Track Listing

1. Echo Dek (Living Dub)
2. Echo Dek (Duffed Up)
3. Echo Dek (Revolutionary)
4. Echo Dek (JU-87)
5. Echo Dek (First Name Unknown)
6. Echo Dek (Vanishing Dub)
7. Echo Dek (Last Train)
8. Echo Dek (Wise Blood)
9. Echo Dek (Dub In Vain)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55510 in Music
• Released on: 2001-01-15
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Remix albums are tricky things to pull off. Often, the remix compilation is the record label's way of eking the last drops from a commercially successful artist whose popularity is beginning to wane. Of course, this is not always the case. Echo Dek, a total dub overhaul of Primal Scream's excellent Vanishing Point, stands alone as a great album. This is largely thanks to the inspirational decision to employ legendary dub reggae producer Adrian Sherwood as chief remixer. Sherwood pays the originals much respect, yet still stamps his authority on proceedings. The resultant dubs--spacious, bass-heavy, multi-textured creations--are as good as anything Sherwood has done in the last five or 10 years. Tracks like "Kowalski", "Burning Wheel" and "Trainspotting"--which employed dub soundscapes in original form--are taken to the cleaners with great effect. There are a couple of clangers, but overall the result is stunning and at times invigorating. Echo Dek is one of the better remix albums, on a par with Massive Attack's dub remix No Protection. --Matt Anniss

Customer Reviews

amazing stuff
I have listened to many albums but this one stays at the top. Maybe I just love those ones that have soul - I want to get scared, I want to smile, cry.... I have recently listened to Fourtet - Pause and even though a great piece of work I miss the subtleness that goes with Echo Dek. It's a joy to lie down and just listen. It's multilayered, emotional, great and I love it. Buy it. It's worth.

a bit boring
This record uses vanishing point as it's base material, but the changes seem almost pointless compared to the briliance of the source.

It's a bit dub, and a bit chillout,...

it's also not a bit as good as the original.

Music for the Monged
I cannot emphasize enough how monged and spaced out this album sounds, even more so than anything the Dandy Warhols (first two albums, not the new 'pop' encarnation) or SFA could muster.

'Vanishing Point', this albums template is one of my favorite albums ever, eclipsing both 'XTRMNTR' and 'Evil Heat' for essential Screamabilty, but 'Echo Dek' is totally off the wall.

Existing in a completely different galaxy from the new Kevin Sheilds era Scream of moutains of sonic 'Valentines-ish' guitar, the Sherwood mix of an already horizontally challenged album is excellent in its appropriation of Augustus Pablo Dub, from randon bleeps to outbursts of what sounds like Classic FM and whole oceans of echo, this album sounds massive and can easily compete with Screamadelica's more relaxed moments for the sountrack to the end of an evening.

Not essential, or suprising if you own this albums inspiration, just you'd be pleased you bought it.