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A New Chapter In Dub Vol. 2 (The Secret Language Of Ordinary Objects)

 

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1 The Orb - Apple Tree In My Backyard

2 Lost At Last - Reggae Raga (Youth Remix)

3 Dub Trees - Celtic Sufi (Recovered Memory Syndrome Mix)

4 Youth & Pete Lazonby - Lifesong

5 Youth - Liquid Room (Vedic Fire Mix)

6 Luna - Baraka

7 Youth - Spectral Beach (Mercury In My Veins Mix)

8 Pitch Black - Electric Earth

9 The Gentle Revolution - Stealth And Cunning

10 Dub Trees - The Golden Legend (Take Me Dancing Where The Mountains Meet The Sea Mix)

11 Dub Trees Ft. Brother Culture - Don't Wanna Lose Your Love

 

 

After the disappointing 1st installment of a new chapter in dub by Youth I was a little apprehensive about this release. But Liquid Sound Design rarely disappoints & this compilation is definately not one of those rare moments. Youth has put together a fine collection of psychedelic dub here, mostly involving him. From the orb track at the start to the dub trees at the end, it just oozes class!

 

 

1 The Orb - Apple Tree In My Backyard

A beautifully fantastic opener. Nice soft melodies, soft mutterings of a girl talking about her beautiful apple tree. Lovely underlying garden sounds like birds singing.

 

2 Lost At Last - Reggae Raga (Youth Remix)

A soft baseline starts & it has a very cool beat. It has a nice reggae feel but it has some vocals which I could really do without. Changes direction a lot giving it quite a random feel.

 

3 Dub Trees - Celtic Sufi (Recovered Memory Syndrome Mix)

A fantastic intro, some nice plucked strings (harp?) playing a beautiful melody. Nice slow synths lead into a trippy beat & baseline. Some very subtle background flute towards the end. Nice.

 

4 Youth & Pete Lazonby - Lifesong

A simple track with a 'clicky' melody. It's nice enough but no progression. The baseline progresses slightly to stop the track from becoming boring.

 

5 Youth - Liquid Room (Vedic Fire Mix)

A long intro with a soft baseline & a nice simple melody. The beat kicks in around 2 minutes and there are some soft whoosh like synths. Apart from that it just keeps going. A bit boring.

 

6 Luna - Baraka

Very chilled sci fi sounds. Thumping beat decent progressive synths & melody but overall this track is a little boring.

 

7 Youth - Spectral Beach (Mercury In My Veins Mix)

The album gets a bit darker here. It starts with a strong but soft baseline. A great melodyreally floats through this track. A fantastic atmosphere, reminds me of sitting alone on a dark beach.

 

8 Pitch Black - Electric Earth

Another little bit darker track. This sounds kinda medieval to me, a soft guitar melody, driving baseline, cool beat. Good stuff.

 

9 The Gentle Revolution - Stealth And Cunning

A bit darker still & slightly more upbeat. Dark melodies & synths remind me of some older flying rhino releases. Nice electric piano & muttered samples add to the atmosphere.

 

10 Dub Trees - The Golden Legend (Take Me Dancing Where The Mountains Meet The Sea Mix)

Still sounding quite dark but in a dusky way, like the threshold of night. More upbeat than anything preceeding it and a simple 4-4 beat. Sounds to me like electric fantasy, helped by a lord of the rings sample.

 

11 Bonus Track Dub Trees Ft. Brother Culture - Don't Wanna Lose Your Love

This bonus track is very reggae sounding. It is a very nice track but it shouldn't have been tagged on the end of the album, it would have been better near the beginning. It's very light & bouncy with a guy singing I don't wanna lose your love which kind of breaks the mood set by the last 4 atmospheric tracks.

 

 

So all in all another fine release from Liquid Sound Design. It starts of great has a bit of filler (although even those tracks are nice enough but just not great) but it comes together in the end with nice dark (night time dark not evil dark psy dark) atospheric tracks. A bonus track is a bonus obviously but should have been positioned earlier on the album.

 

Go get it!!

 

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If you do find this, buy it!

 

I'm surprised that noone else has heard this. It's a damn good compilation. Must better than vol. 1 which I didn't like so much. This is 10 times better :)

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If you do find this, buy it!

 

I'm surprised that noone else has heard this. It's a damn good compilation. Must better than vol. 1 which I didn't like so much. This is 10 times better :)

I really like this comp too :) Good music, and sure its made to played on a tropical beach under the palms :) mmm nice thoughts coming to me :rolleyes:

 

hmm vol.1 have wondering about since I got this one.... were was it released not on LSD, right? or is it Youth In dub? I quite like that one too though, but its not as good as this one!

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I really like this comp too :) Good music, and sure its made to played on a tropical beach under the palms :) mmm nice thoughts coming to me :rolleyes:

 

hmm vol.1 have wondering about since I got this one.... were was it released not on LSD, right? or is it Youth In dub? I quite like that one too though, but its not as good as this one!

No1 grew on me but this was still is much better & doesn't have an ugly cover :lol:

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Yeah! Vol2 is better but vol1 gets better each time I listen to it.

I'm with u now... yes I think actually its almost as good, some real pearls on both CDs! Hmmm when I think of it might even like vol. 1 better... ahh not sure :unsure:

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