Any Old Tom, Dick, & Harry

 

Edward Tudor-Pole always was something of a clever Dick - naming Tenpole Tudor's debut album Eddie, Old Bob, Dick, & Gary after the expression 'any old Tom, Dick, & Harry'. Bob, of course, being guitarist Bob Kingston, Dick Crippen the band's bass player, Gary Long the drummer. 

 

But the story of this album begins with another clever Dick: Malcolm McLaren. When filming his mockumentary The Great Rock & Roll Swindle about the Sex Pistols in early-mid 1978 the band he had nurtured into chaos & notoriety was dead in all but name. With Johnny Rotten gone AWOL McLaren needed a singer pronto. Auditions were planned with Edward Tudor-Pole impressing McLaren most. Even though rehearsals with Tudor-Pole, Paul Cook, Steve Jones, & stand-in bass player Andy Allen took place, the whole thing imploded when Vicious found himself in an American jail, accused of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Vicious subsequently overdosed on heroin a& died. The End. With the Pistols no more, Tudor-Pole formed Tenpole Tudor with Kingston, Crippen, & Long who knew each other from The Visitors, a band in which Tudor-Pole had briefly guested as vocalist. The name Tenpole Tudor derived from a previous McLaren-brainwave rechristening Tudor-Pole to Ten Pole Tudor.

The album was released in 1980, sold moderately well, then disappeared off the musical radar. Then something interesting happened: Tenpole Tudor's 1981 single "Swords of a Thousand Men" peaked at #6. Keen to cash in, a clever Stiff Dick simply added "Swords of a Thousand Men" as opening track to the original Eddie, Old Bob, Dick, & Gary, remixed a couple of other tracks, put a new cover on it...lo & behold, a hit album peaking in May 1981 at #44 in the UK charts! 

 

Tenpole Tudor - Eddie, Old Bob, Dick, & Gary, Stiff Records SEEZ31, 1981.
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Side A -

Swords of a Thousand Men
Go Wilder
I Wish
Header Now
There are Boys
Wunderbar

Side B -
3 Bells in a Row
Tell Me More
Judy Annual
I Can't Sleep
Anticipation
What Else Can I Do
Confessions

 

 

Weirder & weirder,
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Rimming Elvis the Andrew Weatherall Way

 

One day Josie Jones arrives unnanounced at the One Little Indian offices in London. She tells label boss Derek Birket that she wants a deal for her new single. 

     "Let's hear it then," he sez.

Instead of playing him a demo, she reads out, in a dour northern accent, her 'imperfect list'. Birket is blown away by the words, & decides to take a punt, offering her a tiny recording budget

A few weeks later, she returns with the masters. To everyone's amazement, not only is the track kinda amazing, but it is recorded by Robin Gutherie of Cocteau Twins & Pete Wylie with Andrew Weatherall remixes already arranged...

It's jaw-dropping weirdness, especially in its original beatless version - a list of evildoers & nastiness spat out in a vitriolic Scouse accent over a dark ambient drone.

     "Adolf Hitler. the dentist. Terry & June. fucking bastard Thatcher. Scouse impersonator. silly pathetic girlies. silly pathetic woman. macho dickhead. Bonnie Langford. neighbours. lost keys. phoney friend. ungrateful accusing mate. the Royal family. Stock Aitken & Waterman. smiling Judas. heartbreaking lying friend. Myra Hindley. acid rain. stinking rich female in furs. disloyal lover. wife & child beater. drunken abuser. racist. bully. The Sun newspaper. AIDS inventor. Leon Brittan. all nonsense. massive massive oilslick. Jimmy Tarbuck. loneliness. cancer. hunger. greed. gut wrenching disappointment. evil gossiping fashion bastard. tasteless a&r wanker. hard cold fish. overdraft like a mountain. the Jimmy Swaggart show. the Tory invention of the non-working class. poll tax. commie bashers. mister Jesse Helms. Hillsborough. weird british judges. apartheid. John Lennon's murder. anyone's murder. the breakdown of the NHS. the death of the rain forest. Heysel stadium. rednecks. rape. homelessness. the all-American way. Clause 28. Tiananmen Square. sexual harrassment. Nelson Mandela's imprisonment. Nancy's term. Ronnie's term. miscarriage. where were you?" 

