[foxtrot]

Sorry dude, I'm at work otherwise I'd rip it for you! Am writing a bit of a reaction if you're interested. Maybe will post and spoiler for anyone who wants to go in totally fresh.

[tdegenaro]

foxtrot wrote:

Sorry dude, I'm at work otherwise I'd rip it for you! Am writing a bit of a reaction if you're interested. Maybe will post and spoiler for anyone who wants to go in totally fresh.

def spoiler it but i am 1000% interested and i can wait until midnight i'm jus playin!

[foxtrot]

Reaction/write up/review (fair bit of detail so spoilered for those who want to know nothing!):

TL;DR - its fucking great.

Spoiler: show

This is quite possibly the only remix album I have immediately loved. What Adrian Sherwood nails here is keeping the playful and joyful elements of the original record intact. In fact, this interpretation is often even more buoyant and light hearted than the original Reset. Sherwood manages the hazy, lysergic power of classic dub while also injecting plenty of sprightly horns and other overdubs that give the record more of a bright, party feeling despite the slow, thick dub tempos and low end.

Gettin’ to the Point Dub:
Packed with classic spacey siren synths, a dank AF dub bassline and beat, playful party time horns and flutes. This sets the scene perfectly. Its fun, has a deep groove and touches on everything that makes a classic dub record without desecrating the source material!

Go on Dub:
Love that Sherwood empahsised the 'eh' at the start. This one is much more ethereal and uses more of Panda's original vocal. Blue sky synths float by mimicking the main vocal melody while stabs of guitar scatter into the air and bongos keep some connection with the earth below. Classic dub elements like heaps of echo and reverb on the vocal snippets.

Everyday Dub:
Centres around a few key elements like Sonic Boom's cool, detached montone vocal, lots of spacey synth blasts and a wonky little robotic (vocal or guitar? hard to tell) sample. Each element has heaps of room to breathe.

Edge of the Edge Dub:
One of the most melodically engaging tracks on Reset - Sherwood knows this and keeps more of the original vocals and melodies here than on any other track. Some awesome tremolo and reverb gives the guitar a woozy, lazy, sun kissed feeling. Panda's vocal is almost untouched and sounds great over the top of a nice juicy dub beat and bassline. When the second half starts playing with the vocal line with lots of echo and phasing the song starts to spiral into a trippy wonderland. Sparkling and open hearted. Its simple kaleidoscopic feeling is childlike and beautiful. A wonderous reinterpretation.

In My Body Dub:
Opens with the title lyrics just like the original but places them gently onto a shifting and swaying waterbed of roots reggae rhythm and subtle dub effects. This one has an almost new age, 80s city pop soothing kind of feeling with its retro-futurist synths and the smooth trumpet and piano figures littered throughout.

Whirlpool Dub:
The beat here, though emphasising the offbeat like most reggae/dub has a slightly more bouncing electronic feeling. The effects are here in droves though. Panda's vocal picked apart and sent flying in all kinds of directions. The cello is a really unique addition here, grounding things and giving a certain wistful gravitas to the swirling and chirping effects.

Danger Dub:
One of the most exciting and adventurous tracks here. The first half has a faster tempo than most other tracks. It positively bounces along with the shameless, naïve cheerfulness of a toddler on sunny Sunday morning. Sprightly dancehall style beat, exuberant horns and lots of vocal dubbing. Then halfway through the whole thing just sudden melts like an ice cream in the sun. The track pools on the pavement and then resurrects itself as a mangled, grotesque mess of warped vocals. Like the rainbow swirls of the ice cream merging into a lurid purplish mass. The track does pick itself back up (with the horns helping it along) but maintains this awkward psychedelic feeling until the end. Which is obviously fantastic.

Livin’ in the After Dub:
This one does a wonderful job of keeping things fresh with its use of melodica and cello. The feeling here is clean and pastoral. Bright and packed with the joy of a drive in the French countryside on a brilliant day. Sherwood's arrangement here somehow heightens the smile inducing brilliance of Lennox's original melody.

