"Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble first recorded under the name Divination in the early `90s, issuing Ambient Dub Volumes 1 and 2 in `93 and `94. These were extended forays into the spaciest, most psychedelic regions of ambient music, marked by the hypnotic drone of the musicians' twin basses, gentle dub effects, and subtle ethnic music embellishments. There's a lot more here, but it's Laswell and Wobble's dual subterranean basses which form the spine for their exotic, entrancing music." - EPITONIC Bill Laswell & Jah Wobble alter our present state by reinventing a past that's derived from the future. By combining elements of drum `n' bass, mutant hip-hop, dub, harmolodic fusion, new jazz, world and out-of-this-world music, the duo expands the potential of our musical experience. Ambient Dub Volume 1, the first in a series of often radically different Divination projects, shows an impressive scope. Brilliant guitarists Buckethead and Nicky Skopelitis add arachnid-like webs of texture to Robert Musso's dusky synths and Ben Bova's ethereal electronics. Veers from weightlessly abstract ambience to quasi-dub rhythmic fluctuations and all-out ethno-techno-funk - an irresistible experiment in extreme ambient dub!
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