Warrior Dubz: Guardian Review

speecees · Post by **speecees** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:15 pm

4/5

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic ... 67,00.html

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:47 pm

The review doesn't really say anything and totally neglects the none dubstep tracks. It's not bad though and it's great to have it in the Guardian.

adruu · Post by **adruu** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:59 pm

eh, too short...

so anyone have a name for the cover art people? same as various's artwork also...

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:25 pm

ADRUU wrote:eh, too short...

so anyone have a name for the cover art people? same as various's artwork also...

i believe his name is david bray.

mary anne hobbs · Post by **mary anne hobbs** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:42 pm

you're right the artist's name is is David Bray...

there's one more Warrior Dubz girl yet to be revealed on the album artwork!

Girl X is on the sleeve
Girl Y is on the flyer for the party at Mass (and the sleeve too)
and there's Girl Z that you haven't see at all yet

m/a.. x

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:02 pm

Result! And from reading the text, it might be another 5/5 review moderated down to 4/5 by a cautious editor a la Simon Reynolds' Burial review in the indie. Also

Dubstep's sonic palette is one of cavernous bass twinned with skanking beats and the occasional sample. It is dark and murky, an instrumental reflection of gloomy London nights, but the dancefloor imperative of Digital Mystikz's Anti-War Dub or Burial's Versus is hard to resist. It is also intensely physical - the broad brushstrokes of bass that underpin the sampled police sirens and club chatter on Loefah's Mud VIP seem designed to make your entire body judder

completely doesn't miss the point in the way that these things normally do. Who is Alex MacPherson, and how come he writes for a broadsheet yet appears to know what he's talking about?

Good likeness of Mary-Ann on the cover, too...

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:16 pm

Is this coming out on vinyl too?

fushimi · Post by **fushimi** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:20 pm

Corpsey wrote:Is this coming out on vinyl too?

Yes. 15 tracks on 3 12s though, gonna be a tight fit.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:28 pm

Have you got a tracklist?

fushimi · Post by **fushimi** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:32 pm

Corpsey wrote:Have you got a tracklist?

From Boomkat:

Milanese Vs Virus Syndicate – ‘Dead Man Walking’
Benga – ‘Music Box’
Andy Stott – ‘Black’
Amit – ‘Too Many Freedoms’
Digital Mystikz feat. Spen G – ‘Anti-War Dub’
JME (Wiley beat) – ‘Pence’
Burial – ‘Versus’
Plastician feat Shizzle, Fresh & Napper – ‘Cha Vocal’
The Bug feat Flowdan – ‘Jah War’
Terror Danjah feat Mz Bratt & Bruza – ‘Give It To Em’
Various Production feat MC Vex – ‘In This’
Spor – ‘Hydra’
Loefah feat Sgt Pokes – ‘Mud VIP’
DJ Distance & Crazy D – ‘Worries Again’
Kode 9 & Spaceape – ‘Kingstown (vocal)’

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:37 pm

Woah

Cheers

I'm annoyed I'm missing that night, in Amsterdam unfortunately/fortunately.

mary anne hobbs · Post by **mary anne hobbs** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:44 pm

yes vinyl is ON!!
3X vinyl 12"s as one album, featuring ALL tracks on the CD version and a beautiful gatefold sleeve...

m/a.. x

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:49 pm

Large

mos dan · Post by **mos dan** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:02 pm

Slothrop wrote:Who is Alex MacPherson, and how come he writes for a broadsheet yet appears to know what he's talking about?.

it does happen occasionally you know. although as boom says, it's treated as if it's a dubstep compilation, which is rather narrow.

as to who he is, i've never seen his name before in the guardian... google reveals little. maybe it's an alias.

mos dan · Post by **mos dan** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:05 pm

http://alexmacpherson.livejournal.com/133718.html

feel a bit twatty for posting that link, it's just... apparently he thinks burial is a they not a he

jim · Post by **jim** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:11 pm

He doesn't really particularly know much about dubstep. But it's as good a review as you will ever get in the Guardian I'd reckon!

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