Everything’s Been Leading to This Dub:
Firstly, how awesome that the collection ends with a song now labelled 'Everything’s Been Leading to This Dub'... gold. Sonic Boom's deep powerful voice dominates the first part. A great contrast to the choir-boy sweetness of Panda's vocal in the 'Livin' In The After'. The jubilant horns and cello here are just straight up good-natured, open hearted fun. The Spanish style guitar mirroring Panda's 'hear it comes, hear it comes' melody are wonderful. The wild manipulation of Sonic Boom's vocals towards the end send us swirling in a final ecstatic moment of dubby bliss.

I rarely listen to remixes and even rarer still will I indulge in entire remix albums. This is a massive exception and an absolute gem. The fact that the entire album is tackled by one artist (Adrian Sherwood) lends consistency and thematic coherency to the project. Sherwood does a fantastic job on multiple accounts. He keeps plenty of what made Reset great - this will appeal to anyone who enjoyed that album. He keeps lots of the original vocals yet also has plenty of fun with them at the same time. He employs lots of classic dub techniques but also delivers something fresh and new. He uses some organic instruments as tasteful overdubs (the horns and cello in particular) but never attempts to 'rewrite' the songs.

It is 100% gold in my opinion. A rich, smile inducing playground of sound that is both familiar and novel. Dive in and bathe. Good times are here.

[meys]

wow everything HAS been leading to this dub. this kicks ass

[bullseye]

Love the vibe of this. I only listened to this once so far, but I think I already prefer the dub version of everyday to the original

[coral lord]

this is a very fun remix album

go on is a revelation

[Stan]

Really keen to listen but bandcamp haven't got it up yet. I would buy it from domino direct but I use the bandcamp app most days to listen to AC stuff. What a conundrum.

[Stan]

I pre-ordered on BC and about thirty seconds later got a notification saying it had released. I guess my purchase reminded someone to push the button. You're welcome!

I'm really enjoying this, a great way to refresh an album that I absolutely caned. I dig the abstract structure, feels very fresh and surprising, lots of left turns and twists and flips.

[jfw7]

yeah it's a much more aggressive/assertive listen than i expected. reset seems like a rich framework for remixes / versions — i think i was imagining it as a more static point of reference but the dubs aren't afraid to jump off

[meys]

man this dub makes me wish i had stems for this record, this seems like SUCH a fun remix subject

[Stan]

jfw7 wrote:

yeah it's a much more aggressive/assertive listen than i expected. reset seems like a rich framework for remixes / versions — i think i was imagining it as a more static point of reference but the dubs aren't afraid to jump off

That's it man, exactly. I think because the songs are quite 'tracky' to use that old house music term, they're absolutely ripe forced his kind of playful kind of restructuring.

[lhtd]

Surprised at how much I dig a remix LP. Really well done, I'm vibing.

And yeah Go On Dub is a revelation -- good phrase, coral lord

[tdegenaro]

foxtrot wrote:

Reaction/write up/review (fair bit of detail so spoilered for those who want to know nothing!):

TL;DR - its fucking great.

Spoiler: show

This is quite possibly the only remix album I have immediately loved. What Adrian Sherwood nails here is keeping the playful and joyful elements of the original record intact. In fact, this interpretation is often even more buoyant and light hearted than the original Reset. Sherwood manages the hazy, lysergic power of classic dub while also injecting plenty of sprightly horns and other overdubs that give the record more of a bright, party feeling despite the slow, thick dub tempos and low end.

Gettin’ to the Point Dub:
Packed with classic spacey siren synths, a dank AF dub bassline and beat, playful party time horns and flutes. This sets the scene perfectly. Its fun, has a deep groove and touches on everything that makes a classic dub record without desecrating the source material!

Go on Dub:
Love that Sherwood empahsised the 'eh' at the start. This one is much more ethereal and uses more of Panda's original vocal. Blue sky synths float by mimicking the main vocal melody while stabs of guitar scatter into the air and bongos keep some connection with the earth below. Classic dub elements like heaps of echo and reverb on the vocal snippets.

Everyday Dub:
Centres around a few key elements like Sonic Boom's cool, detached montone vocal, lots of spacey synth blasts and a wonky little robotic (vocal or guitar? hard to tell) sample. Each element has heaps of room to breathe.

