a dub rollercoaster, 30 Apr 2001
This was one of my favourite dub albums of the 80's. The reggae greats series were best-of compilations, good introductions to the bands featured, but this one was exclusively mixed, and essentially a dub version of Black Uhuru's Chill Out. To my ears Sly & Robbie's pure dub albums can sound too dry and sparse; no such worries here as Paul Smykle's remix produced a very lush spacey sound, nothing dull or repetitive, just an evolving, ambient, deep album. Even after 15 years of ambient and electronic music it stands up to repeated listenings. S & R's best ever album, alongside Language Barrier.

An easy journey through ambient dub, 06 Sep 2000
This album was responsible for my entry into the great world of dub reggae. With it's flowing ambient beats and noises it will relax your very soul.

The album is a constant uninterupted mix of tunes that have been expertly mixed by our boys, Sly & Robbie, and is guarenteed to get the hairs on your neck standing. So turn up the amp . . . . . these are SOME tunes!

a dub rollercoaster, 30 Apr 2001
This was one of my favourite dub albums of the 80's. The reggae greats series were best-of compilations, good introductions to the bands featured, but this one was exclusively mixed, and essentially a dub version of Black Uhuru's Chill Out. To my ears Sly & Robbie's pure dub albums can sound too dry and sparse; no such worries here as Paul Smykle's remix produced a very lush spacey sound, nothing dull or repetitive, just an evolving, ambient, deep album. Even after 15 years of ambient and electronic music it stands up to repeated listenings. S & R's best ever album, alongside Language Barrier.

An easy journey through ambient dub, 06 Sep 2000
This album was responsible for my entry into the great world of dub reggae. With it's flowing ambient beats and noises it will relax your very soul.

The album is a constant uninterupted mix of tunes that have been expertly mixed by our boys, Sly & Robbie, and is guarenteed to get the hairs on your neck standing. So turn up the amp . . . . . these are SOME tunes!

Good but not that good, 03 Feb 2004
The standard of the another late night / late night tales series has been very high, and i expected a lot from this installment.

However, I must say that after about 10 listens i feel quite cheated. The thing is that there are a lot of "ubiquitous" tracks here.
For example, "Tracks of my tears", "Superfly" and "Lets stay together", while being good solid tunes, are so well known that they would probably be on "The best soul album in the world, Ever!". I want to hear stuff i haven't heard before, or i feel a bit disappointed.

On the plus side, there's some nice laid back stuff here. "I just wanna celebrate" has a v. catchy funky beat and some great vocals. and "Manila" is totally cool. I like "Nights over egypt" too, some 80s disco funk trakc.. nice tune

All in all though, its a bit too unsatisfying for me, and i find myself skipping over too many of that tracks to make it worth putting in the CD player.So now the disc is gathering dust on my rack...

Quite simply the best so far...., 05 Nov 2003
...well providing you like funky, cool grooves that is. Having now listened to the entire 'another late night'/'late night tales' collection I feel the series has grown better and better with each installment.

This has been proved with the current installment which in my opinion is the best so far. The tracks selected by Sly and Robbie seem to gel together and provide a brilliant insight into their musical tastes which is what the series is all about - right?

The album includes classics such as Curtis Mayfields 'Superfly' and Al Greens 'Lets Stay Together' alongside hidden gems (well for me anyway) with the likes of the Chi-Lites and the Jones Girls. These tracks provide the album with an overall uplifiting feel and certainly put a smile on my face.

If you like the previous installments in the series, then this will prove a very worthwhile purchase.

Looking forward to Jamiroquai!!!

Really Nice, 20 Sep 2003
In my opion the best compilation in the latenighttales/another latenigt series together with the Groove Armada edition.

Sly & Robbie has made an excellent track selection and mixed these tracks in a very gentle way common to most lounge/chill compilations.

Many different music styles gives the cd great diversity. There's a little bit of reggae (DJ DSL),
a bit of hiphop (Mobb Depp, Jeymes Samuel & Cannabis),
a bit of rock (Rare Earth)
some uplifting (Jones Girls, MFSB, Evelyn),
and lots of nice soul (Shirley Brown, Al Green, Aretha Franklin).