 

Big Hard Excellent Fish - Imperfect List, One Little Indian 41TP7CD, 1990.
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Imperfect List 1
Imperfect List 2
Imperfect List 3
Imperfect List 4

 

 

 

Weirder & weirder,
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Defy All Robots

I've posted up various other music releases that were created to alter ones reality, to be aurally psychoactive. 

Here's another dose.

Yoshifumi Kawahara was born in 1961 in Fukuoka, Japan. He died in Cambodia in 2012. He has been called 'the Jon Hassell of Japan'.

Taking the stage name Henry, Kawahara was a composer of avant-garde music that was an eclectic blend of experimental electronics, exotica, & new age music. He referred to his music as "cyber-occult". He was active in the Japanese cyber-occult underground of the 1990s, a scene linked with technologies such as 3D (binaural) recordings, brain machines, sound chairs, computer graphics, & digital compact discs.

These tracks, produced 1990-95, include a series of recordings described as "Parallel Data Sounds" & "Sound LSD", a new language system that speaks directly to the cerebrum using frequency components that are not perceived by the conscious mind, reflecting Kawahara's interest in concepts such as astrology, love mantras, & astral projection. 

Also here are two pieces featuring dolphin sounds & human brainwave feedback, as well as pieces from a recording unit called H Music De-perception (HMD) & a group called Xiaoyun. 

Here the original 2-CD set is augmented by a special bonus CD & includes a .pdf of the Koki Emura booklet.

 

Henry Kawahara - Cybernetic Defiance & Orgasm: Other Sides of...,
EM Records EM1205TCD, 2022.
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Disc-1: Music for Multimedia -
Feel Strange
Beyond Armageddon
69 with B-Dog
Love Moonlight
The Old Man at the Goagajan Woods
St. Valentine Day
Love Dance
Mercury Power

Disc-2: Co-Producton Works -
enDOLPHIN (Water Sonic version)
Sleeping Besides the Beast
Minami-kaze #4
Start on a Journey
Sim Sex
Morning
Neuro Dancer
Sweet Dreams
Still Life
Synethesia
Dolphin Dreams (Deep Relax mix)
Dolphinic Meditation (enDOLPHIN)

Disc-3: Special Bonus Disc - 
Dance of Electronic Neuron Circuits (Third mix)
Destination of Endorphins)
Yorokobi-No-Koe
Nicea 'N Bark
Children in the Museum
Nanp ū (first 1992 version)
[Java] Dance #2. "Relaxed"
Sing an Anklungs (edit)
Eco-Location (Stargazer version)
Sound LSD #.Ss05/7.83hz (for radio mix)
Start on a Journey)
Primitive Love (Genshi No Ai delayed version)
In My Relationship with You, I Think About Myself on the Bed) (Panpot version)

 

 

 

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You Might Get a Sunburn in This Water

 

Here's some experimental lo-fi acoustic rock from Brooklyn, NYC consisting of guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist/sound technician Brian Sullivan, drum/percussionist Chris Shields & guitarist/tape manipulator KHF (Patric Cole). United Waters started late 2009 as an evolution of Sullivan's intense noise background into muffled, subterranean, melodic outsider songwriting. At times they remind me of a certain-era Sun City Girls???

The sound of United Waters is rock 'n' roll submerged. The New York trio's music is as H20-logged as their name implies, woozily off-speed, as if they've been playing in the deep end so long their notes & beats have contracted a case of the bends. That sounds like a formula for a downer of an album, but actually submerging United Waters' songs in a claustrophobic pool makes them more engaging. The way the wiry guitar lines creep toward the surface, the way Brian Sullivan's doubled moans rise from the buried tunes like ghosts, beckons you to dive deep for more. 

