Search - Sly & Robbie :: Version Born

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yajdubuddah | cheboygan,michigan usa | 02/17/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Man i told yall this was going to be the cronic. Any fan of sly & robbie this is a new style, verry laswell oriented with robbie playing a verry fusion basses bass and simple kicking it. Sly dunbar is on several cuts with laswell so thats still real. We also see a real rare glimse of laswell playing guitar and keys like on dub chamber 4 book of exitand version 2 version, But this got a hip hopping flavor with rapa and female vocals, some good some uh. The first cut is hip smooth dub funk style with smooth raping by black thought, lotz of efectkz. 2 is amazing, reggae tastic flava rapping with beans & hawkman, laswell's playing a eastern sitar-ish sound on keyboard and fat dubinz. 3 is hip beat dub style but i dont care for the feamle vocalist imani uzuri he has a verry pop hip hop style but not really my flava but you may love. 4 is the best on the album and the first of the dub tracks wich are extremelly fat and are vocalez, they are pure laswell mixes with extreme dubinz and laswell inspired bass with robbie reggae flavor. 5 is also really good with killa priest and gigi together with a reggae hip hop/dub style it will make you groove killa killz it and gigi is always amazing. 6 iz another cool as beat with not my taste for vocals by woyneab miraf but if you like that itz cool most hip hop fanz will enjoy. 7 the next dub track its more sly & robbie style verry jamaican island-ish really smooth. 8 has britishez electronic singer/profucer tricky, itz dark opening with reggae flava is amazing then commes the reggae raping by radagon and itz reggae/dub flava through. Now if 9 didnt have the vocals that could be another dub track but yet again i not a big vocal fan unless their the best but banging beat. Rytmator dub 10 iz the spice of life, total neo laswell mixing dub style you aint heard nothing yet. 11 features sussan deyhim who is credited for the highly samples vocals from brian eno & david byrne's 79'"the carrier" on the album my life in the bush of ghosts which featured laswell on the album in "america is waiting", in the liner note it lists another singer not sussan and in spiritual beauty album has the track amorphos which credits sussan on the same vocals, their are 6 albums now i have heard these vocals on eno's, orb's live album animals cover, the asian games cd, elixer hegalien zone, tassilli players outer space a cool dub album and the amorphos. but it cant be her everyting ive heard dosent sound like that, but she soundz good on the track and their is much dubbin. then the last song is also the last dub song and it setz you home in the most exquisit way.

Yes its true im not much of a vocal fan but i did still give the album 5 stars. their are only 3 songs with vocals i didnt care for out of 12. But itz good to see sly & robbie doing somethig like this and with laswell who else would have been able to do this. trying to bring the hip hop rap generation into making more music with real live instruments not just all samples. The hip hop world sceems to be loving the reggae style a lot more latelly its a shame this album didnt get a bigger pull here in america, scense this album is only available in america as an import from uk. The only thing i was dissapointed was i have the skiz fernando dubumentary on the new wordsond dvd and they visit laswell in his studio in orange nj, and he what i was asuming was version born they were recording scence the interview was from 2003/04 and that album took a while, and you see sly making a beat on is akai and then flash to the finished beat and robbie is playing the fattest bass to this awesome beat and that is not on here, so i want that track out if you are lisining. you have to be openminder with this one lotz of fusion melding but these guys are professionalz. i world rather this have no vocals and i still loved it so please give this rare gem a real listen and enjoy, much dubbinz"