Definitely one of my all time favourite cd's........

"Strip" is right: the album--in which the veteran duo finally come to grips with the spectre of drum and bass--is reputedly merely the soundtrack to a Palm Pictures video/DVD release, in which 13 of Los Angeles' finest exotic dancers get down and dirty for the camera, their saline-enhanced routines set to music from one of the world's greatest rhythm sections. Bizarre? Perhaps. Exploitative? Maybe. But the result (in audio terms, at least) is a pure thrill: a skeletal, angular collection of grooves, a collision of disparate elements, all punctuated by the booming subsonics of Sly Dunbar's bass. Their feeling for this new, maverick genre is remarkable, yet at the same time, completely understandable: what has the Jamaican legends' entire career been about, after all, if not the foregrounding of pure rhythm? And if nothing else, it at least makes "You Can Leave Your Hat On" redundant. --Andrew McGuire

a dub rollercoaster, 30 Apr 2001
This was one of my favourite dub albums of the 80's. The reggae greats series were best-of compilations, good introductions to the bands featured, but this one was exclusively mixed, and essentially a dub version of Black Uhuru's Chill Out. To my ears Sly & Robbie's pure dub albums can sound too dry and sparse; no such worries here as Paul Smykle's remix produced a very lush spacey sound, nothing dull or repetitive, just an evolving, ambient, deep album. Even after 15 years of ambient and electronic music it stands up to repeated listenings. S & R's best ever album, alongside Language Barrier.

An easy journey through ambient dub, 06 Sep 2000
This album was responsible for my entry into the great world of dub reggae. With it's flowing ambient beats and noises it will relax your very soul.

The album is a constant uninterupted mix of tunes that have been expertly mixed by our boys, Sly & Robbie, and is guarenteed to get the hairs on your neck standing. So turn up the amp . . . . . these are SOME tunes!

Good but not that good, 03 Feb 2004
The standard of the another late night / late night tales series has been very high, and i expected a lot from this installment.

However, I must say that after about 10 listens i feel quite cheated. The thing is that there are a lot of "ubiquitous" tracks here.
For example, "Tracks of my tears", "Superfly" and "Lets stay together", while being good solid tunes, are so well known that they would probably be on "The best soul album in the world, Ever!". I want to hear stuff i haven't heard before, or i feel a bit disappointed.

On the plus side, there's some nice laid back stuff here. "I just wanna celebrate" has a v. catchy funky beat and some great vocals. and "Manila" is totally cool. I like "Nights over egypt" too, some 80s disco funk trakc.. nice tune

All in all though, its a bit too unsatisfying for me, and i find myself skipping over too many of that tracks to make it worth putting in the CD player.So now the disc is gathering dust on my rack...

Quite simply the best so far...., 05 Nov 2003
...well providing you like funky, cool grooves that is. Having now listened to the entire 'another late night'/'late night tales' collection I feel the series has grown better and better with each installment.

This has been proved with the current installment which in my opinion is the best so far. The tracks selected by Sly and Robbie seem to gel together and provide a brilliant insight into their musical tastes which is what the series is all about - right?

The album includes classics such as Curtis Mayfields 'Superfly' and Al Greens 'Lets Stay Together' alongside hidden gems (well for me anyway) with the likes of the Chi-Lites and the Jones Girls. These tracks provide the album with an overall uplifiting feel and certainly put a smile on my face.

If you like the previous installments in the series, then this will prove a very worthwhile purchase.

Looking forward to Jamiroquai!!!

Really Nice, 20 Sep 2003
In my opion the best compilation in the latenighttales/another latenigt series together with the Groove Armada edition.

Sly & Robbie has made an excellent track selection and mixed these tracks in a very gentle way common to most lounge/chill compilations.

Many different music styles gives the cd great diversity. There's a little bit of reggae (DJ DSL),
a bit of hiphop (Mobb Depp, Jeymes Samuel & Cannabis),
a bit of rock (Rare Earth)
some uplifting (Jones Girls, MFSB, Evelyn),
and lots of nice soul (Shirley Brown, Al Green, Aretha Franklin).

Definitely one of my all time favourite cd's........

