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DUBFLASH.com
Laurent Diouf from France compiled this record for the online magazine www.hypertunez.com. It's a selection of 13 electronic dub tunes: breaks, beats & dub, trance-dub, new-roots available on Htz records.
I like the dub style which goes a little bit more into the techno direction but still concentrates on the dub ingredients. There are some of these tunes featured here: Actuality and Pitch Black for example are present with two massive trance-dub tracks at it's best. A good start for the album.
The long-time-dub-heroes Power Steppers and Alpha & Omega follow with two previously unreleased mixes of two of their classic songs. Pure rootical steppers. DigiDub follow with their typical untypical interpretation of dub before Dublivion kick some really heavy stepper drums (snare!).
The Dub Factory is also present here with a strange "Dub Hop" song, a mix between hip hop beats and reggae music. Different. Of course, Zion Train can't be missing on such a compilation. Yet another version of "Manta Ray" this time. How many versions of this song did they produce in all these years?! ;-)
L. S. Diezel present a very cool song with great skank-samples and breaky beats. MafuCage is a "Hostage In Babylon" and is obviously "mad" as she tell us in this song full of strange beats and noises. Subaqueous Pleezer win the compition in the most freakiest name. Their song hurts your ears due to a bass underneath the surface. Hyper tune!
V-Neck's addition is the illest one, beeps and boops everywhere. And not much more actually ;-) The end of the CD comes with Hedonastik. Rockers is all I can say about it. Sound system style.
This CD is definitely something for the dance fraction. I know some folks would critizise that this is too technoid, too less reggae. But I say, what counts is the music. And the music is excellent for dancing and partying. Even my neighboor liked it when he visited me and the CD was on. And he listens to rock and punk and such stuff. ;-)
Dub Rogue / Dubflash, November 2002
www.dubflash.com
ULTIME ATOME
Conçue initialement comme lextension discographique
de la rubrique du même nom sur le site hypertunez.com, Dub this
net peut également être considérée comme
la version strictement dub de lémission Wreck this mess
(tous les mardis sur lindispensable radio Libertaire à
Paris). Avec Laurent Diouf dans le rôle du selector, il
faut bien-sûr sattendre à écouter du son essentiellement
électronique, et sur ce plan, on nest pas déçu.
Hormis quelques grandes figures telles que Zion Train ou Alpha&Omega,
la part belle est faite aux découvertes prometteuses, et la majorité
des participants nous viennent du Royaume-Uni, même si les Pays-Bas,
la France, les USA et la Nouvelle-Zélande ont aussi délégué
un représentant. Après une entrée en matière baignant dans des
sonorités synthétiques que lon doit à Actuality
et Pitch Black, le tracklisting nous plonge dans une atmosphère digne
des sound systems : rythmes hypnotiques, effets distillés avec parcimonie,
le tout reposant sur des lignes de basse pour le moins imposantes (de Power
Steppers à Dub Factory en passant par Digidub ou Alpha&Omega
).
La dernière partie de cette sélection nous offre en revanche
des morceaux aux rythmes plus percutants et surtout aux constructions beaucoup
plus perturbées, comme en témoignent les performances de L.S.
Diezel, des parisiennes Mafu Cage ou encore du duo anglais V-Neck qui confirme
être toujours aussi barré, après lexcellent «
Dub fiction » sorti sur Law&Auder. En résumé, cette
compilation nous donne à entendre différentes approches du dub
tout en maintenant un niveau de qualité constant. Une vraie réussite,
et aussi un excellent début pour le label HTz, dont on ne manquera
pas de suivre attentivement les prochaines productions. Renseignez-vous dores
et déjà à leur sujet sur www.htz-records.com
Low / Ultime Atome
http://www.zone51.com/ultime-atome/chron/chronik/2002/2002v/vadubthisnet.html
SONOMU.net
Laurent Diouf is rightly globally-renowned for his Internet radio broadcasts 'Wreck This Mess' and the two brilliant eponymous compilations subsequently released. Aside from displaying impeccable taste in his selections, Diouf manages to elicit exclusive tracks and remixes from an all-star roster of his singularly-defined genre of "ambient industrial vs electronic dub vs hypnotic grooves" - folks like Rootsman, Rapoon, Muslimgauze, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System, Spectre, Extremadura, and DJ Spooky along with a host of lesser-known but glittering talents.