Edge of the Edge Dub:
One of the most melodically engaging tracks on Reset - Sherwood knows this and keeps more of the original vocals and melodies here than on any other track. Some awesome tremolo and reverb gives the guitar a woozy, lazy, sun kissed feeling. Panda's vocal is almost untouched and sounds great over the top of a nice juicy dub beat and bassline. When the second half starts playing with the vocal line with lots of echo and phasing the song starts to spiral into a trippy wonderland. Sparkling and open hearted. Its simple kaleidoscopic feeling is childlike and beautiful. A wonderous reinterpretation.

In My Body Dub:
Opens with the title lyrics just like the original but places them gently onto a shifting and swaying waterbed of roots reggae rhythm and subtle dub effects. This one has an almost new age, 80s city pop soothing kind of feeling with its retro-futurist synths and the smooth trumpet and piano figures littered throughout.

Whirlpool Dub:
The beat here, though emphasising the offbeat like most reggae/dub has a slightly more bouncing electronic feeling. The effects are here in droves though. Panda's vocal picked apart and sent flying in all kinds of directions. The cello is a really unique addition here, grounding things and giving a certain wistful gravitas to the swirling and chirping effects.

Danger Dub:
One of the most exciting and adventurous tracks here. The first half has a faster tempo than most other tracks. It positively bounces along with the shameless, naïve cheerfulness of a toddler on sunny Sunday morning. Sprightly dancehall style beat, exuberant horns and lots of vocal dubbing. Then halfway through the whole thing just sudden melts like an ice cream in the sun. The track pools on the pavement and then resurrects itself as a mangled, grotesque mess of warped vocals. Like the rainbow swirls of the ice cream merging into a lurid purplish mass. The track does pick itself back up (with the horns helping it along) but maintains this awkward psychedelic feeling until the end. Which is obviously fantastic.

Livin’ in the After Dub:
This one does a wonderful job of keeping things fresh with its use of melodica and cello. The feeling here is clean and pastoral. Bright and packed with the joy of a drive in the French countryside on a brilliant day. Sherwood's arrangement here somehow heightens the smile inducing brilliance of Lennox's original melody.

Everything’s Been Leading to This Dub:
Firstly, how awesome that the collection ends with a song now labelled 'Everything’s Been Leading to This Dub'... gold. Sonic Boom's deep powerful voice dominates the first part. A great contrast to the choir-boy sweetness of Panda's vocal in the 'Livin' In The After'. The jubilant horns and cello here are just straight up good-natured, open hearted fun. The Spanish style guitar mirroring Panda's 'hear it comes, hear it comes' melody are wonderful. The wild manipulation of Sonic Boom's vocals towards the end send us swirling in a final ecstatic moment of dubby bliss.

I rarely listen to remixes and even rarer still will I indulge in entire remix albums. This is a massive exception and an absolute gem. The fact that the entire album is tackled by one artist (Adrian Sherwood) lends consistency and thematic coherency to the project. Sherwood does a fantastic job on multiple accounts. He keeps plenty of what made Reset great - this will appeal to anyone who enjoyed that album. He keeps lots of the original vocals yet also has plenty of fun with them at the same time. He employs lots of classic dub techniques but also delivers something fresh and new. He uses some organic instruments as tasteful overdubs (the horns and cello in particular) but never attempts to 'rewrite' the songs.

It is 100% gold in my opinion. A rich, smile inducing playground of sound that is both familiar and novel. Dive in and bathe. Good times are here.

man thank you so much for this, rode the vibes of this comment until my first listen which, since you said it all already, is just "wow"

[rohcti]

Have only listened to half, but it's really good. Go On dub might be my fave so far.

[destiny]

Broooo the fucking horns on everyday hahahaha. This is fucking awesome

[coral lord]

Danger’s slow down feels so…earned. The clip posted last week didn’t do it any justice. This is a summer, light one up, crack open another beer kinda album. It’s hitting right boys.

[unrecordednight]

when i heard about this project right away i felt like living in the after was gonna sound the best dub-ified and def still feel that way after hearing, it's so good

[foxtrot]

4 listens in and this thing is an absolute joy.

