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Slack Baba Debut Album On Liquid Records

Tom Fu


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Posted : Jun 23, 2006 12:30
Well here it is at last:

Slack Baba: ...And The Beat Goes Om...

Now available at: www.psyshop.com/

Slackbaba - ...and the best goes Om...

1. A Drop in the Ocean
2. Drink More Tea
3. Sea of Green
4. Long Sunny Daze
5. The Golden Apple
6. Metatron's sugar cube
7. And the beat goes om
8. Fruit of Mahoot

"The best thing we have heard in ages, all our friends are raving about it"

Steve and Miquette - System 7/Mirror 7

“Liquid Records' downtempo department has been busy over the past year cooking up some of the frostiest grooves, and Slackbaba's latest release, "And The Beat Goes Om", is undoubtedly one of the plumpest fruits of their labor. Serving up a healthy slice of dubtempo with roots and branches drawing from, and extending into, a myriad of musical directions, Slackbaba's beats are as abstract as a Picasso piece seen through a kaleidoscope, and the production quality is top-notch as well. Don't think you'll be sleeping through this one... this album spans the spectrum of speeds and there is a veritable traffic jam of colliding sounds coming at you from every which way... this music is that busy! “

Axis Mundi – Mushroom Magazine

“With Slack Baba's long-awaited debut album Liquid Records are raising the bar: “…and the beat goes om…” is a groovadelic and bass-loaded breaky affair in the best tradition of British electronic psychedelia.”

Nova - Ultimae/Nova-Music

"Every now and again I hear tracks from an artist on compilation albums, like them, and wonder what a full album of their work would be like. So it was with Slackbaba, and I have to say I'm very impressed. This is traditionally based psychedelic dub and chill composed to perfection. Johnny Smith, aka Slackbaba, really knows what works, and how to make it work. It's obvious in every note, every sound, and every intricate subliminal suggestion.

How often can you say that there's not average track on an album? Well, I can now. From the sublime "Drink More Tea" with it's evocative melody and perfect construction, to "And the Beat Goes Om", splendid as night time chill dub, the album exudes quality. There is a dubby thread throughout, yet every track is different to the next, with bpms ranging from 77 to 134. Despite or maybe because of that, it still works as a whole. That's class."

DJ Dark Angel (Synergy Project / Project Ozma / IDSpiral)

Happy earfulls

Fu xx
          www.liquid-records.com

www.myspace.com/tomfu
Tom Fu


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Posted : Jun 23, 2006 14:03
Here is a track by track guide:

A drop in the ocean

Liquid metallic synths stretch out lazily but steadily creating a fluid space for a crisp dubby groove. Metallic electro-synth melodic themes create punctuation and a bendy rounded sound. Twangy and bouncy contrasts with floaty and psychedelic. Vocal samples hint of other dimensions. The bass is tidy and defining. Synth sequences build and fade.. the tide comes in the tide goes out. The waves roll in the sea goes calm… the drop empties in the ocean and the ocean empties into the drop.

Drink more tea

Flutes and the sounds of an electro-jungle create the environment, opening the space and preparing the way for the entry of a deep suggestive bass line. Bass takes centre stage and the electro-jungle decorates over the top. Chopped up distorted vocals whisper in and out creating a busy psychoactive space over the simplicity of the grounded bass. Synth melody lines create shape and a journeying mood as they develop and become more elaborately interwoven …

Sea of green

Eastern flavoured strings echo out an intro which is swiftly underpinned by a gentle breaksy heart-beat of a rhythm. Strings turn into a stretched out spacey pad progression and the horizon is extended …the small field becomes a sea of green Striding through this sea comes the bass… a confident dubby stroll of a bassline which weaves elegantly in and around the warm purr of the strings… an offbeat synth skank gives groove and added reggae flavour … all the while the pads ebb and flow in and out of melodic synth sequences as the track builds in complexity… then slides away…

Long sunny daze

Spacey intro, mysterious and deep… the gentle build of rhythmic sequence fills out a subtly busy sonic soundscape. Bass and synths confirm a reggae flavour with gentle timbale providing added seasoning. Extra dimension is created by the contrast of a deep slow pad progression moving along under an up-beat & cheeky arpeggio synth melody …this one, as the title suggests, has summer in mind… subtle psychedelic meanderings of the dubby variety. This track manages to be spaced out, laid back and upbeat all at the same time.. as a perfect sunny day should be!

The golden apple

A tribute to the illuminatus trilogy? Yes.. there certainly is more to reality… A distorted strings intro and a slow breaksy beat leads into a well paced dubby bassline. An electro vocoder sounding sequence mixes it up with ripples of tabla creating a squelchy robo-groove that kicks along above the bass and a compact syncopated kick. Filtered strings fill up the mid section – both extended and chopped - leading into a dissolving breakdown which creates space and a change of ambience… The return of the electro-squelch is interspersed with the flavour of chopped up strings.. themes are built and developed and then they're gone… the track exits in a contemplative space.

