Burning Babylon - Stereo Mash Up (CD) 2005 -Rip Date....... : 06-11-2005
Artist......... : Burning_Babylon
Album.......... : Stereo_Mash_Up
Label.......... : mars recordings
Genre.......... : Reggae
Website........ : n/a
Source......... : CDDA
Encoder........ : LAME
Quality........ : VBR Joint-Stereo
Tracks......... : 15
Size........... : 69,2 MB
Track List
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01. : 7 Nine Skank (the Creeper) : 03:35
02. : Addis Red Dub : 04:01
03. : Pressure Tones : 02:48
04. : Midnight to Six : 03:18
05. : Zamora Version : 03:24
06. : Soundshack Rockers : 02:31
07. : Parkton Special : 03:25
08. : Heavy Dread : 03:04
09. : 1500 Tons : 03:22
10. : Rude Boots : 03:28
11. : One Drop Funji : 03:33
12. : Trouble Dub : 02:57
13. : Senhaja : 03:19
14. : Version Killer : 03:30
15. : Soa : 04:44
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: 50:59 min
Notes
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Burning Babylon is a one man Dub Reggae project from Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Created by Slade Anderson, the heavyweight riddims of Burning Babylon's sound
are firmly anchored in the 1970's Jamaican roots tradition, but with an ear
for the neo dub stylings of the present day.
Slade came to dub relatively late in his musical career. For 15 years he
played guitar in various punk/metal bands in the Boston area, some of which
you may be familiar with (The Freeze, Straw Dogs). To him, heavyweight music
meant snarling guitars and screaming stacks of Marshall amps. It took years
for him to discover that music with both of those elements removed could still
be heavy and powerful. Not surprisingly, the music he played mirrored what
he listened to - loud and fast were the rules of his turntable. What reggae
Slade did hear came via The Clash and, of course, Bob Marley. The word "dub"
had yet to enter his vocabulary. Although when he was still a teenager it had
begun slowly creeping in around the edges, reggae stayed on the periphery of
his listening experience for years to follow.
During the mid 90s Slade began playing bass seriously for the first time.
During this same period he also decided to investigate reggae more deeply.
Since he was now primarily a bass player, focusing on music that was
bass-oriented made sense. Enter reggae. Slade knew he wanted music that was
more earthy and less slick than Marley or Tosh, but he had no idea what to buy.
So he searched for albums that looked as though they might offer what he wanted.
The first one Slade bought was Glen Brown and King Tubby: Termination Dub.
To him, the cover looked as if the music was going to be pretty classic,
grungy and authentic and he liked the title as well. Luckily he'd hit on
exactly what he was in search of. It didn't take long for Slade to readjust
the way he listened to music (with little or no vocals) to fully appreciate
what he was hearing. "Drums drenched in reverb, horns and guitars echoing
into oblivion, and the most heavyweight bass I'd ever heard." It wasn't long
before dub was stuck in his brain. Soon Slade was buying every album he could
find to immerse himself in the music. Being a musician, he wanted to learn
how to play this music that had so captured his attention. "After a few weeks
of wrestling with the rhythms, I finally got it and recorded my first dub
track." Burning Babylon was born.
"While I imagine and hope that I have my own unique take on dub, I've
certainly been influenced by those that have come before me." Slade's words
ring true, as the spirits of the usual suspects
(King Tubby, Scientist, Lee "Scratch")
clearly loom large in the Burning Babylon studio.
enjoy!!!
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