JONO

Artist description
One man set up using keyboards; sampling; and computer software to create the sounds.Originally starting listening and dancing to techno at the Hacienda in manchester before it closed down. My Music incorporates a few different styles, mostly techno and trance based. All is done for fun, unless some music label does me the favour of dropping me a mail.Please enjoy my music

Press reviews
Yes, I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for chanting; the more waily, the more choral, the more constipated the better. So in that respect at least this is a made-for-Mike-Bell track. It starts with a sudden volume rush of human voice, one of the aforementioned chanty wails, accompanied by a simple ethnic drum. It is soon joined by a melody and more intense beat, along with some wail variation, adding the much vaunted constipated undertone to the sound. At 1:50 we have a lowering, then in comes a faster beat; this is heading towards dance floor territory, along with a speeding up of other elements in the music. At 3:50, after another lowering, off it goes again, and now we’re really into the meat of the track. The beat races along, the basic bassline and tune making this a cool dance number, and the wails and chants (well, it’s not really a chant, but it is a chanting sort of wail…) give it that ethnic trance edge that manages to set it apart from many other similar efforts. Whilst I hesitate to use the term with regards to this style of music, I actually found this track for the most part rather funky; not perhaps in a standard sense, but more in essence, maybe others will know what I mean…. At seven and a half minutes I was sort of expecting this song to get annoying before it played out, but I was happy to be proven wrong. As previously mentioned, there are evenly spaced changes in tempo to keep you interested, and the wailing, which doesn’t stop for the whole duration, manages not to become monotonous by virtue of frequent and fitting variations in the sound effects around it. I really enjoyed this one, and the production is only slightly let down by what sounds like some ever so minutely ropey sound matching, evidenced in a little background noise (I don’t think it’s just my speakers), which actually suit the music but nevertheless made themselves noticed in my brain… What am I doing? I’m starting to take the emphasis away from the most important thing, so let’s bring it right back; Moonrise over Goa is an excellent track. It is a little simple and a tad minimalist in places, but that suits the sound so I cannot use it as a complaint. I am not particularly familiar with Jono’s work, but that is an issue I shall be redressing in the near future as a result of having listened to this song…. Cheers… Mike Bell (Enigmation).

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Last modified: September 07, 2000