Metatron's sugar cube

Fizzing and swooshing give way to an eastern themed synth sequence underpinned with generous bass drops… then enter the bass groove.. solid and breaksy. The head's kept busy with distorting synth sequences while the lower regions are led grooving by a solid bass theme wrapped tightly around a good kick – one which sounds set to stick in the ears of dance floor groovers all over this summer! More of that please

And the beat goes om…

A slow build of Indian vocals with the tone and intensity of a devotional chant woven around a synth theme and the drones of saranjy pour you like treacle into the beginning of this track. The spaced punctuation of a compressed kick and percussive echoes create anticipation in the build that leads to the entry of a loping bass line groove … the vocal verse repeats and with each repetition slowly builds… synth sequences lead you down paths interspersed with ‘electro-scratching' and echoed sitar fills, while slow bass drops punctuate and ground the swirling meanderings of filtered vocals and synth

Fruit of Mahoot

The subtle twang of a tampura drones under the slicing sound of something being sharpened... The beat kicks in solid and steady and gentle off-beat synth echoes are balanced in their lightness. The kick and the bass enforce one another to create the drive which is syncopated and groovy… electronic wild-life chatters and chirps, buzzes and clicks above ripples of percussion (tabla) creating an intricate electro-organic frosting on the lower frequencies. A spacious mid-section brings out the rippling rhythms of the tabla while distorted vocals are woven into the mix to become part of the instrumentation. The synths return augmented and more melodious, the mix fills out and builds before gently dissolving as the track echoes away.

Fu xx
          www.liquid-records.com

www.myspace.com/tomfu
hyperion
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Posted : Jun 25, 2006 02:26
great reviews

looking forward of buying this interesting release           Music may not take us to the Moon or let us live forever, but as we enter trough the doors it is opening before us, we find things far beyond our everyday experiences..

http://www.myspace.com/djhyperion
errorhead

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Posted : Jun 25, 2006 15:26
Been waiting for that one long time...
Slackbaba got a great feedback for his track Dubterrania released on Soul Vibration Vol 1 on Liquid rec as well...
Hopefully the time has come,good luck Liquid rec and John-slackbaba looking forward to get it live..
Aum Baba Aum!
Love&light
Bom!
dubfix


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Posted : Jun 25, 2006 15:53
good work from slack babaand also big boom to the liquid rec guys ceep up the good work
          Dubfix Chill-in-or stay out
www.chillinberlin.com
Jon Baraka
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Posted : Jul 3, 2006 14:22
This is really good. I'm liking tracks 4, 5 and 6 the best. Another cracking realease Liquid.
brij


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Posted : Jul 3, 2006 15:58
and you can download @ 320kbps it from audiojelly (psymp3.com) at only £6

hurrah for the laptop djs out there
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McKennaDMT
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Posted : Jul 4, 2006 20:15
I would just like to say thank you to Slackbaba for making an incredible album. Just some simply AMAZING tunes.

Him and Capsula have created two of the most impressive albums I've heard in a long time.

Keep up the good work guys. It's truely appreciated.
babag


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Posted : Jul 5, 2006 19:23
liquid records that is! fantastic! brillant!

limitation through words never could describe this album!
after soul vibration another true juwel of true ambiente.

loving it, the whole album

great work
liquid records give us some more please
Dubolix


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Posted : Jul 5, 2006 23:33
I have to agree with all the other comments.

This album is absolutely stunning; beautiful melodies, killer basslines and... well PsyDub at it's best. Don't miss this one!

Many thanx to Liquid Records for releasing this masterpiece.
hyperion
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Posted : Jul 6, 2006 02:32
yes...i agree also..this is a masterpiece for all psy-dub lovers out there!
very innovative/danceable makes u smile listening to this
          Music may not take us to the Moon or let us live forever, but as we enter trough the doors it is opening before us, we find things far beyond our everyday experiences..

http://www.myspace.com/djhyperion
punkah


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Posted : Jul 6, 2006 18:20
indeed!
some fresh dubby stuff in there, and a lot of uptempo tracks too.

also downloaded Dubterrania from the site, equally amazing tune.
DeathPosture
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Posted : Jul 7, 2006 17:54
I've got a full review up here: http://forum.isratrance.com/viewtopic.php/topic/91522/forum/9/start/0

/DP           On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion...
intrees
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Posted : Jul 9, 2006 15:45

Wicked album, I knew it would be!

Perhaps not completely original, but amazing to the ears. A rising star in the psy-chill scene.            - - It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice... - -

www.revolvemagazine.co.uk
John
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Posted : Jul 10, 2006 00:25
Quote:

On 2006-07-09 15:45, intrees wrote:

Perhaps not completely original, but amazing to the ears.



I think thats a very good summary - the album has got amazing lush production and some great tunes - but it is definitely a product of its genre -not that thats such a bad thing - every album doesnt need to be completely ground breaking!

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