Search - Bill Laswell :: Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter Two

Bill Laswell has been one of the most interesting producers to emerge since the 1980s. The variety of his adventurous projects is endless, ranging from various world musics to jazz, electronic, funk, punk, and rock. His landmark efforts in recent years have been his re-imagining of the works of Santana, Bob Marley, and Miles Davis, wherein he hyper-dubs original source tapes into music that is seamless, haunting, and surreal. Here he gets some of the finest source material in Jamaican dub music (stuff from the Trojan Records vaults by the Upsetters, Augustus Pablo, Prince Jammy, and King Tubby) and re-dubs them. With the original dubs already way out there, it's often hard to tell where the original dub leaves off and the new Laswell production begins, but it's apparent that he didn't radically rework these. This is the companion piece to Chapter Two and is definitely the heavier and weirder of the two discs, which is a good thing. --Tad Hendrickson