Charlie Webster

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My random play has just brought up "Gift of Freedom" which I'd not heard before. Blew me away.

Rather than doing the Google for this guy - what is the ILM concencus on Charlie Webster? Who is he?(for a start) and is he worth searching for more?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 6 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

is that the peacefrog guy...born on the 24th july?

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 6 February 2003 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Charles Webster? the one that Gareth mentions? that was a good album. very sexy, "Sweet Butterfly" was all creepy.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah it is the Peacefrog guy, I've heard a few tracks, pretty good I suppose though it's not really my main course.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 6 February 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

his love from san francisco stuff is pretty good. check his hot lizard remixes.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah thats the guy. I agree with Ronan (wow! it happened) about it not being a "main course" thing. A bit to stylised and overproduced but pleasant enough.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

it's in the Herbert deep-glitch-house vein.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The "deep-" and "-house" assessments are valid - even if a bit broadly stroked. But beyond remixes of each other's material (e.g. Webster's sublime remix of Dr. Rockit's "Café De Flore" and Herbert's remixes of Webster's "Ready"), Webster's "Born On The 24th Of July" (from which “The Gift Of Freedom (feat. Xan)” hails) and Herbert's "glitch" vein reside in very different parts of electronic music's body – as “…Freedom” itself no doubt indicates.

Whereas one might appropriately generalize Herbert’s work as microhouse, electronic soul would better suit Webster’s work on “Born On The 24th Of July.” A few non-vocal “…July” tracks deserve deep house classification, but its downtempo vocal tracks like “…Freedom” have far more soulful warmth in common with Zero 7’s finer moments than with the bouncing clicks and cuts of either Herbert’s “Around The House” or his “Bodily Functions.”

― nader (nader), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I picked up 'Born on the 24th of July more than a year ago after I heard it on KCRW - and then more recently some mixes on wax.

I highly recommend Charles Webster, if you like good music, you'll appreciate this!

― SS, Sunday, 9 February 2003 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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