artist : Sub Version
title : Sub Versions-FD07LP
date : 2007
label : Future Dub
genre : Bass
release date: 02.13.2008
street date : 00.00.0000
tracks : 08
bitrate : 320kbps
size : 114,7 MB
source : WEB (MP3)
type : Album
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An album for BASS purists, this long-awaited, brilliantly
anonymous double album comes to us from the musical union of
Jay Haze, Michael Ho and Paul St Hilaire, aka Tikiman - and
as the sales notes put it "... it's an album of COLOSSAL bass
and resonance" that's just about the most original low-end
session you'll hear this year. Following on from their
notable inclusion on the epic Soul Jazz compilation "Box Of
Dub", this is the first commercially available material from
SV and has got us all a little hot under the collar in the
office - it's just so good to hear BASS music function
outside of the formulaic confines that have beleaguered
sections of this scene for the last few months. The album
opens in apt style with "Evil", and if Tikiman's ghostly
dispatch immediately sparks off fanciful thoughts of Rhythm &
Sound lending themselves to dubstep, the metallic percussion
and long, drawn-out shudder of BASS wakes you up to the
fierce and original constructions taking place at the outset
of this impressive album. "Forgot The Virus" is another
towering edifice, this time mangling the bassline to a more
familiar warehouse wobble, a cacophony of whirrs and stabs
arranging themselves in an unfamiliar yet progressively
gratifying manner - tame sh*t this ain't. "Rise Up" is
another shocking production, a submerged synth arpeggio
somehow managing to edge further and further into the lower
registers while Tikiman does his thing, while "No Easy
Solution" ends the album with its most astonishing track -
hoover sweeps and shockout snare delays merging Rave,
Hardcore and Bashment sensibilities into one endlessly deep
stretch of LOW-END disruption.
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01-evil 06:13
02-the light 06:34
03-forgot the virus 06:07
04-rubber soul 06:07
05-rise up 06:23
06-mass apathy 06:21
07-smoking gun 06:05
08-no easy solution 06:12
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50:02 min