March Madness: League Play-offs - Round 2

The score so far is Eastern Division 4 - Western Division 1. 

 

 

Rapoon & Cisfinitum - Mental Travellers, Ewers Tonkunst HHE012CD, 2006.
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Run on Branches    
Dissolutio    
Soaked by Unknownness    
Jump in a Coffin    
Eating the Ground    
Same but Different    
Toxic Current    
Time Went Back    
Eurasia

 

 

 

 

:zoviet*france: - Shadow, Thief of the Sun, DOVe DOVeCD66, 1991.

The Silver Gate    
In My Secrecy I Was Real    
Feel the Warmth    
This Moment Obscure    
A Democratic Smirk    
Come Infinite    
Thin Air    
Cahl-yn-yan    
Static Fields    
Ciels Ténébreuse

 

 

 

Next up tomorrow...What is Not True vs Seven Pillars of Fire,
NØ

March Madness: League Play-offs - Round 1

All month long I will be featuring play-offs by the top teams in the League. The first half of the month will be head-to-head battles between the Eastern division hopefuls, Zoviet France going up against the Western division hotshots (with former team-mate) the Rapoon Robins.

Some time ago Frenz of NSS Richard suggested I give thought to sharing some Zoviet France / Rapoon. What better time to share these two rivals than during March Madness. I'll just share the duels & let you, the fans, decide the outcome.

The second half of the month will be the league Final Four throwing down their best singles in a heated slugfest that should prove memorable in the annals of musical sports competition. The teams in the Final Four are, in no certain order: The Dread Zone; The Utah Saints; The Sha Men; & A Certain Rat. Reserve your seats now as these are guaranteed to sell out (& not in a sellout way). 

 

League Playoffs 

 

Zoviet France is a music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England. Their music is atmospheric experimental, their playing style is dissonant with strong industrial textures.

Original team members include: Lisa Hale (1980-1981); Robin Storey (1980-1992); Peter Jensen (1980-1984);  & Ben Ponton (1980-present). They soon signed seasoned vetrans Paolo di Paolo (1984-1986); Mark Spybey (1987-1989); Andy Eardley (1990-1995); & Mark Warren (1995-present) 

 

Rapoon is the ethno-ambient project started by ex-Zoviet France co-founder Robin Storey.

A Bit of History

I first really started following & collecting Zoviet France through a podcast they have on podbean called A Duck in a Tree. I archived about 138 episodes of the podcast, that lead me to so much other great music. Then I suppose other things had come up in my life, other paths & other distractions. During that time I had collected a large number of releases by the band. When Robin Storey moved on to Rapoon, I followed his career as well for many years.

 

:zoviet*france: presents A Duck in a Tree is a 59 minute continuous mix of some of the best genre-refusing, zero BPM, hypnatropic & maximinimalist recordings that have grabbed the bands attention. As of this writing, their most recent is A Journey to Three Quarters Episode 703 (yes #703) first broadcast 13 December 2025 by Resonance 104.4 FM & CJMP 90.1 FM. It is the 701st of a series of weekly radio programs created by :zoviet*france (for anyone into such things).

:zoviet*france: - Intro
David Lynch - Intuition [extract]
:zoviet*france: - [untitled – mouth organ]
My Own Cubic Stone - Peat Bed
Dave Dorgan - Monk on Beach
[unknown sound recordist / NASA] - Wind, Rain, Surf
Glenn Sogge - 3x100
Analoc - Padding
The Conet Project - 555 Konec
[unknown sound recordist] - Garsington Manor, Still in a Hurry, Now Running Light, Whistles up the Gradient from Warwick and Dashes Away Through Hatton Station, Towards Birmingham
Arrington de Dionyso with Graeme W. Smith - First Improvisation, Voice and Harp
400 Lonely Things - Amicus
Abigail Toll - Language of Echoes
Juanjo Palacios - Liquerique
Michiko Ogawa - Shizukana Hikari
:zoviet*france: - Outro

The first episode that I began collecting was beta 1, July 14, 2012.

