Deadbeat
Time for an active renaissance people. This is an official call to action to resuscitate your deep, electronic dub records and to help reopen the small window that was early-to-mid 90s macro dub, a favorite and often overlooked splinter of traditional dub. Electronic, ambient dub in that era and beyond (often cross-pollinating with Brooklyn's illbient movement) was spearheaded by labels like ROIR, The Agriculture and Wordsound and manipulated bass frequencies so low they could have been used as weapons. Artists like Dr. Israel, Byzar and Spectre laid the foundation for Pole, often considered one of the champions of the genre as it evolved into the late 90s and beyond where it nows lays in the capable hands of Montreal's Deadbeat who moved things into the modern age with 2002's fantastic Wild Life Documentaries, its follow-up Something Borrowed, Something Blue and the forthcoming New World Observer. "Abu Ghraib" is unquestionably the climax of the record, not only indicative of its scathing political commentary, but also of Deadbeat's blueprint of slowly building minimalism into a maze-like psychedlic structure in which the exit seems to get further away as the track progresses. Heavy stuff once again, a reminder of the powerful nature of this music and a call to arms for the apathetic. Resources
Deadbeat :: "Abu Ghraib"
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