The trumpet plays a very nice melody but something from minute 3:40 The bassline is divine, if I may put it that way. “Metro” has a fantastic riddim that immediately got me very deep High Ras Vorbei ! So I have to say, that is something very fine that you unearthed there. "Mute Beat: In Dub" is an incredibly impressive album that still attracts the attention it deserves many years ago.īy the way, there isn't a single guitar to be heard on the entire album. Mute Beats idiosyncratic but extremely listenable interpretation of the old Dave Brubeck classic "Take Five".Īlthough also because of the fat bass lines and drums, the music is deeply rooted in authentic reggae /Dub is rooted, thanks to the trombonist and the crystal clear trumpet by Kazufumi Kodama, the head of the band, reminiscent of Miles Davis, jazz bubbles again and again to the surface. The undisputed highlight of this unique album for me is undoubtedly "Dub No.
“Break A Road”, which was created live and sounds rather dull, like an audience recording, sounds more like a rather abstract interpretation of Horace Andy's “Money Money” at the beginning of the track. These six Japanese still cannot be pigeonholed and sit between all the chairs. With “Downtown”, the funky groove and the unmistakable drum patterns of a Roland TR-808 set the tone in the truest sense. "Mix Up", the only track with vocals, is closest to reggae and clearly refers to the Jamaican influence. The first two tracks on the album: “Metro” and “Fiolina”, a melancholy, reggae-like jazz number, show the band's musicality and virtuosity.
Back then, Mute Beat created a sound cosmos that so few had heard before and thus moved on the edge of all existing music genres. The sound is of traditional Japanese music as well Dub-Influences, reggae, funk and electronic music, mixed with jazz and the sound of a marching brass band strongly influenced. On “In Dub“We get to hear a multitude of different ingredients, which already indicate the very broad musical spectrum of the band.
The first work " Mute Beat: In Dub“(ROIR Reachout International Records) has been released under a variety of titles over the years: Tra Special Mute Beat (1985) Japanese Dub (1986) No. A music cassette by Mute Beat first released in 1985, Japan's first Dub-Band that (unfortunately) only existed from 1982 to 1989. Today I am presenting a long-lost classic. Good, also "weird" Dub works with me (almost) always.
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