Track Listing 1. N/JZ/Bm - (remix) 2. Re-Re-Re - (Up mix) 3. Dnjbb - (Cake mix) 4. Concrete - (Cement mix) 5. Ninj - (DE mix) 6. Pie - (Amastosis mix)
| Details | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Derek Bailey (guitar); D.J. Ninj (drum programming). No one could accuse veteran improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey of being out of step with the times. 1996's GUITAR, DRUMS 'N' BASS finds him embracing the flavor of the day by wrapping his electrified string-rakings around a barrage of programmed bass and breakbeats. Bill Laswell associate DJ Ninj provides the standard-issue drum-and-bass, his rolling beats and basslines taking a back seat to Bailey's skittish fretboard fireworks. "Ninj (De-Mix)" and "Re-Re-Re (Up-Mix)" see Bailey challenging the physical impracticality of playing along with the barreling, breathless rhythms of jungle. He deftly keeps time with chunky chords and agile arpeggios on the former and with stuttered harmonics on the latter. Elsewhere, Bailey's honed intuition leads him to ignore Ninj's contrivances and venture out upon sure-footed improvisational legs. "N/JZ/BM" buries the DJ's cumbersome breakbeats under a heap of Bailey's bristly, distorted scribblings. The composite "DNJBB (Cake-Mix)" moves in and out of phase with Ninj, more often subscribing to Bailey's distinctive free-meter template. GUITAR, DRUM 'N' BASS, while one of the most ambitious mutations of its ilk, is far more rewarding as a Bailey album than it is as a slice of de rigueur jungle.
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