From thomas m weibrecht Sent Wed, Mar 17th 1999, 15:48
From thomas m weibrecht Sent Wed, Mar 17th 1999, 15:48
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:05:19 -0500 (EST) Arthur Purvis <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx> writes: >Offering a slightly different opinion of most of what's been said on >the >topic of dub records... > >Rule 1) if bill laswell plays bass on it, don't buy it. No matter >how good the other people are on the CD, it will suck. If it's a >whole CD >by Bill Laswell, it will be atrocious. uh huh...its easy to generalize about a body of work that encompasses over 100 releases isnt it? >Rule 2) The Mad Professor is only good at remixes. He may be the >absolute top of the pops at it (he is) but don't buy his LPs. again, a generalization... >Rule 3) Wordsound is the best functioning label for dubbed out >stuff. By far. guess u havent heard of echo beach and on-u sound to name two... >Rule 4) Lee Perry is at this point completely worthless. Get the >boxset, >maybe some older LPs, but music like Technomajikal makes me ill. guess you havent heard "time boom X the devil dead", or "from the secret laboratory"? >Rule 5) There are several schools of dub reggae, one of which >originated >in Jamaica in the 60s, another of which in the UK in the 90s. Decide >what >you like (there are of course other styles) - there are records in >both >that are very good. The former is more smooth, more reggaeish, more >"live" (Lee Perry, Gregory Isaacs (sometimes) etc) the latter focuses >on >massive stomping basslines (Rootsman, Alpha Omega, etc). > you make it seem like there is a void of 30 years, which there isnt...you are forgetting the 70/80s, which really fused these two eras together...those were the years where dub and reggae expanded their attraction into so many other genres (remember the clash?or the police? or grace jones?) and produced classics like black uhuru, steel pulse, burning spear, aswad, sly and robbie's taxxi gang, etc etc etc... tom w np: robert wyatt - the end of an ear ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]