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Diverse Artiesten | Chainstore Massacre

Play it loud!
CD, On U Sound

Tekst: Tucker Petertil

Publicatiedatum: 06 november 2002

Upon listening to this great big dub fest I felt a bit like Goldilocks of three bears fame. I mean there's plenty of compilations of Dub styled electronics but they are either too hot or too cold or too soft or too hard, Chainstore Massacre however is just right. Master producer, Adrian Sherwood and his On-U Sound stable of offshoot projects and friends is the dubmeister behind this CD and the reason why this is such a quality disc. Sherwood and many of the other U.K. acts on this CD first came to notice back in the mid-80s for their mad adaptations of Jamaican dub filtered through British punk, funk and whatever trend happened to be calling people to the dance floors of that time. Now in 2002 they're back with one of the best headphone dance CDs of recent memory. Each track different from the last but still consistently beat heavy and full of innovative electronic alterations.
And when there is a change of pace from the full-on floor fillers, who should appear but the best voice on the planet, Sinéad O'Connor. Sinéad, fresh from a great but disappointing new CD, Sean Nos Nous (disappointing only from a pop music perspective, in that its all covers of old folk tunes), adds her unassailable vocals to 'My Love I Bring', a track by Skip "Little Axe" McDonald.
The CD starts with the slow druggy tempo of 2 Bad Cards' 'Noise Polluters' a patchwork of samples and a beat that soon jacks up the stoned tempo into a full on heavy dance rhythm via the vocals of 'Bubblers' (Carlton Ogilvie). Also on board are Asian Dub Foundation doing a tabla powered psychedelic tune with a riff right out of Hendrix's 'Third Stone from the Sun' enhanced by Bollywood female vocals. Little Axe (the second appearances from Skip McDonald) does a slowly, bluesy stroll through melodica, wah-wah and other strange jungle-like territories of nature at its most lush and potent. Adrian Sherwood's own contribution, 'Xplanation', stutters steps through some lush dance moves, piling on the samples but never obscuring the purpose-the beat.
As with any dub/reggae/dancehall release worth its salt, there's a track calling for the legalization of the sacred herb, this time out its Junior Delgado's 'Fully Legalise'. Other tracks come from the Irish Hiphop rappers Ri Ra whose excellent '25 O'clock' has nothing whatsoever to do with the Dukes of Stratosphere's similarly titled song but remains just as hooky and entertaining. Dub Syndicate offers a different version of their great dub heavy spiritual 'Its Blessed', a song with the catchiest chorus since the Ass Pony's 'Mr Superlove'. New Zealand's Salmonella Dub's remix of 'Push on Through' combines late night dance rhythms with a percolating guitar line that insures happy feet for anyone within earshot. With artists such as Mark Stewart, Ghetto Priest, Mutant Hi Fi and Little Roy there's not a bad track in the lot. My own personal favorite is from a band named 3 Head who start with a Samba-like rhythm on tom tom and shaker, then fold in a massive bass run and some awesome dancehall toasting. There also seems to be a bit of electric violin, samples and mucho percussion resulting in a dance track to wake the dead and get them dancing. Play it loud!

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