It's not easy for me to give my honest opinion about this album. Maybe I shouldn't write anything, but I guess I can't help it. I'll say it right away, but I'm actually a little ashamed of my "opinion."
My impression is that they wanted to appear particularly serious here.
Or Rasta is just getting a bit tired. Or maybe you just need a particularly (!) comfortable couch for this DubVersions. I'm not in the mood for an enthusiastic comment. It all just sort of trickles right past me. I can't completely escape it, but real "DubJoy" doesn't come to mind. I've already hinted at it, and although I actually think it's okay, sometimes I'm not really satisfied when Roberto Sanchez DubWizard does. He often doesn't get to the point where I can DubI have more fun with it than with ordinary instrumentals. And these instrumentals sound a bit tired to me, I must admit. I even had the original instrumental in my top 5 before, if I'm not mistaken. But that was a mix-up, which I've silently ignored here, because the DubThe train had already moved on. When I listened to the album again, all I heard from start to finish was the sound of fans... But that's long since "history."
The album reawakens in me the thought that some, or perhaps even many, musicians are not at all happy about there being people like me “hanging around” somewhere in the big wide world who would much rather have their carefully recorded instrumentals “tinkered with” with reverb and echo and all sorts of other fancy effects. If that’s the case, I’m sorry, but I think you can enrich an instrumental (the raw material of a piece of music) with vocals, as well as overload it with wind instruments. So why shouldn’t effects and samples enrich an instrumental too?! Nobody has ever said the opposite, but it sometimes seems to me as if this could be an unspoken truth for some musicians.
Since there are many DubWizards who do it the way I like it best, Roberto Sanchez can of course continue like this, but his DubSometimes, mostly, very often, they're a bit too banal for me. It's good if at least the instrumentals add enough fuel to the fire. But there's also enough intangible cultural heritage from Roberto Sanchez, such as Upyard's album "Sufferah's Time."
Which I just discovered. I have no idea if it's new or older. In any case, the instrumental foundation is very promising.
Ok DubBlog! Somehow I can't shake the feeling that I had a real rant today. It shouldn't happen again.
But it's probably only a matter of time before it happens again.
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Here is the Bandcamp link: https://fruitsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/from-dub-til-now
It's not easy for me to give my honest opinion about this album. Maybe I shouldn't write anything, but I guess I can't help it. I'll say it right away, but I'm actually a little ashamed of my "opinion."
My impression is that they wanted to appear particularly serious here.
Or Rasta is just getting a bit tired. Or maybe you just need a particularly (!) comfortable couch for this DubVersions. I'm not in the mood for an enthusiastic comment. It all just sort of trickles right past me. I can't completely escape it, but real "DubJoy" doesn't come to mind. I've already hinted at it, and although I actually think it's okay, sometimes I'm not really satisfied when Roberto Sanchez DubWizard does. He often doesn't get to the point where I can DubI have more fun with it than with ordinary instrumentals. And these instrumentals sound a bit tired to me, I must admit. I even had the original instrumental in my top 5 before, if I'm not mistaken. But that was a mix-up, which I've silently ignored here, because the DubThe train had already moved on. When I listened to the album again, all I heard from start to finish was the sound of fans... But that's long since "history."
The album reawakens in me the thought that some, or perhaps even many, musicians are not at all happy about there being people like me “hanging around” somewhere in the big wide world who would much rather have their carefully recorded instrumentals “tinkered with” with reverb and echo and all sorts of other fancy effects. If that’s the case, I’m sorry, but I think you can enrich an instrumental (the raw material of a piece of music) with vocals, as well as overload it with wind instruments. So why shouldn’t effects and samples enrich an instrumental too?! Nobody has ever said the opposite, but it sometimes seems to me as if this could be an unspoken truth for some musicians.
Since there are many DubWizards who do it the way I like it best, Roberto Sanchez can of course continue like this, but his DubSometimes, mostly, very often, they're a bit too banal for me. It's good if at least the instrumentals add enough fuel to the fire. But there's also enough intangible cultural heritage from Roberto Sanchez, such as Upyard's album "Sufferah's Time."
Which I just discovered. I have no idea if it's new or older. In any case, the instrumental foundation is very promising.
Ok DubBlog! Somehow I can't shake the feeling that I had a real rant today. It shouldn't happen again.
But it's probably only a matter of time before it happens again.
Until ………………… lemmi