Stripped out but not bare., 14 May 2008
Stripped out? Sure, but not to the bone. The arrangements, sampling, and quality of musicianship, top notch. Dunbar's fret straddling fingers run up and down the bass giving everything else simply sublime rhythm to work with. It's not drum n'bass in the conventional sense - almost chill out, dare I say it - with more than passing nods to Fila Brazilla and others of their ilk, so I'm not going to categorise; make up your own mind. Find it, buy it and enjoy.

Monty Alexander came to Miami from Jamaica in 1960, when his mother moved the family in search of work, and while he became fully acclimatised to the north American jazz style, his albums have made frequent reference to the music of his homeland. In his last few records, propelled by a feeling that the old jazz community of New York has faded away, he has sought kinship with such compatriots as Ernest Ranglin, and here the Jamaican flavour is more pronounced than ever. Admirers of Monty's straight-ahead playing may find it hard to identify with the particular swing of the island rhythms, and Sly and Robbie's electric drum patterns can sound stiff, thin and synthetic, but the mood is relaxed, and in interpretations of such standards as "Chameleon", "The In Crowd", "Sidewinder", "Moanin'" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" Monty brings to bear his jazz know-how, laying fluent bebop over the lazy shuffle beats.--Mark Gilbert

a dub rollercoaster, 30 Apr 2001
This was one of my favourite dub albums of the 80's. The reggae greats series were best-of compilations, good introductions to the bands featured, but this one was exclusively mixed, and essentially a dub version of Black Uhuru's Chill Out. To my ears Sly & Robbie's pure dub albums can sound too dry and sparse; no such worries here as Paul Smykle's remix produced a very lush spacey sound, nothing dull or repetitive, just an evolving, ambient, deep album. Even after 15 years of ambient and electronic music it stands up to repeated listenings. S & R's best ever album, alongside Language Barrier.

An easy journey through ambient dub, 06 Sep 2000
This album was responsible for my entry into the great world of dub reggae. With it's flowing ambient beats and noises it will relax your very soul.

The album is a constant uninterupted mix of tunes that have been expertly mixed by our boys, Sly & Robbie, and is guarenteed to get the hairs on your neck standing. So turn up the amp . . . . . these are SOME tunes!

Good but not that good, 03 Feb 2004
The standard of the another late night / late night tales series has been very high, and i expected a lot from this installment.

However, I must say that after about 10 listens i feel quite cheated. The thing is that there are a lot of "ubiquitous" tracks here.
For example, "Tracks of my tears", "Superfly" and "Lets stay together", while being good solid tunes, are so well known that they would probably be on "The best soul album in the world, Ever!". I want to hear stuff i haven't heard before, or i feel a bit disappointed.

On the plus side, there's some nice laid back stuff here. "I just wanna celebrate" has a v. catchy funky beat and some great vocals. and "Manila" is totally cool. I like "Nights over egypt" too, some 80s disco funk trakc.. nice tune

All in all though, its a bit too unsatisfying for me, and i find myself skipping over too many of that tracks to make it worth putting in the CD player.So now the disc is gathering dust on my rack...

Quite simply the best so far...., 05 Nov 2003
...well providing you like funky, cool grooves that is. Having now listened to the entire 'another late night'/'late night tales' collection I feel the series has grown better and better with each installment.

This has been proved with the current installment which in my opinion is the best so far. The tracks selected by Sly and Robbie seem to gel together and provide a brilliant insight into their musical tastes which is what the series is all about - right?

The album includes classics such as Curtis Mayfields 'Superfly' and Al Greens 'Lets Stay Together' alongside hidden gems (well for me anyway) with the likes of the Chi-Lites and the Jones Girls. These tracks provide the album with an overall uplifiting feel and certainly put a smile on my face.

If you like the previous installments in the series, then this will prove a very worthwhile purchase.

Looking forward to Jamiroquai!!!

Really Nice, 20 Sep 2003
In my opion the best compilation in the latenighttales/another latenigt series together with the Groove Armada edition.

Sly & Robbie has made an excellent track selection and mixed these tracks in a very gentle way common to most lounge/chill compilations.

