Gino Soccio
S-Beat (LP)
Warner Bros. Records / RFC Records (US) / 1980 / 208824
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm vinyl record
Genre: Dance
Composed, arranged and produced by Gino Soccio
Except "Love is", composed by Bill Withers and Paul Smith
Keyboards, acoustic piano, voice: Gino Soccio
Wurlitzer piano: Robbie Goldfarb
Voice in "Rhythm of the world": Heather Gauthier
Additional vocals: Gino Soccio, Heather Gauthier, Laurie Niedzielski, Judy Richards
Drums: Alfred Beasley, Derek Kendrick,Marvin Joly, Mark Higden
Horns: Carlyle Miller, Roger Walls, Gary Nagels, Colin Biggin
Percussion: Luc Boivin
Bass: Jack August, Peter Dowse
Electric guitar: Johnny Hagopian, Howard Foreman, Gino Soccio, Rejean Bouchard
Acoustic guitar: Gino Soccio
Strings: Lloyd Barry and the Shelly Kurland Strings
Side A
1. S-Beat (4:40)
2. Heartbreaker (4:01)
3. Rhythm Of The World (6:44)
4. Steady Operator (3:03)
Side B
1. The Runaway (5:07)
2. Running In Circles (4:21)
3. Love Is (2:31)
4. I Wanna Take You There (Now) (5:58)
If you can picture a road linking Chic and Giorgio Moroder, Gino Soccio's music would be right halfway.
This is the second LP made on his own name (there are others under the pseudonym Kebekelektrik) and shows off his R&B and funky skills in the title track and a Bill Withers cover. The best song, however, is arguably "Rhythm of the World", a long, hypnotic crescendo featuring an etherean female voice (Heather Gauthier) and great rock-like guitar interplay over a subtle, spacious techno beat that makes me think in some kind of spaceship. If Kraftwerk could swing, they would probably sound like this.
Listen to I Wanna Take You There (Now) by Gino Soccio:
S-Beat:
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Jan 23, 2007 | 5:06 amThis felt like a weird record at first, given that I was expecting a follow-up to the excellent "Outline", and hoping for tracks with the same power and atmosphere. But I nonetheless enjoyed it in a different way, because it introduces a different style, but the material remains excellent, and the dreaminess is still there.
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Sep 15, 2005 | 7:30 pm
I always felt this Ginos attempt at new wave, just check out the title track. "I Wanna Take You There(Now)" was pretty big here on the East Coast, it got played on WBLS and WKTU.
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Dec 26, 2003 | 12:00 pm
i bought this album when it was originally released and was somewhat dissaponted...it did live up to his debut album.
GINO SOCCIO WAS EXCELLENT!! I loved all his stuff, he could be funky, euro-disco, and rockish, all in the same album(like this one), sometimes in the same song(TRY IT OUT). No disappointment here DISCO BOY. You though you'd get another DANCER? The times were changing, GINO tried to change as well. Read his BIO in this site. Interesting story. S-BEAT(dance oriented rock), I WANNA TAKE YOU HER(NOW)(Euro-disco), RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT(funky)and HEARTBREAKER(disco) were all played in almost every club around. Most in the PRIME TIME HOURS!! This album rocked, not as good as the first one, but rocked all the same. On my scale from 1-10, it gets a 10.