Drums Of Death - What On God's Green Earth Will This Sound Like? (I'm Scared)

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DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, hot off his last Blue Series release "Celestial Mechanix" recently teamed up with Dave Lombardo (drummer for Slayer) to see what
one of the world's best DJs could do with beats supplied by the best thrash metal drummer of all time. As if that isn't enough, legendary Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid
has provided his stunning sound to mix. To bring it all together Meat Beat Manifesto has been tapped to produce "Drums of Death" along with DJ Spooky.

"Check it like this: the drum is universal - it doesn't matter if it's hip-hop, drum n bass or thrash metal - it's all about that beat. Me and Dave Lombardo flip beats to a different
drummer - that's what this project is about: rhythm dialog, building bridges between scenes and styles. Flippin' the script always means there's new vocabularies to be explored, and
we're just making up a new language as we go...Slayer was one of the only rock bands on early Def Jam, and they influenced my style. Dave's drumming was mad rugged, and he was
the rhythm unit. Like the illest live band in hip-hop, The Roots, has Q?est-love as their rhythm section, Slayer has Dave. Think of this as a dialog about that kind of cultural collision"
- DJ Spooky

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ugh omg wtf

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

bwahahaha

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god I wish someone other than DJ Spooky was involved in this.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

dave wittie is guesting on the next unkle record

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Thrash is the new Clyde Stubblefield for dj's.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Who would have thought that Dave Lombardo would end up playing free-jazz and hip-hop?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the world's best DJs...

huh?

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't he already collaborate with a hive full of buzzing bees on a soundtrack by that wacky artist guy who's married to Bjork, though?

Anyway, since I never liked Slayer OR DJ Spooky much, I do not have high hopes.

― chuck, Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Scorn already cover this kind of thing a decade ago?

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Lombardo even in Slayer anymore? I thought he left years ago!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he's back in!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Mysterious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

This will probably be better than that Latin-thrash-classical thing he did a couple of years ago (also released on Thirsty Ear).

I'd like to hear guitar/drums duos between Vernon Reid and Lombardo. Agree that it's a shame DJ Spooky will be involved - Reid and Lombardo plus some totally whacked DJ like Faust (the Yngwie of the turntables) could actually be cool. But this will disappoint.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to hear guitar/drums duos between Vernon Reid and Lombardo

Probably wouldn't be much different that the duos between Lombardo and Frith on some of those Zorn albums. Now what's this Thirsty Ear thing?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This thing. I don't own it anymore, and haven't heard it in years, so I can't really recommend it.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, the soundclip I listened to just now was horrifying.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

What On God's Green Earth Will This Sound Like?

my guess is:

thumpitythumpityskratchityskratchitywankitywankwankBOOM!

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike Patton may get pissed that he's not included in this.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Friday, 10 September 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dj Spooky is a nude emperor that plays the race card as often as possible when criticized.

― SPJ Dookie, Friday, 10 September 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope Spooky and Saul Williams do a wicked funky double assault on ILM for that comment. It'll be... WICKEDLIKE! *shazam wikki wikki wak*

― SPJ Dookie, Friday, 10 September 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

wait. Spooky=Mike Patton.

― dasfkh (cs appleby), Friday, 10 September 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, lombardo played on bepler's soundtrack to barney's cremaster.

spooky sounds like he's done all the work here bringing lombardo out of his trash metal cesspit.

― jchantler, Friday, 10 September 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I doubt it.

Btw, best thing DL's ever done: the percussion ensemble intro to the first Grip., Inc. cd (worst thing he's ever done: all Grip, Inc. songs ever).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "trash metal cesspit"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

I didn't read a single word about this anywhere, was it awful?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like a Bill Laswell project.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Too true.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

look for the ugly Axiom label cover art

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Heard some samples. It appears to be ungood.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not weapon at all. In fact, it's kind of icky in the aforementioned Bill Laswell stylee

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hearing Chuck D rap PE verses over shredding Lombardo drums in my head and it sounds pretty hot, so I'll just stick to that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's (pretty much - there may have been minor tweaks by the editor that I don't remember) the text of my Wire review (already printed):

Once again, DJ Spooky has a good idea which fails to become a good album. Dave Lombardo, a member in good standing of both Slayer and Fantomas, provides many if not most of the drum sounds here. Spooky and producer Jack Dangers, of Meat Beat Manifesto, manipulate said beats and add other stuff (scratching, samples and keyboard squelches) around them. Chuck D and Vernon Reid supply vocals and guitar, respectively, on a couple of tracks each. Does that litany of 90s names sound like a classic case of “too many cooks” to you? If so, you’re absolutely right, and you’re not alone. All Drums Of Death’s sonic-terror moves are from the mid-90s, and sound vaguely embarrassing now. (Remember how thrilling the Prodigy’s “Breathe” was? Imagine how lame it’d seem if it came out today.) Chuck D re-works three old PE tracks – “B-Side Wins Again,” “Public Enemy No. 1” and “Brothers Gonna Work It Out” – and sounds exhausted and a little resentful that he’s reduced to this kind of tokenism/cameo status all three times. In the album’s most egregious offense, Lombardo’s drums are mixed like like DJ Shadow beats, not like avalanches in hell the way they should. Why hire Dave Lombardo if you’re gonna make him sound like just anybody? The only track really worth hearing is the one that delivers on the promise of the title – “Incipit Zarathustra,” which is a Spooky/Lombardo duo for turntables and drums. The rest is the work of men whom history has left behind.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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