Many different music styles gives the cd great diversity. There's a little bit of reggae (DJ DSL),
a bit of hiphop (Mobb Depp, Jeymes Samuel & Cannabis),
a bit of rock (Rare Earth)
some uplifting (Jones Girls, MFSB, Evelyn),
and lots of nice soul (Shirley Brown, Al Green, Aretha Franklin).

Definitely one of my all time favourite cd's........

Stripped out but not bare., 14 May 2008
Stripped out? Sure, but not to the bone. The arrangements, sampling, and quality of musicianship, top notch. Dunbar's fret straddling fingers run up and down the bass giving everything else simply sublime rhythm to work with. It's not drum n'bass in the conventional sense - almost chill out, dare I say it - with more than passing nods to Fila Brazilla and others of their ilk, so I'm not going to categorise; make up your own mind. Find it, buy it and enjoy.

Not vintage, 27 Dec 2007
Personal taste, but these are hardly vintage years for the wonderful Sly & Robbie partnership. Seem to have lost the thing that made them distinctive in this compilation, but I am an old git who liked it when they did proper reggae.
Wish I had looked at the date in the title before I added it to my Christmas wishlist! Oh well...

a dub rollercoaster, 30 Apr 2001
This was one of my favourite dub albums of the 80's. The reggae greats series were best-of compilations, good introductions to the bands featured, but this one was exclusively mixed, and essentially a dub version of Black Uhuru's Chill Out. To my ears Sly & Robbie's pure dub albums can sound too dry and sparse; no such worries here as Paul Smykle's remix produced a very lush spacey sound, nothing dull or repetitive, just an evolving, ambient, deep album. Even after 15 years of ambient and electronic music it stands up to repeated listenings. S & R's best ever album, alongside Language Barrier.

An easy journey through ambient dub, 06 Sep 2000
This album was responsible for my entry into the great world of dub reggae. With it's flowing ambient beats and noises it will relax your very soul.

The album is a constant uninterupted mix of tunes that have been expertly mixed by our boys, Sly & Robbie, and is guarenteed to get the hairs on your neck standing. So turn up the amp . . . . . these are SOME tunes!

Good but not that good, 03 Feb 2004
The standard of the another late night / late night tales series has been very high, and i expected a lot from this installment.

However, I must say that after about 10 listens i feel quite cheated. The thing is that there are a lot of "ubiquitous" tracks here.
For example, "Tracks of my tears", "Superfly" and "Lets stay together", while being good solid tunes, are so well known that they would probably be on "The best soul album in the world, Ever!". I want to hear stuff i haven't heard before, or i feel a bit disappointed.

On the plus side, there's some nice laid back stuff here. "I just wanna celebrate" has a v. catchy funky beat and some great vocals. and "Manila" is totally cool. I like "Nights over egypt" too, some 80s disco funk trakc.. nice tune

All in all though, its a bit too unsatisfying for me, and i find myself skipping over too many of that tracks to make it worth putting in the CD player.So now the disc is gathering dust on my rack...

Quite simply the best so far...., 05 Nov 2003
...well providing you like funky, cool grooves that is. Having now listened to the entire 'another late night'/'late night tales' collection I feel the series has grown better and better with each installment.

This has been proved with the current installment which in my opinion is the best so far. The tracks selected by Sly and Robbie seem to gel together and provide a brilliant insight into their musical tastes which is what the series is all about - right?

The album includes classics such as Curtis Mayfields 'Superfly' and Al Greens 'Lets Stay Together' alongside hidden gems (well for me anyway) with the likes of the Chi-Lites and the Jones Girls. These tracks provide the album with an overall uplifiting feel and certainly put a smile on my face.

If you like the previous installments in the series, then this will prove a very worthwhile purchase.

Looking forward to Jamiroquai!!!

Really Nice, 20 Sep 2003
In my opion the best compilation in the latenighttales/another latenigt series together with the Groove Armada edition.

Sly & Robbie has made an excellent track selection and mixed these tracks in a very gentle way common to most lounge/chill compilations.

