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Show Th^OHfK Statesman Experimental funk from The Dub Narcotic Sound System Narcotic Sound System is a fun collecThis week's selection will get your booty Zach Pendleton tive of rap, reggae, blues, rock, and funk shaking and your heart thumping. And seesounds. Experimentation is the word of the ing how movement generates heat, it goes day with this band, and they aren't afraid without saying that this week's selection to move from the Hendrix-inspired ravejust may save your life this winter. up "Teenage Time Bomb" to the rap-rock The Dub Narcotic Sound System are the of "Hand Clappin'" or the ten-minute funk most eccentric, eclectic, foot-tappingly fly epic "Fudgy the Whale." party this side of the Mississippi. Coming Any of their four albums is an excuse from indie rock hub Olympia, Washington for a party. Guaranteed to raise the dormant and named after K Records' Dub Narcotic rug-cutter in the tamest among you, Dunn studio, the band features K Records founder Calvin Johnson and Heather Dunn and Chris Sutton— and Sutton strip the music down to its most basic elements to create underneath every track a fluid both members of minimalist funk band C.O.C.O. Combining the lo-fi Ofympia sound with bass bass and drum groove that isn't afraia to move with f:heavy grooves and loose drum rhythms, the Dub the mood and, more often, with Johnson's erratic bass LaBeau's Bacon Ranch Bur Hamburger Pattie Bacon Lettuce Cheese Tomato Ranch to165 EAST 1400 NORTH LOGAN (435) 752-2140 "Perfect printing is hard to come by" Square^ A Professional Quality [One Printing ABusiness Forms /LThesis, dissertations /^Wedding Invitations & Accessories 630 West 200 North 753-8875 voice. This is where the Dub Narcotic Sound System breaks from traditional funk. They bring to rhythmheavy music an ethic every bit as unpolished as their K label mates, and the result is an almost primal sound. But it also means that the drums and bass are brought again and again to the front of the mix. For your next party you'll probably play something lame like "Jingle Bell Rock" or "Santa Baby," but you don't have to. Sure the Dub Narcotic may not bring the holiday spirit, but they never fake the funk. I'll take the latter every time. Zach Pendleton's column The Best You've Never Heard runs each week in Diversions. Comments can be sent to him at zachp@cc.usu.edu. 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