Did someone say Drum'n'Bass? This gives me the opportunity to plug this
D'n'B ignored underground classic from 1997; re-released in 2010 on Year
Zero records.Bizarre dark Drum'n'Bass stylings with a splash of Black
Humour. Still
sounds remarkably fresh, maybe because it isn't yer bog standard
Drum'n'Bass format. Fused with Electronica,with a dash of Exotica,found
sounds,noise samples, crossed with a drop of only the best in Elevator
Muzak.You could even dance to this if you were so inclined and on
drugs.Probably the most commercial record on Year Zero!
Think Luke Vibert, Aphex Twin , Squarepusher and U-Ziq as musical
references.
(This is now the fully restored and remastered version as of 08/10/2020)
Tracklisting:
1. Testcard (3:24)
2. Sectioned (4:58)
3. Empty Mind (5:48)
4. Intruder (5:33)
5. Instructions From God (6:33)
6. Its After The End Of The World (8:55)
7. The Grey Room (The Deaf Disco) (3:11)
8. Towers Open Fire! (14:36)
9. This is Your Saviour Calling (7:28)
10.In the Beginning (5:28)
11.Wormhole (3:53)
12.A Short Song About Death (9:54)
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Predictably,this is my favourite Derek Bailey record. Even though the Jungle backing track, by some brummie d'n'b producer called DJ Ninj(who?), is incredibly unremarkable,verging on the bland. This only helps to emphasize Bailey's nutty guitar improvisations, laid over the top of a DAT mix of Ninj's drum'n'bass by numbers, in Laswells studio in New York; after an aborted session in, ex-Napalm Death drummer, Mick Harris's studio in the west midlands.When ,apparently Mick had no idea what he was doing, and seemingly, was not too displeased when Derek suggested that they call it a day, after three full takes failed to be recorded properly, or even at all!
The discipline of the programmed beats, focus's DB's trademark fret abuse to the edge of accessibility.
Bailey freely admits that this record would have been A LOT better
if he'd been able to release an album of improvisations with the folks
on his local jungle-list pirate stations.; but that may have either eclipsed the guitar work, or created an electrically charged duel between two differing musical cultures,the like of which,we will never hear again?
Ninj, of course, was never heard from again.
Tracklist:
1 N/Jz/Bm (Re Mix) 3:33
2 Re-Re-Re (Up Mix) 1:35
3 Dnjbb (Cake Mix) 13:46
4 Concrete (Cement Mix) 7:02
5 Ninj (De Mix) 11:29
6 Pie (Amatosis Mix) 1:38
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