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b/art's Playlist for Maandag, 23 Augustus, 1999 (17.28 - 19.05)
Adventures in UNsound: no. 27: DubParisBrooklynLondonKingstonBristolTokyoHannover | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Wreck This Mess Id #112597 (Junk Man Sifichi Remix) | |
| Les Freres | Djins [1] |
| Portraits Robots | Democrates D. & Jimmy Jay |
| "If this tape makes you drowsy do not play it while driving or operating machinery" | |
| Dub trooper | Zenile [1] |
| Make A Joyful Noise | Singers & Players (Dread Operators, On-U/Cleopatra) |
| Dub Kiss | Silicon Drum |
| + "We are about to bring out note paper of a new kind" | Business Letters 500 Most Common Words |
| Hold Me (7 Dub Mix) | Kojak |
| Horn tune | Onecut [2] |
| "Ask Each other Why You have Not used your charge card lately" | Business Letters 500 Most Common Words |
| Wreck This Mess Id #112697 (Ratchet Swarte Junk) | |
| Lettres/Chifres/Noms | Dactylographie Proloisirs |
| + Pipe | Autokinetic (BML) |
| Sombeleev | Hanuman Care Kit [1] |
| "Dear Mrs. Page we want to thank you for your interest..." | Business Letters 500 Most Common Words |
| East of West | Purple Penguin [2] |
| Ichi | Digidub [3] |
| Beyond the Hills | The Rootsman (Mind The Gap #26) |
| Eh! | Cee-Mix [3] |
| Spotter | The Weakener {Word Sound) |
| Tribal | Cee-Mix [3] |
| East of the River Nile | Augustus Pablo R.I.P. |
| Valencia in Flames | Muslimgauze [4] |
| Basstrippin' | Phenix |
| Eruption Insensitive | Broken Bells Breaks [5] |
| + The LIRR Massacre | NYheadlessradio |
| "Zones of peace and safety removed from our streets" | |
| [1] French Dub Connection on the German label Echo Beach echo.beach@on-line.de is one of the single best compilations of dub I have ever heard and the more so because it is FRENCH dub, a neglected and fairly unique mutation. The French language and how it blends with the surrounding air in a hum and the french mentality somehow seems very well suited to spliff split beats that contain much silence between notes. Inhale and contemplate. rough and beautiful. Includes 7 Dub, Ethnician, Rasboras Dub Tribe, LXR, Laurent Garnier, Housatonic. Highly recommended. | |
| [2] Future Radio: The Sound of Urban Audio Vol. 1-2 is the best of Bristol's unsigned bands. I would however NOT call it exactly underground as most of the sounds are derivative if polished to a poppy sheen. Few rough edges. Some standouts like Onecut, Nifty & Tim Richardson Purple Penguin, DJ Cridge. See above. The efforts are noble however. The compilations are meant to bring attention to the sorry state of independent radio in England and announces the next entry into the battle for ears in the UK. Will it be the next city sound to emerge out of the UK? Not yet, but they're working on it. Long live free radio www.future-radio.ndirect.co.uk | |
| [3] incoming records * R.I.P. to one of the most intrepidly interesting labels. | |
| [4] Lo-Fi India Abuse * Muslimgauze (BSI * www.bsi-records.com) Is the latest Muslimgauze. This tympanic crash between Systemwide & Bryn Jones results in a destabilizing mix of noise and harmony. Pushing the sound into feedback, the beats to the edge of arhythm, the relentlessness breaks apart, the polemic becomes poetic and scurrilous. Glitches, fades, over-modulation, echo turning back upon itself, the static in the air prior to a storm, crowded medina ambience, sharp middle eastern percussive beats- these are the "instruments" employed to get the propellant and impatient effect of turmoil in spirit and sound as if there are forces acting upon the production beyond the control of humans. These are the crucial sounds of crisis where the agit prop message of support for oppressed peoples is at once enhanced and enshrouded by the impressionistic abstraction of dub on the edge of falling apart. This is the kind of sound 95% of all listeners will hear and wonder if there isn't something wrong with your sound system, your cd, your mind - the same reaction you get from the early Mark Stewart discs or Stravinsky or... | |
| [5] Sub Rosa vs. Shira-nul is the collaboration between sonic ambient adventures label Sub Rosa and noise breaks label with mixed (doubly) results which is to be expected but the sense of adventure pays off in some gems. INC. among others, DJ Wally, Tone Rec, Broken Bells & Ruf Neck Piano. | |
| Thanx always to the sonic perpetrators delux of Paris , 1/2 PanouPanou & Black Sifichi | |