MUSIC ON VINYL 2LP MOV LP 330: DREADZONE, The Good, The Bad & The Dread 2011 NEW
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Background -
Dreadzone are a British band whose music is an eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, techno, folk and rock. Dreadzone formed in 1993 when ex-Big Audio Dynamite drummer, Greg Roberts, teamed up with Tim Bran, who had previously worked as a musician and sound engineer for Julian Cope. The name Dreadzone was suggested to Roberts and Bran by Don Letts.Bran and Roberts were soon joined by bassist Leo Williams and keyboardist Dan Donovan, also formerly of Big Audio Dynamite. The band signed to Creation Records in 1993 and released their first album 360°. The following year the band signed to Virgin Records and released their second studio album Second Light. In the meantime, Dreadzone had become a favourite festival act and in June that year opened the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival. During these early years their backing vocalists included Melanie Blatt, Denise van Outen and Alison Goldfrapp.
In January 1996, the group had their first and so far only Top 40 hit in the UK Singles Chart with "Little Britain", which reached No. 20. The song sampled a line from the 1968 cult British film If.... – "Britain today is a powerhouse of ideas, experiments, imagination".
John Peel championed Dreadzone on BBC Radio 1, and cited Second Light as one of his favourite albums of all time. Tracks from Second Light also dominated Peel's Festive Fifty in 1995, and the band recorded six Peel sessions between 1993 and 2001. In 2000, MC Spee joined as a second vocalist. Between 1998 and 2001 the Dreadzone sound system hosted the Dubwiser club night at Notting Hill Arts Club. On 26 October 2006, it was announced on the Dreadzone forums that Dreadzone guitarist Steve Roberts, the brother of Greg Roberts had died.
In 2007, the band were joined by new members Chris Compton and Chris Oldfield (DJ and lighting designer) and returned to touring. In 2007 and 2008 they played gigs and festival across the UK and Europe, and signed to a new management company in 2008. In 2010, the band released their sixth studio album, Eye on the Horizon.
In 2011 a new video was released. Produced and filmed by John C. Massaria of GoodPixel Productions, it featured music by Dreadzone, "A Dream within a Dream" (in Moscow). In May 2011, a best of compilation album was released by Dubwiser Records entitled The Good, the Bad and the Dread: The Best of Dreadzone.
The Clash begat Big Audio Dynamite. Big Audio Dynamite begat Dreadzone and so it began with Greg Dread and Leo Williams (B.A.D.'s rhythm section) along with Tim Bran forming the band in 1992. They were baptised as 'Dreadzone;' the cultural gatekeepers of the bass line.
Respecting the past and embracing the future these brothers were dealing with the right now, creating the perfect blend somewhere between the technological and the organic. It's a sound that leaves room for the listener to put themselves in the mix and dance like nobody's watching…
The Roberts/Letts & Williams compositions continued the themes and parameters laid down by B.A.D.; a cinematic break beat dub reggae soundtrack that moves the head and the feet. Basically if you're standing still at the end of this 180 grams double audiophile vinyl, you're dead!
Formed in the early '90s by musicians who had played with Big Audio Dynamite, Julian Cope, and the Sisters of Mercy, London collective Dreadzone might not have scaled the same heady heights of fellow dub purveyors Leftfield and the Orb, but their influence on the contemporary dance scene is unquestionable. The Good, the Bad and the Dread, their first retrospective, highlights just how much their eclectic blend of reggae, techno, ska, and hip-hop is stamped all over the dubstep, drum'n'bass, and breakbeat genres, even if only one of its 16 tracks will be instantly familiar to the casual clubber. The aforementioned number is of course their sole Top 40 single, "Little Britain" (featured here in a previously unreleased vocal mix), an anthemic slice of sweeping orchestral ambient electronica based on Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, which became a ubiquitous soundtrack for nearly every TV show trailer in the mid-'90s. Unsurprisingly, its parent album, Second Light, apparently one of seminal DJ John Peel's most-favorite-ever records, makes up the bulk of this compilation, with five of its nine tracks making the cut, including the trippy, bhangra-fused instrumental "Cave of Angels," the Jamaican roots of "Zion Youth," and the Yello-sampling Celtic-tinged "Captain Dread." But it was their 1993 now-deleted Creation Records debut 360..., with two tracks appearing here, that introduced the world to their quirky, cut-and-paste sound, with "The Good, the Bad and the Dread" (featuring a young Allison Goldfrapp), which samples Ennio Morricone's score to A Few Dollars More and Charles Bronson's voice from "Once Upon a Time in the West, in particular showcasing their love for all things cinematic which would pervade their 17-year career. Two tracks apiece are taken from 1997's Biological Radio, 2001's Sound, 2005's Once Upon a Time, and 2010's Eye on the Horizon, the standouts of which are the electro glam rock of "Gangster," the Middle Eastern-flavored jungle of "Ali Baba," and the funky dancehall R&B of "I Know," while "Fight the Power," their protest response to the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill previously only available on their Maximum EP, is also included. Proving that U.K. reggae doesn't begin and end with UB40, The Good, the Bad and the Dread is an inventive and unique retrospective from one of the pioneers of the modern bass culture sound.
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2-LPs made by MUSIC ON VINYL (MOV) / DUBWISER Records, in the NETHERLANDS / HOLLAND / DUTCH
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2-LPs released in 2011
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LPs recorded in STEREO
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Record Catalog Number: MOV LP 330
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UPC # 8713748982027
Dreadzone
LP title and music on this rare item -
The Good, The Bad and The Dread
The Best of Dreadzone
Performers include -
Tim Bran
Leo Williams
Dan Donovan
Melanie Blatt
Denise van Outen
Alison Goldfrapp, etc.
Track Listing -
Side A
1. Zion Youth (Dreadzone mix) (4.11)
2. Little Britain (vocal version) (3.58)
3. Ali Baba (4.12)
4. Captain Dread (single edit) (4.09)
Side B
1. Iron Shirt (3.55)
2. Digital Mastermind (4.03)
3. Biological Radio (2011 Edit) (4.06)
4. House of Dread (4.32)
Side C
1. Life, Love and Unity 96 (single mix) (6.07)
2. Fight The Power 95 (2011 Edit) (5.29)
3. Return Of The Dread (4.33)
4. Gangster (3.47)
Side D
1. I Know (6.02)
2. The Good, The Bad And The Dread (Part 1) (5.06)
3. Different Planets (2.51)
4. American Dread (6.23)
CONDITION Details:
The LP jacket is in mint condition! The jacket is brand new and never opened (see pictures with this listing as they are of the actual item).
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