Bentley Rhythm Ace, released in 1997, was the debut album of Bentley Rhythm Ace

Bentley Rhythm Ace

Bentley Rhythm Ace are a duo formed in Birmingham, England in 1997, consisting of Mike Stokes and Richard March.-Career:The band was formed in Birmingham by Richard March, formerly with the group Pop Will Eat Itself, and Mike Stokes, with guest appearances by James Atkin, a member of indie band EMF...

, an electronic music duo from Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England.

The album is best known for the single "Bentleys Gonna Sort You Out!" which featured in a few TV adverts at the time and was also praised in multiple music magazines such as NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

upon its release. This song was also used as the soundtrack on several of the 100 Greatest…

100 Greatest / 100 Worst

100 Greatest is a long-running TV strand on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom that has been broadcasting since 1999. The "list show" programmes are generally public polls, and reflect the votes of visitors to the Channel 4 website. However, the results of some of the polls are determined by experts...

 shows on the UK television's Channel 4

Channel 4

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.

Most of the album epitomises the 'Big Beat

Big beat

Big beat is a term employed since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, and Propellerheads typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in...

' sound coming out of Brighton

Brighton

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 around that time, with heavy use of unusual beats and samples to create eccentric, but ultimately, dance-able electronic music. The album was released by Skint records, who also released Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim

Norman Quentin Cook better known by his former stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, electronic dance music musician, and record producer. He is a pioneer of the big beat genre that achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...

's earlier work. Other than Big Beat, the album also explores Drum and Bass

Drum and bass

Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...

 and Downtempo

Downtempo

Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...

 with similar eccentric stylings.

The word 'carbootechnodisco' was coined (but never used by anyone else apart from them) for this album and refers to the band's pilfering of samples from various old vinyl records that they discovered and picked up at car-boot sales.

Track listing

1. "Let There Be Flutes" – 7:47
2. "Midlander (There Can Only Be One…)" – 6:38
3. "Why Is a Frog Too..?" – 5:23
4. "Mind That Gap" – 6:09
5. "Run on the Spot" – 5:25
6. "Bentleys Gonna Sort You Out!" – 4:55
7. "Ragtopskodacarchase" – 8:22
8. "Whoosh" – 5:50
9. "Who Put the Bom in the Bom Bom Diddleye Bom" – 3:59
10. "Spacehopper" – 5:23
11. "Return of the Hardcore Jumble Carbootechnodisco Roadshow" – 7:18

Release history

Region	Release date	Label	Format	Catalogue
UK		Skint Skint Records Skint Records is a Brighton based dance music record label owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel of Loaded Records, also founded by Reid and Jeffery...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	BRASSIC 5CD
UK		Skint	LP2×LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	BRASSIC 5LP
UK		Parlophone Parlophone Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which...	CD	CDPCS 7391
UK		Parlophone	LP2×LP	PCS 7391
UK		Parlophone	TC Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	TCPCS 7391