One Umbrella - Eintrocinc    
[no artist] - The Best of Günter Noris Volume One | run off groove (side 2)
[bird song - unknown sound recordist] - bhcodd4
Circle - Black Tape
Sex Vir Olli - [title unknown - ‘Vandag Se Waarheid?’ track 2]
Mobile Disco Unit - Food Preparation Unit
Boards of Canada - Sherbet Head
Magnetic Church - untitled [‘Magnetic Church’ track A1] [extract]
Bill Nelson - Crimsworth
Vitriol - Visita
The OO-Ray - Sfumato (live)
Arcane Device - Before Sunrise

For the first league playoff, I present Zoviet France - Music from a Spaghetti Western vs Rapoon - Easterly 6 or 7... 

 

 

 

:Zoviet France: - Music from a Spaghetti Western, Klanggalerie gg111, 2005.
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Scene 1    
Scene 2    
Scene 3    
Scene 4

 

 

 

 

 

Rapoon - Easterly 6 or 7, Staalplaat STCD114, 1997.

Sign    
Our Trespasses    
Blow (Lethal Blow)    
All Criminals    
Waters Reaching    
Falling More Slowly    
6 or 7    
Variable 2    
Rattling Sabers

 

 

 

Next up tomorrow...Mental Travellers vs Shadow, Thief of the Sun,
NØ

Raw Dub Creator

 

Gathered this up when I was working on Sound Systember.

 

 

This is the debut vinyl release for the mighty TNT Roots on the excellent Bokeh Versions label. Raw Dub Creator is a collection of TNT Roots' finest productions, exploring unique, rawkus underground Dub music that's guaranteed to cause murderation in the dancehall!

Track 2 & 8 by Earthquake (Dub duo of TNT Roots & Winston Dread) & track 10 by Yahweh Warriors (TNT Roots). All other tracks by TNT Roots.

TNT Roots - Raw Dub Creator, Bokeh Versions BKV028, 2020.
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Side A -
Redemption
Powerful
Glorious Dub
Righteous Vibration
African Science (mix 2)

Side B -
Earthman
Foundation (mix 2)
Lord of Hosts
Iron Shirt
Guidance
Yahweh the Redeemer (mix 2) 

 

  

Enjoy,
NØ

Lookin’ Natty in the Congo

 

Michael Alec Anthony West began his music career in the late 80s working as Rebel MC with Double Trouble. Double Trouble was a British dance music group active in the late 80s/early 90s founded by Leigh Guest & Michael Menson. In 1983 they began DJing at clubs & warehouse parties around London as the Double Trouble Roadshow. DJ / musician Carl Brown aka Karl "Tuff Enuff" Brown & Michael "Rebel MC"  joined the group in 1985. West had previosly been part of Beatfreak Sound System.

Rebel MC gained fame in England as a pop-rapper, but by 1991 had released Rebel MC - Black Meaning Good, an album that presaged Jungle with hardcore techno married to Dub basslines & ragga toasters such as Barrington Levy's 1994s "Code Red", which West released as "Conquering Lion". It became a smash hit. It brought the Jungle movement to the British masses. Jungle is heralded as the first uniquely UK-born bass music.

West converted to Rastafarianism in the mid-90s & changed his name to Mikail Tafari. He founded Congo Natty Records & X Project. In 1996 Congo Natty Records released their debut offering, Tribe of Issachar - Junglist. By 2000, Mikail began releasing his own solo material under the name Congo Natty.

Here's a Congo Natty release that I gathered up but never got the opportunity to share until now. Like the rest of the musick this month, these ended up in Overflow & is Dub or Dub Adjacent.

This version of Ancestorz contains the original 31 tracks which I have split into two separate sets, tracks 1-16 & tracks 17-31. As a bonus I am sharing a third set, the 2h10m Ancestorz Mixtape. 

