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- HEARTICAL - JOIE DE
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March 2010 - After releasing two
impressive Net Albums in which
Heartical showcased his thoughtful,
inspiring style within the Art Of Dub,
the Dubroom is blessed to present this
25-track double dUb album in which he
definitely put himself on a next,
higher level. Read all about what can
only be described as a journey where
sounds and sights become one as major
themes of life are observed.
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To
say that Joie de Vivre really should not be
seen as a collection of singles should be
way to little to describe this mega-project:
it really is an experience you should enjoy
from to top to the very last drop while
meditating on the titles. Heartical truly
masters the art of using dUb technology to
–in some way- create an “audible
picture”, and when you listen to all the
twenty-five tracks in a row you are taken to
what can truly be called the Deeper Realms
Of Dub.
Or:
dUb.
Hard-hitting
steppers are combined with very peaceful,
almost ambient dUbs. Upfull, joyful vibes
are combined with almost haunting effects
but throughout the whole album the bass
(foundation) remains strong.
Joie
de Vivre (Joy of Life) is definitely not for
those that are looking for an easy-to-chew
collection of totally uninteresting
instrumentals or B-sides, it’s not for the
weakhearts or for those that want to keep
Reggae and Dub in the past.
Actually,
it’s just like… Life!
Jah
Life, that is.
The
album deals with many things Jah Children
have to face. Not everything in the life is
that joyful, obviously. That’s why the
first part of the double album takes us
straight to the tuffness of Dub, back to the
bass, the Epicentre of the Dub Dimension in
which this work of art is constructed.
The
second part confronts us with the horrible
reality of the existence of
Babylon
and Lucifer in this time and place. A
reality, which makes many people confused,
kept in prisons within themselves as some
kind of
Personal
Guantanamo
Bay
, Desensitized, Systemized, suffering from
ESD (Extra-Sensory Deprivation).
Babylon
and Lucifer, however, will fall. As Jah
Children had to go through the
Red Sea
in the days of old, so do Jah Children in
this day, these Last Days of Babylon. The
third part of the double dUb album shows
where it truly is all about: drinking from
the streams of Living Water, because it is A
Time To Dance when the knowledge is there
that Jah Children are truly Blessed and
Forever is their destiny.
Tuff
themes for twenty-five tuff dubs which will
appeal to the love of contemporary, digital
Dub as it is becoming increasingly popular
thanks to the efforts of artists who are not
afraid to use contemporary technology and
create some true, Heartical works of Art
which could not have been made let’s say
in a not so distant past.
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THE TRACKS
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Tuff
Enuff
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We’re
stepping into the deeper realms of dUb,
where sounds become sights. In six minutes
and forty-five seconds we’re taken through
several layers with a hard-stepping drums to
get us there. No grounds to trod for the
weakheart, that’s for sure: you gotta be
Tuff Enuff.
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Mp3D
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After
an impressive opening with some skillful use
of the echo machine, Mp3D takes us to a
deep, peaceful place where (not so) subtle
effects and instruments continually change
the soundscape, where the difference between
echo and rhythm fades into the horizon…
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Epicentre
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Epicentre
confronts us with some deep bass drums, an
often-changing bass line going though
various dUb effects, carefully constructed
synthesizer sounds: different atmospheres
follow each other in this meditative dUb
painting full of things you only discover
after listening again, and again, and
again…
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Back
to Bass
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The
fourth track of Heartical’s double album
reveals the foundation of artical works: a
massive steppers drums and a loud, rich bass
sound celebrate Roots and Culture once more.
Crucial echoings combine with well
thought-out chords and instruments complete
another massive for the massive!
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The
dUb Dimension
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The
follow-up for “Back to Bass” shows just
what can be done in the deeper realms of
dUb: perfect filtering on the bass,
percussion which seems to play it’s own
harmony, crucial echo’s, everything
crucially held together by a hard steppers
drums, mixed by Heartical into five minutes
and ten seconds of pure digital dUb
niceness.
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dUb
Forest
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Hand
drums and sounds of nature are combined with
a deep digital bass and totally dubbed-out
snare drum in this dUb Meditation. Peaceful
vibes galore, sudden impacts of thrilling
effects as well: a perfect prelude what’s
about to happen in the next tracks of
Heartical’s double album as spiritual
dimensions open from afar.
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In
The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
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Tuffer
than tuff, harder than hard: in this valley
it is clear how JAH is our Light and our
Salvation and how evil should not be feared
as it cannot be neared. This digital
steppers dUb is yet another example of how
spiritual truths can be shown in sound…
and sight!
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Desensitize
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In
this very well worked-out piece of dUb art,
the most enigmatic sounds seem to pop up out
of the very present bass for which you
really don’t need a subwoofer to get the
musical point.
Desensitization
avant-la-lettre!
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Systemized
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Floods
of echo’s accompany snaredrums, which hit
like the prison doors of the Queendom as
they shut the hearts, minds and souls of
those imprisoned by the Mystery which is
revealed in the Apocalypse as Babylon.
Babylon
System is indeed the vampire, sucking the
blood of the sufferer. Systemized describes
this situation in the most heartical way:
inna dUbwise Style!
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Extra
Sensory Deprivation
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ESD
is not just another word to say “spiritual
blind”, it’s crucially defined in this
five minutes and fifteen seconds of deep,
digital dUb.