Having now also allied himself with the broader-based Hypertunez.com, Diouf curates his first compilation under their auspices. 'Dub This Net' is culled from contributions to its soundbank, and in contrast to the at times flinty brilliance of 'Wreck This Mess', 'Dub This Net' is more polished round the edges, concerning itself more with the new digital dub that has spread from the UK in recent years. Stalwarts Zion Train from that very scene check in with a fine track, as do the always-reliable Alpha & Omega, but as usually is the case with truly entertaining dub compilations, the project rises to prominence due to the surprising performances of unknowns - MafuCage, L. S. Diezel, Subaqueous Pleezer. Check this dub!
Stephen Fruitman / SoNoMu (Sound – Noise – Music), 01 May 2002
http://sonomu.net
THE
WIRE
Hypertunez.com is a website thet gathers together all kinds of electronic music.
One of its most eminent curators is global dub pilot extraordinaire Capitaine
Laurent Diouf, of Wreck This Mess fame, a show on Radio Libertaire in
Paris. Laurent has done as much as anyone to champion dub by any means necessary.
Here he collects new roots, breaks, beats, dub and trance dub from the site's
'Dub This Net' section, which reviews all bass driven things. Highlights are
the tracks involving South London's DigiDub, who always manage to come up with
some twisted angle on the genre, and V-Neck, whose album Dub Fiction
provided one of the most inventive dub outings of last year.
reviewed by Steve Barker in The Wire magazine, issue 209, July 2001
CODA
été 2001
Pour sa première sortie, HTz Records émanation du site,
Hypertunez n'a pas fait dans la demi-mesure. Dub This Net est
en effet une des meilleurs compilations de dub-électronique parues cette
année. Spécialiste maison du dub et de l'electronica, ses deux
domaines de prédilection avec la techno, le selecta, Laurent 'WTM' Diouf,
nous propose en effet pas moins de huit titres et remixes inédits et
cinq pièces exclusives, tous issus de sa rubrique Dub This Net
où l'on retrouve d'ailleurs de plus amples détails sur chacun
des participants. Sa compilation "transdubalistique" nous propose plusieurs
déclinaisons du genre. Dans la famille new roots, on retrouve les pointures,
Power Steppers, Alpha & Omega, DigiDub, Dublivion et The Dub Factory. Dans
la famille breaks, beats & dub : L.S.Diezel, MafuCage, Subaqueous Pleezer,
V-Neck. Enfin, la catégorie trance-dub regroupe Actuality, Pitch Black,
Hedonastik. Enchaînés avec finesse, ces 13 titres nous révèlent
la fine fleur de la scène növö-dub anglaise, à l'exception
de Pitch Black (Nouvelle Zélande), Dublivion (Hollande), MafuCage (France)
et Subaqueous Pleezer (USA). Premier volet d'une collection, altered connection
1 joue la carte de l'inédit de bout en bout. Il n'y a que comme ça
que j'imagine une compilation, déclare Laurent Diouf. Nous aussi
Y2M 8,5/10
WTM-Amsterdam / Radio
100
"Dub This Net 1" on Hypertunez is WTM-Paris branch, Laurent D.'s 3rd
foray into choreographing a post-dub CD. He has exquisite taste æ he has
again created a polemic manifesto that surreptitiously urges you gently to get
IT. IT is the sound of post-dub material that mysteriously morphs before our
very ears every few years as it retains a central element of [non-kitschy] rootedness.
It traverses the flirtations with annoying noise, with discarded sonic detritus
and hyper-activated rhythms and slides it into a mellifluous dub churn. What
this creates is a dynamic dialectic of lethargic beats [influenced by the pace
of ganja] and the hyper beats of post drum and bass which have absorbed the
infections of social edginess that has determined that all escape entails the
incorporation of ever greater speeds... With production by Norsq and the choice
of cuts by connoiseur Laurent, you end up going right, right into the heart
of it.
Bart Plantenga
TRAX
Les internautes auront sûrement fait le lien : Dub This Net, le
disque, est la compilation de Dub This Net, la rubrique du site de musiques
électroniques hypertunez.com. Pour sa première réalisation,
le label nouveau-né HTz, enfanté par Hypertunez, invite Laurent
Diouf à se transformer en "selecta". Ça tombe bien : le bonhomme
à dans son flightcase quelques petites raretés de derière
les fagots. Regroupés sous trois chapitres (new roots; break, beats &
dub; et trance dub), les morceaux sont presque tous "unreleased", "exclusive"
et parfois même "unedited". Que les simples amateurs se rassurent : ils
ne manqueront pas de point de repère, avec certains artistes chroniqués
dans ces colonnes (V-Neck, DigiDub
). Les spécialistes sauront apprécier
les petits secrets du "Doctor Roots", comme les morceaux de Pitch Black ou Hedonastik.
