Archive For The “dub” Category
“The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world for it is a journey beyond death…” William Burroughs Starting life as an avant-dance collective, by 1987 Bill Laswell’s Material epitomised a culture in fast forward, popular music eating itself. Fusion has never been so thoroughly realised as on 
A matter of days after the US Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, this explosive collaboration between Keith LeBlanc and Adrian Sherwood was released, single handedly defining the parameters of a completely different approach to record production. Taking as a starting position the ‘hard’ electro blueprint pioneered by ‘Tommy Boy’ records, this visceral mash up of samples 
Timeless dub wickedness! While Lee “Scratch” Perry continues to draw breath, reggae will thrive. Here, with On-U maestro Adrian Sherwood at the controls, a righteous brew is concocted from last year’s “Mighty Upsetter” tracks. It is music as magic ritual and infused with the eccentricity that powered Perry to the forefront of the jamaican music 
