|
For the blues pianist, see Curtis Jones (pianist). Curtis Alan Jones is an electronica and house music singer, songwriter and producer born April 26, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. His style of house music has been compared and inspired by the likes of Kraftwerk, Prince, Gary Numan, and Nitzer Ebb. Audio samples: Watching you (1980) ( file info) — Watching You from the album Stone Jam, which hit the Pop charts at the 78th place and 6th on Black singles chart, and is a good example for Ohio funk. ...
If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ...
For other uses, see Chicago (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the U.S. State. ...
For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. ...
A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. ...
Synth redirects here. ...
A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...
A Yamaha SHS-10 keytar Mute Math frontman Paul Meany playing his Korg RK-100 A keytar is a keyboard or synthesizer worn around the neck and shoulders, similar to a guitar. ...
In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ...
In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ...
Warner Bros. ...
Electronica refers to a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; but unlike electronic dance music, is not specifically focused on the dance floor. ...
House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
Kraftwerk (pronounced , German for power plant or power station) is an influential electronic-music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...
For the video game programmer Garry Newman, see Garrys Mod. ...
Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer—the band themselves pronounce it either way) is a music group formed in 1982 by Essex schoolfriends Douglas McCarthy (vocals, synthesizer), Vaughan (Bon) Harris on synthesizers and drums, and David Gooday. ...
Biography
Early years Before becoming a professional musician, Jones studied chemical engineering at the University of Illinois. In 1991, he left a Master's program at UC-Berkeley to move back to Chicago, releasing his first song ("Coffee Pot" on ClubHouse Records) the same year.[1] Up until this point, music had been a hobby fueled by cobbling together tracks on his "sixty-buck keyboard, a cheap four-track and a cheap drum machine"[citation needed] set-up while still an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. This DIY method of production was never taken seriously, and when childhood plans to become a doctor were shelved, Jones was firmly committed to a career as a chemical engineer. His father was an occasional DJ and eventually became a budding musician. As time went on, Jones discovered what was his innate love and understanding for house music, a sound that had grown throughout the mid-1980s out of Chicago's deep-rooted disco scene. As a child he was into sci-fi movies and time-travel TV shows like Doctor Who and playing video games like Tetris and Galaga, and would spend hours pondering over the possibilities that this would open up. He played the saxophone at school and had a talent for trying to play with a keyboard but remained largely un-interested in what he saw as his father's passion. It was this cut-up and tacky production style of the early house sound that Jones absorbed and translated[citation needed] into the Underground Goodies EP, his first release as Cajmere (that's CAJ as in Curtis A. Jones[2]) put out in 1991 on his own recently started Cajual label.[1] A year later he had his first massive hit as Cajmere with the brilliant house tune "Coffee Pot (It's Time for the Perculator)," wich was also released on Cajual. He then teamed up with Chicago-based vocalist Dajae for "Brighter Days," which entered #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play,[1] a high-impact and mellower house tune that was released on Emotive Records. Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ...
Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ...
This article is about the television series. ...
Tetris (Russian: ) is a falling-blocks puzzle video game, released on a large spectrum of platforms. ...
Galaga is a fixed shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1981 (and also licensed to Midway). ...
Dajae is the stage name of Karen Gordon, a female R&B and dance music singer born in Chicago, Illinois. ...
Billboards Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart is a weekly national survey of what songs are most popular in U.S. dance clubs. ...
Green Velvet transformation Interested in making something totally different from his Cajmere moniker, Curtis created Relief as an offshoot to his Cajual records in 1993. The first Relief release was also his first Green Velvet production, 1993's "Velvet Tracks,"[1] which came from a name given to him by a girlfriend's dad, emerged as the flamboyant, neon-haired electro punk, although in interviews he denied being linked to the Punk lifestyle and fashion, as he was more inspired by the likes of David Bowie and Sly And The Family Stone,[3] he created excellent mid-1990s hits such as "Preacher Man," on which a Moral Majority-type of preacher spoke(The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin - father of Aretha and ally of Martin Luther King) David Bowie (pronounced ) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. ...
Sly & the Family Stone were an American rock band from San Francisco, California. ...
This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
- [citation needed] "Answering Machine," a darkly funny house track consisting of taped messages from an answering machine, including a bad news message from a girlfriend and a noise complaint message from his landlord—all made with Jones’s voice; and "Flash," which was a #1 US dance hit in 1995 and was included on many DJ-mixed compilation albums. After DJing under both of his now infamous monikers, he released his first album, Constant Chaos, with Beligian Music label Music Man in 1999,[1] which showed Green Velvet's style of house progress into styles similar to Prince and Kraftwerk, his spoken-word monologues also took a bizarre turn. In Abduction he spoke about little green men turning up while washing dishes.
For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...
Constant Chaos is the debut album by electronic musician Green Velvet. ...
For other uses, see Prince (disambiguation). ...