 

Congo Natty - Ancestorz (Rootz of Jungle), New State Music NEW9384C, 2022.
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Set 1 -    
Navaho Flute    
Exodus 1:7    
Athos    
Jungle Starliner    
Ancestorz (Jungle Fari)    
Ancestral Hi Tek    
Rebel Soul    
Musik 4 da Soul    
Jungle Defender    
Jungle Krar    
Tottenham Story    
Tribute to Chief Red Crow    
Marching 2 Zion    
Postcode Dance    
Samurai Junglist    
Zanziba

Set 2 -
Jungle Serangi    
Lalibela Almaz    
Akae Beka    
Binghi Man    
Holy Mount Zion    
Children of Enoch    
Senegal    
Enoch Maccabees    
Melchezedek Harpz    
Empress Jane    
Empress Yolande    
Wareika Hill (Count Ossie tribute)
Dragon Slayer    
Psalm 23    
Garden of Life (Tenor Fly tribute)

Set 3 -
Ancestorz Mixtape

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Rude Bwoys, Rude Gals, Rude Hi-Fi

 

Luca Lomdardo is Rude Hi-Fi. Luca aka Rude is a fundamental part of the Bologna music scene. Born in 1964 into a family of Sicilian emigrants, Rude grew up between Germany & England. Today he lives in Italy. He has been part of the music scene there since 1984. Rude Hi-Fi started in 1995 after the dissolution of Ghetto 84, the punk rock group also from Bologna of which he was a member. In 1996 Rude began his career as a DJ, playing in different clubs in Bologna, promoting Dancehall / drum 'n' bass mixed with reggae, ragga, & breakbeat.

When I was doing Sound Systember, good Frenz Afro turned me on to Rude Hi-Fi through the song "Soulpusha". I found my way to this release, which I'm sharing here. 

We've got the Mexican connection, ese. 

Thanks, Afro. 

 

Rude Hi-Fi & Barriobeatz - La Conexión 2xCD, Rude Hi-Fi self-released, 2009.
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La Conexión CD -
Intro    
Rodigan Skank featuring Selector Matanzas
Niente Minkia Cacata featuring Aretuska
Inna Euskadi Yard featuring Don Skal
Sangue e Fuoco: Molesto Fi Dead featuring Nico Royale
We Didn't Cross the Borders featuring Nico Royale
Da Real Fight    
A Sound is Not a System    
Police & Soldierz    
Welcome to the Game    
Jungle Reggae Party featuring Lucky Hernan
Lascia Che Sia featuring Amparo Sánchez
Class War featuring Matahary
La Ragazza Sbagliata featuring La Mulaia
Malcha' featuring Matahary
Tomate una Copa featuring Charlart58 & Manel
Tomate Una Copa featuring Charlart58 & Manel
True Underground Colours featuring La Kinky Beat
Gunz of Roma featuring Banda Bassotti
Piratanja
Hidden track (Ghetto 84 song)

The Remix, The Mash-Ups, & Mi Locura -     
Santa Precargio (BarrioKatz Balkan Cumba remix)
No Man is Illegal (Rude remix)    
La Connectión    
Puercos & Gangsters (Junior Murvin Rude remix)
Malafamilia
Evolution Rock featuring Che Sudaka
Tabaco Verde (Rude remix)
Iguana Fever (FatBoy Skin remix)    
Mestizo Kings (Rude remix)
Sangre por Sangre (Rude Remix) featuring Cypress Hill
Come Dub My Soul (Old Records remix)    
Dancehall Mash Up (JStar remix)
Kung-Fu Mash Up (Old Records remix)    
Fi Di Gals Dem (Rude remix)
Red Eye Gal (Rude remix)
Pirate Satelite (Irun City Rocks remix)    
Outro Rude Boy Skit (in Memory of Joe Strummer)

bonus track -
Soulpusha

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dub Roots in Retirement

December 31, 2025 The Rootsman John Leo Bolloten stepped away from performing his beloved Roots music which he had embraced since moving to Bradford, England in 1983 & working at the Roots Record Shop where he got the nickname The Rootsman.

