From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Wed, Mar 17th 1999, 22:18
From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Wed, Mar 17th 1999, 22:18
On Wed, 17 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. > > uh huh...its easy to generalize about a body of work that encompasses > over 100 releases isnt it? In this case, yes. I have heard probably 30 or so Laswell records. None of them were good, save the Praxis and Last Exit ones and the Oscillations mixes (none of which have anything to do with dub, and in all cases, none have much to do with Laswell). > >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... Less so than you think. I've heard many many Mad Professor records after being blown away by vs. Massive Attack. > >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... I haven't heard of echo beach, but Wordsound blows on-u out of the water. > >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"? I heard technomajikal and 4 other recent records. They all sucked. Dunno if I heard those tracks. > >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... I said there are other categories. I didn't discuss them. Read what I wrote. --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto