A slightly rejiggered reissue of the first album
Jah Wobble released on his now-defunct
30 Hertz label,
The Light Programme is an occasionally rather brilliant mix of
trip-hop and '70s-style
jazz-pop fusion. Indeed, the opening
"Veneer" sounds like
Quincy Jones'
The Dude given a
Massive Attack remix. Despite the implications of the title (playing off the
BBC's
easy listening show), there's little that's merely pretty and ambient about this album; even the mellowest pieces are underpinned by
Wobble's deep-toned, rubbery
dub bass and overactive drums. (
Jaki Liebezeit of
Can adds his familiar rattle to several tracks, most notably the African-influenced interlude
"Appearance and Thing in Itself.") The resulting blend of
dub,
jazz-funk,
pop, and
trip-hop is a little scattershot at times, and a couple of tunes, particularly the plodding
"Magical Thought," overstay their welcome by a couple of minutes, but overall,
The Light Programme is a good-to-great mishmash of disparate influences recalling
Brian Eno and
David Byrne's cross-cultural experiments of the early '80s. ~ Stewart Mason
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