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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 7314524061250
Label: Commercial Marketing
Manufacturer: Commercial Marketing
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Commercial Marketing
Release Date: August 01, 2002
Running Time: 53 minutes
Studio: Commercial Marketing
Sales Rank: 37018
Disc 1:- Bug Powder Dust - Bomb The Bass, Justin Warfield
- Sleepyhead - Bim Sherman, Bomb The Bass
- One To One Religion - Carlton, Bomb The Bass
- Darkheart - Bomb The Bass
- If You Reach The Border - Bomb The Bass
- Braindead - Bomb The Bass
- 5ml Barrel - Bomb The Bass
- Somewhere - Bomb The Bass
- Sandcastles - Bernard Fowler, Bomb The Bass
- Tidal Wave - Bomb The Bass, River
- Empire - Benjamin Zephaniah, Sinead O'Connor, Bomb The Bass
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Tim Simenon's 1995 album could be compared to Massive Attack and Portishead albums from around the same time. It's definitely got that Bristol sound, rolling dubby basslines, crisp vinyl-sounding beats. The fact it's got that feel makes it seem a bit dated but overall it's very serious but it just shines with quality from a brilliant producer. It's also good that there's a few tracks with a bit more 'kick' thrown in for good measure.
There's some high-quality guest appearances as well- Sinead O'Connor, Benjamin Zephaniah, Will Self, Justin Warfield. Well worth a listen.
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Tim Simenon crashes headlong into William Burrough's Naked Lunch world with Bug Powder Dust, the outstanding single from the album. The rest of the album follows suit. With the accompanying single Darkheart being one of the 100 most evil things of the 20th Century. Will Self covers himself in glory narrating the seminal 5mm Barrels. "bloody flyovers" indeed. Each track leaves its own mark on you and you will feel by the end of the album that you need to wash, take more excercise and possibly move to the country. (Quick antidote is to put on a St. Etienne CD instead). Whilst all the other are good eery painful tracks, and Empire & one-to-one religion (Peppers & Rogers?) stand out, you will keep coming back to the fact that Bug Powder ... Read More:
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If you've bought this album after hearing a sample of 'Bug Powder Dust' off the Dirt Chamber Sessions, as I did, then prepared to be suprised. Rather than being a collection of raw, bass-heavy big-beat style tunes, 'Clear' is a somewhat weird collection of spaced-out dubby tracks featuring random people such as the rastsa poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Don't let all this put you off though as the tracks on 'Clear' are as original and well constructed as they are odd. If you are into the more obscure end of dance music then this is a must-have. Production quality is a little sub-standard and it may well take you more than one listen to get used to. Enjoy, I do.3/5 LP
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Well what can you say. I only bought the album because I'd been looking for Bug Powder Dust for ages and had never got round to getting it. I listened to the rest of it then ignored it for a few months. Then when I had a few spare minutes I went back to it. To be honest I'm amazed. Ignore tracks 2-5 and go straight in at number 6 from then on its a rollercoaster of an album with no two tracks the same. On realising what the band were trying to do, it became obvious I'd seriously underestimated them on my first play of the CD. Well worth 5 stars if only for rhyming 'brain damage' with 'underneath the mash potata the kids hide the cabbage'.
You'll not see that anywhere else.
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To be honest, I only bought this album for the first track Bug Powder Dust, which is quite possibly one of The Best Songs Ever. The rest of the album has its charms: Will Self on 5ml Barrel, and Dark Heart among others. Every song is completely different to the others, so if you've heard Bug Powder Dust, don't expect anymore stuff like that. But it is worth it just for that.
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