From
a spiritual perspective, that is. The drums
remind you of the Nyabinghy rhythm waking up
the blind and chanting down
Babylon
. Unexpected and unusual parts resemble the
state of mind in which the spiritual blind
will find themselves after they’ve been
woken up…
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Still
Waters…
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Just
after the initial sounds, we go straight to
the surface where everything seems to be too
still: indeed, too still.
We
dive deep and find a bass that is simply too
deep to define without the necessary tools.
The line of the bass only becomes clear at a
later stage, taking us to the turbulence at
the bottom!
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Personal
Guantanamo
Part One
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A
bass drum and snare drum sounding like a
jail door and gunshot. It’s the opening of
a two-fold, sonic picture of the sufferers
who are being held captive by the mind
jailers and abusers of
Babylon.
A
deep bass takes us into 4 minutes and thirty
seconds of long echoings, percussion that
mixes with effects, chord progressions and
keyboards full of vibes, parts of relative
silence and other parts of total dUb
madness.
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Personal
Guantanamo
Part Two
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The
finale of this two-fold dUb tribute to the
sufferers takes the riddim back to its
original meaning, then dubbing it hard with
resemblings of Tubby’s and Black
Ark.
While
the drum and bass make an impact, the
dUbbing is as intense as the personal
torture camps many people find themselves
in, being thrown in states of confusion and
madness more and more as time gets short for
Babylon
to do her evil work.
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Last
Days
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Babylon
is working, knowing that she is living in
the last of her times. She is about to fall,
as her master Lucifer is about to as well.
This is the time to get ready for that final
battle in which JAH will blow her away by
the blow of His Mouth.
These
are the last days; the days when love grows
cold and rejection of JAH laws are general
use. Still these are not days in which JAH
Children get hopeless: the fourteenth track
of Heartical’s double-album
“dUbscribes” it all…
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Valley
of
Decision
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Ammagideon
Time and Style fe true! Full electronic
dUbbing in which no instrument or sound is
left untouched by the countless effect
devices in use. This is not an error of your
speakers, this is hard dUb in which no
weakheart shall stand.
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21st
Century Wasteland
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21st
Century dUb is filled with electronic sounds
and effects in yet another perfect sonic
picture of the times we are living in from a
Dread perspective. Skillful, strategically
placed effects mix with synthesizers and
drums, creating rhythms of their own.
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Strait
and Narrow
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Strait
and Narrow is the Road of Life that Jah
Children got to trod on. The Road that leads
to
Zion
, the Road of Truth, the Way and the Light:
Jah Children got to step it up just like
this hard stepping dUbwize to
Zion
Heights
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The
bassdrum is beating as hard as the heart of
Jah Children as they keep trodding forward;
the bassline is strong like a lion, Jah
Lion.
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Through
The Fire
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Fyah
Bun in a dUbwise Style! This one is
all-consuming, cleansing and burning all
pollution fe true. This one is like the Fire
that burns within which can never be killed
with no water, the Fire of the Dread JAH.
Yes
I, another hard-hitting Steppers dUb with a
penetrating bass that doesn’t stay away
from the effect devices either.
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Red
Sea
dUb
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With
a powerful Drum and Bass line, impressive
echo’s, well placed breaks and a crucial
ending which seems to come out of nothing,
Red Sea dUb takes us to the next level in
the 25-track dUb portrait where we leave
Egypt
and reach to the
Heigher
Heights
of Zion.
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A
Time To Dance
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The
riddim is steady and Ire: it’s time for
Jah Children to Get Up, Stand Up and Dance
before the Throne of JAH. The bass is deep,
going even more deep towards the end: it’s
time to get to the central theme of the
album: the Joy of Life, JAH Life.
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Living
Water
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In
this meditative dUb with deep bass line and
bass drum, Heartical takes us to the Source
from where Rivers of Living Waters spring
forth so that fruit is given in due season.
It’s a dUb full of peace, yet with some
very lively elements in both the musical
aspect as well as the dUb mixing.
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Dub
In The Soul
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Deep
Roots and digital technology don’t go
together according to some. Using
contemporary possibilities of course work
very well when it comes from the soul. Of
course there is Dub In The Soul, the soul
from where it all happens in our
personalities.
Deep
thoughts for another deep, deep dUb.
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Joie
de Vivre
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Joie
de Vivre makes us praise JAH with some heavy
drum and bass driven dUb, a joyful theme and
upfull chord progression. That’s exactly
what’s going on in the title track of this
2010 double album by Heartical in which the
life of Jah Children inna
Babylon
is sonically painted.
Joie
de Vivre is full of sudden effects and
changes; echo’s of echoes and filters on
the bass, flangers and other unidentifiable
filtering objects showing the heart-work of
a conscious, heart-working Dread.
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Blessed
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Blessed
is a massive, danceable Steppers Dub that
will make you move and groove from the top
to (almost) the very last drop. Crucial
hi-hats, well put through the very present
phasers.
After
all, blessed is the man that liveth the life
that JAH gave him according to His wisdom.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly but has his delight
in the law of JAH, written in the hearts of
His children.
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Forever
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It
may be the last track of this double album,
but the life which is portrayed in a dUb
style throughout the twenty-five titles in
reality has no end. This track celebrates
Eternity, the
Dwelling Place
of JAH, without beginning and without end. A
meditative, peaceful place, the mystical
region which I and I know to be I and I true
Father
Land
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