Dr. Israel, Inna city pressure (Mutant Sound Systems) CD
The Doctor mashes up dub, reggae and jungle, ganja and Sabbath, social
conscience and Rancid, technoid paranoia and dirty breakbeats, RUN
DMC's cowbells and philosophy into one genuinely eclectic and
forward-thinking album. Fusion, if it wasn't so loaded with negative
connotations, would be a good description---a fusion, not of unrelated
and unsuitable components, but of styles that lock into each other,
the ska interface with Rancid, the hip hop and drum'n'bass cross-overs
with dub, punk and reggae's long-standing relationship (musical and
social) renewed and caressed into place. The main ingredient is the
dub spine, heavily infected in the first half by junglist tendencies,
which holds the whole thing together and comes to the fore in the
later tracks although always giving room to the song. Which is just
about my only gripe: the sequencing loads all the pounders up-front
and the dub never really clangs low-down. A great record though.
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