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| ARTIST: | Bug |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Tigerbeat6 |
| TYPE: | Electronic & Computer, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Politicians and Paedophiles, Beats, Bombs, Bass, Weapons, Executor, Live and Learn, Thief of Dreams, Superbird, Run the Place Red, Night Steppa, Some Days, Fuck Y-Self, Killer, Living Dub |
| UPC: | 751937507628 |
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Customer Reviews of Pressure
Yes! This album is just right. A very nice blend of Dancehall, Reggae, Hardcore techno. It's awesome. Great album all the way thru. It goes from hard to soft, fast to slow, and it's just right. Hooray for this album.
warning your ears may bleed
I was introduced to the Bug through a couple of 12"- his collaboration with Cutty Ranks (Gun Disease) and the Rootsman/ dj freddy (Imitator). This work is intense but as a series of singles I found the work aurally digestable. But a full album...I was a little nervous.
In keeping with previous adjectives I maintain that this album is intense. No two ways about it. Not that this should surprise anyone, it's on Rephlex, label which has it's fare share of menacing tracks for sure. The Bug lays down the beats and collaborates with a series of MC's- Wayne Lownesome, He-man, Daddy Freddy, Singin Bird amongst others.
Not saying it's not good, it's wicked, but if you can sit down and listen to this in one go then you'll be doing well. It's not all intense though, indeed this record contains spaces of melodic beauty (relativley speaking) on Live and Learn, which is kind of a dub poetry style track, and Thief of Dreams. The only track that didn't really interest me was "Superbird". I like Singing Bird as an MC, although I'm not that familiar with his stuff, I found his lyrics quiet familiar to that tune "I just wanna fly, put your arms around me baby etc..." Not a fair comparison I know but it just grates a little with me.
For me the 'real' Bug comes out on Politicans and Paedophiles featuring Daddy Freddy and Killer, a brutal track with He-Man where the bassline really kicks in about a minute into the tune that'll leave you thinking "jesus, what the hell was that"! The previous reviewer was right, you probably won't catch these tunes in your local dj set, so set up your stero, strap you self in and nail anything loose to the floor.
Dancehall Mash-up
Having taken a sledgehammer to hip-hop orthodoxy on his last album under the Techno Animal moniker, "Brotherhood of the Bomb", Kevin Martin sets out, on "Pressure", to repeat a similar trick with dancehall. Anyone whose experience of that genre extends no further than Sean Paul's pedestrian bump-n-grind will be in for a shock - this is more in keeping with the likes of old master Cutty Ranks than dancehall's more recent leading lights. In spirit, at least - whereas Cutty often had to make do with the tinniest beats imaginable, Martin wields a veritable arsenal of electronics. He knows how to use it, too - "F*** Y-self" (with Wayne Lonesome) and opener "Politicians & Paedophiles" (with Daddy Freddy) are particularly brutal. Hard to imagine either popping-up in your average DJ set - the crowd would probably run for cover. Things get more contemplative elsewhere, as on Singing Bird's dubbed-out vocal take, "Superbird" (one of the closest parallels with Martin's aforementioned work as Techno Animal). All in all, though, "Pressure" is a pretty tough listen - more vital than anything else dancehall-related that cropped-up on the radar in 2003, maybe, but not something you'd really want to wake up to in the morning. Believe me, I've tried. It wasn't pretty.