This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Many if not most DJs don’t worry too much about words — for them, it’s all about rhythm and groove and bpm’s. If a tune even has a vocal, it’s more than likely to be one sampled line endlessly repeated, like Fat Boy Slim’s Rockafeller Skank.
Thankfully, tripped-out U.K. duo Herbaliser know the pen can be mightier than the sampler. Hence, they choose their words carefully. Along with their blaxploitation funk, freaky-styley scratches and low-gravity lunar landscapes, the boys present an array of voices, from the high-voltage live raps of Bahamadia, Dream Warriors and What What to sex-manual chapters and even some straight-shooting jazz poetics. Herbaliser might want to consider a name change — to Verbaliser.