 

United Waters - Sunburner, Bathetic Records bath083, 2014.
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Side A - 
Blue Weaver
Turn on Your Century
Satellite Decisions
Sunburner

Side B -
Our Beat
Archers
The Reach
Out of Flight

 

 

 

Weirder & weirder.
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Never a Dull Moment

 

Dull Schicksal was a Rotterdam, Netherlands based band active from 1984 to 1997.

They played punky Avantgarde experimental art rock noise. Lukas Simonis started the group as a lo-fi pop band whose main influences were Swell Maps, TV Personalities, & Red Krayola. They soon morphed into a loose musical collective & experimental playground for many Dutch underground musicians.
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Here Dull is: Lukas Simonis - guitar, piano, vocals; Ronald Kreper - bass, organ, tapes; Frans Friederich - trumpet, tuba, vocals, tapes; & Bart Vos - drums, percussion. 

 

Dull Schicksal - They Saved Hitler's Brain, ADM ADM16975, 1990.
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Dreigroscheneissler    
Cruelty Asks for Delivery    
Dogstabber    
Definition of Reduction
God Took Away My Yesterdays Part 1    
Pleading Not Guilty    
Bad Reunion Diary    
Hot Sausage Diary    
God Took Away Part Three    
Experimental Jolly Joe    
Herban Olla Vogalas

 

 

 

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Vicious Virus

This release from Virus Cycle (Johnny Virum) is the first of 4 EPs in the Tetralogy of Horror series. It was originally available as a free download from Bluntface Records. On this release, Johnny is joined by Otto Kinzel, owner of Bluntface, on bass. This is some weird Industrial goth metal. 

 

Virus Cycle - Tetralogy of Horror: Act 1, Bluntface Records, 2013.
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13    
Dreams in the Witch House
At Night    
Gods & Monsters

 

 

Weirder & weirder,
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Got an Owner’s Manual for that Jaloppy?

 

Jaloppy was asically an experimental rock/avant-garde music rat-rod thrown together by Dallas, Texan J. Bone Cro (J. Scott Sutton) & Austin, Texan Wes Cummings.

Mutant Sounds sez:
       "An array of funhouse mirror inversions and candy coated manias arranged like a series of exquisite corpses and extruded during one furious and compressed 20 hour episode of weed and caffeine fueled malarky. Jaloppy was developed as an extension of Matt Castille's production work on two LP's of loner psych weirdity by his one-time roommate J. Bone Cro.  Owner's Manual is the aptly monikered vehicle of jerry-rigged absurdist overhaul and de/re-construction of J. & his bandmate's source material."

Jaloppy - Owner’s Manual, Womb Tunes Records, 1997.
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Side A -
Take Yer Clothes Off    
Carnival 2.49
Misty Mountain High

Side B -
Watch My Wheels Go Weeee!    
Worms    
Laced Whiskey Bottle    
Afro Wah - Sheen 

 

 

Enjoy,
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Pissin’ & Moanin’

 

Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan is a harsh noise duo from Chicago, Illinois, featuring Alejandro Morales (R.I.P.) on drums & Nicole Miller on theremin. They play tribal-punk drums, bent shit, & electronic equipment to create dense electronic compositions that are by turns delicate & extreme, at times intimidating, at others serene. PPPMMM is primarily an instrumental band save for a bit of chanting & screaming to up the ante.

For a great read about the late Alejandro Morales, go here.

Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan - Disthrophic Tropics, self-released CDR, 2007.
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Pandemic Zen    
Aids Not War    
Paragon Path    
Pppmmm Blooze

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Breaking the Code

Weird enough for ya? Not even a proper name, just some weird symbols (Morse code???). 

 

 

---__--___ is the product of Austin, Texas based producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice & Seth Graham, a musician from Dayton, Ohio & operator of Orange Milk Records. 

 

The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid is the debut release by ---__--___. Contributing to the release is commissioned instrumentation from Karen Ng, Nick Storring, Rob Magill, metoronori, spoken word from proxy.exe, guest vocals from recovery girl & metoronori.

The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid is the expression of Midwestern sadness, the entrapment of class, & inexpressible discontent. 

