Gemmy and the Holograms

Photo via RA

Gemmy's Myspace features a YouTube clip of the introduction to the Back to the Future II Nintendo game. For this, he is the darkhorse of the bass brigade. While gawky geeky American twenty-somethings re-construct childhood via cassette noise tapes and Dan Deacon's artery-clogging electronic twaddle, Gemmy, straight out of Bristol, takes two-step, Dre's hydraulic funk, and 8-Bit's right angles, and crams it into a blender with blades as sharp as Sonic the Hedgehog's hair. This is nostalgia not for the sake of self-congratulatory winking remembrance, but to channel a child's notion of infinity. Like all visionary music, Gemmy's sounds limitless, both futuristic and familiar, the sort of thing that seems like a logical conclusion but one that you never could've predicted. He remembered the rules of "Regulate"--the rhythm is the bass (though it remains uncertain how the bass can be the treble.) Maybe he just needs to grow a beard and wear spectacles. Download: MP3: Gemmy-"BK 2 The Future" MP3: Gemmy-"Bass Transmitter" MP3: Gemmy-"FACT Mix #25" (Left-Click)