Another World Is Possible

Performer: Various Artists
Engineer: Moby
Producer: Massive Attack; Moby; Nellee Hooper; Martin Iveson
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Audio Mixers: Mark "Spike" Stent; Massive Attack; Moby; Nellee Hooper. Audio Remixers: Geoff Barrow; Adrian Utley; Martin Iveson. Liner Note Authors: Arundhati Roy; Jos� Saramago; Noam Chomsky. Photographers: De Giovanni Luigi; Thomas Dorn; Rick Guest; Pierre Terrasson. Musically, this loosely themed compilation is a pure delight. It features artists as disparate as Manu Chao, Asian Dub Foundation (whose blistering live version of Eddy Grant's "Police on My Back" is one of the album's highlights), Afrobeat scion Femi Kuti, Moby, and Massive Attack, among many others. All have contributed songs that relate either directly or at least obliquely to the theme of antiglobalization. Well, maybe not all -- good luck figuring out what Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad Professor's "Dancing Shoes" has to do with bringing down the running dogs of capital. But that brings up the less compelling aspect of the album, which is the unbelievably heavy-handed and tendentious political sermonizing that is its real purpose. The music is bait; the idea is that you'll be attracted by, say, the Portishead remix of Massive Attack's "Karmacoma," and that you'll dance to it so slowly that you won't notice your legs sinking into the sticky tar pit of essays by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Subcomandante Marcos, and other figures of totemic import to the political left. The chunky booklet that accompanies the disc also includes lots of photos of people holding up signs covered with cookie-cutter slogans and wearing the various uniforms of hip radicalism (gags, face paint, Zorro masks, etc.). Politically, this album's a snooze at best; not one surprising word is said or interesting thought expressed. But musically, it's a riot. ~ Rick Anderson

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