Pre Fade Listening - Solarized (2017)

The second album for Different Drummer from Hanover's Pre Fade Listening offers more blissfully chilled out grooves to keep the devotees of the horizontal nodding with approval. They cover a vast amount of ground in the search of the perfect sample - influenced by Jamaican dub, Brazillian bossa nova and Balearic beats, they manage to capture an element of each and weave it into their own rich soundscape. The album starts with the breathless vocals and blues guitar of 'Betties', before dropping neatly into the easy listening vibe of 'Homeworx'. The album also contains a remix of the Dub Syndicate track 'Struggle', which has been included with the band's permission. The recent boom in all things German has seen artists like Jazzanova, Rainer Truby and Beanfield all receiving well deserved attention - Pre Fade Listening should find themselves in a similar position with this well crafted album. Having already featured on the successful 'Spliffen Sie Englisch' compilation, Pre Fade Listening have been earmarked for the follow up due for release later this year.'
"A follow up to 1998's debut for the Hanover dub connection of Felix Wolter and Trigger, on the label that gave us the excellent G-Corp set from a few months ago. The album starts off as sexily as possible with a sultry blues guitar loop sounding like Hendrix from another dimension, then a lazy female 'hey hey' vocal sample leads us into 'Homeworx', a 'Voodoo Ray' for a bleached generation. When Tikiman steps forward for vocals on 'Mr Medicine Man', you realise that this is definitely a chilled dub experience. There's a slow, unforced shuffle to the dub tracks like Dub Syndicate on largactyl. The debt is confirmed by album credits to Style Scott, Skip MacDonald and Adrian Sherwood (for samples - I never knew he gave samples away at all)."
Steve Barker, The Wire

Tracklist

01. Bettie's
02. Homeworxx
03. Mr..Medicine Man
04. Vaikunta Ride
05. Free George Lingo
06. Tribute Dub
07. The Mee-Ling Affair
08. In That Way
09. Mata Hari
10. Orionizer
11. Manali Dub
12. 1000 Names
13. Struggle (PFL Version)
14. For a Few Dub More
15. For a Few Dub More (Crystal Clear Remix)
16. Mr..Medicine Man (Martin Buttrich Remix)