Devil Dub

Artist: Ben Wa
Label: Black Hole
Category: Music

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Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 665367980923
EAN: 0665367980923
ASIN: B00000IQO7

Release Date: 1999-03-15

Devil Dub

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Tracks:

Descent
Macrocardio Dub Infarction
Parastolic Dub
Dubasaurus Rex
Floridub
Interlude In Limbo
Ancient Chinese Secret (In Dub Sauce)
Soopfah Beemah
The Fall
Vampire (Slight Return)
Beelzebub Dub
White Russian Dub
Good 'n' Evil Dub

Amazon.com

Amidst a bramble of noises the Devil Dub god opens this collection by growling "Welcome to hell!," but this set from San Francisco duo Ben Wa is more like heaven on earth. With enormously fat beats and brooding bass, their musical trip begins in the electronically altered mind and branches out from there. Plenty of underground attitude--a bit calculated with dark recitation at times--dominates this delicious mix of twisted and manipulated rhythms. There's a graceful touch of King Tubby here and there, with metallic elements echoing forth like soft taffy between warm, wet bleeps and drips spiraling in and out of the cosmic landscape. "Beelzebub Dub" molds a magically psychedelic soundscape out of the Hammond B3, while "White Russian Dub" turns a guitar into hypnotic ghostly calling. Whatever the track, Devil Dub is sure to make your woofers bump and grind and the trunk of your car happily vibrate away. --Karen Karleski

Album Description

"Devil Dub" is Ben Wa's first full length CD release, an unholy version of ambient dub and psychotropic dark beats. Already praised by reviewers in URB, XLR8R, Rhythm Music Monthly and Option, Ben Wa's contributing conspirators on this disc include Buckethead (Solo artist on Virgin Records, Bill Laswell's Praxis), Brain (Primus, Praxis) and DJ Disk (Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Praxis, solo artist on Bomb Records).

Customer Reviews:

Underground Dub Stars Comin' At Cha'!.......2002-04-10

WOW! I picked this CD up because I am a huge Buckethead fan and that got me interested in Bill Laswell and I was interested to hear what a dark ambient dub band from the mind of Bill Laswell would be like when syphoned through the guitar wrenching fingers of my favorite masked psychotic Buckethead. unfrotunaley, and this was the only unpleasent thing about the CD, he really doesn't play hardly at all. On this set Buckethead had more to do with the programming and beat of the whole dub than performing his ever famous sonic attacks via his chosen weapon- a flying V. However it does give fans of bands such as Death Kube K to kick around while they anticipate something new, which this CD is not. It is more typical Bill Laswell/Buckethead stuff. If you like Death Kube K get this CD, if you didn't care for Death Kube that much, you might think twice about getting this CD. The thing that I like the most about this Cd is that Laswell and Bucket are able to take one certain type of sound and just build around that sound, unlike most dubbers who all to suddenly intigrate new sounds to the already banging cacophony of noise that comprises the songs. Overall this Cd will definitely have your stereo bumping some major beats and makes for a fun and more over, interesting listen.

top shelf.......2001-10-19

I've been an avid dub fan and collector for twenty years. This was an unexpected suprise. It's a wonderful blend of the reggae pioneers sound with a killer first world flavor; all done with a seemingly effortless ability to weave a coherent spell from one cut to the next.

I can't understand how there are only TWO reviews here........2001-04-23

Okay. Buy it simply because it's the coolest thing nobody's heard about. Or because the cover is so cool. Or because of the lineup. Or because the names of the songs are funky. Or because the reviews are good. Oh, don't care, why, just check it out. It's a deep, dark groove designed for late-night sonic mind-f**ks. Trip with this album.

If you want an idea of what it is, I'm not the guy to do it. I listen to everything from Leadbelly to Autechre, Digable Planets to Ani DiFranco and everything in between, but I have no place to categorize this. I would say, however, if you've arrived here via Buckethead, approach with caution--his guitar wizardry is kept tastefully to the task at hand: a spacey, down-tempo, evil jam. I think people coming from the area of Aphex Twin, Plaid, and Squarepusher would most immediately dig this album. Though it is not like any of those artists, really.

Just check it out.

New wave of dub.......1999-07-31

Having never heard the cd i had the priveleg of seeing the "devil dub" band play in SF. It blew my mind, going primarly to hear buckethead play i was blown away by what i heard. This is a very mellow brand of dub with a nice wash of electronic beats to keep it progressing. my favourite track is probably track 4.

A very strange CD - ambient music mix.......1999-07-09

Listening to this CD (if it were not for some dubbed in voice overs) would be like listening to the sound track of a good horror movie.

If you are going for the ambient horror music mix this is 5 star CD.

On the negative side, some of the tracks sound downright evil.

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