Hydraulic Groove
2002 studio album by Rick Holmstrom
Hydraulic Groove is an album by the American musician Rick Holmstrom, released in 2002. He posted several of the tracks to his web site prior to the album's release, to gauge the reaction of fans. Holmstrom supported the album with a North American tour.
Production
The album was produced by Holmstrom and Genome. Holmstrom was backed by Ron Dziubla on saxophone, turntables, and keyboards; Donny Gruendler on drums; and Dale Jennings on bass. He used samples, backwards guitar, effects, signal processing, and drum loops on some of the tracks; he spent weeks helping to edit the music. Holmstrom was inspired in part by working on R. L. Burnside's Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down, which used basic blues tracks that were then electronically manipulated. Holmstrom also appreciated Moby's use of samples on Play. Many tracks were recorded or mixed by Rob Schnapf. Holmstrom sought to retain the "greasy" feel of the basic tracks, while also avoiding the overly-produced sound of late-eighties and early-nineties blues records.
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