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GENERAL ELEKTRIKS

About Me

General Elektriks is the brainchild of RV Salters. A French national and keen vintage keyboard player, he initiated GE just before moving to San Francisco. Using a computer, his oldschool keys and a SM-57 mike, he started sewing together loops, Funky keyboard licks, ethereal melodies and digital tweaking. GE became a musical journal that followed RV through his move to Seattle, then back down to the Bay Area, Berkeley, where he currently resides. There, he started laying keys down for the Quannum crew. Quannums own Lateef The Truth Speaker and Chief Xcel returned the favor by guesting on GE. Consisting of 12 songs from the journal, Cliquety Kliqk was first released in France by Bleu Electric, then picked up by Compost for Europe and by Quannum for the US.
Aesthetically, GE is a project that refuses to land in a particular bin at the record store. A mix of vintage sounds, hip hop beats, noir riffs, dreamy vocals, cinematic arrangements and digital twinkle, Cliquety Kliqk embraces all of RVs musical addictions. Radically new yet strangely familiar, General Elektriks is like a friend that you meet for the first time but feel like youve known all your life.
Debut album "Cliquety Kliqk"
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Watch the "Facing That Void" video here .

MORE VIDEOS, PHOTOS, MUSIC, and NEWS at:
www.general-elektriks.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/21/2006
Band Website: general-elektriks.com
Band Members:
RV Salters

Influences: SOME OF MY FAVORITE SONGS:

David Bowie ‘Ashes To Ashes,’ Stevie Wonder ‘Jesus Children Of America,’ Gil Scott-Heron ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,’ Billie Holiday ‘Gloomy Sunday,’ The Beatles ‘Here, There & Everywhere,’ Prince ‘Ballad Of Dorothy Parker,’ Public Enemy ‘By The Time I Get To Arizona,’ Iggy Pop ‘The Passenger,’ Fred Wesley ‘Little Boy Black,’ Lee Morgan ‘The Procrastinator,’ Sly Stone ‘Time For Livin’,’ Radiohead ‘Just,’ Tom Ze ‘Augusta,’ John Barry & Nancy Wilson ‘You Only Live Twice,’ David Bowie ‘Letter To Hermione,’ Aretha Franklin ‘I say A Little Prayer For You,’ The Velvet Underground ‘Stephanie Says,’ Curtis Mayfield ‘Blue Monday People,’ Stevie Wonder ‘Ordinary Pain,’ The Beatles ‘I Am The Walrus,’ Arnold Schoenberg ‘Verklärte Nacht– conducted by Pierre Boulez,’ Bob Dylan ‘Visions Of Johanna,’ Charles Mingus ‘Far Wells, Mill Valley,’ Cannibal Ox ‘Iron Galaxy,’ James Brown ‘It’s A New Day,’ Eric B. & Rakim ‘I Know You Got Soul,’ Miles Davis ‘Blue In Green,’ Duke Pearson ‘Sweet Honey Bee,’ Sly Stone ‘If It Were Left Up To Me,’ Bob Marley ‘Real Situation,’ A Tribe Called Quest ‘Steve Biko,’ Graham Central Station ‘Today,’ etc…

Sounds Like: "Like the Beatles in a pub brawl with the Neptunes, excellent!"
Quantic / Tru Thoughts, UK

Record Label: QUANNUM PROJECTS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

’Requiem’ with Mr Lif, free on GE website

Go to http://www.general-elektriks.com/ to download GE's latest track 'Requiem For A Neo-Con,' featuring Mr Lif. For free.
Posted by GENERAL ELEKTRIKS on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:56:00 PST