 

---__--___ – The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid, Orange Milk Records OM155, 2021.
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When You're Hot Around the Narcs    
Sadness, Infinite America ... Shit (featuring Karen Ng)
In Memory of Simon Kingston (featuring Recovery Girl)
Rock Bottom Ohio (featuring Proxy.exe)
To Suppress the Voice (featuring Koeosaeme)
Julius Eastman / NY Metro Xylophone Player (featuring Metoronori)
The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid    
Legato Crying    
From the Valley (featuring Recovery Girl)

Enjoy,
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Weird October

Often I follow Dubtembers with Weird October. 

I've always thought that October was one of the greatest months for weirdness. October is that full bloom autumn when things change from sun to snow. It finishes off with Halloween & leads into the Day of the Dead. Perfect weirdness.  

Well this month I'm really going to try & outdo any past weirdness. So I'm starting with a band that even has Weird in their name...WWF. Not Vince McMahon's outfit before the World Wildlife Fund took their F & left an E, just three crazee idiots with wrestling in their hearts...San Jose's short lived Weird White Fuckers.

The outfit was led by Luche Libre masked outcast Mighty Mark Mystery, inspiration behind the entire idea, songwriter, guitarist, & lead vocalist. On bass was Backyard Brawler Notorious Nathan Nothin' on bass & backing vocals. & ex-porn stud Rockhard Rod Manning (R.I.P.) pounding the skins. This is their only recorded legacy, a fitting beginning to Weird October. 

 

Weird White Fuckers (WWF) - Dog is God, self-released, 1989.

Sweatshop Kidz
David Hasselhoff (Must Die)
Gangrape
Rag Boy
D.U.I.

 

 

 

Weird on,
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Dubtember 30 - We Keep Pushing the Dub (DUB...DUB...DUB...DUB...DUB...)

 

Originating from Wellington, New Zealand, The Black Seeds are a hard working, hard playing Roots band with a sound that fuses infectious grooves & melodies with undiluted Dancehall music. Led by the vocals of Barnaby Weir & Daniel Weetman at its core, The Black Seeds music is a boundary-crossing sound fusion of big-beat funk, Dub, soul, mixed with vintage Roots-reggae. Their 8-piece live show is legendary, bringing raw energy & good vibes wherever they play. 

The Black Seeds released their debut album Keep On Pushing in 2001. Despite a tiny marketing budget the album reached platinum sales in New Zealand, as well as being successfully released in Australia through Shock Records.

The Black Seeds - Keep on Pushing, Loop LP002, 2001.
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Dance Dance    
Keep on Pushing (Workshop re-Dub)    
Sit There
Black Sunrise    
You Wait
In Your Eyes (Fabulous Dub)    
What We Need    
Little Atoms    
Hey Son    
Coming Back Home

 

 

 

 
 

But before we give up the Dub for the time being & move on to other things, it is my pleasure to sign off with, for your viewing edification, the documentary Dub Echoes, a film by Bruno Natal
It is perhaps the definitive documentary of Dub music from its Jamaican roots to Electronic music worldwide.

Dub Echoes, 2008.

 

 

Enjoy,
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Dubtember 29 - Code Name: Dub Culture

 

Brother Culture is an MC based in Brixton, London. He started his career around 1982 for Jah Revelation Muzik Sound System. As part of the Twelve Tribes of Israel Rasta brotherhood, Brother Culture toured in the USA, Jamaica, Caribbean, & Canada extensively throughout the 80s.

In 1991 Brother Culture started to MC at London’s now legendary Dub Club, where he forged a reputation for being a powerfully diverse MC & singer. In the subsequent years he has become one of the hardest working Reggae artists in the world. He has performed across the globe, many times being the first Reggae artist to ever perform in some countries. 

Brother Culture has worked with Wackies, Mungos Hi-Fi, Zion Train, Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Evidence Music, Manasseh, Youth, The Prodigy & many more,  

Here’s one of his recent releases. 

 

 

Brother Culture - Code Name, Evidence Records 2018
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Jump Up Pon It    
Code Name    
Change Of Society    
Chant Them Down    
Dreadlocks Thing    
New Generation    
Heal Them (Remix)    
Jah Ina Me Heart    
Follow Guys    
Legalize the Herb    
Dreadlocks Thing (Dub)    
Code Name (Dub)    
Change of Society (Dub)    
Jump Up Pon It (Dub)    
Heal Them

 

 

Here’s the Dub version of Code Name.

