Dub Side Of The Moon

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With perfect timing to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary celebrations of Pink Floyd's classic, Dark Side Of The Moon, comes this ambitious, authentic and even amusing reinvention.Using the pick of the reggae and soul community, who spent over three years on the work, Dub Side Of The Moon is one of the more outrageous attempts at reworking Floyd tunes that has come along over the years. And it works fantastically well! It might seem sacriligious to some, but I think this is a great album! A fantastic job has been done from beginning to end. If you are a purist, hate cover bands, cover versions, and the like, you will probably hate this. If, however, you enjoy hearing fresh versions of old favourites, I urge you to check this out...The idea came about in 1999 when New York reggae label vice president Lem Oppenheimer convinced his colleagues that this was a viable concept to cover. He imagined it would "echo Dark Side's album artwork - refracting Pink Floyd's music vision...Read more

Dark side of the moon, remade, Reggae style. And it works. Second for second the same, but different, and it even claims to be 'Wizard of Oz Compatible'.

Unoforunately, the best song from this remake is not on the samples provided by Amazon - the 'Speak to Me' transitions into 'Breathe', with its familiar but Reggae feel, the experience is absolutely surreal - worth buying the album for that experience alone - expecially if you are a real fan of Pink Floyd.

As a whole, the reggae feel fits on top of the themes from Dark Side of the Moon naturally - you can easily forget what the 'original' sounds like, because you begin to think it should have sounded like this the first time around. The album has its moments though where the singer just becomes... annoying, and it goes a little over the top. Normally with an album like Dark Side, I would just get lost in the audio experience, almost meditative. While this happens with this version, the annoying singer...Read more

Pink Floyd's epic 1975 album Dark Side of The Moon is one of the most listened to albums of all time without question. It is concept album of all things that drive humans mad, money, being late, war, and of course that celestial orb, the moon. Well, folks now it's 2003, and we are all very mad these days and what a better time to revisit this album for it's devine tranquility in a whole new guise. 2003 finds Dark Side of the Moon in a new mantle, a reggae infusion of the highest magnitude featuring that monstrous invention of Jamaican reggae of the seventies, Dub. Yes, Dub- that mysterious collection of reverb, sound effects and dj chatter. Easy Star records has re-created Dark Side of the Moon and pun intended, dubbed it "DUB SIDE OF THE MOON". Utilizing some of the great artists that have worked with Easy Star over the past couple of years such as the Meditations, Ranking Joe, Gary Pine (Wailers)we have something both Reggae fans and Pink Floyd fans will want to grab...Read more