Wordsound: Below The Radar. The Best Of Wordsound Dub (CD on Roir)

Band: Wordsound
Label: Roir
Title: Below The Radar. The Best Of Wordsound Dub

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Band:Wordsound
Title:Below The Radar. The Best Of Wordsound Dub
Reviewed By:Chris Jones
Date Published:20/01/2002

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Dub is the foundation upon which some of my favourite music has been built. From current drum'n'bass tracks by the likes of Digital and Total Science to "pop" bands like Hood or Tortoise to the electro experiments of Pole you'll find dub basslines bubbling along under the music. Dub can show up in diverse places because dub is fundamental.

This compilation by the WordSound label brings the "Crooklyn Dub" sound to your stereo. Going back to 1993 and onward to the future, the sounds here are deep and somewhat dark - maybe even sinister. The bassline is always where it starts and Bill Laswell provides the bottom end on several of the tracks, riding on those basslines you can find anything: hip-hop, classic dub sounds, electro, vocal samples, guitar, horns, synths,.... in the Crooklyn world, these other elements tend to be fairly minimal, surely not the focus. If you don't have a subwoofer you
might not "feel" this music and with dub, the feel is essential. So listen to the track "Crooklyn Dub Syndicate" and if you don't feel it, you need a new stereo.

Track Listing:

01) Dungeon of Dub
02) Operation Duppy Conquerer 2001
03) Born God
04) Mayday Nightstalker
05) Forward Roots
06) Revelations
07) One
08) Closed Door
09) High
10) Crooklyn Dub Syndicate
11) Fall Of The Towers of Convention
12) Stolen Moments

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