Jeremy Ellis “Lotus Blooms” b/w “Bomba
Kiss” (Ubiquity 12”)
“the first single takes a rugged broken drum pattern
and splashes slick Rhodes and jagged synths all over the place
before dropping to a bumpy boogie groove and a lovelorn soulful
vocal. "Bombakiss" on the flip works a rolling Afro-Cuban
piano melody over rough, booming MPC beats. Pure class from one
of the Detroit new school on the always excellent”
KEEP ON MAGAZINE
“Awesome soulful vibes....this definitely stays in the CD
case for a good while.”
DAZ-I-KUE (BUGZ IN THE ATTIC)
”his best stuff yet. this is peak time stuff that will
match his first big tune for dancability and feel alike...awsome
stuff, cant wait for the LP”
DOMU
“The Jeremy Ellis shit is butterfunk and latin soul
that makes me smile. Waiting for more of Ayro’s genius.”
J. BOOGIE (OM)
“Feeling this. Big fan of Ayro!”
KEVIN BEADLE
”Bananas!”
MONKONE (WAX POETICS)
”The space funk bebop is alive and kicking.”
MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE
This first Ubiquity single from Jeremy “Ayro”
Ellis features a couple of brand new future funk tracks
from the Detroit keyboard wiz. Take one Detroit based keyboard
genius/golden toned vocalist and send him to Puerto Rico for 3
months, let him lose his computers, lose half his advance, lose
his passport and part of his mind - and this is what happens -
bad-ass Detroit future funk, that you can’t mess with. “Lotus
Blooms” is a bouncy vocal house tune with uplifting Earth
Wind and Fire flavor, the other a cheeky Puerto Rican bomba meets
break beat driven piano jam that had label mate John Beltran jumping
up and down when he first heard it. Jeremy most definitely has
the jazz chops and lets little bursts out between his driving
beats.
Having recently played music festivals in Toronto, playing alongside
Jazzanova in NYC, and performing gigs in Chicago,
LA and SF, Ellis plans on finishing up the album before hitting
the road again in the Winter of 2004/5. He has developed a live-performance
style called “freestyle” whereby his one-man show
takes over a club for the night making track after track live
on a mix of samplers, laptops, keyboards and using his voice to
keep the crowd moving like a DJ might – only he’s
creating the music and mixes from scratch, and you’d believe
this ain’t no boring IDM performance! His debut album (Ayro
“Electrolovefunk” released on Omoa Music)
continues to turn heads worldwide and he has appeared on albums,
remixes and tracks by Jazzanova, Roy Davis Jr, Carl Craig,
John Beltran and many more.
Watch out for a collaboration with Jeremy Ellis, John
Arnold and John Beltran covering the
Fania Allstars on Rewind 4.
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