Bvdub ‎– Tribes At The Temple Of Silence

Tribes At The Temple Of Silence from Bvdub is definitely not a bad album. That was my first thought when I had just listened to it for the first time. But not bad also means nothing new or legendary. The problem with Bvdub latest albums - and actually with almost every producer of dub-techno and related music - is the complete lack of evolution in sound, composition, atmosphere etc. While listening to this album I couldn't help noticing that I was constantly thinking: "I've heard this before". The last 4 years Bvdub released 11 albums which makes him a very prolific artist. There's nothing wrong with that, there are other prolific artists who make/made very good music (Namlook, Muslimgauze, Rapoon, etc)but I do have a problem when I'm hearing the same theme again and again on every album, I got the message by now.

Actually this is not only a thing Bvdub suffers from but more like a whole music genre: releasing extemely limited arty-farty packed CD's and CDr's with the same music each and every time, which isn't a suprise because the ingredients of the music are extremely bordered. Chords soaked in reverb and dust with some laptop/Pentium 4-driven loopy soundscapes on top of it. Not to mention all the bullshit promo on douchebag sites like Resident Advisor where we read the same empty Berlin/Hardwax inspired words every time: ultra-deep, not te be missed, limited-pre-order-only, essential, etc etc. Everyone who went to school knows this is just one of the strategies to sell average music as much and as quick as possible to an audience that else would never care about it. The reason is simple: people are always obsessed with the unobtainable, which makes it hyped, sought after and as a result of that over hyped and overrated.

As for this album: it's nice music to listen to in the background while doing something else but Bvdub could have expressed his message of his 12 albums into one or two albums too. 3/5