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[caution - review ahead] sons of silence - silence fm (leaf) 'writing about music is a paradox, using one alien language to describe another' avowed one wag and with 'silence fm' sons of silence have confounded the avaricious genre hunters who seek to enumerate every recorded utterance struck in the name of 'newskoolelectronica' but..the natural instinct in appraising a multifarious album such as 'silence fm' (without descending into meaningless and extemporaneous prose) is that you begin to dissect and pick at the bones searching for some sort of antecedent that will perhaps reveal...errr..... 'where the hell are these guys coming from!' a juxtaposition of lee perry's voodoo dub and rzl's urbane yet surrealistic hip hop sortie's would be a fair indication of the general mood, but that is an over-simplification, it's an experience to immerse yourself in..soak up the atmosphere and then.....try and disentangle the threads, some of the fragments i picked up on ye olde cerebral reception unit were: lonnie liston's lazy hammond organs...psychedelic wig out's of early parliament...nailed to the floor rhythms of james brown...otherworldly genius of black dog on a couple of occasions the spectre of digi-dub looms on the horizon, but this is held in check with enough restraint to silence the alarm bells.. 'digi-dub' is on the whole, with a few exceptions, an abomination in my book..as if a bunch of stoned white middle class neophytes could replicate the magical and mystical worlds of king tubby and his brethren but less of those misgivings...these sons require your silence email @ leaf@number9.demon.co.uk sm@4thworld -- http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/4thworld/ check the 'propoganda' page - interviews + features on black dog/ as one/ musik aus strom / jimpster / compost / irdial + moresons of silence - silence fm (leaf) -- http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/4thworld/ check the 'propoganda' page - interviews + features on black dog/ as one/ musik aus strom / jimpster / compost / irdial + more

quoted 4 lines 'digi-dub' is on the whole, with a few exceptions, an abomination in my

>>'digi-dub' is on the whole, with a few exceptions, an abomination in my >>book..as if a bunch of stoned white middle class neophytes could >>replicate the >>magical and mystical worlds of king tubby and his brethren

quoted 2 lines I know what you mean about digi-dub, but it was actually invented in

>I know what you mean about digi-dub, but it was actually invented in >Jamaica by your genuine Jamaican reggae musicians.

You mean like King Tubby and his brethren? C. -- C.Hilker (cspot@hyperreal.com) "We don't relax, we Rolex"

quoted 10 lines I know what you mean about digi-dub, but it was actually invented in

> >>I know what you mean about digi-dub, but it was actually invented in >>Jamaica by your genuine Jamaican reggae musicians. > >You mean like King Tubby and his brethren? > >C. > >-- >C.Hilker (cspot@hyperreal.com) "We don't relax, we Rolex"

I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic here, but anyway... No, it wasn't King Tubby, but it was someone with a respectable reggae pedigree. Unfortunately for me I can't remember who, and most of my reggae tapes are elsewhere at the moment. It was around 1985, I think. Sadly I can no longer listen to Steve Barker's On The Wire very often so my reggae information is rusty. Just to clarify, I'm not referring to fairly recent imitations of dub practised by the likes of Zion Train etc., not that I want to get into an argument about that. adam