Not meaning to be cruel, but the new album from Layo & Bushwacka! has been released on their own label so that they don’t have to compromise their sound, but we don’t honestly find anything here that would have involved CIA intervention. There are no traces of Napalm Death and nor are there any coruscating screams against the total absence of weapons of mass destruction. This is slick laidback downtempo dance music featuring a range of guest musicians including former Weather Report bassist Mino Canelu. Oh crap, it’s a ****ing fusion album, in the worst sense of the word.
We have solos. We have smooth. We are… ****ing bored out of our minds by the first 5 minutes. Not an ounce of sweat breaks out. It’s been a difficult week for sweat. There’s too much by way of Bruce Springsteen or there’s this lot who seemingly just don’t have glands. Is there no middle ground? This is nodding heads music, bit of a spliff and utterly uninvolving. Music like this seems to garner admiration which is a little like saying something is interesting which couldn’t be a worse insult really. As guest musicians come and go, their contributions become negligible as they all become sucked into the same never changing vibe.
Perhaps surprisingly, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong put in an appearance at one point. Back in the days, Rave took an almost psychotic attitude to sampling: dismembering, destroying and showing no reverence whatsoever, which is just the right amount of reverence to have. To take two 20th Century giants and oven bake them in shitty low grade acid jazz is as insulting as it is ignorant. This is a global record, undoubtedly costing heaps and is probably seen as a utopian connection between countries, peoples and musical genres. Well it's not. It’s bollocks.
We have solos. We have smooth. We are… ****ing bored out of our minds by the first 5 minutes. Not an ounce of sweat breaks out. It’s been a difficult week for sweat. There’s too much by way of Bruce Springsteen or there’s this lot who seemingly just don’t have glands. Is there no middle ground? This is nodding heads music, bit of a spliff and utterly uninvolving. Music like this seems to garner admiration which is a little like saying something is interesting which couldn’t be a worse insult really. As guest musicians come and go, their contributions become negligible as they all become sucked into the same never changing vibe.
Perhaps surprisingly, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong put in an appearance at one point. Back in the days, Rave took an almost psychotic attitude to sampling: dismembering, destroying and showing no reverence whatsoever, which is just the right amount of reverence to have. To take two 20th Century giants and oven bake them in shitty low grade acid jazz is as insulting as it is ignorant. This is a global record, undoubtedly costing heaps and is probably seen as a utopian connection between countries, peoples and musical genres. Well it's not. It’s bollocks.
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