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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 28 April (23:00 - 00:47)
BSI No BS | ||
| Cut | Artist | |
|---|---|---|
| Wet Ink | Bucolic [1] | |
| Welded to the Radio by Wreck This Hypnotic Mess 03w.02t.99m.exc1 | ||
| Sojourne | Bucolic [1] | |
| They're Among Us | Salmonella Dub [2] | |
| Enver Again | Bucolic [1] | |
| Dub Squad | Earlyman vs Autonom [3] | |
| "Dub Revolution, music to rock the nation | Lee "Scratch" Perry [4] | |
| Vitori | Bucolic [1] | |
| Satan Kicked the Bucket . Lee "Scratch" perry | ||
| + Into the Unpronounceable | Andy Fairley | |
| Kerala | Tassilli Players [5] | |
| Round One Dub Champions | Bucolic [1] | |
| Crimson Skies & Vapour Trails | Black Lung vs Xingu Hill [6] | |
| Waiting In Vain / So Much Trouble In The World /The Struggle Continues / Jammin / Kinky Reggae | Bob Marley vs Bill Laswell [7] | |
| It Hurts | Alpha & Omega [8] | |
| Adolescents Be Wildin' | Bucolic [1] | |
| + I Saw You Makin' A Mess | Black Sifichi | |
| 1441 | Self-Transforming Machine Elves [8] | |
| Papya Thin Pt. 3 | Bucolic [1] | |
| Swedish Polka [Smorgasbord Mix] | Edward II & The Red Hot Polkas vs | |
| Mad Professor vs Irresistible Force [9] | ||
| Theme From Chico | Bucolic [1] | |
| Deep [Exclusive] | Starfish Pool [10] | |
| New Ireland | Bucolic [1] | |
| Wanna-na Dub | Audio Active [10] | |
| Going Off Duty Outro WTM Reprogrammed | ||
| [1] "Dzyan Blood" on Portland, Oregon's BSI esdras@spiritone.com . This is an incredible disc of corrosive dub by San Francisco's- live megamix which shakes the very foundations of what dub can do to noise. The dense mix goes the Mark Stewart route with a hyper crescendo of over-modulated noise, disembodied scifi voices and distortion that gets dubbed to the point where we finally fully realize that it has been a long road but noise is a musical element. It is also a destabilizer in the best Mark Stewart, Tackhead, Sherwood, Scratch Perry anti-mold. The sound is rich without sounding clogged or harried. It is complex without too much noodling. Listen to the sound as it separates us from our thick skins, it parts us from our prejudices and separates the conventional from the adventurous. This is bucolic in effect tinkering with itself, remixing, deconstructing, reconfiguring, skanking and scraping to produce some of the most purely corrosive dub around today. Hold onto something fixed to the floor before listening. | ||
| [2] "Calming of the Drunken Monkey" Nice material from this 1997 CD. It is full of great samples, punkiness and the full delight of discovering who you are as a musical unit. This disc continues to grow on me. And it leaves its mark. Hypnotic beats and chops rub up against some genetic punk riffs. Contact andrewpenman@hotmail.com http://www.cosmosis.gen.nz/salmonelladub/ | ||
| [3] On Wow.com | ||
| [4] Jazz has its Sun Ra, rock has its Captain Beefheart, punk has its Mark E. Smith, dub has its LSP. | ||
| [5] "All the World In an Egg" on Universal Egg http://wobblyweb.com/ueindex . Is a compilation on a good label. Includes many people who are hotwiring dub to other genres of music. This cut is pure loveliness - piano + ambience. Compilation also includes Tassilli Palyers, Bush Chemists, Power Steppers, Extremadura . | ||
| [6] "The Andronechron Incident" on Ant Zen www.ant-zen.com | ||
| [7] " Dreams of Freedom: Ambient Translations of Bob Marley in Dub." (Axiom/Tuff Gong) Bill Laswell has taken many risks and innovated and failed many times - he must put out 50 records per year. Workaholism must be accounted for. It can't be all creativity and the artistic muse. He has worked with everyone alive and dead. And in reggae circles he has caused much stir with his remixes of Marley's music in the context of dub. It has created the same sniping and sneering as his remixes of Miles Davis has in jazz circles. Purists are the worst kind of snipers. At the risk of sounding easily bowled over I will say that I thought his the first-ever full-length Bob Marley and the Wailers dub remix album is a success. Not so much in the sound. I expected heavier bass but in the archival selection of material and the mix of interview material and contemporary rapping and dueting with the dead Marley. This tapestry effect has Marley coming across as even more of an insurgent than he probably was. I think he tried to capture the raw and unfixed elements of how Marley may have worked meaning in versions in reharsal, raw, unedited, human.He went thru the Marley catalog looking for what he calls pieces that would add up to "a strong atmospheric or kind of ambient center ... that would lend themselves to being stretched and moved in that direction." Archaeological and audiological research and counts on his influence to offer him guidance such as King Tubby or Scientist, or Sly & Robbie and Lee Perry, Mad Professor and Adrian Sherwood Tell us in your own words, what do you mean by that? | ||
| [8] On KK / Nova Zembla / Radical Ambient | ||
| [9] "Swedish Polka" on Cooking Vinyl is one of those crazed hybrids [this one from 1989!] of insanity, mix and - accordion! in dub and reverb. Incredibly delirious. | ||
| [10] "Wreck This Mess: Remission 2: Ambient-Industrial vs Electronic-Dub vs Hypnotic-Grooves" on Noise Museum www.zone51.com/noisemuseum This is volume 2 of the WTM series. It includes Twilight Circus, Spectre, Systemwide, Dub Factory, Extremadura, Botom Botom, Holon, Silk Saw, DJ Spooky, Egon Zo vs Digidub, Audio Active, Starfish Pool, Andrew Lagowski. "Wreck This Mess: Remission 2: Ambient-Industrial vs Electronic-Dub vs Hypnotic-Grooves" on Noise Museum www.zone51.com/noisemuseum This is volume 2 of the WTM series. It includes Twilight Circus, Spectre, Systemwide, Dub Factory, Extremadura, Botom Botom, Holon, Silk Saw, DJ Spooky, Egon Zo vs Digidub, Audio Active, Starfish Pool, Andrew Lagowski. Here Laurent expands the empire of WTM, into new unforeseen markets. This is a painstakingly and precisely edited disc. He is very particular about what he likes and here it all fits into a meticulous polemic of sound and noise against hyper-mediated commerce. The Starfish Pool cut is pure beautiful insanity - a mechanical loop of menacing jangling machinery that ends up lilting along until you find yourself not scrunching your shoulders but unwinding. One of the choicest cuts. Systemwide fits in with new roots Muslimgauze and Rootsman. BSI www.bsi-records.com Holon sounds a lot like they have studied the likes of Depth Charge. Very explosive and ups the stakes of dub. It is is pure joyous freeform breakbeats havoc - result of a meeting between Starfish and Riou. One of the killer cuts is by Twilight Circus, ex-bassist of the Legendary Pink dots [a great band in their own right], Ryan Moore, based in Holland, is producing some of the heaviest and most breathtaking dub sounds. The cut by DJ spooky [the man so many critics love to diss] is back with more intresting work - this time making us very ill-at-ease with a cut that seems to sound like a cd skipping and repeating. A very cutting piece I think. Spectre, at their best, here -sans lyrics - pumping out the gruesome dingy beats to gloomy effect - that make you FEEL Greenpoint Brooklyn. | ||