VARIOUS ARTISTS
Below The Radar - The Best Of WordSound Dub (ROIR)
Reviewed by Shaun Dale

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WordSound, purveyors of Crooklyn dub for some seven years, has, over that time, developed an anti-commercial ethic that's kept the sounds real, but has kept a fair amount of the possibly interested public from knowing anything about them. With ROIR's somewhat better developed distribution position, some of that will change, hopefully. I really don't think that just a bit more success will spoil the Crooklyn dub posse, and while I understand honcho Skiz Fernando, Jr.'s desire to keep the art up front and the business considerations nearly invisible, it would be a good thing all around if more people heard what the WordSound acts have been up to.

So what have they been up to? Pulling together some of the darkest, psycho-warp, lost and found sound laden, hip hoppin' dub music you can imagine. In fact, until you hear it, you probably can't imagine it, unless you're the one doing it. Pump up the bass, turn up the volume and drop down below the radar. It's a solid sound. Word.

Track List:

WordSound I-Powa/Dungeon Of Dub * Dubadelic/Operation Duppy Conqueror 2001 * Slotek/Born God * Nightstalker/Mayday * Roots Control/Forward Roots * spectre/Revelations * Slotek/One * The Weakener/Closed Door * Dubadelic/High * Bill Laswell & Style Scott/Crooklyn Dub Syndicate * Scarab/Fall Of The Towers Of Convention * The Eye/Stolen Moments

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