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Brother Culture - Code Name in Dub, Evidence Music, 2020.

Jump Up Pon It (Radikal Vibration refix)
Code Name (Radikal Vibration Dub mix)
Change of Society (Dub mix)
Chant Dem Down (Radikal Vibration Dub mix)
Dreadlocks Thing Dub featuring Derrick Sound
Dub Generation featuring Derrick Sound
Dub Ina Mi Heart featuring Addis Records
Heal Them (Radikal Vibration Dub remix)    
Legalize The Herb (Radikal Vibration Dub)    
Right Track featuring Nello B    
Jump Up Pon It (Radikal Vibration Dub)
Dub Them featuring Little Lion Sound  & Mista Savona

 

 

Enjoy,
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Dubtember 28 - Dub to Cure the Weak of Heart

 

Here's one from Joe Jackson...not that Joe Jackson, but Ranking Joe, Kingston Jamaica born DJ. Ranking Joe came out of the original Jamaican Sound System culture. He went to school with Winston McAnuff, U Brown, & Earl Sixteen. They often entertained the Dancehall crowds together. Joe's big break in international terms came in 1980, when the Ray Symbolic Hi Fi Sound System, with which he was then the resident deejay, toured the United Kingdom. His UK stint helped raise his profile & with the heightened attention, his album Weakheart Fadeaway became a major seller for Greensleeves Records. 

 

Ranking Joe - Weakheart Fadeaway remastered reissue, Greensleeves Records GREWCD2, 2004.
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Dub Sister Dub It
Rock Pon the Rock
A Dread Earthquake    
Natty Dread a Trademan
Nine Months Belly    
Weakheart Fadeaway    
Natty the Collie Smoker    
Queen Tell    
Honest Living    
Milkman Coming

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 27 - The Tradition of Musick

Veering away from Dub for this pair. Tradition are a United Kingdom-based reggae band. They were active in the late 1970s until 1983. They reformed more than twenty years later. 

 

Tradition started out in Brent, North West London in 1976 originally known as Special Brew. The original line-up was Grace Reed - vocals, Michael Johnson - guitar, Paul "Echo" Thompson - keyboards & vocals, Chris "Buff Head" Henry - bass guitar, & Tony "Drummie" Matthews - drums. Both Reed & Johnson left early on & were replaced by Les McNeil & Paul Dawkins. In 1977 the band signed to Venture Records. 

 

Tradition - Moving On, Venture Records VNLP8877, 1978.
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Side One -
Every Little Beat of My Heart
Rastafaria
You Walked on By
We- Wah to Go Zion
Prediction

Side Two -
(Africa) Our Forefather's Land
You Ran Off
Movin' On
Jamaica Land is Zion
Rainy Day
Six Million Dollar Baby

 

 

 

 

They were one of the headline acts on the Anti-Nazi League's ''Rock Against Racism'' tour. Paul Dawkins left to pursue a solo career in 1979. He was replaced by Shakeel Khan. 

 

 

Tradition - Runaway Love, RCA PL25273, 1980.

A Side -
Don't Know
Mash Down
I am so Glad
La-La-La-La
Time

B Side -
Music
Runaway Love
I am Thinking
African Queen
True What I Man Say

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 26 - Dub of D.E.B.

The music on House of DEB (DEB Players in Dub) was recorded in 1979. It is the Dub version of a classic roots reggae album by the D.E.B. Music Players produced by the legendary Jamaican artist Dennis Brown. This is the 2006 reissue.

The title refers to the D.E.B. (Dennis Emmanuel Brown) Music Players & the record label Brown established. 

This Dub LP features Brown on lead guitar with a stellar backing band including Sly & Robbie, Bingy Bunny, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Lloyd Parks, Cedric Brooks, & others. 

