On Sat, 4 Dec 1993, Alan Michael Parry wrote:
quoted 7 lines Anyone have comments on the new Bill Laswell- Divination Ambient Dub vol.1>
> Anyone have comments on the new Bill Laswell- Divination Ambient Dub vol.1
> (SD7001-2 Subharmonic) CD??? Picked it up by accident thinking it was
> a US release of the import Ambient Dub series... It has a lot less melody
> than the Material (Mantra) stuff I've heard, but is definately ambient
> and dub with some pretty heavy duty "sub-harmonics".
>
It does have a few good tracks, especially the last one. Too much
of it is just cheesy generic synthesizer washes or very run of the mill
techno with a slight dub influence. I think in order for dub to work well
it must have a really punishing bass and it just isn't happening on this
disk.
When I saw it on the shelf in the store I thought it would either
be an interesting example of an older more experienced artist responding
to new movement in music, or just an attempt to jump on a trend. Judging
by the scarcity of worthwile ideas, I'd have to say it's the latter.