Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone By Howie B

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Amazon.com Though most listeners identify Jamaica's legendary "riddim twins" with seminal reggae artists like Peter Tosh and Black Uhuru, the pair of mutating chameleons has also arranged, produced, and laid down nonpareil rhythm foundations for, among many others, James Brown, Bob Dylan, KRS-1, the Rolling Stones, and Carly Simon. The musically adventurous duo stopped counting their collaborations over the decades they've worked together at 500 tunes. Still looking for new territory to conquer, they join forces this time out with U.K. producer-remixer-deejay Howie B, who's worked with the likes of Brian Eno and Ry Cooder, and has released solo albums for Mo'Wax/Island/Polydor and his own Pussyfoot label. With Howie B at the helm, Sly and Robbie enter today's dance world, and, as usual, they show the youngsters a thing or ten. In fact, Howie B's trippy edits--most of the knob-twiddling was done on the spot, as the musicians played--bring a fresh kind of central-nervous-system stimulation and pair a European keyboard feel to Sly and Robbie's solid-gold reggae syncopations. As premillennium reggae flounders in the doldrums and drum 'n' bass turns into one long yawn, this set offers a new musical environment, charged with Howie B's nuanced techno oddities and grounded in the organic appeal of Shakespeare's smart-bomb bass--phat and on-target--and Dunbar's drum programming--impossible to distinguish from his legendary hands-on technique. In fact, the set has such broad potential appeal that Palm Pictures has also released a long-form, 35-minute DVD video Strip to the Bone (after the album's title single), featuring a bevy of L.A. strippers and proving that the only thing that won't bounce to Sly and Robbie is silicone. --Elena Oumano Review Drum and Bass certainly has its tasty moments. Splinters of electronic noise and synthesizer effects run through the disc, as Howie B. lends the music a movie-soundtrack air. -- Vibe On Drum & Bass Strip to the Bone, Sly and Robbie hand out their source material to Scottish beatminer and friend-of-U2 Howie B. who warps it into a sci-fi skank session. -- URB From the Label "Boy, it come like a marriage but not even marriage work so good, " bass player Robbie Shakespeare once commented about his nearly 25 year musical partnership with drummer Sly Dunbar. "People ask how we stay together so long, but all I can say is, it just works!" The union of Lowell "Sly" Dunbar's steady drum beats to the blistering bass playing of Robert Shakespeare, as well as the duos visionary production talents have contributed immensly to reggae music's international popularity. The Riddim Twins (as they are affectionately known) have lent their talent to an all-star array of reggae and international artists including Black Uhuru, Bootsy Collins, Yellowman, Half Pint, Horace Andy, Maxi Priest, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Grace Jones, Gregory Isaacs, Herbie Hancock, Fela Kuti, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Manu Dibango, Carly Simon, and the list goes on and on...Sly and Robbie apply their singular approach to creating Jamaican music, utilizing various influences including country, blues, r&b, and rock music. Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone By Howie B, their new project, propels Sly and Robbie into the 21st century - this album is their version of drum & bass. Sly and Robbie have been laying down "rhythm & space" music for over two decades, genre-bending in the studio, while others have been hijacking the term "drum & bass" -- Sly and Robbie are the legends that this genre borrowed from. Working with dj/producer/remixer/writer Howie B on Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone was a successful experiment - merging the duo's source music with electronic beats. On Sly and Robbie's Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone by Howie B, hypnotic, explosive basslines coupled with devastating rhythms and booms carry you on a sonic mind trip. Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone By Howie B will be released in February 1999 by Palm Pictures, C