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Chris Joss
French multi-instrumentalist and music producer extraordinaire Chris Joss is back again with a new album Monomaniacs Volume 1. Like a long lost vintage LP plucked from a time capsule buried sometime in the 1970’s this album brings Joss back to a distinctly traditional and dusty funk groove. Recalling the iconic blaxploitation and grindhouse film soundtracks of that era, Monomaniacs is filled with ricocheting breakbeats, whirlwinds of wah-wah, rubber-band basslines, cosmic organs, and even a few shredding rock guitars to put some hair on your chest. Can Volume 2 be far behind? Release date: January 12, 2010.
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Read Chris's latest interview with GForce!
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TOUR DATES
Chris Joss has no current tour dates.
RELEASES
Chris Joss
Monomaniacs Volume 1
ESL 160
Chris Joss
Sticks
ESL 144
Chris Joss
I Want Freedom
ESL133
Chris Joss
Teraphonic Overdubs
ESL125
Chris Joss
A Part In That Show
ESL092
Chris Joss
Superman
ESL106
Chris Joss
Discotheque Dancing
ESL080
Chris Joss
You've Been Spiked
ESL077
RELEASE PREVIEW PLAYER
| 1. | Magic Tubes | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 2. | I Want Freedom | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 3. | Count The Daisies | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 4. | Get With It | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 5. | Jungle Dolls | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 6. | Fatality Strikes | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 7. | Atomic Tape | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 8. | Slack The Slammer | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 9. | Summer Springs | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 10. | Luna Rides Back | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 11. | A Room With a VU Meter | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 12. | Surgelator Action | » Listen | » Buy Song |
| 13. | Granted | » Listen | » Buy Song |
ALBUM DETAILS
Amidst a whirlwind of vintage funk and psychedelic retro-futurisms, international producer/instrumentalist extraordinaire Chris Joss returns to ESL Music for a second round with Teraphonic Overdubs, a brand new collection of technicolored grooves! This time Chris Joss adds some new surprises to his trademark blaxploitation soundscapes, painting the musical canvas with broad strokes of lush, multi-layered instrumentation. String arrangements, woodblock and cowbell rhythms, near eastern flutes and sitars, and even a marimba and harpsichord play alongside classic wah-wah guitars, elastic bass-lines, and dusty organ riffs for a kaleidoscopic sonic odyssey not to be missed!
"Exceptionally well crafted. Interesting and inventive" - DMC Update, January 2008
"This album will put the biggest, stupidest smile on your face." -Bandidge, Feb 2008
"Insatiably Funky" - Beat Surrender, Jan 2008
"Think John Barry meets Air or Quincy Jones experiments with Beck...this album is a wet dream for lovers of a soundtrack or sixties and seventies dance music" - SubbaCulture, Feb 2008
"Those who think French dance music stops with Daft Punk and Justice have a sweeter and mellower alternative with Joss" - Metromix Chicago Feb 2008
"A 13 track masterpiece that crosses genres and time" Vainzine Feb 2008
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