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Opening with an Ire and Upfull track by Online DUB
Artist Meef Chaloin, Step 4 I Part Three sets the
vibe. It's about Ireness, and Reggae can provide
some crucial Ireness. There's not much dubbing
going on in that first track, neither in the
second track. The music, however is nice and
sweet.
The third track brings a sudden change in the
atmosphere. A whole host of samples, slowly a
rhythm enters, the samples soaked in echo's: you
thought there was no DUB going on?
When the DUB Activist meets Dr. TomTom, the DUB
goes deeper and the rhythm becomes more energetic.
JAH Billah's contribution to this excellent compilation,
a collaboration with Ngaumo, brings some more
peaceful vibes back in an interesting combination
of electronic and analogue effects.
"Back To School" is another piece of
Digital DUB Niceness. It's laid-back, has some
interesting echoings and effects on the bass,
where a rather odd placements of the chords
completes the 6th track on the compilation. It's
well placed before the explosion of digital sound
we find in the tune after that. Which in it's turn
is well placed before the energetic steppers by
Barbes D and Toko Blaze.
The mix of track number nine, simply entitled
"Dub Plate Style", builds up rather
slow. The title is well put: you can imagine
someone chanting over the riddim. There's not much
happening, nice sound though.
In closure of this first full-length
compilation album by the Original DUB Gathering
Net Label, we find a track by the founders, a
French DUB Collective named Ondubground. An upfull
Dub with resemblances of the UK DUB act The
Disciples here and there.
Niceness Galore!
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