 

DEB Music Players - House of DEB, D.E.B. Music BMDEBLP08, 2006.
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Side A -
The Emperor
Sounds of Freedom
Scrub It
3rd Generation
Carpentry

Side B -
Shaka the Warrior
Lagos
Satta
4th Generation

 

 

Enjoy,
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Dubtember 25 - Finally Some Vegan Dub

 

Augustus Pablo, born Horace Swaby, is probably best known as the man who turned a children's plastic toy, the melodica, into an instrument of inspirational sound. Using his beloved melodica & making use of eerie minor-key melodies, Pablo built up an impressive body of work during his lifetime. He succumbed to health problems in 1999, having suffered from the nerve disorder, myasthenia gravis, for much of his life.

Ital Dub is a studio album by Augustus Pablo originally released in 1974 on the Starapple label with Tommy Cowan & Warwick Lyn replacing Clive Chin on production duties at Harry J's. The album also features King Tubby as mixing engineer, a role he would later reprise a number of times during Pablo's career. This is the 1976 Trojan reissue.

Recorded at: Harry J's Dynamic & King Tubby's Studio.

 

Augustus Pablo - Ital Dub (reissue), Trojan Records TRLS115, 1976.
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Side One -
The Big Rip-Off
Road Block
Curly Dub
Well Red
Gun Trade
Shake Up

Side Two -
Hillside Airstrip
Barbwire Disaster
Mr. Big
Eli's Move
House Raid
Shake Down

 

 

 

Enjoy,
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Dubtember 24 - Priestly Dub

 

Stephen Townsend was a former football hooligan. He ran with the Arsenal crew, before making the move into more serious crime & finally getting arrested. In prison he turned to Rastafarianism, became a Rasta preacher & began writing lyrics. After his release he became part of Adrian Sherwood's African Head Charge collective.

Stephen Townsend is Ghetto Priest, one of the most flamboyant, most creative performers to have emerged from the UK Reggae scene. He perfected his vocal skills as well as his artistic persona in the Sound Systems of the early 80s. 

 

In 2004 he released his critically acclaimed debut album with On-U Sound producer Adrian Sherwood titled Vulture Culture. He recorded lead vocals for Dub / punk outfit Asian Dub Foundation on their hit albums Enemy of the Enemy & TANK, touring the globe as the front man of the group.

Ghetto Priest posses a raw energy & emotion, constantly pushing at the boundaries of Roots music. His style strongly maintains the essence of his Jamaican heritage.

 

 

Ghetto Priest - Beyond Flesh, Seek Jah First SJFLP001, 2006.
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Side A -
Seek Jah First
Seek Jah Dub
Struggle
Struggle Dub
Far I
Far I Dub

Side B -
Self Analysis
Dub Analysis
Words of Wisdom
Wisdom Dub

 

 

 

 

Ghetto Priest - Every Man for Every Man, Ramrock RRLP001, 2017.

Side A -
Every Man for Every Man
Good Lord
I Murder Hate
Bright Morning Star
Black Woman

Side B -
Ghetto Life
Prophecy
Satta I
Sacred Ground
Babylon Queendom
Peter Tosh

 

 

Enjoy,
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Dubtember 23 - Dub from Band on the Wall

 

Here is the great Prince Far-I performing his last ever gig with Suns of Arqa, before he was shot & killed upon his return to Kingston, Jamaica. This is a legendary live recording from Band on the Wall, Manchester. 

 

Prince Far-I & the Suns of Arqa - Live at Band on the Wall, ARKA SOUND, 2013.
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City of Nine Gates (Minister of Noise Mix) 
Steppin to the Music
Throw Away Your Guns
Brujo Magic 
83 Struggle
Trance Dance Music
Foggy Road 
What You Gonna Do on the Judgement Day

 

 

Enjoy,
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Dubtember 22 - Hostile Dub

 

Hostile Environment is the first album in over forty years from the legendary Creation Rebel, who were the original On-U Sound house band responsible for classics such as Dub from Creation & Starship Africa. The trio of Crucial Tony, Eskimo Fox, & Magoo are back with producer Adrian Sherwood to create a modern spin on their heavyweight Dubwise rhythms.

