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During the first half of the nineties former Cabaret Voltaire member Richard Kirk got caught up in the onslaught of dance music. Under the guise of Sandoz he produced two classic house albums that for a while established him as one of the first dance auteurs. Especially Digital Lifeforms (1993), a beautiful mix of sleek house and African rhythms remains a personal favorite after all these years. After Intensely Radioactive (1994) his new albums got a bit lost in all the branching that dance music underwent, while one got the impression his music didn't evolve to warrant much attention. Chant To Jah his new album at last promises a new direction: a clash of the Sandoz sound with dub music, which it, perhaps too predictably, is. These eight tracks are superficially pleasant excursions in digi-dub: the shivery electronic melodies at times being interrupted by vintage horn stabs and morphing into tribal chants or drumming. What should in theory be a good formula somehow fails to really impress in practice. Two problems haunt Chant To Jah: the sound spectrum is often saturated (a lack of breathing space that makes authentic dub such an addictive music) and all tracks because of their excessive length are unable to hold your attention. It isn' t really a bad album and the highlight Spiritual Vibe finds the perfect balance between electronic and dub minimalism but one again suspects that the real digi-dub was made around 1993 by junglists. An inappreciable release.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/sandoz/chant-to-yah/1519/
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