Not Dub Syndicate's best by a country mile
Chris Barker | Tokyo, Japan | 09/13/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"First of all as other reviewers have mentioned this album is only partly produced by Adrian Sherwood. Some tracks are produced by Scientist and some by Style Scott himself. The result is a rather disjointed collection that sounds like the best of none of these producers. The Scientist produced tracks were really dissapointing since Scientist did some of this best work with the Roots Radics (the other side of Dub Syndicate).
I have to wonder if this was just put out as a collection of studio out takes with "all star" vocalists called in later. Note that calling in vocalists later is a standard thing in reggae, but I didnt enjoy it in this case. If you are new to Dub Sydicate, this CD does not represent most of their work, try "Murder Tone" instead. If you are an old time fan or a completist, pick it up but be forwarned. This is not the sound you knew."
The original dub slamma back for some more 2005 babby 21st c
yajdubuddah | cheboygan,michigan usa | 06/27/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"well for starters i was verry afraid of this release for 2 reasons: 1 the cover sucks, i believe you can judge an album by its cover(obviouselly not in this case) and 2: im not a huge fan of vocals. but all those faded away to pure lincoln valentine scott dub tastic sound. If you are a big fan of older dub syndicate sound you will not be dissapointed, this album is anything but neo dub. styles used the same old sounds and equipment in different arrangements to create this 1. so all the songs are new but sound like they were out almost 25-20 years ago. the album is also processed by legendary dub producer adrian sherwood but does not feature dub syndicate regular skip mcdonald, but does bring in 2 frequent members of bill laswell's team, bill buchman tablas, and nicky skopelitis, electric sitar. the vocals by the way will not dissapoint if you are more of a fan of murder tone, and tunes from the missing channel which contains several vocals and dub sample snippets. the same here, the vocals are fairelly cut up and spaced out but their are several vocalez songs for pure dub pleasure. i think that lincoln wanted to throw in a few supprises here, but all in all wanted to make another slammin dub record that broke a few rules. he deffinetelly suceeded and is now the only original dub slamma still killin this game (remember he was originally in roots radics which was even farther than dub syndicate), and makin it look oh so good. scientist hasent come out with anything in years, along with mad professor who hasent done anything scence no protection which is a remix album, tubby's dead, along with several others. adrian sherwood is still in the game with his solo album and his current work with asian dub foundation. so dont fear this 1 itz got all the dub slammin that you would expect from the original dub masta, but yess this may tend to follow more into the reggae form due to the vocals but all music is dub slammin valentine style"
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1