This Is Big Audio Dynamite

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180 gram vinyl, plated and pressed at RTI. 100 % analog mastering by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original tape. Old-style tip-on gatefold jacket by Stoughton Printing. Watch AnalogPlanet.com's Michael ... [Show more]

Description:
180 gram vinyl, plated and pressed at RTI.

100 % analog mastering by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original tape.

Old-style tip-on gatefold jacket by Stoughton Printing.

Watch AnalogPlanet.com's Michael Fremer interview Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, together with Intervention Records' founder and CEO Shane Buettner here.

Elbowed out of the Clash, Mick Jones responded forcefully with Big Audio Dynamite, a modernist audio-terrorist outfit whose October 1985 debut, This Is Big Audio Dynamite, seemed all the more futuristic when compared to Joe Strummer's reductionist retro rejiggering of the Clash on Cut the Crap

"Big Audio Dynamite was anchored in dance and rap, its album debut piling on layers of samples and drum machines. As is often the case, what was once forward-looking seems inextricably tied to its time in retrospect and the clanking electro rhythms, Sergio Leone samples, chicken-scratch guitars, bleating synths, and six-minute songs of This Is Big Audio Dynamite evoke 1985 in a way few other records do. Nevertheless, BAD's boldness remains impressive, even visionary, pointing toward the cut-n-paste masterpieces of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and since Jones did not abandon his innate gift for hooks — if anything, he found ways to create rhythmic hooks as well as melodic ones - it's quite accessible for an album that is, at its core, avant-rock". - AllMusic [Hide]