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(idm) Sherwood vs. Laswell

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1997-10-15 19:01Arthur B. Purvis (idm) Sherwood vs. Laswell
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1997-10-15 19:01Arthur B. Purvis>I haven't heard enough Stewart to comment, but, as far as I'm concerned, >Adrian Sherwood
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(idm) Sherwood vs. Laswell
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quoted 8 lines I haven't heard enough Stewart to comment, but, as far as I'm concerned,>I haven't heard enough Stewart to comment, but, as far as I'm concerned, >Adrian Sherwood is the great satan of muso-dub perversion. Nobody >matches his talent for stripping such an insanely creative and >unpredictable music of all humor and character and replacing it with >bland anglo studio sheen. A few spins of prime Lee Perry, Augustus >Pablo, or King Tubby will cure the discerning listener. AHC had a >brilliant sense of the implications of the original dub innovations, but >lost the thread after about four essential albums.
Oh, c'mon. Sherwood is merely an evil archangel of muso-dub perversion. The great satan is, hands down, Bill Laswell. So fucking bland, so fucking boring, every time he lays his hands on a bass (Painkiller and some other non-dub projects excepted) he manages to ruin everything. --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto