Bentley Rhythm Ace (album)
Bentley Rhythm Ace, released in 1997, was the debut album of Bentley Rhythm Ace, an electronic music duo from Birmingham, England.
The album is best known for the single "Bentleys Gonna Sort You Out!" which featured in a few TV adverts at the time and was also praised in multiple music magazines such as NME upon its release. This song was also used as the soundtrack on several of the 100 Greatest… shows on the UK television's Channel 4.
Most of the album epitomises the 'Big Beat' sound coming out of Brighton around that time, with heavy use of unusual beats and samples to create eccentric, but ultimately, dance-able electronic music. The album was released by Skint records, who also released Fatboy Slim's earlier work. Other than Big Beat, the album also explores Drum and Bass and Downtempo with similar eccentric stylings.
The word 'carbootechnodisco' was coined (but never used by anyone else apart from them) for this album and refers to the band's pilfering of samples from various old vinyl records that they discovered and picked up at car-boot sales.
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