Here we have a nice confirmation of my old thesis that Dub can also work without reggae: "Up to the sky“(Night Time Stories) means that Dub-Reworking of the 2018 album Con Todo El Mundo by the Texan trio Khruangbin. This trio around the singer Laura Lee has nothing to do with reggae, but plays - here it comes - Thai funk! What? Thai funk is the Thai adaptation of Afro-American funk. Khruangbin thus imitate the imitation - and thus achieve over 20.000 streams on Spotify. Weird! This popular Thai imitation is now through the Dub-Wolf has been turned by a hitherto fairly unknown Dub-Collective from Texas: Brilliantes Del Vuelo. The Dub- They have accomplished their work in the spirit of their master and the bands: Overton "Scientist" Brown - and so we finally come to familiar territory. Its old Channel One albums not only served singer Laura Lee as an exercise template for learning to play the bass, but the band in the first place on the taste of Dub brought. “Hasta el cielo” pays homage to him and his style with every echo. So a - admittedly - quite exciting template turns into a very spacey, intricate, demanding and at the same time hypnotizing one Dub-Work that revels in bass and reverb, but remains completely true to the funk groove. Instead of filling them up with effects, Brilliantes Del Vuelo disassembled the originals into their individual parts, disposed of everything that was not absolutely necessary and then reassembled the rest into minimal tunes with maximum space. Khruanbin guitarist Mark Speer brings the essence of the Dub in one apt sentence to the point: "Dub is like an X-ray image of an album. ”That's right, the man understood what it was all about: reduction and transparency. Reverb and echo are only used to create additional empty space to make the instruments appear even more isolated. Here every hit on the snare, every plucked bass note and - above all - every pause between the notes counts. And to top it all off, Scientist himself has so-called
3 responses to "Khruangbin: Hasta el cielo"
High René!
This is actually a "quick shot" from me. I've only skipped through so far and everyone Dub "Randomly" heard. But I almost always do it that way, and most of the time I can “make everything clear” for myself personally.
I am also a supporter of your thesis, but I have to honestly say that this didn't work out so well for me. Also at Krautrock in Dub did that not work for me. Maybe I have to DubThere is more time and leisure here, but basically I already lack the foundation for (from my point of view) good things Dub. Do I really have to write it again or by now everyone knows what I mean. Well, one more time (?): Biassline… .. you know what I mean? Very bulky for me. Come
just not grooving. The lady didn't really listen to Channel One (?).
And what I also find interesting is the only two Dubs, with a soothing bass sound (they don't really groove with me either) the two are, where Scientest says "on the back". Was the entire album really mixed by Scientist? ……………… ..
Maybe my question has already been answered, but when it comes to “sucking”, I have a complete educational gap. I don't know what that means.
Goodbye first ……………… .. lemmi
Greetings
For days I've been trying to listen to the album, sometimes concentrated, sometimes as background music. So far I can only say that this somewhat funky music doesn't affect me. The “engine fly”, as the Thai word Khruangbin is literally translated, keeps crashing. The last two tracks, mixed by Hopeton Overton Brown, are best at the end.
After all, one can positively mention that it is away from the off-beat riddim.
You make me happy, Ras Vorbei !
I have found my “perfect pitch” again, or so it seems to me. If the last two Dubs are actually the only titles mixed by Scientist, so that's not just visually true, as his name is mentioned again in the title,
but also in terms of content, because the overall sound is much more like that Dub sounds. Here the bass has at least what it needs
Whomp, even if the line still doesn't grab me.
However, I would like - no, I have to - contradict you about the offbeat, because I feel completely different.
It doesn't always have to be reggae, that's how I see it (although I wouldn't miss anything if it were) but
without offbeat …………………. no music ! ( to me ). Offbeat is the wrong name anyway, because off - beat is the only one
Riddim really ON THE beat !!! Everything that is not off-beat has no groove. See rock music! And especially “German rock”. This is now a purely superficial, amateurish statement from me, which I cannot or will not prove in any way in terms of musicology. It is not my style to document everything exactly, exactly, correctly. This is mine
Sensations and I have to exaggerate and sometimes overdo it. A professional and especially a journalist
can't and shouldn't approach it like me, otherwise it's dubious journalism. But as a fan and a staunch amateur, I take that out of my mind.
And since there are also such small frills built in here - more or less between the lines - that could lead to the conclusion that I would make fun of professional journalists or even amateur amateurs, I'll write right away that I am just your little one "Disagreement" at "Dub-Coffins “in the back of my mind and therefore a bit
"Messed around". How did that old GDR fuzzy say "I love you all". Only this guy lied about it, while I really mean it with all my heart. Until now anyway!
With this in mind, I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY SLIP!
And everything else you need for a great time.
In any case, I'm going on vacation now until ……………………………. lemmi