Deadbeat / Paul St. Hilaire - The Infinity Dub Sessions

[ventolin68]

Having developed a fast friendship from their very first meeting in Montreal at the premier Micro Mutek event a decade ago, Deadbeat and Tikiman's occasional collaborative performances have since blown the minds of audiences from Berlin to Tokyo and many points in between. No great surprise then that their first album length venture is a Tour de Force of Dub music of the highest order. Nearly a year in the making, the genetic code of Deadbeat's Infinity Dubs series gets shot through with a Dreader than Dread Kingstonian logic, hi hats dropping back from the three to the one, Tikiman at his most militant, poetic, fierce, and flowing.

Out in March 2014.

[Squee]

Man, Deadbeat has completely lost it... and this... this just sounds fucking rushed. Stream it here:
http://www.thefader.com/2014/02/21/stream-deadbeat-and-paul-st-hilaires-the-infinity-dub-sessions-album/

[ascdi]

Hmmm. Sounds pretty good to me!

[acroyear]

Nope. This is fucking amazing. Great to hear Deadbeat back to true form... sure he rehashed some of his old riddims but I don't care, because they're a perfect match with Tikiman.

[awepittance]

sounds a little weak for what I'd expect out of deadbeat

[Squee]

The stabs and dub chords sound so thin and weak and nothing really happens throughout the tracks.

Also, there's too much Tikiman.

[acroyear]

Doesn't sound thin on my sound system at all. Tikiman's name takes up a third of the album cover. Just how much of him were you expecting?

[Squee]

I was hoping for less than what is the case. The perfect amount of Tikiman can be found on Rhythm & Sounds old releases.

 

About the chords/stabs... let me put it this way: they're not very interesting and sound exactly like they did on his New World Observer album and therefore sound like something out of the early 00s.

[acroyear]

Well, I'm certainly not going to argue about the production values of Rhythm & Sound's old releases. I'm waiting to hear the rest of this when my LPs arrive, and listen to how the album ages with me. I like it very much so far, and you don't. It is what it is... Time will tell with repeated listening.

[ascdi]

Personally, I can never get enough of these exact stabs. Keep ’em coming

[acroyear]

Oh shit. My mistake... I got a chance to stream the rest of this, and it does indeed suck. I'm disappointed, because the first few tracks I heard were so good, and then the album deteriorates into a complete mess of uptempo throbbing nonsense, that I just don't quite "get". He had a good vibe going with some of this, but I'm out. Cancelling my pre-order.

[dr lopez]

my uncle (a DJ) was repping this so hard but jesus it's actually really bad. too much tikiman (and by that I mean like he's on there at all) and the uptempo stuff is so bad - complete lack of awareness of form. Why spend money on this when rhythm and sound gives forever.

[ascdi]

I only skimmed the samples still, but I have faith. Isn’t the up-tempo stuff just more on the Main Street Records tip? I like that comp.

[dr lopez]

i just don't want this to be a harbinger for all of 2014....

[kokoon]

listening to the first track, pretty good.

[kokoon]

*sigh*

 

WHY HAVE THEY STOPPED MAKING MUSIC TOGETHER?!?

 

edit: I mean R&S