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Released: Oct 10, 2011
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Cliquety Cliqk

General Elektriks is the brainchild of Hervé ‘RV’ Salters. A French national and a keen vintage keyboard player, Salters was playing keys for his bands and for various artists in Paris (Femi Kuti, M, Vercoquin, DJ Mehdi etc…) before he moved to San Francisco in 1999... There, he hooked up with the Quannum crew (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, etc.) and collaborated with some of them on the 1st GE album, ‘Cliquety Kliqk.’ Hailed by URB as ‘Ennio Morricone for the 21st century,’ the album is a far out collage of vintage funk, hip hop beats, noir riffs and pop melodies.


Good City for Dreamers

‘Good city for dreamers’ was completed in the fall of 2008. On this album Hervé developed a more organic sound than on its predecessor, blending sampled/programmed drums, live keyboards, horns and strings in a more seamless fashion and putting them at the service of songs driven by his own vocal melodies. Released in 2009, Good City’s funky brand of modern psychedelia was spearheaded by the single ‘Raid The Radio’ and led to an 18 months tour.


Parker street

Hervé started working on a follow up to 2nd album during the winter of 2011. Written, arranged and produced in 4 months, ‘Parker Street’ takes the baton where Good City left off and digs deeper into the organic future-Soul of its predecessor. Leaving programmed drums behind, Salters combines on this album the sonic aesthetics that come with tweaking in the lab with the radical dynamics that can only emanate from the live interpretations of musicians. Both lushly arranged and cutting, Parker Street brings forth an unapologetic mix of Avant-Funk, oldschool pop, raw Jazz and hip hop aesthetics.

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  • Genre: Hip Hop / Indie / Soul

    Location BERKELEY, Un

    Profile Views: 1028373

    Last Login: 5/18/2012

    Member Since 3/21/2006

    Website general-elektriks.com

    Record Label Discograph/Quannum Projects

    Type of Label Indie

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