b/art's Playlist for Friday, 24 September 1999 (23:01 - 00.37)
Dub(s) & Other Counter-Measures
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Wreck ID #020196 Pendulum Hypnosis
Pecker Power Part 1 21st Century Dub [1]
Dubaddisababa Dub Syndicate vs Sound Clash [2]
Lady's Prayer Takuan & Tily [3]
"This is Dub Revolution" Lee "Scratch" Perry
Fireburn (Triple Threat Reverb) The Disciples
Smokescreen (double dub synthesis) King Syndrome Sounds
B.M. Aaron [3a]
Bless Those (Horns of Plenty super Remix 12") Little Annie (Anxiety) [On-U]
Dr. Dr. Humanity 21st Century Dub [1]
Sombeleev Hanuman Care Kit [4]
"This is Dub Revolution" Lee "Scratch" Perry
Psalms Lee "Scratch" Perry vs James Booms [Voodooism / Pressure Sound #009]
Billy Holiday Traditional Wreck Jingle
Simeon Tradition Augustus Pablo [Rockers Meets King tubbys in a Fire House]
"Music to rock the Nation" Lee "Scratch" Perry
Hanging Tree Junior Delgado [5]
"This is Dub Revolution" Lee "Scratch" Perry
Beef (Original LP version) Gary Clail & On-U Sound System [6]
Names of Vishnu The Vision [7]
Out in the Cold & Rain Little Axe (in honor of the weather that night)
Spawn Spectre [8]
Bovine Revolver si-{cut}.db vs Scanner [12"]
Ghetto Prayer Groove Corporation vs Bim Sherman + samples of the voice of Andy Fairley
Some Bizarre African Head Charge [9]
Comme a la Radio Brigitte Fontaine
7-Eleven I-Cue [Style Wars / Sugar Spliff / BML]
1. "21st Century Dub" on ROIR www.roir-usa.com> is a reissue of two dub albums, "Pecker Power" & "Instant Rasta" which are guided by the mad Japanese percussionist who invested his soul in Jamaican Dub and made 2 incredible music there. Employing all the thythm heavyweights to create something approaching the Sun Ra of dub. Worlds collide into dub-acious sound.
2. "Research & Development" Dub Syndicate remixed by others like Rootsman, Disciples, Tribal Drift, Zion Train and others to creative effect. Updating the syndicate sound into the hyperactive later 90s. Better than Adrain Sherwood-less "Mellow & Colly" but not as good as earlier Adrian-guided Syndicate material.
3. "Trust-Belief-Love-Respect" Various Artists vs Reverend E.C.H.O. at Mombak City on Echo Beach One of the more intrepid labels stretching the beats and the entire sonic boundaries of dub beyond what ears have grown used to. I like the entire phenom of guest remixes because it forces up the anty and creates a discourse between the notes and beats that has a way of filtering out attitudes so that we are left with fresh sounds that might be called OTHER World Music with roots in the cosmos. This is a collection of head to head remixes of Tackhead, Groove Corporation, Dreadzone, Ruts DC vs Zion Train, Djins... 3a. Blue Moon is a truly beautiful song without sacrificing backbone.
3. French Dub Connection on the German label Echo Beach 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.
5. "Reasons" on Big Cat is a mixed bag of roots. Kind of slick and polished with lyrics that edge into the worst cliches of pop rhymes and imagery without a lot of other stuff/effects/moods going on although there are some real soul kickers here such as "Working the Midnight Blues". For me "Hanging Tree" is the outstanding cut because of the evidence of co-producers Adrian Sherwood & Skip McDonald who co-produced with Delgado. Otherwise they are fairly light--handed and perhaps too reverential.
6. "End of the Century Party" on On-U Sound with the entire crew, create one of the better "message" albums. Standouts are "Beef" (animal industry / vegetarianism), "2 Thieves & A Liar", and "Privatise the Air" which accurately predicts the shrinking of the airwaves, the disappearance of public ether as it is gobbled up by greedy multi-nat scum...
7. German Dub band that created some great dub sounds.
8. "The Second coming" on Word Sound http://www.wordsound.com> A great punky and grungy excursion into dark dub slowed by inertia to a few giant reverberating beats per minute.
9. "Great Vintage Volume 2" on On-U Sound http://www.obsolete.com/on-u reveals the band that has set the pace for a very long time. Many many years ahead of its time.
Wreck This Mess 10 years in the air/area = Amsterdam. Paris. NY. thanx Black Sifichi
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