I have shared many releases & live music from The Rootsman over the years. Somehow this release from his Third Eye Music label fell into the Overflow. 

 

Pachakuti is El Jethoor. El Jethoor has remixed various Rootsman tracks (“Intifada”, “We nah Ramp”,  & more). He appeared with The Rootsman on the song “Luxor” on the Third Eye Dimensions album which I shared last Dubtember here. For the Pachakuti project El Jethoor is joined by Lessur Nawaab, giving this entire recording a deep Afro/Indian flavor. The whole thing is recorded & mixed by The Rootsman. 

 

Pachakuti - Distant Voices, Third Eye Music TEMCD010, 1998.
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Spirit of the Nile
Serengeti
Canaanite Call
Sea of Clouds
Indian Blues
Distant Voices
Sumatra
Canaanite Dub
Distant Dub

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

& Now I’m Infected...

I had to include this one. 

What can I say. 

It has many of my favorite acts in one form or another all in one go: Adrian Sherwood (Two Badcard); The Disciples; Bud Alzir (Gary Boniface/Gordon Watson post-Terminal Cheesecake); Tricky; Zion Train (Extramadura); Mad Professor; Bill Laswell (Automaton); The Rootsman: Iration Steppas: Spring Heel Jack; 4Hero...more & more, on & on throughout two CDs of greatness. & it ends in an Ode to Me...

 

 

Various - Macro Dub Infection Vol. 1 2xCD, Virgin, 1995.
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CD1 - 
The Disciples – The Struggle of Life   
Spring Heel Jack –    Double Edge Dub   
Two Badcard – Sergio Mendez Part 1  
Automaton – Astral Altar Dub   
Bedouin Ascent – Broadway Boogie Woogie   
The Rootsman – Wadada (Sema mix)   
Coil – The Hills are Alive   
The Omni Trio – The Half Cut   
Laika – If You Miss (Laika Virgin mix)   
New Kingdom – Crush Your Enemies (Panama Connection Dub mix)   
Tortoise – Goriri  
Skull vs Ice – Operation Mind Control   

CD2 - 
Bud Alzir – Morocco   
Extremadura –     Beta, Seekers of Smooth Things   
4-Hero – The Paranormal in 4 Forms   
The Golden Palominos – This is How it Feels (Dub)   
The Mad Professor – Ragga Doll  
Wagonchrist –    Phora Ride   
Scorn – The End (remix)  
Tricky – Ambient Pumpkin   
Iration Steppas – Iration Steppas Vs Dennis Rootical   
Bandulu – Come Forward   
Earthling – Nothingness

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

It’s so Compilated

Back in June of last year I shared Various Artist compilations all month. Here are three Dub compilations that I had left over.

 

Various Artists - Modern Wild Dub: Dread meets Punkrocker Downtown,
Select Cuts SELECTCUTS2017, 2003
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Jah War - The Ruts
Bankrobber (Dub version) - The Clash
Wild Dub - Generation X
Immigrant Dub – Basement 5
Turn to Red – Killing Joke
One of the Lads (Dub) - 4 Be 2
Typical Girls (Brink Style Dub) - The Slits
Private Armies (Dub) – Vivien Goldman
More or Less Cut – Red Beat
Death Disco – PIL
Where There is a Will - The Pop Group
Bloody Dub – Stiff Little Fingers
Private Life (Dub) - Grace Jones
Dubbage - China Street

 

 

 

This set is mixed by Gaudi. This one happens to contain a track (#5) by friend of NSS Mauz aka Mauxuam... 

