Artist: Artery
Title: The Dollar
Format: 12" single
Label: Wall of Sound
Catalogue Number: WALLT007
Year of Release: 1995
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Tracklisting:
A1 The Dollar
B1 Marcia Blues
B2 Dollar Dub
Jon Carter continues his sterling work, begun with his remix of Agent Provocateur, to bore the listener to death. Marcia Blues is an overlong, slow and turgid example of the Big Beat genre, the aural equivalent of wading through glue.
The Dollar isn't much better. It starts well enough, with a kind of western atmosphere, but this is quickly ruined by one of the most boring basslines of dub history, played on a particularly cheap sounding keyboard. The drum loops are unexciting, there's a vocal sample about the dollar being 'all', and the breakdowns are so predictable I managed to set my watch by them. And there is nothing else to it than that. The 'dub' on the B-side is just more of the same, with slightly different drum loops. Yawn.
The best thing by far about this record is that it is pressed on clear vinyl. But if you were going to make the effort to get a nice record made, you could at least put some good tunes on it.
