Bentley Rhythm Ace (album)

Bentley Rhythm Ace
Studio album by Bentley Rhythm Ace
Released 12 May 1997 (1997-05-12)
Genre Electronic
Length 67:10
Label Skint
Parlophone
Bentley Rhythm Ace chronology
Bentley Rhythm Ace
(1997)		 For Your Ears Only
(2000)For Your Ears Only2000
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Almost Cool7/10[2]
Pitchfork Media8.4/10[3]
Robert Christgau[4]

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

The name of the band derives from one of the first automatic drum machines, produced in the late 1970s.

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. This song was also used as the soundtrack on several of the 100 Greatest… shows on Channel 4.

Most of the album epitomises the big beat sound coming out of Brighton around that time, with heavy beats and samples to create eccentric, but ultimately, dance-able electronic music. The album was released by Skint Records, who also released Fatboy Slim's earlier work. Other than big beat, the album also explores drum and bass and trip hop 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 band's pilfering of samples from various old vinyl records that they discovered and picked up at car-boot sales.

In August 2016 Richard March provided a track-by-track insight into some of the samples, sounds, instruments and musicians used on the album.[5]

Track listing

  1. "Let There Be Flutes" – 7:47
  2. "Midlander (There Can Only Be 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. "Bentleys 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 Roadshow" – 7:18

Release history

Region Release date Label Format Catalogue
UK 12 May 1997[6] Skint CD BRASSIC 5CD
UK 12 May 1997[7] Skint 2×LP BRASSIC 5LP
UK 8 September 1997[8] Parlophone CD CDPCS 7391
UK 8 September 1997[9] Parlophone 2×LP PCS 7391
UK 8 September 1997[10] Parlophone TC TCPCS 7391

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ http://www.almostcool.org/mr/129/
  3. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  4. ↑ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Bentley+Rhythm+Ace
  5. ↑ "Classic album: Richard March on Bentley Rhythm Ace's eponymous debut". MusicRadar. 24 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Bentley Rhythm Ace by BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE on CD at Juno Records". Juno Records. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
  7. ↑ "Bentley Rhythm Ace by BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE on 2xLP at Juno Records". Juno Records. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
  8. ↑ "Bentley Rhythm Ace by BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE on CD at Juno Records". Juno Records. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
  9. ↑ "Bentley Rhythm Ace by BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE on 2xLP at Juno Records". Juno Records. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
  10. ↑ "Bentley Rhythm Ace by BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE on TC at Juno Records". Juno Records. Retrieved 8 May 2009.


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