An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Gatto Fritto.
Given our name, it’s no secret that we gorge on electronic sound, be it discomforting or transcendent. Guttural or sublime. We’re forever wary of confirmation bias but this year does seem to have seen wave upon wave of synth based music. Not just music that features a synth but music that’s built around the synth, great…
20jazzfunkgreats and Gatto Fritto go waaaaay back, as in 2008, when we first featured him via the triumphant psychedelic explosion that was Bursting the Bubble, one unimpeachable hit that always accompanies your trusty jazzfunk banditos in their disco excursions (it’s utterly unreal that there are still copies going at Juno, seriously, sort it out least…
As some of you may know, Beachy Head is a famous suicide spot in the Sussex coast not far away from Brighton. It is the place depicted in the front cover of Throbbing Gristle’s 20jazzfunkgreats, and soundtracked in a most foreboding manner in the selfsame record. It also seems to be a place that Gatto…
(Image by Tommy Boy) Hex is the title track in a Gatto Fritto 12 released last year. I can’t believe more people have picked up on it, there are even some left in Juno. So, I’d advise all of you principled kids out there who like to put your money where your mouth is to…
Where up and coming master of the cosmic oscillator Gatto Fritto creates, in his remix of Subway’s Simplex, a warm epic to awaken to as twin stars dawn over a Terran colony in a galaxy far away, reflecting refulgent on the shiny surfaces of a crystal architecture built by people wiser than us. Many dudes…
Saturday night and I step on the accelerator of my Porsche Carrera gathering such speed the Morse code of street lights on the sides of the road transform into snakes of neon, or ley-lines re-erupting from under the concrete to merge into a multicoloured band the breath of Chinese dragon or a tunnel through hyperspace…