Pour une première réalisation, c'est encourageant. Reste à
savoir si HTz sera plus qu'un label de compilations. *** Victor Heitz
TRAX
n°43, Août / Septembre 2001
NOVAPLANET.com
This record is one of the best digi-dub compilations released in a long time.
It's as good as 'Dubnology - Lost in the Bass' from Middle Earth Records or
the Zip Dog series 'Club Meets Dub'. The difference here is that HTz records
is the new label of the internet website Hypertunez.com and is under the artistic
guidence of Paris based Laurent Diouf. LD is a long time lover of bass ethics,
a discoverer of new beats, hypnotic grooves and is the deep minded DJ behind
Radio Libertaire's "Wreck This Mess" broadcast every tuesday 12:30 - 02:30 at
89.4 FM. New Roots, Breaks, Beats & Dub and some very bassy trancy sounds
turn this CD into an aural magnet. First it pulls in yours ears, then it rips
down yours socks with the spiral. Mastered by Norscq and mixed by LD, this record
tips the scales with excellent sound. It shifts from positive pumpin Power Steppa
dub to the darker internal illbient space of MafuCage to the psychedlic housy
beats of Hedonastik. Pump up the volume! Almost every track is exclusive or
previously unreleased and the broad range of dub should win over some new believers
to the dubplate feast. The tracklisting includes dubs by: Pitch Black, L.S.Diezel,
Alpha & Omega, DigiDub, Subaquaceous Pleezer, The Dub Factory (who are also
on Nova's Future Dub Vol 1), V-Neck, Zion Train & Actuality. Some new names
for me and you. LD also has compiled the recommendable 'Wreck This Mess' Remission
Vol 1 & Vol 2' on Noise Museum records. He has fused Ambient and Industrial
with Dub and Electronics. Starfish Pool to DJ Spooky. His compilations are put
together slowly by hand with a visionary spirit and direct contact with the
artists in the selection.
Black Sifichi / Radio Nova + Novaplanet.com
The Vibes.Net
Release numero uno realizzata dalla nuova etichetta di Laurent Diouf, noto per
i suoi show radiofonici Wreck This Mess, nonchè per le due compilation
che portano lo stesso nome uscite per Alice In Wonder/Noise Museum, capace per
l'occasione di chiamare in raccolta le migliori espressioni della dub music
-intesa in senso lato- dei nostri tempi in una certosina opera di reclutamento,
portata avanti principalmente attraverso la rete (da qui il titolo della selection)
attraverso il portale Hypertunez.com, tappa telematica fondamentale per gli
appassionati del genere.
Nuove leve e "vecchie" glorie idealmente riunite in una selezione indicata per
il jammin'. La progressione undertonale è coinvolgente e scandisce una
sequenza ipnoidea: dal dub notturno di Actuality alla calda commistione con
glissati dance e ambient organica di Pitch Black, dal core melanotico dei Power
Steppers a quello tubulare di Alpha & Omega, dalle cinestesie di Digidub
-nota cricca di remixer ed artisti di South London- e quelle di Zion Train -considerati
dai più i veri pionieri della dub d'Oltremanica-, via via fino a formazioni
meno conosciute ma non meno agguerrite -V-Neck e L.S.Diesel-. Sound solido,
massivo, autentico, space-routing. Tested & Approved!
http://www.thevibes.net/rec2001/dubnet.htm
Pagina a cura di Vito Camarretta 2 / 12 / 2001
OCTOPUS
Après deux compilations sortis chez Noise Museum portant
haut les couleurs de son émission radiophonique et libertaire "Wreck
This Mess", Laurent Diouf joue de nouveau au sélector électro-dub,
mais à son compte cette fois, sur le nouveau label HTz, extension (ou
résultante) du site internet Hypertunez... ["Dub This Net"] dresse donc
un tableau des futures hostilités à venir... Un tableau assez
tranquille de prime abord, puisque les premiers morceaux sonnent plutôt
"roots" et dub old-school (Alpha & Omega, DigiDub)
Il faut attendre
le Néerlandais Dublivion pour avoir une première poussée
rythmique conséquente, puis les Parisien[ne]s de MafuCage pour inhaler
quelques triturations bien senties... Première du nom, cette compilation
servira donc de "warm-up" pour les plats de résistance à venir...
<express>(chroniques express)
Octopus, printemps 2002
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