Beatfanatic “The Gospel According To Beatfanatic”

Beatfanatic “The Gospel According To Beatfanatic” Inpress Magazine September 2005

Beatfanatic The Gospel According to Beatfanatic
By Mawuse Ziegbe

We have heard the word of Beatfanatic. And it is good. The fifteen track collection of sumptuous instrumental grooves, The Gospel According to Beatfanatic, embraces sensuous beats from hip hop to bomba to house. Ture Sjoberg aka DJ Beatfanatic has brewed a hot bubbling stew of crazy beats with a little spice for everyone. The story goes, Beat honed his musical talents as a guitarist with a penchant for punk but then enter the 80s and Def Jam and Sjoberg was seduced by the new noise of hip hop. Apparently he’s got love for everything in between as the album connects international rhythms into a sultry mix of jams.

For those who live for lively deep house and for who acid jazz never died, Beatfanatic has the booty-quivering “Holdin’ Out.” “El Ritmo” plucks old-school Cuban melodies while “Boom Bangin” drops swirling 80s disco-hop. “Doin’ Fine” is a sexy voyage into deep house. One minute the beat is Caribbean percussion and the next its dirty downtown metropolitan funk. The album crosses musical waters opening with saucy latin trumpeting and ending with New York funk beats and sampling everything from Fela Kuti to Busta Rhymes along the way.

Instrumental compilations are often the stuff of sexual arousal for DJs, producers and other musical techno-geeks. Quite often, an entire album of just beats can make the casual music fan pass out from monotony. Beatfanatic manages to make an album that his DJ kin will scramble to add to their collection, and that anyone with an enjoyment for sick beats will appreciate. This is a record for all those lapsed music fans who have forgotten the simple pleasures of an ill bassline and hip-swaying beat. Come back into the fold young ones, the good Reverend Beatfanatic is here for you.