Second Light
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| Studio album by Dreadzone | ||||
| Released | 30 May 1995 | |||
| Recorded | Dubby Road Studios, West London | |||
| Genre | Dub, dubtronica, folktronica | |||
| Length | 56:29 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Dreadzone | |||
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Second Light (subtitled "An Original Dreadzone Sound Adventure") is the second album by the British band Dreadzone. It was released on Virgin Records in 1995. John Peel had supported their first album, 360°, giving it heavy airplay, as he also did for Second Light, which he cited as one of his favourite albums of all time. The album was heavily represented in the Festive Fifty for 1995. Dreadzone tracks appeared at #5 ("Zion Youth"), #9 ("Maximum"), #16 ("Fight the Power"), #23 ("Little Britain"), #35 ("Captain Dread") and #48 ("Life, Love & Unity").
Four tracks became UK chart hits: "Zion Youth" reached #49 as did "Captain Dread", "Little Britain" (#20) and "Life, Love & Unity" (#56).
As of February 2017, the album has sold 81,182 copies in the UK.
Greg Roberts has said in interview that
"You hear something within a tune which excites you and which you feel that you can do something with. I like having a base to start from and a musical or a melodic idea that conjures up and puts you in a certain mood. I will always use samples. They start off most of our songs. When it comes to dialogue, I think the best dialogue comes from simply watching a lot of films and thinking, "That sounds nice." and "It is fun working with samples ... except when you have to sit down with people and work out deals."
"You ever look up from some lonely beach and see a far schooner? Well, when I write this poem, each phrase go be soaked in salt; I go draw and knot every line as tight as ropes in this rigging; in simple speech my common language go be the wind, my pages the sails of the schooner "Flight". But let me tell you how this business begin".
"No matter what the weak heart say. And I know that I & I is like a tree, plant by the river of water, and not even the dog that piss against the wall of Babylon shall escape this judgment. For I & I know that all of the youth shall witness the day that Babylon shall fall!".
"while high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars? Then you've a hunch what the music meant. . . hunger and night and the stars"
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