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Killing Joke – In Dub – Review

Killing Joke – In Dub

By Snuff Monkey

It was back in the early 80’s during senior school that the seed of Killing Joke was planted in me when I was captivated by spiky haired punk in the 6^th form wearing a leather jacket with a hand painted grinning jester emblazoned on the back with the band’s name. I didn’t know at the time that the name was for a band I would become to respect and be one of my all time heroes of the post punk movement. But the words killing joke intrigued me and the artwork on the jacket left a long and enduring mark on my psych.

Jumping forward a few years their classic track Eighties was ringing through my head and then Follow the Leader set me on a course of musical discovery.

Coming out for from the Matt Stagger Band, Jaz Coleman and Big Paul Ferguson formed Killing Joke and after placing and advert were joined by Geordie Walker and Martin “Youth” Glover, with a manifesto to “define exquisite music for the atomic age”. A manifesto they have stuck to throughout their enduring career with fifteen albums under their belts and numerous remix albums, In Dub is their most recent. Produced by Youth and released in November 2013 it’s a blinder of an album that you cannot help but get your nod on to.

Comprising of 3 CD’s Youth has produced a masterpiece from some of the bands greatest and classic tracks to their most recent releases bring them all spiralling into the modern age, not that these tracks needed updating as their music to me and many of their fans will agree are timeless in their original form but In Dub, brings a fresh and even more exciting sound that cannot be ignored.

It’s difficult for me to select a favourite out of all the tracks as each and everyone rings with passion but I have to say that one of my all time favourites “ Money is Not our God (Babylon Dub) is pure geniuses.

Track Listing
CD1

01 THIS W()RLD HELL (ALIVE & KICKING DUB) YOUTH REMIX
02 MONEY IS NºT OUR GOD (BABYLON DUB)
03 DEPTH CHARGE (PATHFINDER DUB)
04 CORPORATE ELECT (PRESIDENT’S “MUSTARD IN THE CHALICE” MANIFESTO DUB MIX)
05 GHOSTS OF LADBROKE GROVE (PORTOBELLO DUB)
06 LABYRINTH DUB (DYNAMICS OF GEOMETRY DUB)
07 Eighties (Voodoo Dub Mix)
08 LºVE LIKE BL0OD (YOUR HEART IS A WEAPON DUB)
09 A SIXTH SUN (PROPHECY FULFILLED DUB)
10 THE RAVEN KING (NEVER GROW 0LD, F0REVER NºW DUB)

Post by Killing Joke: Official.

CD2

01 REQUIEM (A FLOATING LEAF ALWAYS REACHES THE SEA MIX)
02 THIS WORLD HELL (CULT OF YOUTH AMBIENT SAMSARA DUB MIX)
03 PANDEMºNIUM [A THREAD OF STEEL IN THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE 0F TIME & SPACE MIX]
04 EX0RCISM (VATICAN AMBIENT DUB)
05 PRIMØBILE (LIFER, KILIMANJARO DUB)
06 T0MORROW’S WºRLD (URBAN PRIMITIVE DUB)
07 EUROPEAN SUPER STATE THE ORB VS YOUTH REMIX (CHURCH OF THE OPEN SKY AND HOLY FOOL DUB)
08 ANOTHER CULT GOES DOWN (PORTOBELLO MIX)

CD3
01 – Pole Shift Perpetual Motion I’ve Seen Things You People Would Never Believe Dub
02 – European Super State Lizard Dub Emerging From The Ayahuasca Cave Remix
03 – In Cythera Banda Remix
04 – Follow The Leader Follow The Dub
05 – Democracy – NIN Remix
06 – In Cytheria – The Bloody Beetroots Mix
07 – Change Spiral Tribe Remix
08 – European Super State NYC Soundclash Dub Piripiri Vs Youth Vs Banda
09 – Requiem Third Party Dub The Ultra Rare Last Laugh Mix
10 – Killer Dub Aka Bread Jam