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City: Luebeck
State: Schleswig-Holstein
Country: DE
July 7, 2009 - Tuesday 
From Yellow Green Red
http://www.yellowgreenred.com/?m=200907

Seems like every month I am reviewing a new Mr. Raoul K 12″, but I’m not complaining! “Sun Of Gao” is on both sides, the a-side “City Mix” being a little more heart-pumping than “Village Mix” on the flip. The sound is still strictly Raoul K: various African percussion smoothly mixed with some minimal house music beats. “Sun Of Gao” sounds more like a community jam sesh than a carefully-manicured electronic track and has some real nice guitar lines that sweep in and out. There’s also some really cool organic bass that sounds like sheet metal popping in and out of place, as is the MO of Mr. Raoul K to work with at least one unrecognizable sound per 12″ to my American ears. I’m pretty sure he works personally with the musicians he is sampling, and it’s that human relationship that really elevates Sun Of Gao and the rest of his fast-growing catalog beyond electronic dance music into sound sculpted by flesh and blood.


From Noise: The San Francisco Guardian's Music Blog
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/music/2009/06/nite_trax_afrominimal_sun_of_g.html

By Marke B
Have to admit I'm more blown away than I thought I wuld be by the new "Sun of Gao" joint by Mr. Raoul K. on local Afro-house wiz DJ Said's recently revived Fatsouls label. It's truly an Afrominimal journey that seems perfectly of the moment. The gently expanding elements never exactly build to a climax (a hallmark of current dance music production) but they flow over you like smiling waves ....
Said will be virtuosically throwing this and other choice cuts from his stable this Friday at Otis. If you missed it, here's what I wrote in my last Super Ego clubs column (with a couple corrections -- hey I was blazin' at the time). This one's not to be missed for everyone who takes an interest in the growing effervescent confluence of traditional and electronic sounds.
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