Kraftwerk (pronounced , German for power plant or power station) is an influential electronic-music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
The Whatever era By the time Constant Chaos was released, Jones had temporarily halted activity on his labels. Still DJing as Cajmere he'd narrowed the Green Velvet persona down to live performances only, taking time out to re-group and work out what to do next. During 2000, Jones was briefly signed to Warner Bros. Records' short-lived F-111 imprint, where he released his second album, the self-titled Green Velvet, which contained the double-A-sided single “Flash” b/w “Answering Machine.” During this time he gave Velvet a new hairstyle—from spiked, green foam nodules to yellow mohawk. Next, in 2001, he unleashed his third album, the dark Whatever, which was a step away from his Kraftwerk-inspired sound (although Sleepwalking had a similar style) to a darker, more political Punk-esque style. On the album he tackled such issues as racism (highlighted on the song When?), drug use (highlighted on Genedefekt and La La Land), alienation (highlighted on Sleepwalking), and being told what to wear and do by the system (highlighted on the heavily punk-inspired track Gat). The more punk-oriented songs on the album apparently came from hours spent listening to industrial bands such as Nitzer Ebb and Liaisons Dangerous, and lots of "underground American industrial stuff." He released the single La La Land in 2001, originally designed as a wake-up call for clubbers to the dangers of pill-taking it became one of his most popular tunes. This was followed by Genedefekt. His live act had now became more like a rock band also, with the Curtis playing a keytar, and two other musicians (aptly named Nazuk and Spaceboy) backing him, playing heavily distorted synths. Initially Jones, as both Cajmere and Green Velvet, was receiving more attention in Europe than he did in the USA, playing a Radio One live session on the Jo Whiley show and playing a host of festivals. Warner Bros. ...
Whatever may refer to an album by Aimee Mann: Whatever (album) Whatever is second, more sophomore album by Green Velvet. ...
Kraftwerk (pronounced , German for power plant or power station) is an influential electronic-music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer—the band themselves pronounce it either way) is a music group formed in 1982 by Essex schoolfriends Douglas McCarthy (vocals, synthesizer), Vaughan (Bon) Harris on synthesizers and drums, and David Gooday. ...
A Yamaha SHS-10 keytar Mute Math frontman Paul Meany playing his Korg RK-100 A keytar is a keyboard or synthesizer worn around the neck and shoulders, similar to a guitar. ...
BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ...
Recent Projects After appearing under a host of different names for his various remixing and side projects, Green Velvet released his fourth album, Walk In Love, in 2005. This album had a more house music-oriented style to it, but the odd Prince- and Punk-sounding tracks still remained, as Curtis actually got a live guitarist to play on “Come Back” and the closing track Pin-Up Girl had a similarity to New York-based Electroclash group Fischerspooner. After Walk In Love, Green Velvet produced and remixed releases for fellow Relief Records artists and himself, and played a host of DJ session live shows in 2006. Walk In Love is the latest album by Green Velvet. ...
House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. ...
Fischerspooner is an electroclash duo and performance troupe formed in 1998 in New York. ...
In a shocking turn, after staying quiet in the music scene, Green Velvet revealed in 2006 he had become a born-again Christian after a serious overdose of a mixture of Magic Mushrooms, Marijuana, and (allegedly) GHB,[4] and promised to turn his life around after this incident. His latest release, the single “Shake and Pop,” is a departure from the recent darker electronica style, as he claims he has found a brighter future since converting. In 2007, he released the online-only track “Love Peace, Not War,” a short ditty in response to the United States’ war in Iraq. Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ...
Magic mushrooms are also known as sacred mushrooms, psychedelic mushrooms, and, more generally, hallucinogenic mushrooms. ...
A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ...
gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, 4-hydroxybutanoic acid, or GHB, is a naturally-occurring substance found in the central nervous system, wine, beef, small citrus fruits, and almost all animals in small amounts. ...
Discography
Compilations The Nineties (1993 A.D. Through 1999 A.D) is a compilation album by House musician Green Velvet. ...
Album Releases as Green Velvet Constant Chaos is the debut album by electronic musician Green Velvet. ...
Whatever may refer to an album by Aimee Mann: Whatever (album) Whatever is second, more sophomore album by Green Velvet. ...
As Cajmere - The Many Shades of Cajual
- Techno Funk
- House Music All Night Long
Trivia | | This section needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2008) | - Curtis is also known as Geo Vogt, Half Pint, Curan Stone and Gino Vittori.
- Curtis has provided remixes for such diverse acts such as Madonna, Orgy and Basement Jaxx.
- In the song Teachers by French Duo Daft Punk, Green Velvet is mentioned among many other House musicians and DJs
This article is about the American entertainer. ...
For other uses, see orgy (disambiguation). ...
Basement Jaxx is a critically acclaimed UK house music duo, comprising Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, that rose to popularity in the late 1990s. ...
References: - ^ a b c d e Bidder, Sean (June 1999). House: the Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides Ltd, 44-46.
- ^ DJ Booking biography Accessed 2008-03-18
- ^ [1] A recent interview with Curtis, last accessed 28-03-06
- ^ [2], A recent interview with Curtis, last accessed 28-03-06
External links - Green Velvet official Web site
- Official MySpace page
- RBMA Radio On Demand - Fireside Chat - New School/Old School feat. Cajmere - Chez Damier (Presciption, Chicago)
See also This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by Billboard Magazine’s Hot Dance Club Play chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in U.S. dance clubs. ...
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazines Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. ...
|
Feeds |
Contact