On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, schematik wrote:
quoted 7 lines so i've been listening to alot of dub lately, and was wondering if
> so i've been listening to alot of dub lately, and was wondering if
> there is anyone that other people think excell in this area?
>
> i'm a bit partial to people like rhythm and sound and bill laswell.
>
> also, is there any artist out there trying to fuse more of a glitchy
> sound out there? it seems like something that would be of interest.
This glitch-meets-roots dub thing is one of my favorite microgenres, and
has been since I heard the awesome Pole "CD1".. Stefan Betke really rules
the roost, and you should swing by his label (~scape) website and have a
listen to the samples off the many excellent releases, you're bound to
find something you like:
http://www.scape-music.de/
I am particularly fond of Deadbeat - "Wild Life Documentaries" and
the s/t System album (scape015 and scape013, respectively), Deadbeat
being perhaps a bit more roots and System more on the glitch tip.
One of the three members of System, as the web text will tell you,
also has recorded as Dub Tractor. I have the "An evening with dub
tractor" album and there are some good tracks on it, quite comparable
to Bill Laswell's "Dub Chamber" excursions. (Electro and fusion
influenced with smooth deep basslines)
~scape related, but off on his own tangent, Kit Clayton's superb
"Nek Sandalet" (scape003) has huge reverb and nice organic touches.
For me however it's his mostly-ambient "Lateral Forces" on Vertical
Form (VFORM006) that knocked my socks off: when the bubbling
organ and dub drums kicked in on part six, I was convinced I'd found
the apex of the genre -- work that kept in mind dub's origins in
Lee Perry's Jamaican labs while exploiting the possibilities of
laptop-glitch DSP.
Track down some Vladislav Delay (especially "Vapaa Muurari" under his
Uusitalu guise) and the Chain Reaction backcatalogue for dub-meets-house
sounds. The NYC "illbient" scene also delved into dub at times, there
are a couple of compilations in the "Land of Baboon" series on Baraka
Records that are worth checking out.
And I'm sure other people will chime in either flaming me for
recommending this stuff or contributing their own favs... have fun.
--
Eric Sorenson - EXPLOSIVE Networking -
http://explosive.net
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