
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/20/electronicmusic.clubs1
Adonis knew how to program the TB303 very well, but so did many
others that bought the TB 303, but none of them would have intentionally
used the TB303 the way I did. As for the way the bassline turned out,
it was purely by accident; I punched in notes and that was the result.
I'd like to say it was exactly what I wanted, but that wasn't the case.
Only someone that didn't know what they were doing could program that
bass line, examples of Adonis TB303 programming is "My Space" from my
Virgo EP and "No Way Back" by Adonis, both very legible and not at all
like the disorganized mess I did.
I've Lost Control was a hit in the Music Box at least 6 months
before I even met Adonis. I did a conference call with Adonis and Sleezy
last week and we both tried to explain this to Adonis, but he was
staying with his story. Whether he actually believed it, your guess is
as good as mine.
Marshall Jefferson
http://www.discogs.com/Sleezy-D-Ive-Lost-Control/release/2237
Called "tracky" or "trackhead" by cognoscenti, this mechanistic side of
house began with the mid-'80s jack tracks (palsied vamps,
stutter-afflicted vocal riffs, mind-evacuating "jack your body" chants),
then mutated into acid house in 1987. Acid contained its own microgenre
of vocal-based tracks, a world away from the melisma-drenched
fabulosity of Ultra Nate and Robert Owens. On the flipside of Phuture's
"Acid Tracks," the very first house tune to deploy the fractal wibbles
of the Roland 303 bass-synthesizer, the astonishing "Your Only Friend"
personified cocaine as a robot-voiced tyrant: "I'll make you lie for me,
I'll make you die for me." Other classics of this ilk include Adonis's
"No Way Back," Bam Bam's "Where's Your Child?" and Sleazy D's "I've Lost
Control," all themed around disorientation, mindwreck, abduction, and
sexual dread.
Simon Reynolds
http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/green-velvet-hardcore-jollies-village.html
Friday 3 January 2014
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