One of the most startling albums in the early
Adrian Sherwood
catalog,
Threat to Creation
is nominally a compilation of recent
dubs
transformed into a pulsating menage of rhythms and
, through which shoot some truly devastating effects -- is there any greater demonstration of the
On-U
technique than
"Chemical Specialist"
(itself a mogadon retread of the title track rhythm)? Elsewhere on this remarkable disc,
the New Age Steppers
' own
"My Whole World,"
"Got to Get Away,"
and
"Guiding Star"
all reappear in
dub
form, as
"Painstaker,"
"Final Frontier,"
and the echoing, creaking
"Eugenic Device,"
respectively. Other
here include
Bim Sherman
's
"Devious Woman"
(
"Last Sane Dream"
) and
"Satta Massagana"
"Ethos Design"
), both chillingly reworked to strip away almost every last semblance of the original. ~ Dave Thompson