Customer Reviews
Dazed and Daring - By: Furthur, 19 Jun 2008 
I remember the first time I met someone else who also knew this album. That was about 20 years ago in France, & the bloke was a Punk bloke with the most extreme look & a pronounced taste for very hardcore music. For some reason he was at my place for a party & at some point I played this album. That certainly got his attention as he already knew & loved this album & we struck a lasting immediate friendship there & then.
I think this is the moct important thing about this album. It transcends the closed up Dub world to a larger experimental world of open minded people. The production is impeccable, & it certainly will twist your mind when you have smoked a few too many spliffs, but even now that I have not been smoking for so long I still love this album for how dazed & daring it is.
Blow Those Speakers - By: Gibby's Ghost, 09 Oct 2006 This is speaker shredding dub. This is dub taken into the 21st century, 17 years before the end of the 20th one. If you love dub, you'll already have this. If you're curious to find out what dub is alll about, this is a good place to start. There's real imagination, real vision & real bass heavy frequencies here.
Nuclear meltdown - inna dub plate style! - By: , 01 Jan 2001 The Dub Factor is one of the hardest most astonishing dub albums ever to be released. Almost 2 decades ago Paul "Groucho" Smykle captured some of Uhurus's ruffest tracks from the early 80s, smuggled them into the top secret laboratories of The Falllout Shelter in London & remixed the hell out of them to create a powerful & disturbing apocalyptic journey into the deepest & darkest realms of heavyweight drum & bass. Along the way you will hear echoing into infinity the sharp, piercing, tribal tones of Michael Rose, fused with the amorphous, spectral harmonies of Puma Jones & Duckie Simpson, alll of which interweaving ten balllisticallly turbo-charged riddims blasted onto your soundscape with uncompromising power by Sly Drum-bar & Robbie Bass-spear. Smykle went on to perfect his unusual mixing techniques on a later project entitled "A Dub Experience" for Sly & Robbie, an album which could be considered The Dub Factor Volume II since it continues in much the same futuristic vein - albeit without the stunning vocal dexterities of Uhuru which make this album so unique. An absolute MUST.