And it fucking bumps in the whip.

Glad my rantings got you through tdegenaro!

Also agree about Go On being a revelation. Was the one song that used its central sample too heavily. The way Sherwood uses a manipulated version of it sporadically here is amazing. The melody feels so much brighter here too.

[Hellomark]

Yeah this is amazing, totally nailed it. It's like the wacky fun house mirror version of the album in the best way. So many amazing moments.

[rohcti]

Danger's a bit cracked innit

[Fovrodi]

Listened to a snippet or two so did not know what to expect, wow this was a blast to listen to in the bath with a beer. Will definitely be re-listening until the end of summer

[evan6032]

They’re taking that bass for a walk on the everything’s been leading dub I tell you hwhat

[howsoever]

Damn, I’m really in love with the Livin’ in the After Dub. Love Everything’s Been Leading to This Dub too but, for some reason, it made me want a Morricone spaghetti western version of that song more

[foxtrot]

Livin in the After Dub is like driving through the French countryside

[roopn]

Man so excited to hear this thing

[foxtrot]

It’s been out for at least 30 hours or so in Aus roop, what are you doing?!

[roopn]

Dang life has been in the way!!! It'll be in my ears by days end

[glenbeige]

Put this on walking to work today and was getting some strange looks from people...realized after a few blocks that it was the massive grin on my face and the fact that I was swaying and bobbing like Ras Trent. Just totally lost in the music and kept it going for the next 15 blocks lmao.

What a fucking record...might have more to say later but if we're talking early favorites, definitely that first trio

[tdegenaro]

Nice review over on P4K if ya like that sort of thing

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pa ... et-in-dub/

[blindmowing]

On a camping trip so not here to say too much but I loaded this up last night and listened in my tent before bed and it was a majestic experience

Absolutely wonderful reimaginings…opening up new portals to each of these tracks

So damn good. Reset album of the summer 2 years runnin’

[hypo's]

oh fuck this dub is hittin

[andthephantom]

It’s basically a crazy good version of the terrible meandering that bounces around my brain when Reset tracks are stuck in my head. Certain lines start, then suddenly stop. Some tracks expand (Danger!! So good). Forget verse lyrics? Leave them out. Remember them? Leave them (mostly)in. Add random sax. Quiet some hand clapping. Turn up others. Etcetera etcetera

Majestic

[rohcti]

It's really nice, I've listened a few times through now. EBLTT is a big glow up, I also still really like how Go On has been rearranged and Livin in the After is sick as well. I love how many of the song structures have been altered completely. Great job to everyone involved

[foxtrot]

Man the more I listen to this the more natural it feels. Like the songs were meant to be this way. Everything's Been Leading To This Dub.

[tdegenaro]

foxtrot wrote:

Man the more I listen to this the more natural it feels. Like the songs were meant to be this way. Everything's Been Leading To This Dub.

yeah this is totally my experience too. i've listened to it in the car, in headphones at home, earbuds on a walk, while working, while napping, and in every single context and experience it just friggin' works. its perfect workin' tunes to kinda ignore, its perfect walkin' tunes to zone in on, it whips ass in the car (can not wait for the cds to ship). man man man. just a delightful little record.

[Dusty]

Livin in the after is my comfort song, dub or og. I can’t think of any other song like it that’s come out recently that I can throw on at genuinely any time and feel so happy and the dub version is soooo sick like those cellos and is that a mellotron? Or a midi harmonica either way I love it

[archie]

is it possible for someone to rip that patreon pbear interview? Heaps keen to watch tbh all g if not

[dio]

Everyday dub is amazing and beautiful. And it's not necessarily one of my faves on the og.

This is your relistenable for working/work outs and sauna listening

[slumphomunculus]

Anyway anyone can gimme some feedback on this track? I was going to give PB & SB a copy of my CD when they were in Seattle but I royally chickened out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4hzXiZKQ2U

And would love to see if anyone can spot the Animal Collective related sample in here...

[jordanrandall]

archie wrote:

is it possible for someone to rip that patreon pbear interview? Heaps keen to watch tbh all g if not