Many different music styles gives the cd great diversity. There's a little bit of reggae (DJ DSL),
a bit of hiphop (Mobb Depp, Jeymes Samuel & Cannabis),
a bit of rock (Rare Earth)
some uplifting (Jones Girls, MFSB, Evelyn),
and lots of nice soul (Shirley Brown, Al Green, Aretha Franklin).

Definitely one of my all time favourite cd's........

Stripped out but not bare., 14 May 2008
Stripped out? Sure, but not to the bone. The arrangements, sampling, and quality of musicianship, top notch. Dunbar's fret straddling fingers run up and down the bass giving everything else simply sublime rhythm to work with. It's not drum n'bass in the conventional sense - almost chill out, dare I say it - with more than passing nods to Fila Brazilla and others of their ilk, so I'm not going to categorise; make up your own mind. Find it, buy it and enjoy.

Not vintage, 27 Dec 2007
Personal taste, but these are hardly vintage years for the wonderful Sly & Robbie partnership. Seem to have lost the thing that made them distinctive in this compilation, but I am an old git who liked it when they did proper reggae.
Wish I had looked at the date in the title before I added it to my Christmas wishlist! Oh well...

Victory (dub) is yours!, 14 Jul 2004
I was a little wary of this album. Mad Professor with two of reggaes greatest legends just sounded too good to be true. So many projects like this go wrong. This one went right. This is really quite cheerful dub and you'll be smiling all the way through. Naturally, the music from a technical standpoint is nail on the head stuff, not showing off and ruining your listening pleasure, but interesting enough to keep you playing the disc over and again. I played this 3 times straight the day I got it and only stopped because I wanted something to listen to the day after! This is not commercial dub music but it's just so good it ought to sell a few million copies or more.

Though most listeners identify Jamaica's legendary "riddim twins" with seminal reggae artists like Peter Tosh and Black Uhuru, the pair of mutating chameleons has also arranged, produced, and laid down nonpareil rhythm foundations for, among many others, James Brown, Bob Dylan, KRS-1, the Rolling Stones, and Carly Simon. The musically adventurous duo stopped counting their collaborations over the decades they've worked together at 500 tunes. Still looking for new territory to conquer, they join forces this time out with U.K. producer-remixer-deejay Howie B, who's worked with the likes of Brian Eno and Ry Cooder, and has released solo albums for Mo'Wax/Island/Polydor and his own Pussyfoot label. With Howie B at the helm, Sly and Robbie enter today's dance world, and, as usual, they show the youngsters a thing or ten. In fact, Howie B's trippy edits--most of the knob-twiddling was done on the spot, as the musicians played--bring a fresh kind of central-nervous-system stimulation and pair a European keyboard feel to Sly and Robbie's solid-gold reggae syncopations. As premillennium reggae flounders in the doldrums and drum 'n' bass turns into one long yawn, this set offers a new musical environment, charged with Howie B's nuanced techno oddities and grounded in the organic appeal of Shakespeare's smart-bomb bass--phat and on-target--and Dunbar's drum programming--impossible to distinguish from his legendary hands-on technique. In fact, the set has such broad potential appeal that Palm Pictures has also released a long-form, 35-minute DVD video Strip to the Bone (after the album's title single), featuring a bevy of L.A. strippers and proving that the only thing that won't bounce to Sly and Robbie is silicone. --Elena Oumano

a dub rollercoaster, 30 Apr 2001
This was one of my favourite dub albums of the 80's. The reggae greats series were best-of compilations, good introductions to the bands featured, but this one was exclusively mixed, and essentially a dub version of Black Uhuru's Chill Out. To my ears Sly & Robbie's pure dub albums can sound too dry and sparse; no such worries here as Paul Smykle's remix produced a very lush spacey sound, nothing dull or repetitive, just an evolving, ambient, deep album. Even after 15 years of ambient and electronic music it stands up to repeated listenings. S & R's best ever album, alongside Language Barrier.

An easy journey through ambient dub, 06 Sep 2000
This album was responsible for my entry into the great world of dub reggae. With it's flowing ambient beats and noises it will relax your very soul.

The album is a constant uninterupted mix of tunes that have been expertly mixed by our boys, Sly & Robbie, and is guarenteed to get the hairs on your neck standing. So turn up the amp . . . . . these are SOME tunes!

