Talisman
Various Artists
Interchill Records
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Review by Lloyd Barde, Backroads Music, home of the Heartbeats catalog Dub reggae has always been a strong musical influence for Canada's Interchill label. It permeates even their most floaty, space tracks, and serves as the undercurrent for the more upbeat cruisers. This sound has been part of most of their excellent compilations, from "Earth Octave Lounge" to "Infinessence" and "Magnetic Blue". If you used to like roots Reggae; if you like killer backbeats; if you think Jah Live and Jah Rule... this is the CD for you. It is All Killer, No Filler. These down and dirty positive vibrations are courtesy of Interchill acts like Neil Sparkes & the Last Tribe, and Dubsoniq (w/Adham Shaikh), as well as Suns of Arqa, Stress Assassin, Eat Static, Manasseh, Ott, Kumba Mela Experiment, and Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell, among others. Here is your Interchill dub album, likely the very best of its kind so far, tracing the modern dub-olution from psy-dub to roots reggae
1 Manasseh meets the Equalizer featuring Knati Tempa Temper Dub
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Neil Sparkes and the Last Tribe Talisman 3 Eat Static Caridwen
4 Jumbo Layer The Lily Dub
5 Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart / Molam Lao Lam Tang Way Dub
6 Suns of Arqa Ark of the Arqans
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Gargoyles Evil Doers 8 Ott Scilly Automatic
9 Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell Orion
10 Stress Assassin Time
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Adham Shaikh Sabadub 12 Kumba Mela Experiment