Burning Babylon

Burning Babylon

Burning Bablyon - Beat Beat Beat - Sound Shack

So good to see another set from Burning Babylon - the work they have

done in recent years with the sound of the early eighties - the sound

of the Radics as been a revelation - dark - heavy and moody. On this

set they have gone further back in time to the sound of the early

seventies when Scratch and others were playing around with synths - it

was a sound very much dominated by keyboards rather than bass and drum

- the result is too free up the bass and drum - allowing much simpler

patterns to emerge. Clearly infused with the spirit of the keyboard -

we are then thrown into the early digital era - post Radics - but just

before the domination of Jammys and Tubbys. Excellent stuff.

Burning Babylon - Garden Of Dub - Mars Recordings

Many people have wondered about the origins of dub. In Jamaica it was

of course the version era that led to dub, but what of outside

influences. This third CD from Burning Babylon which is in fact the

first CD, (I love this kind of stuff!) provides a big clue. On this

excellent set you will find lots of little musical links way back to

the fifties. I don't know if Slade Anderson/Burning Babylon is a

rockabilly fan, but that is what he's picking up on here, and it all

makes sense, because some of the earliest examples of dubwise come

from people like Bill Haley and the Comets!!! Pure bass and drum with

plenty of echo!!! Anyways this is another magnificent set with some

great playing and a lot of imagination. Its also presented in a great

digipak, featuring some interesting sleevenotes!!! Great stuff.

Burning Babylon - Stereo Mash Up - Mars Records - CD

Slade Anderson comes again with some new style dub - featuring solid

reggae rhythms from a variety of eras mixed in with samples - and like

the first set its all great stuff. Its not roots dub, its just dub -

you can hear the man's real love of reggae music - and that's all it

takes. Trying to reproduce something is not his style. This is dub 30

years on from when dub first made its mark in Jamaica - but what makes

it really good is that its firmly rooted in the reggae tradition.

Samples yes - gimmicks NO! A truly great set all well presented in a

very colourful digipak.

Burning Babylon - Knives To The Treble - Mars - CD

Burning Babylon are trodding on the same path as Twilight Circus -

superheavy weight rhythms inspired by the Radics - only Burning

Babylon are partial to a fx here and there - nothing wrong in that in

moderation and this set sets stay well within the codes of dub laid

down by King Tubby and the rest of the dubmasters of Jamaica. The 13

tracks hit the ground running with 'Roots Fi Cool' and move across the

muscial landscape with all the ease of huge 4X4. Recorded in the US in

NYC - produced and engineered by Odd Jobb it all comes in a very nice

digipak. Now where did they get that title from?