Automaton – Dub Terror Exhaust
Genre: | Electronic, Reggae |
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Style: | Dub, Illbient, Trip Hop, Minimal, Experimental |
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Tracklist
Astral Altar (The Gateway Of Legba) | 11:41 | ||
Asiyah Dub (Blinding The Starry Eyes Of God) | 11:09 | ||
The Terran Invasion Of Alpha Centauri Year 2794 | 11:40 | ||
The Black Meat (Deconstruction Of The Bebel-Tower Of Reason) | 12:12 |
Credits (15)
- Robert SoaresA&R [Subharmonic]
- Bill LaswellArranged By, Created By, Design [Designed By]
- Toxic (55)Artwork [Inside Art]
- Sly DunbarBeats
- Bill LaswellCreated By
- Aldo SampieriDesign
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Image | , | – | In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory | Version Details | Data Quality | ||||
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Dub Terror Exhaust CD, Album | Strata – 0004-2 | US | 1994 | US — 1994 | Recently Edited | ||||
Dub Terror Exhaust 4×File, MP3, Album, Reissue, 128 kbps | Strata – none | 1999 | 1999 | ||||||
Dub Terror Exhaust 4×File, ALAC, Album, Reissue | Not On Label (Bill Laswell Self-Released) – none | US | 2016 | US — 2016 |
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referencing Dub Terror Exhaust (CD, Album) 0004-2
One of my favorites in my collection of about 7000 CDs. A perfect record. It was also the album that opened my ears to dub and dub-related minimalisms. Most of my collection is various types of jazz, classical music and so-called contemporary classical and back in 1995 I didn't listen to any rock/pop/funk/whatever any more. Automaton – Dub Terror Exhaust was one of the albums that forced me to take those forms seriously again. It's dub taken to extremes, seemingly super simple, skeletal rhythms + a handful of samples thrown on top like spices, but on closer inspection there is great depth and a multitude of nuances in this music. It's monumental and perfectly played. I also like the sound and mix of the album. Later Laswell albums are sometimes as good as this one, but this particular sound – bottomless bass (as always), lots of space around the instruments, but some sounds still very dry and on your face – has not really been repeated. On later dub-based albums the drum sound got much louder and closer to a kind of rock sound, but here it has almost chamber music type of genuinely acoustic feel. I love it.referencing Dub Terror Exhaust (CD, Album) 0004-2
This is a classic "Laswellian" ambiant dub record, roots and heavy, of traditionnal dub.
The cooperation of musicians like Gabe Katz (of Blind Idiot God) on tracks 2 & 4 and DJ Spooky (credited as "The Alchemist") on track 3, the length of the tracks (more than 10 minutes each) gives to this CD a good coherence without that the listener may have any sensation of monotony.
This CD can be considered as the volume # 0 of the four "Sacred System" albums that Laswell will later produce for ROIR records.
As for all the Strata records the CD is also released with a beautiful opaque black container.
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