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Influences
!!! "Love Bug" Starski 20th Century Steel Band A Taste Of Honey A Tribe Called Quest Aaliyah ABC Abstract Truth Ace Add N To (X) Affinity Afrika Bambaataa After The Fire Al B. Sure The Aleems Alexander O'Neal Alisha Amp Fiddler Angela Bofill Annabella Annie Anthony & The Camp Aphex Twin Archie Bell & The Drells Area Code 615 Aretha Franklin The Art Of Noise Arthur Russell Ashford & Simpson Ashra Atlantic Starr AtmOsfear Audio Two Audun Kleive The B-52's Baby Ford Baby Huey Bananarama The Bar-Kays Barry White Basement Jaxx Basic Channel Basscut The Beastie Boys Betty Davis Big Daddy Kane Björk Blaze Bobbi Humphrey Bobby Womack The Bombers Boogie Down Productions Cam'ron Cameo Carl Bean Carl Carlton Carol Lynn Townes Central Line Chaka Khan Cherrelle Chic Chicago Chuck Mangione The Clash Claudja Barry Cold Crush Brothers Commodores The Congoes Crown Heights Affair David Mancuso The Cure D Train The D.O.C. George Clinton Dan Hartman Curtis Hairston Serge Ponsa Das EFX David Byrne David Mancuso David Porter Dazz Band De La Soul DeBarge Deee-Lite Depeche Mode Destiny's Child Devo Dexter Wansel Diana Ross Dillinger And The Upsetters The Disco Four DJ Grand Wizard Theodore DJ Nori Donna McGhee The Doors Double Trouble Doug E. Fresh Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde Earth Wind & Fire Eddie Hazel Eddie Kendricks Eddie Murphy Egyptian Lover Eivind Aarset's Electronique Noire Eminem EPMD Eric B. & Rakim Errol Walker Etta James Eurythmics Fab 5 Freddy Faith Evans The Family Fat Boys Fearless Four First Choice Force M.D.'s Frankie Knuckles Freeez Fresh 3 M.C.'s Front 242 Full Force Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam Funkadelic The Gap Band Gary Bartz Genie Brown George Clinton Gina X Gladys Knight & The Pips Graham Central Station Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Grover Washington Jr. Guy Gwen Guthrie Haircut 100 Hall & Oates Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Harry Thumann Hazell Dean Heatwave Heaven 17 Heavy D & The Boyz Howard Johnson Human League I-Level Ice Cube Ice-T Indeep Isaac Hayes The Isley Brothers
T-La Rock The Jackson 5 James Brown Jay Dee Jay-Z Jazztronik Jeanette Lady Day Jeffrey Osborne Jennifer Lopez Jenny Burton Jephte Guillaume Jermaine Stewart Jim Jones Jimi Tenor Jocelyn Brown Jody Watley Joe Tex John Cougar Mellencamp John Rocca Johnny Cash Johnny Hammond Jonzun Crew Juelz Santana Jungle Brothers Junior Dread Just-Ice K-Solo Kajagoogoo Karyn White Kate Bush Kelis Kelly Price Kool & The Gang Kool G Rap & DJ Polo Kraftwerk Kurtis Blow Kylie Minogue Kym Mazelle Larry Graham Lcd Soundsystem Lee "Scratch" Perry Lee Ritenour Liaisons Dangereuses Lime LL Cool J Loletta Holloway Loose Ends Luther Vandross M.F.S.B. Madonna Magazine 60 Malcolm McLaren Mantronix Mariah Carey Marvin Gaye The Mary Jane Girls Material Mazarati The Meditations Method Man Michael Jackson Mikey Dread Millie Scott Ministry Larry Levan Morris Day My Mine Natalie Cole Negativland Nena New Order The Notorious B.I.G. Ohio Players Ol Dirty Bastard Oran "Juice" Jones Orange Krush Parlet Parliament Pat Benatar Patti Labelle Pet Shop Boys Actually Peter Gabriel Pharoah Sanders Planet Patrol Pleasure The Police Pretty Poison Prince Public Enemy R. Kelly Raydio Rebbie Jackson The Residents Revolting Cocks Rick James The Ritchie Family Robert Plant Rockwell Rod Stewart Romeo Void Rose Royce Rufus Run-D.M.C. Rush Salt-N-Pepa Schoolly-D Seawind Secret Weapon Shakatak Sharon Redd Sheila E. Shuggie Otis Siehdah Garrett Simple Minds Siouxsie & The Banshees Sister Sledge Skinny Puppy Slave Slick Rick Sly & The Family Stone Snoop Dogg Soul II Soul Squarepusher Stanley Clarke The Staple Singers Stargard Steel Pulse Strafe Strikers The Sugar Hill Gang Tony Humphries Sugarcubes Supermax Talking Heads Tears For Fears Teena Marie Terry Callier Thomas Fehlmann The Time Timex Social Club Tina Turner TLC Tito Puente Tom Browne Tom Tom Club The Trammps Treacherous Three Trouble Funk Tweet Twennynine Featuring Lenny White Whodini Universal Robot Band Unlimited Touch The Upsetters Usher UTFO Van Halen Vanity 6 Waitresses Warp 9 Weather Report Wu-Tang Clan Yarbrough & Peoples Yaz Yello
Maurice Fulton's name is one of those
unexpected
recurrences in dance music, I mean still knowing
almost nothing about him he never seemed to merit
mention along with Frankie Knuckles/Bones/Whoever nor
in the Detroit pack of May, Carter, Atkins, and of course the master
Craig or early euro-stirrers like Kirk Degiorgio and others.
But none of that really matters, much like early hip-hop or the
days of disco, house music wasn't created with the intention of
lasting, crates of 12"s siphoned off the press with none of rock's
bravado of "making it" either financially or into history. It was still
somewhat naive.
Fulton went a different route
than many of his contemporaries. His work appeared on
left leaning house label Warp records right alongside
deep house classics
. His music is more complex than Craig's
or Knuckles, breezing through an mp3 can present you
with 4 very different compositions in on track, yet on listen
your only aware of one central conversation holding the
entire thing together. Feel The Same
starts out with a distorted sub-harmony that eventual stutters into
a slap-bass work out builds up into some fine eighties-disco juxtaposed
to movie minimalism using the sub-harmony to hold all this together.
It's better than it sounds when it happens, Maurice has consciously
mixed 3 very different textures and they become counterpoints in
a very odd way, as if he's planned this confusion from the start.
It's arty disco at heart. Caressingly
sincere yet catatonicized by mechna-funk, Fulton is frustrating
because he won't just be one thing. He's not gonna be Autechere
or for that matter Model 500 (think Psychosomatic), but he's gonna
play with their sound, he's gonna distort things so their
no longer pleasant, but he won't give us the satisfaction of
taking it to it's breaking point, of brutalizing sound, of giving
up on music. He avoids catharsis and makes a whipping boy of
virtuosity. He sits a little left of the middle and like a good host
let's all his companions mingle by their own wits. It's a frustrating
exercise, but sometimes the results are more than appear to be.
ALJ
