From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Thu, Mar 18th 1999, 20:51
From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Thu, Mar 18th 1999, 20:51
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, thomas m weibrecht wrote: > >> >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. > i guess if youre a proponent of statistical sampling you are correct, but > thats probably the flaw in the theory...so if approx. 30% of someone's > output "sucks", so does the rest...as to the discs you find good: > considering laswell produced the records, got the guys together, provided > a state-of the art studio and one of the most capable engineers in the > business today, id hardly say he didnt have much to do with those > releases... I said it will be bad if he plays bass on it and it is a dub record (though I will be happy to extend this overly broad statement to his ambient records too). His method of lowend filtering coupled with totally wanky bass playing just kills me everytime - so flat sounding it's unbelievable. Note that people are taking my words and twisting them beyond recognition on this list - I even said if he produced/compiled it, it has a good chance of being alright. > >I haven't heard of echo beach, but Wordsound blows on-u out of the > >water. > > goes back to laswell...his hand has been in some way shape or form on 14 > of the label's releases...ironic huh?...plus, style scott is the "in > house" drummer for the wordsound posse, and his roots are in dub > syndicate, one of the on-u stable...ironic huh? And the EOE and Laswell + Style Scott are by far the worst things I've heard on that label (and I am a huge fan of Harris and Bernocchi). By far. Dubadelic wasn't so hot either. I'm not sure where that number 14 comes from, because I don't see 14 Wordsound records with Laswell on them. I see 5 + 3 comps. On-U is not a bad label by any means, and I never said anything to even suggest that, so I don't know why you're pointing fingers. I just think Wordsound is way better. > check em out...but they are are on on-u sound... OK, but I have to admit my wariness of new Perry may prevent me from hearing them until someone I know acquires a copy. > dub is a technique more than anything else...its mutations are endless, > but the categorization is the same...imo of course... of course. --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto