From Philip Sherburne Sent Tue, Mar 9th 1999, 16:27
From Philip Sherburne Sent Tue, Mar 9th 1999, 16:27
De Babalon's "If you're into it I'm out of it" is a great record, and not at
all typical DHR (for the record, I friggin' loathe DHR). In somewhat the
same way that Surgeon fuses dark ambiance and techno, CDB brings together
oppressive, isolationist sound-wash with dark drum'n'bass. Three of the
tracks are straight ambient drone, no beats whatsoever; the rest of the
record is jungle, not really in the vein of any particular school (techstep,
ambient, etc.). Definitely dark & pissed off, but not nearly as harsh as
tech-step. There's even some Christian Vogelesque bleepery in there.
For a review of the album, see:
http://www.urbansounds.com/archives/us_dec_97/us_jungle_debabalon.html
It's also worth picking up De Babalon's DHR 12" if you can find it ("Seven
Up" or something like that?). His track on a Ghetto Safari 12" isn't
nearly so good.
phil