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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 29 Oktober 1999 (22.56 - 00.14)
#54: Word Sound vs Echo Beach vs Zion | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| The Wreck This Mess Story #031299 | |
| Dog Growl | The Horrible Sounds of Horror |
| Off | Sir Positive [1] |
| + "The difference between genius & stupidity is that genius has limits" | Philosopher Andrew North Whitehead |
| Humans Being Human | LXR + Omar Ben Hassan [2] |
| + "Fumbling their stock certificates with the lust of fools" | Andy Fairley |
| Valley Dub | Twilight Circus [1] |
| Ghettoprayer | Groove Corporation vs Bim Sherman vs Andy Fairley [3] |
| + Gunshots | Sound Effect #45 |
| Over the Half World | Layng Martine [1] |
| + Gunshots | Sound Effect #45 |
| Ghettoprayer (continued) | Groove Corporation vs Bim Sherman vs Andy Fairley [3] |
| + "This is Dub Revolution" | Lee Scratch Perry |
| Holy Dub | Scotty Hard |
| + "The difference between genius & stupidity is that genius has limits" | Philosopher Andrew North Whitehead |
| What Ever We Dub | Ruts DC vs Zion Train [2] |
| The Dub That Got Away | Zion Train [4] |
| + Gunshots | Sound Effect #45 |
| Shooter Dub | King Tubby & Santic Allstars [5] |
| + Gunshots | Sound Effect #45 |
| Dub Trooper | Zenzile [2] |
| Fallout | Bill Laswell vs Style Scott [6] |
| Dub The Dread Way | Dreadzone [3] |
| Proton | The Bug [1] |
| Spectre in the Dubs | Manasseh vs Spectre [3] |
| + "The more I tried to figure it out the less sense it made" | |
| Weird Science | Him vs Spectre [6] |
| Andean Dub | Zion Train [4] |
| Mystery of Shape Changing | Bill Laswell [1] |
| Hold Me | Kojack vs Seven Dub [2] |
| The Wreck This Mess Story #031299 | |
| [1] "Crooklyn Dub Outernational Presents: Certified Dope, vol. 3" on Word Sound www.wordsound.com is the Consortium's "Escape From NY" strategy, meaning they got out into the international satellite cities. A bit outside themselves. What dub thrives on is syncretic infusions of other references. Hybridizing, a constant decentering of the expected and thisis what happens here. Their signature deep introspective existential-vs-holy waves of dub ripple outward to great effect. Inward and outward so that the deep scraping-the-bottom waves can stir up some new silt and mud. Excellent disc with works by Irish, English, Dutch (to great lower bowel shaking effect by Nijmegen's own Twilight Circus) Germany, Holland, New Zealand, Japan and Jamaica. This is the best propaganda that slow does not mean lethargic or boring. Because slow beats take longer to evolve there is the chance for faith h to take hold, for a reorientation of an impatient culture to anticipate every tidal wave of dub. Highly recommended. With among others: old cockpit mates like Laswell, Roots Control, Scarab and Spectre as well as new flight crew members such as The Bug, Twilight Circus, Layng Martine and others... | |
| [2] "French Dub Connection" on the German label Echo Beach echo.beach@on-line.de continues to impress with its perpetrations of new style on roots. It remains one of the more intrepid compilations of dub - and the more so because it is FRENCH dub, a neglected and fairly unique mutation. Paris is that urban mixing board where east meets west, where ganja meets the housing crisis, where hepped up culture meets those determined to slow and respin it their own way. This is revolutionary because it is multi-determined = spins per second and the way one is forced to absorb the surrounding phenomena. The French language and how it blends with the surrounding air in a hum and the french mentality in all its abstraction, diffusion, and detante somehow seems very well suited to spliff split beats that contain much silence between notes. Inhale and contemplate. Rough and beautiful. In this case the "natural" hybridization of Dub post-rasta recording studio culture and Arab chant influences seem perfectly suited to one another. Includes 7 Dub, Ethnician, Rasboras Dub Tribe, LXR, Laurent Garnier, Housatonic. Highly recommended. | |
| [3] "Trust-Belief-Love-Respect" Various Artists vs Reverend E.C.H.O. at Mombak City on Echo Beach http://www.echobeach.de One of the more committed labels stretching the beats and the entire sonic boundaries of dub beyond what ears have grown used to. Here E.C.H.O. sets forth the basic schizoidal dialectic between info overload and and the ability of music to get beyond, supersede and defeat those who would have our souls relegated to ISBNs All the retakes and cross-pollinations have a way of hurling us into OTHER World Music - roots in the cosmos. This is a collection of head to head remixes of Tackhead, Groove Corporation, Dreadzone, Ruts DC vs Zion Train, Djins... | |
| [4] "Great Sporting Moments in Dub" Zion Train vs Tassili Players on, I think, the Wibbly Wobbly World of Music is a perfect example of the extended ambience. Of how electronic prostheses can perfectly enhance the growth of any roots that might be still alive in this arid soil. They have attempted a syncretic mastering of the various aspects of music: aesthetic speculation, political rhetoric, cosmic ambitions. You can't fault people like this for trying to stretch the notion of serious but listenable. Humor and irony and self-effacement keep hubris in check. | |
| [5] "2 Heavyweight Another Blood & Fire Sampler" http://www.bloodandfire.co.uk/test/home/index.html This foundry is forging some of the best of the new alloys of blood and fire, of nerve and fader. B&F has an eclectic catalogue of classic and neglected dub which clearly delineates the originators - I-Roy and King tubby but also made me aware of the incredible soulful beauty of the Congos. It is classic without sounding like retrospective museum pieces. It is as new as it is classic. Blood & Fire is one of those labels you can almost always be assured of its quality. | |
| [6] "Shake the Nations" on Word Sound www.wordsound.com is a mixed bag of sophisticated and insouciant sophomoric beats and messages. Some major hits, which like a bottom feeder near a ship wreck full of treasure is bound to produce surprises as their own stable is remixed by mixing board mates. There are some awkward misses but you can't fault their attitude and perseverence in the face of a city collapsing in its own dynamic ability to believe its own hype and be a victim of its own cynicism. | |