Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission

Bill Laswell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Palm Pictures
• ASIN: B00005O7U8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,314 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Rythm, October 22, 2001

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Xam "mixed media man" (nyc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission (Audio CD)

This album by Bill Laswell & friends is very, very good. The beats are driven by the bass lines, and the overall production of each track is great. There are very interesting and excellent drum rythms, which can best be described as tribal or worldly (mostly African). There is also a Jamaican dub stlye influence which mixes perfectly with the nature of the album. The overdubbing of electronic ambient sounds adds to the rich production landscape. I really love the combination of tribal and traditional type rythms with modern electronic effects and sounds. The crossing of these two forms is terrific and produces a unique sound. By taking the best elements from various forms of music this album doesn't let down. 5 Stars.

Another Bill Laswell album that crosses the genres of electronica and tribal sounds perfectly is Tabla Beat Science: Tala Matrix. Check it out, especially if you like Radioaxiom: A Dub Tranmission.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of All-Time Top 3 Cd Albums....., November 11, 2003

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fetish_2000 (U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission (Audio CD)

Firstly let it be known that this is one of my all time favourite albums (in my Top 3), Purely because nobody creates mood, sound, emotion & transcendence as effortlessly capable as Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell. Both phenomenally talented artists & musicians, that have been involved in a great many bands/ projects / and musical movements for quite some time. To dismiss that album as stoner-Dub music would be incredibly foolish....each track builds from the most simplistic of instruments (such as heavy bass guitars, and sitars & drums), and every rotational chorus to comes around, is layered with another set of instruments (usually quiet trombone & Trumpet playing), and once the track has evolved into an east European / Asian balancing of World music & subtle Jazz Grooves....wonderfully pianos & Asian / African renowned singers (Sly Dunbar, Nils Petter Molvær, Amina Claudine Myers), create a mood & ambience that can't be reasonably be matched by similar artists......the music is a great many, many things (Grooved-out, intelligently psychedelic, progressive Jazz/world music grooves, sophisticated Dub, heavily textured ambient melodies, beautiful mind music......and yet even all those accolades doesn't do the music justice (as it's so much more than that). When you sometimes hear people refer to music as being `Life-altering', `influential', `Deeply moving' & most of all `Spiritual'.....its music like this that they are referring to, and undoubtedly one of the reasons why music affects & touch's us emotionally in so many ways.....a transcendial album.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An intense release by Laswell..., September 24, 2001

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Jorge E. Borda "unida20" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission (Audio CD)

Laswell is probably one of the most interesting producers out there and this release shows it. Some people think that a lot of his stuff is boring which I could understand. I wouldn't recommend buying everything he ever put out because usually half the CD has merit. But there's a lot of experimentation here and (as usual) a perfect blend of mixing cross cultural music with modern landscapes. There isn't another prodigy like Laswell and if you don't know who he is I'd suggest this release or EMERALD AETHER. Bill Laswell, the true surgical sound master of music.