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Bassist and producer Bill Laswell's prolific output tends to blur his projects together in the senses. A Dub Transmission, however, leaps out of this sonic fog. It could've been called "Thundering Bass" as he teams up with another denizen of deep bass boom, Jah Wobble. Recalling Laswell's Material album, Hallucination Engine, and to a lesser degree, Hear No Evil, A Dub Transmission is a throbbing, shifting fabric of dub bass lines, free improvisation and sound manipulation. Among the musicians whose performances are mixed and morphed are horn players Nils Petter Molvaer and Graham Haynes, keyboardist Amina Claudine Myers and percussionists Karsh Kale, Hamid Drake, Sly Dunbar and Aiyb Dieng. Add in longtime Laswell-accomplice guitarist Nicky Skopelitis and it's a wedding of wild spontaneity and digital composition, global grooves and electronic moods. Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shebabaw guests on "Alsema Dub", the track taking a more celebratory turn than most of A Dub Transmission's deliriously dark, cyber-hallucinations. --John Diliberto
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A collaboration between Laswell and Wobble is bound to be interesting, which this CD is, but they've both been here before. This is tasteful and enjoyable music with some great grooves, but it does verge on background music in places. Not quite as raw sounding as the Dub Chamber vol3 release, and much more polished sounding than most of Wobble's own releases.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. P. Owen
Format:Audio CD
Considering this is theBILL LASWELL and oneJAH WOBBLE its very tame.When you consider the recordngs these two have been involved with the Bass lines just didn't cut it for me.It drifts in and out and you find yourself trying to work out who's on the bass.But one bright star on this disc is NILS PETTER MOLVAER the Trumpet player.Six tracks of ambient beauty and floating BASS.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect Rythm
22 Oct 2001
By Xam
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Format:Audio CD
This album by Bill Laswell & friends is very, very good. The beats are driven by the bass lines, and the overall production of each track is great. There are very interesting and excellent drum rythms, which can best be described as tribal or worldly (mostly African). There is also a Jamaican dub stlye influence which mixes perfectly with the nature of the album. The overdubbing of electronic ambient sounds adds to the rich production landscape. I really love the combination of tribal and traditional type rythms with modern electronic effects and sounds. The crossing of these two forms is terrific and produces a unique sound. By taking the best elements from various forms of music this album doesn't let down. 5 Stars.
Another Bill Laswell album that crosses the genres of electronica and tribal sounds perfectly is Tabla Beat Science: Tala Matrix. Check it out, especially if you like Radioaxiom: A Dub Tranmission.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of All-Time Top 3 Cd Albums.....
11 Nov 2003
By fetish_2000
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Format:Audio CD
Firstly let it be known that this is one of my all time favourite albums (in my Top 3), Purely because nobody creates mood, sound, emotion & transcendence as effortlessly capable as Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell. Both phenomenally talented artists & musicians, that have been involved in a great many bands/ projects / and musical movements for quite some time. To dismiss that album as stoner-Dub music would be incredibly foolish....each track builds from the most simplistic of instruments (such as heavy bass guitars, and sitars & drums), and every rotational chorus to comes around, is layered with another set of instruments (usually quiet trombone & Trumpet playing), and once the track has evolved into an east European / Asian balancing of World music & subtle Jazz Grooves....wonderfully pianos & Asian / African renowned singers (Sly Dunbar, Nils Petter Molvær, Amina Claudine Myers), create a mood & ambience that can't be reasonably be matched by similar artists......the music is a great many, many things (Grooved-out, intelligently psychedelic, progressive Jazz/world music grooves, sophisticated Dub, heavily textured ambient melodies, beautiful mind music......and yet even all those accolades doesn't do the music justice (as it's so much more than that). When you sometimes hear people refer to music as being `Life-altering', `influential', `Deeply moving' & most of all `Spiritual'.....its music like this that they are referring to, and undoubtedly one of the reasons why music affects & touch's us emotionally in so many ways.....a transcendial album.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
An intense release by Laswell...
25 Sep 2001
By Jorge E. Borda
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Format:Audio CD
Laswell is probably one of the most interesting producers out there and this release shows it. Some people think that a lot of his stuff is boring which I could understand. I wouldn't recommend buying everything he ever put out because usually half the CD has merit. But there's a lot of experimentation here and (as usual) a perfect blend of mixing cross cultural music with modern landscapes. There isn't another prodigy like Laswell and if you don't know who he is I'd suggest this release or EMERALD AETHER. Bill Laswell, the true surgical sound master of music.
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