28 Gun Bad Boy

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28 Gun Bad Boy
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Studio album by
Released1993
StudioMachine Room Studio (Manchester, England)
Genre
Length62:56
Label Juice Box
Producer Gerald Simpson
A Guy Called Gerald chronology
Automannik
(1990)
28 Gun Bad Boy
(1993)
Black Secret Technology
(1995)
Singles from 28 Gun Bad Boy
  1. "Forever Changing"
    Released: 1992
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28 Gun Bad Boy is the third album by house music and drum and bass pioneer A Guy Called Gerald, released in 1993 through his own Juice Box Records imprint. The album is often credited as one of the first full-length drum and bass albums, [3] and its influence has been noted to have "brought the jungle movement out of the rave era." [4] The track "28 Gun Bad Boy" is seen as one of the first examples of drum and bass/oldschool jungle music. [5]

Contents

Production

The album was produced at the Machine Room Studio, a recording studio in the city centre of Manchester. Electronic equipment used for the album's production include two Akai S950 samplers, an Akai MPC60 sequencer, Soundtracs Quartz 32-channel in-line mixing desk, Atari tape machine, Lexicon reverb, Lexicon delay, two Yamaha SBX90s, microphones, and an Atari ST running Cubase. "Disneyband" also used the sounds of a Roland JD-800 digital synthesizer. [4] According to Simpson, the album's sound was the result of him attempting to progress from his early style as well as the Rave scene of the early 1990s. [5]

The central concept behind the album was to be produced similar to that of a mixtape, which has been inspired by live DJ sets according to Simpson. [4] The album was released through Juice Box Records, an independent label ran by Simpson as a result of his strained relationship with Sony Music, [4] more specifically, their refusal to release Simpson's High Life, Low Profile album which was recorded in 1991 as the follow-up to Automanikk. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Mix" (Cops/Anything/28 Gun Bad Boy/Sunshine/Like a Drug/Ses Makes You Wise/Free Africa/King of the Jungle)17:46
2."Money Honey"4:55
3."Got a Feeling"4:48
4."Universe 2000"5:23
5."The Track"5:09
6."Forever Changing"5:40
7."28 Gun Bad Boy"3:38
8."The Freak Inside"5:19
9."Disneyband"5:02
10."Wonderful World"5:16

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