Tracklist
| 1 | Astral Altar (The Gateway Of Legba) | 11:41 | |
| 2 | Asiyah Dub (Blinding The Starry Eyes Of God) | 11:09 | |
| 3 | The Terran Invasion Of Alpha Centaurai Year 2794 | 11:40 | |
| 4 | The Black Meat (Deconstruction Of The Bebel-Tower Of Reason) | 12:12 |
Companies, etc.
- Produced For – Subharmonic
- Recorded At – Greenpoint Studios
- Mixed At – Greenpoint Studios
Credits
- A&R [Subharmonic] – Robert Soares
- Arranged By, Created By, Design [Designed By] – Bill Laswell
- Artwork [Inside Art] – Toxic (55)
- Beats – Sly Dunbar
- Created By – Bill Laswell
- Design – Aldo Sampieri
- Effects [Dub ] – S.H. Fernando*
- Engineer [Assistant] – Layng Martine
- Engineer [Engineering], Programmed By [Programming] – Robert Musso
- Management [Axiom] – Peter Wetherbee
- Management [Material Inc.] – Tracy McKnight
- Performer – The Alchemist (12)
Notes
Released in an all-black jewel case with light-gray screen-printing on the front and back (no text on spines). Contains an 8 page stapled booklet insert, (outer section is semi-transparent frosty with black graphic text).
Total time: 46:55
Recorded and mixed at Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn, NY.
Made in U.S.A.
Total time: 46:55
Recorded and mixed at Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn, NY.
Made in U.S.A.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 26617 00042 4
- Barcode (Scanned): 026617000424
- Matrix / Runout: CAMUS1STRATA4EJO 94147-037-4M
Other Versions (2)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Dub Terror Exhaust (4×File, MP3, Album, Reissue, 128 kbps) | Strata | none | 1999 | ||||
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Dub Terror Exhaust (4×File, ALAC, Album, Reissue) | Not On Label (Bill Laswell Self-Released) | none | US | 2016 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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One of my favorites in my collection of about 7000 CDs. A perfect record. It was also the album that opened my ears to dub and dub-related minimalisms. Most of my collection is various types of jazz, classical music and so-called contemporary classical and back in 1995 I didn't listen to any rock/pop/funk/whatever any more. Automaton – Dub Terror Exhaust was one of the albums that forced me to take those forms seriously again. It's dub taken to extremes, seemingly super simple, skeletal rhythms + a handful of samples thrown on top like spices, but on closer inspection there is great depth and a multitude of nuances in this music. It's monumental and perfectly played. I also like the sound and mix of the album. Later Laswell albums are sometimes as good as this one, but this particular sound – bottomless bass (as always), lots of space around the instruments, but some sounds still very dry and on your face – has not really been repeated. On later dub-based albums the drum sound got much louder and closer to a kind of rock sound, but here it has almost chamber music type of genuinely acoustic feel. I love it.
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This is a classic "Laswellian" ambiant dub record, roots and heavy, of traditionnal dub.
The cooperation of musicians like Gabe Katz (of Blind Idiot God) on tracks 2 & 4 and DJ Spooky (credited as "The Alchemist") on track 3, the length of the tracks (more than 10 minutes each) gives to this CD a good coherence without that the listener may have any sensation of monotony.
This CD can be considered as the volume # 0 of the four "Sacred System" albums that Laswell will later produce for ROIR records.
As for all the Strata records the CD is also released with a beautiful opaque black container.
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