Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
The first Grievous Angel album is called Belief is the Enemy.
It's out on 27th June on Elektrik Dragon, through Baked Goods.
It's a two disc set: the album comes with a mix CD, called Believe in Dub.
It's a proper album. There's a load of different flavours here... pounding hard techno-y gear, sweet soft dubstep rollers, dubby garage, bashy stuff, grinding industrial riddims. And a bunch of tracks with Rubi Dan, the MC from Heatwave, the famous London dancehall crew. He's a BAD MC.
You can hear previews of the tracks at www.myspace.com/grievousangelsoundsystem.
Track listings are as follows:
CD1: Belief Is The Enemy:
1. We Want You 138. Deep, lush dubstep
2. Lickle Friction 138. Hard industrial dubstep
3. Gone, Gone, Gone 138. Deep-space dubstep
4. Immigrant 138. Twisted industrial dubstep breaks
5. 1985 Style 100. Dancehall
6. Long Gone Dub (With Rubi Dan) 138. Soft, spacey dubstep
7. Move Down Low (With Rubi Dan) 120. Banging ragga techno with MC
8. Culture Killer (With Rubi Dan) 130. Banging ragga techno with MC
9. Soundman Tribute 138. Banging ragga techno - stupid but fun, squealing headache synths...
10. Velvet Dub (Bitten By The Black Dog) 138. Heavyweight electronic dubstep
11. Culture Killer (Discomix) 130. Minimal ragga techno
12. Velvet Dub 138. Deep, lush dubstep
CD2. Believe in Dub.
00.00 1985 Style
05.45 Bad Man Dub (Black Hole remix)
11.51 Velvet Dub (VIP mix)
16.52 Gone, Gone, Gone
23.50 Long Gone Dub (With Rubi Dan)
27.32 We Want You
31.57 Lickle Friction
37.04 Glitter Dub
42.15 Culture Killer (With Rubi Dan)
47.28 Immigrant
51.13 Soundman Tribute
56.46 Culture Killer (Discomix)
60.59 Move Down Low (Version)
63.51 Move Down Low (With Rubi Dan)
The mix CD has additional tracks, and everything is cut up, has loads of extra FX, sirens, yard tape samples etc. It's pretty massive.
I don't know about you but I switch between wanting albums as seperate tracks (for mix ammunition) and hearing the tunes in the mix as the artist intended (and as the tunes really deserve). With this album you don't have to choose - you get both. I like the mix better. But the album has the Black Dog remix. You really need to hear that and it's one of just two they're doing this year. And lots of people seem to want Culture Killer and Move Down Low as standalone tunes. So...
Catalogue number is ELEKD-02. Street date is 27th June. Distribution is Baked Goods. You know what to do - it'll be worth it. Vinyl news when I have it.
Like I said before - big up all soundmen in here who've been playing my stuff out - Tim Dub Boy, Sam Atki2, Boomnoise, Blackdown, Paul Hotflush, Selectah Dub-U and all the rest of you. All I ever wanted was to get some tunes played in the dance. Getting a CD out is a nice bonus.
