Bentley Rhythm Ace (album)

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Bentley Rhythm Ace
Studio album by Bentley Rhythm Ace
Released	1997
Genre	Electronic

Bentley Rhythm Ace, released in 1997, was the debut album of Bentley Rhythm Ace, an electronic music collective from Birmingham, England.

The album is best known for the single "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out" which featured in a few TV adverts at the time and was also praised in multiple music magazines such as NME upon its release.

Most of the album epitomises the 'Big Beat' sound coming out of Brighton around that time, with heavy use of unusual beats and samples to create eccentric, but ultimately, dance-able electronic music. The connection with Big Beat doesn't end there as they also released the album under Skint records, who also released Fatboy Slim's earlier work. Other than Big Beat the album also explores Drum n Bass and Downtempo with similar eccentric stylings.

The word 'carbootechnodisco' was coined (but never used by anyone else apart from them) for this album and refers to the bands pilfering of samples from various old vinyls that they discovered and picked up at car-boot sales.

[edit] Track listing

1. Let There Be Flutes - 7:47
2. Midlander (There Can Be Only One) - 6:38
3. Why Is A Frog Too... - 5:23
4. Mind That Gap - 6:09
5. Run On The Spot - 5:25
6. Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out - 4:55
7. Ragtopskodacarchase - 8:22
8. Whoosh - 5:50
9. Who Put The Bom In The Bom Bom Diddleye Bom - 3:59
10. Spacehopper - 5:23
11. "Return Of The Hardcore Jumble Carbootechnodisco Roadsho - 7:18