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- Date Released: September 30, 2008
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: Staubgold / Finetunes
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The story behind this album is almost laughably unlikely: club music producer David Last was on vacation in Australia, putting some dancehall beats together and looking for a vocalist. A colleague directed him to Chicago-based dancehall singer Zulu, and Last sent him a track via e-mail. Zulu voiced it and sent it back. The result was so good that they made an entire album that way, which the honchos at Berlin-based label Staubgold subsequently heard, thus completing a geographically enormous triangle along which enough data eventually flowed to create this finished product, a tremendously entertaining fusion of dubstep, reggaeton, dancehall, electro, and pop that hits a high energy level from the very beginning and never really flags. The title may be somewhat ironic: although the impact of this music is pretty massive, its construction is often quite minimal. Check out the bare-bones Roland 909 accompaniment to the bouncing "Exhibition Virtue," or the even more minimalist "Ever Ready." In fact, when the sound thickens up the impact tends to fade a bit, as on the enjoyable but somewhat more pedestrian "Necessary Evils." But before you can register disappointment with those tracks, you'll be lifted out of your seat again by such top-notch fare as the energetically chugging "Caresss" or the fun combination track "Put Me on Your Guest List." If you want a sneak preview of what dancehall reggae is likely to sound like ten years from now, this may be as good a guess as any.
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| 01. |  |
Ever Ready |
3:41 |
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| 02. | |
Ghettoblaster |
3:42 |
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| 03. | |
Exhibition Virtue |
5:44 |
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| 04. | |
Spanish Fly |
4:55 |
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| 05. | |
Hit Parade |
3:03 |
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| 06. | |
Necessary Evils |
2:21 |
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| 07. | |
Monday Morning |
3:27 |
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| 08. | |
License To Kill |
4:47 |
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| 09. | |
Firestarter |
3:42 |
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| 10. | |
Caresss |
3:49 |
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| 11. | |
Put Me On Your Guest List |
5:53 |
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| 12. | |
Uptown Party Life |
3:33 |
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| 13. | |
License To Kill (Duplicate Episode) |
3:49 |
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| 14. | |
Caresss (Dancefloor) |
5:07 |
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14 Total Tracks, 57:33 Total Length
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