seriously goood mix of dub this album is very inspiring. it lays down tricky dub tracks that have a psychedelic twist to them. this is my favorite meat beat album thus far. if you're looking for a great after work groove, i highly recommend this album.
simply the best I love this dvd, mostly because it mixes jacks wonderful music with a kind of etheral visual experience. It goes perfectly to the music, provoking many new ideas for the viewer. I think if you are into MBM and jacks own stuff, you'll understand this is necessary!
mbm at its best Like someone already said, I don't understand the "pure dub" (whatever that means) compliance requirements for an mbm album. This is sort of like complaining that Throbbing Gristle's "20 funk jazz greats" album is not jazzy or funky enough. For some dub stuff i recommend Bill Laswell - he has 5-6 new albums every year and they all are guaranteed to sound the same.
This is one of my favorite MBM albums - along with subliminal sandwich. It took me a while to get into it though - I got it around christmas time and I didn't really play it that much until maybe a couple of months ago. Nowadays I spin thru it 3-4 times a week. It is bass- and rhythm-heavy (I guess that doesn;t necessarily say much since all mbm is)...it has the samples of Ukranian engineers talking about montages of sound objects (this actually carried over from r u ok), it has a jamaican-sounding dude similar to that on subliminal sandwich.
Anyway, it is a great album and I do recommend it to those who already own RUOK. It is the whole different deal.
So Dub Or What? This album has gotten a lot of criticism for not abiding by the "rules" of dub. Well folks, if you want "real" dub, check out Twilight Dub Circus. For me, this album works. It makes me feel happy-- it amuses me-- from the rhythmic vocal parts to the dub / electronic hybrid beats. Some pieces, certainly, are not as strong as others-- to me, "Supersoul Dub" seems a little single-minded, for example-- but others stand out nicely, such as both parts of "Retrograde Dub", a driving, rocking piece that rounds out the album nicely.
For Dub Heads As a dub purist, I feel I should warn all dub-heads about this CD. The front & back covers are very seductive for dub-heads, but be warned: there is no clue on the outside that this CD is LOADED with vocals; and if you're a dub-purist, you probably prefer your dub clean of vocals. Once you open the CD, 5 of 12 songs are actually labeled as having vocals, so you breathe a sigh of relief and program for the other 7 songs...only to find, to your dub-purist revulsion: even THOSE songs have too many vocals. So, while the music itself is quite good, Dub-Heads should be warned that this CD has WAY WAY WAY too many vocals to truly be considered a "dub" CD.
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