Good but not that good, 03 Feb 2004
The standard of the another late night / late night tales series has been very high, and i expected a lot from this installment.

However, I must say that after about 10 listens i feel quite cheated. The thing is that there are a lot of "ubiquitous" tracks here.
For example, "Tracks of my tears", "Superfly" and "Lets stay together", while being good solid tunes, are so well known that they would probably be on "The best soul album in the world, Ever!". I want to hear stuff i haven't heard before, or i feel a bit disappointed.

On the plus side, there's some nice laid back stuff here. "I just wanna celebrate" has a v. catchy funky beat and some great vocals. and "Manila" is totally cool. I like "Nights over egypt" too, some 80s disco funk trakc.. nice tune

All in all though, its a bit too unsatisfying for me, and i find myself skipping over too many of that tracks to make it worth putting in the CD player.So now the disc is gathering dust on my rack...

Quite simply the best so far...., 05 Nov 2003
...well providing you like funky, cool grooves that is. Having now listened to the entire 'another late night'/'late night tales' collection I feel the series has grown better and better with each installment.

This has been proved with the current installment which in my opinion is the best so far. The tracks selected by Sly and Robbie seem to gel together and provide a brilliant insight into their musical tastes which is what the series is all about - right?

The album includes classics such as Curtis Mayfields 'Superfly' and Al Greens 'Lets Stay Together' alongside hidden gems (well for me anyway) with the likes of the Chi-Lites and the Jones Girls. These tracks provide the album with an overall uplifiting feel and certainly put a smile on my face.

If you like the previous installments in the series, then this will prove a very worthwhile purchase.

Looking forward to Jamiroquai!!!

Really Nice, 20 Sep 2003
In my opion the best compilation in the latenighttales/another latenigt series together with the Groove Armada edition.

Sly & Robbie has made an excellent track selection and mixed these tracks in a very gentle way common to most lounge/chill compilations.

Many different music styles gives the cd great diversity. There's a little bit of reggae (DJ DSL),
a bit of hiphop (Mobb Depp, Jeymes Samuel & Cannabis),
a bit of rock (Rare Earth)
some uplifting (Jones Girls, MFSB, Evelyn),
and lots of nice soul (Shirley Brown, Al Green, Aretha Franklin).

Definitely one of my all time favourite cd's........

Stripped out but not bare., 14 May 2008
Stripped out? Sure, but not to the bone. The arrangements, sampling, and quality of musicianship, top notch. Dunbar's fret straddling fingers run up and down the bass giving everything else simply sublime rhythm to work with. It's not drum n'bass in the conventional sense - almost chill out, dare I say it - with more than passing nods to Fila Brazilla and others of their ilk, so I'm not going to categorise; make up your own mind. Find it, buy it and enjoy.

Not vintage, 27 Dec 2007
Personal taste, but these are hardly vintage years for the wonderful Sly & Robbie partnership. Seem to have lost the thing that made them distinctive in this compilation, but I am an old git who liked it when they did proper reggae.
Wish I had looked at the date in the title before I added it to my Christmas wishlist! Oh well...

Victory (dub) is yours!, 14 Jul 2004
I was a little wary of this album. Mad Professor with two of reggaes greatest legends just sounded too good to be true. So many projects like this go wrong. This one went right. This is really quite cheerful dub and you'll be smiling all the way through. Naturally, the music from a technical standpoint is nail on the head stuff, not showing off and ruining your listening pleasure, but interesting enough to keep you playing the disc over and again. I played this 3 times straight the day I got it and only stopped because I wanted something to listen to the day after! This is not commercial dub music but it's just so good it ought to sell a few million copies or more.

It's good, 20 Aug 2007
My brother passed this album on to me and explained that he wasn't at all impressed by it. We both love 70s & early 80s dub. I was a little more patient than him perhaps and gave a good listening. It's good. It's really good. It also will age well, unlike much modern dub. It's different from other productions by S & B. Howie B adds something special. I must confess to not knowing his music. If you are interested in sophisticated modern dub this is a worthwhile album to buy. It's great for driving too.