s w e e t b e a t s
june.17.2002 - #969
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artist : VA
album : Meteosound
year : 2002
label : Select Cuts
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : SC2013 CD
url : www.meteosound.net
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Intro - Introducing by Paul PM 00:14
02.Sugar B - Sugar's Authentic Dub Disco (Edit) 02:55
03.Tikiman - The Sound 02:47
04.Rechenzentrum + TTT - Tetris 04:54
05.Bus - Treasure Island 05:26
06.Dntel - Fear of Corners (LA Bus Mix) 06:04
07.Thomas Fehlman - Seerosengiessen 04:25
08.D Meteo - Red Roof 03:53
09.TTT + D Meteo - Peru 04:50
10.Manasseh Meets the Equalizer - King of the Land 04:01
11.A|B Vs Mina - A to Dub 04:00
12.Barbara Morgenstern + Thomas Fehlman - Shazzi Riddem 03:38
13.Submission - M 03:24
14.Jah Meek Meets the Rootsman - Beautiful World 03:45
14 tracks | 54:16 mins | 74,7 MB
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Despite what most people think, dub has been cooking along in
the background for many, many years, despite its seeming fade after
a huge explosion decades ago. When Lee "Scratch" Perry and others
started dropping tons of wax years ago, it was something new and
fresh, and despite a huge watering down of the genre in a short
period of time, it continued to be influencial and still is today.
It's found it's way into electronic music, with big-name groups
like The Orb almost religiously revisiting it, and post-rock
groups like Tortoise and literally tons of others have worked it
into their arrangements.
And even though the genre has sort of lapsed a bit (even Perry
doesn't create nearly the quality he used to, there are still
innovative artists like Mad Professor, whose seemingly endless batch
of dub remixes have taken on everyone from Massive Attack to
Portishead to Primal Scream (among countless others). Meteosound
is a new compilation that explores mainly the last ten years of dub,
when it crossed over with electronic music in a huge way.
Starting out with a bit of authenticity, Paul PM intros the album
with a bit of vocal slinging before Sugar B lays down the one-note
horn steppa of "Sugar's Authentic Dub Disco." It's a thick,
reverb-drenched track that sets the tone nicely, while Tikiman
follows right up with echoed out vocals and more wubby low-end on
"The Sound." Of course, this is dub/electronic music, so every track
on the release flows with some serious low end. Rechenzentrum + TTT
update the standard sound a bit by adding a bit more glitch to the
track and not reverbing everything out. In the end, it makes for a
slightly cleaner sounding track, although it definitely has the
influence still.
Thomas Fehlmann (of the Orb) makes an appearence on the disc with a
track that's falls in line quite nicely with the better work on his
somewhat hit-or-miss solo albums. "Seerosengiessen" rumbles along
with only a two-note low-end, but has cut-up knocks and clacks that
keep things interesting while samples drift through the haze. Of
the two tracks that D Meteo has a hand in ("Red Roof" and "Peru"
with TTT), the former takes more of a traditional approach with a
touch of guitar and some tweaked melodica over an absolutely
syrupy bassline while the latter goes in completely new directions
with a minimal, almost Basic Channel feel. As if to remember where
it began, the album closes out with the more traditional sounds of
"Beautiful World" by Jah Meek Meets The Rootsman.
Another nice thing about the release is that other than one track
(Sugar B's "Authentic Dub Disco"), everything else is unreleased.
With earlier pioneers like Tikiman alongside newer ones like DNTEL,
it not only shows where dub has been, but where it might be headed.
If you've never really listened to much dub, it even makes a great
starting point in giving a pretty good overview of things.
Everything from minimal, glitchy electronic dub (although Pole
doesn't make an appearence) to old-school sounding almost roots
dub with globally concerned vocals (the aformentioned "Beautiful
World" album closer) is represented, so it's a good place to start
swimming. --www.almostcool.org
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