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Horace Andy "Broken Beats" - Album Review
Reggae | Friday 1st February 2013 | Polly
Horace Andy – Broken Beats
Horace Andy is famous for revisiting his songs, adding a different perspective to old material. Andy has almost continually kept recording and releasing new tracks since the beginning of his career with legendary Studio One producer Coxsone Dodd in 1970s Jamaica. Andy has famously collaborated with Massive Attack and more recently with the brilliant cover band Easy Star All Stars on their 2006 Album Radiodread. His most recent album, Broken Beats returns to some of his most popular songs, “Skylarking”, “Cuss” and “Money Money” but radically reworks them into bass heavy tracks that bear little semblance to their roots predecessors. Some remixs are an absolute triumph, Oliver Frost’s and Eva B.’s dark dub-hop mix of the great Skylarking takes you reeling out of the Earth’s atmosphere and immerses you in planet dub. “Money, Money” here mixed by Dubblestandart is quite a few shades darker than the famous dub mix of the track that Andy did when he worked in conjunction with mighty producer Bunny Lee but it carries you away with its winding drops and reverberating vocals. The album falls down with its numerous repetitions and the subtle differences in the different versions of version will probably be more enjoyed by DJs than by those listening at home. It is an album that requires some earth shaking speakers to be truly appreciated. Not my personal favourite from Horace Andy but Broken Beats is a must for bass heads and well worth adding to that ‘late night lets all leave the planet playlist.’
Polly Goss
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