It is the seventh album credited to the group, who originally coalesced as a live backing group for the late, great Prince Far I, in the process sharing stages with the likes of The Clash, The Slits, & Don Cherry. Vocals from their former band leader, preserved on archive tapes, feature on the new record, as well as guest contributions from the likes of Cyrus Richards (musical director for Horace Andy & the Dub Asante Band), Italian synth maestro Gaudi, as well as fast chat king Daddy Freddy.

The album title refers to former British Prime Minister Theresa May’s controversial policy towards asylum seekers, & the recent Windrush scandal, all too relevant to a group of musicians of Jamaican origin who have spent their whole lives operating in the darkening shadow of a former colonial power with a staggeringly short memory for historic wrongs.

Here Creation Rebel is: ''Crucial'' Tony - rhythm & lead guitars, bass guitar on tracks 1, 4;
Charlie ''Eskimo'' Fox = drums, vocals on tracks 3, 5, 8, percussion on track 4; & Mr. Magoo
- percussion, vocals on tracks 1, 7, 8 with Kenton ''Fish'' Brown - bass guitar; Cyrus Richards - piano/organ on tracks 1-8, melodica on track 3; Prince Far I - vocals on tracks 1, 6; Daddy Freddy - vocal on track 6; Gaudi - synthesizer on tracks 1, 9; Henry Tenyue - trombone on track 2; Megumi Mesaka - saxophone on track 2; Patrick Tenyue - trumpet on track 2; Mark Bandola - guitar on tracks 4,11; Winston ''Horseman'' Williams - percussion on tracks 4, 8, 11; Dean Fraser - saxophone on tracks 6, 7; Okiel McIntyre - trumpet on tracks 6, 7; Isha Bell - backing vocals on track 7; & Dave Fulwood - trumpet & horn on track 8.

Produced by Adrian Sherwood & Creation Rebel. An On-U Sound Production. Recorded at The On-U Sound Castle, Ramsgate; Stingray Studio, London; & Tad’s International Recording Studio, Kingston, Jamaica. Mixed at On-U Sound. Artwork by Peter Harris. 

 

Creation Rebel - Hostile Environment, On-U Sound ONUCD160, 2023.
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Swiftly (the Right One) featuring Prince Far I
Stonebridge Warrior
Under Pressure
That’s More Like It
Jubilee Clock 
This Thinking Feeling featuring Prince Far I & Daddy Freddy
Whatever it Takes featuring Denise Sherwood
Salutation Gardens
Crown Hill Road 
The Peoples’ Sound (Tribute to Daddy Vego) 
Off the Spectrum

 

 

Enjoy,
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Dubtember 21 - The Forces of Dub

Last week I shared some Roy Cousins & mentioned his success as a music producer in Jamaica. The Forces of Music was the name for the musician collective backing Roy Cousins productions, mainly in the late 70s, consisting mostly of members from Revolutionaries & Roots Radics.  

First up we have Liberated Dub, the Dub companion to The Royals - Israel Be Wise The complete Dub LP has been reissued in 2001 by Orange Street on CD as Disc 2 of Prince Lincoln Thompson - Humanity. The CD has several bonus track not available on this vinyl version. 

 

 

The Forces of Music - Liberated Dub, Ballistic Records UAS30229, 1979.
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Side 1 -        
Moonlight City    
Baktu    
Waterhouse    
Marverly    
Riverton City    

Side 2 -
Cockburn Pen    
Bell Rock    
Whitewing Walk    
Tower Hill    
Central Village

 

 

 

 

This next one comes from Roy after his move to England, on his new Tamoki Wambesi label. This one employs the skills of Scientist with riddims from The Forces of Music.

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                               Scientist with The Forces of Music - International Heroes Dub,                           Tamoki Wambest TWCD1022, 1994.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey    
Walter Sisuli    
Malcolm X    
Mohamed Ali    
George Jackson    
Desmond Tutu    
Nelson Mandela    
Martin Luther King    
Jomo Kenyatta    
Steve Biko    
Dedan Kimathi    
Kwame Nkrumah 

Enjoy,
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