Chelonis R Jones

e.g. quite a few people here (who are more ambivalent w/r/t Poker Flat than I am) seem to rate label-owner Steve Bug's recent Bugnology very highly, but I rarely listen to it...

Chelonis is great.

bugnology is too perfect!

that is one of my favourite cds i think. even though i have never seen it on cd, if you see what i mean.

http://www.s-e-n.ws/cms/upload/images/pokerflat/news/pokerflat_news_205_pfrcd15_70.gif

sorry try this, and you will see what that is

I see what people mean about 'availability' re: this label. Mind you it is "limited edition".

i met chelonis in berlin. (i interviewed him for the german newspaper die tageszeitung...no clue if it's come out yet.) he's a really nice guy...we totally bonded. also: he's a huge smiths fan!

now that pfork has claimed all these blogger dudes for "this week in...", could i make a motion for tim finney to make a "this week in tim finney's electro-house bobbins" column? I, for one, would certainly pay tim in gifts, ala experimental videos/mixes and other doohickeys for such a column. All in favor, beg "please please please"...

me first... "please please please"

:(((((((((

Hint, hint, I want them up. But, if somebody else wants to do them for me.

also, this is one of the best albums i heard this year.

ONLYILISTENTOMYINNERVOICESONEDAYTHEY'REGOINGTOKILLMEALLTHOSEVOICESTHEYCOULDLASTWHENI'MAWAYTHOSEVOICESVOICESVOICESVOICESVOICES

dammit i was coming here to post the spelled out stuff and jaxon beat me to it by oh 3 months.

i was driving around with a friend last week with "middle finger music" playing and he complained (with this really bitchy tone of voice) that it was very "electroclash". so i mumbled something about prince and turned it up. what i should have said was something along the lines of how DG is post-electroclash and wipes the floor with nearly all of it.

http://www.dnm.se/default.asp?page=albumDet&aID=19&id=53

It's absolutely gorgeous, soft-hearted, weepy Chelonis.

Just a heads up for you Emusic subscribers, it available there (no promo).

I sat on the Huntemann feat. Chelonis single "Terminate the Fire" (on Dance Electric) for a while because I didn't like the sung choruses on the "A" side and felt the instro on the "B" to be missing the good vocal bits and noticeably so. Maybe it's too late, dancefloor tastes are so fickle, but I just re-edited the two sides together to get my ideal mix of vocals. Get it here if you're interested (320k).

Hell remix of DEEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS still kills the old way

4GOTTENFLOOR - The Forgotten Floor
Posted on Monday, October 13th, 2008 at 4:16 pm to News

4GOTTENFLOOR is the new Chelonis R. Jones project. His velvety voice, laying somewhere in between soul and rock, has seen him compared by the international press to the likes of Prince and Lenny Kravitz and has seen him grace releases on Get Physical including his debut album ‘Dislocated Genius’ (2005) and guest on releases from Royksopp, Tocadisco, Marc Romboy, Booka Shade, Huntemann and Franz & Shape amongst many others. Neverlethess, until now, he has remained pretty much camera shy, yet Chelonis R. Jones is considered by many inside the industry to be the “next big thing“ of electro pop thanks to his natural talent, a volcanic creativity, a glamorous, intriguing and unconventional personality and that emotional voice.

On 4Gotten Floor he teams up with Italian production maestro and DJ Alex Dandi* (also known for his productions on Irma Records as Pinktronix) to bring us a new vision of electro-soul. Dandi has spun in hundreds of clubs in Italy throughout the 90s, emerging with his distinctive eclectic style and since 2003 he has released a countless number of 12”s and the album “Right On Delay” (Irma Records).

4GOTTEN FLOOR is the amalgamation of two different studio forces uniting as one on the floor…an abandoned dance-floor. The psychiatric ward of a Miami jail (ninth floor). A different debut album from everything one can hear on the radio or in clubs today. A different way to make pop, electronic music, soul, R’n’B and disco.

On ‘4Gotten Floor’ soul and R’n’B are freed from any stereotyped formulas and meet minimal and fragile electronica, captivating and sophisticated, outlining catchy melodies and enthralling grooves, even when taking on new experimental roads of sounds. At the end of the minimal tunnel, a glimmer of hope, a light, an emancipating renaissance, a cathartic gospel. The 4Gotten Floor.

*additional percussion played by Swayzak’s Francesco Brini.

this 4gotten floor thing is FUCKING GOOD

"a new vision of electro-soul"

tynan??

his tracks on the marc romboy record from this year are really good

compared by the international press to the likes of . . . Lenny Kravitz

Thanks for ruining Chelonis R. Jones for me.

Otherwise I think I might buy the deer in the headlights remix 12" this weekend, maybe.

it is a must.

'dislocated genius' easily still the best thing on GPM, so i hope the new thing is really good. lol @ electrosoul, tho.

that Tennis Hero song "Alone" is SOOOOO good, more like that would be awesome

Ha ha, Chelonis bit my head off when I made a reference to Green Velvet in an interview, I wonder how he would have responded to Lenny Kravitz.

New album sounds pretty good...