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General Electrics
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Out of 12 votes - Similar Artists: Money Mark, Beck, Lateef
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Out of 12 votes
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Electronica
Editor's review
A recent inductee into San Francisco's Quannum collective of rhymesayers and beat makers, Berkeley-based keyboardist RV's beatnik melodies are rooted in '60s and '70s nostalgia and complemented by laidback raps by guest stars.
Biography
#1 General Electrics is a free electron
Behind this name hides RV (Herv? Salters), above all keyboard player, specialist of instruments from the 60?s and 70?s: Clavinetz, Hammond, Rhodes. RV marked his style within the Vercoquin band, accompanying M and, on the occasion of numerous invitations, in Shoki Shoki by Femi Kuti, in DJ Mehdi?s Spy Story, or, more recently, within the Qannum Collective. He is to be found on the forthcoming Blackalicious album, contributes his keyboarding skills to Lateef The Truth Speaker?s and Chief Xcel?s project Maroons and their first album Ambush. And he reaches the orbit with Honeycut, a San Francisco-based trio that encompasses ?soul-hop? and various other styles and is gonna come up with an album on Quannum early spring 2005!
#2 General Electrics is boundless
Based in San Francisco, the French-British RV is a nomad. His album has been conceived in Paris, San Francisco and Seattle cellars and has been finalized in Berkeley, his present residence town.
#3 General Electrics is unclassifiable
General Electrics belongs to those bands, which cannot be classified in a specific style. RV draws with the same urgency from the pop music, the hip-hop, the electronic music, the soul and jazz. In this respect, "Juju" by Wayne Shorter fascinates him as much as "Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson, these influences extending from David Bowie to Stevie Wonder. With a very modest data processing equipment, RV mixes retro with electro, destroys and rebuilds, strokes then ill-treats sounds. Alternating instrumental with vocal tunes, RV achieves radical collages with Hip Hop, electronic and soul/funk music. Cliquety Kliqk is the outcome of this permanent mixture between ?vintage? keyboard and electronic treatment. The result is a ?modern? sound carrying with it the respect for the masters... which also is a visual experience, ?Facing That Void? comes along with a fabulous video in tow!
"Facing That Void" is Arno Salter`s first-born when it comes to music videos and also involves the skills of T-Reid Norton (Tim Burton`s "Nightmare Before Christmas"!) and Kamela Portuges ("Being John Malkovich"!).
#4 General Electrics is sociable
General Electrics welcomes in three titles Lateef The Truth Speaker?s rhymes, the virtuoso MC from the Quannum stage (Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Maroons).