Various Artists - Sub Signals Volume 1 selected & mixed by Gaudi, 

Interchill Records ichillcd026, 2006.

Gbehee (A New Path) - Kakatsitsi, the Master Drummers from Ghana, & Greg Hunter
Replay - High Tone
Earth Orbit – Ashtech
Prisoner of Dub - Sub Oslo
Jahnesh – Mauxuam
MF Rainbow - Dub Alchemist
Free Heart - Zion Train
Secrets of the Lost Dubplates – Dubadelic
Walls of Silence (Gaudi Dub remix) - Noiseshaper
Space Movement (Section Two) - Creation Rebel
I-Wah - Manasseh
Insane Abduction - Almamegretta

 

 

 

 

Various Artists - One Dub, Interchill Records ICHILLCD036, 2009.

Take it Dub - Sugar Minott
Tired of the War - Vibronics featuring Macka B
100% Rootikal – Gaudi
Welcome to My Culvert – Liquid Stranger
Just Try - Ashtech
Time Bomb (Dub) - System Error featuring Michael Rose
What We Got to Do (GCorp remix) - Luciano
Ah - Ragana
Throw Some Dub – Michael Rose 
Good Sensi Dub 2 – Bush Chemists
Dub inna Babylon – Dr. Israel
All of Us - Big Bass Theory
Binman Dub - International Observer
We Make it Work (Impossible Dub mix) - Pushmipulyu
Dub for Dennis - Manasseh & Praise

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Making Conscious Sounds

 

Dougie Wardrop started his career in music production while running Dub Shack Records at Camden lock market. Inspired by early digital steppers such as Dread 'n' Fred & Manasseh, his first mix was the instrumental "Stepping Time" recorded on 4-track at Nick Manasseh's house. It was released under the name Centry in September 90 & became the launch of his imprint Conscious Sounds. 

Here's a two volume four CD overview of Conscious Sounds sounds, starting with Dougie's first ever...

Various - Conscious Sounds - From Beginning to End Volumes 1 2xCD,
Dubhead DBHD011CD, 1999.
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CD1 -
Stepping Time    
Stepping Time (Dub) - Centry
Can't Touch Jah with Tena Stelin    
Can't Touch Jah (Dub) - Centry
Original Formula with Danny Red    
Original Formula (Dub) - Centry    
Jah Bible with Barry Isaacs    
Jah Bible (Bible Dub) - Centry
Long, Long Time with King General    
Long, Long Time (Dub) - Centry    
Barefoot in the Dessert - The Music Family    
Barefoot in the Dessert (Manic Dub) - Bush Chemists

CD2 -
Zion Garden    
Zion Garden (Dub) - Centry    
Last Call - Centry meets Manasseh    
Last Call (Dub) - Manasseh    
Release the Chains with the Music Family    
Release the Chains (Dub) - Centry    
Gunman with King General
Gunman (Dub) - Bush Chemists    
Conscious Ites 3 with King General    
Conscious Ites 3 (CZ3000 Dub) - Bush Chemists    
The Fittest with Culture Freeman    
The Fittest (Dub) - Bush Chemists 

 

 

 

All tracks on these next two CDs are the Bush Chemist. It is noted if they teamed up with other artists.

Various - Conscious Sounds - From Beginning to End Volumes 2 2xCD,
Dubhead DBHD016CD, 1999.

CD 1 -
Earth Rocker    
Rocker Dub    
Some People with King General    
People Dub    
Expliotation with Ras-I    
Exploitation Dub    
Bad Boys with Ras-I    
Bad Boys Dub    
Money Run Tings with King General    
Money Run Tings Dub    
Dread ina Babylon with Culture Freeman
Dread ina Babylon Dub    

CD2 -
Joker Smoker with King General
Joker Smoker Dub    
Haste Make Waste with Hughie Izachaar (previously unreleased)
Haste Make Waste Dub (previously unreleased)
Man a Lion with Tena Stelin
Man a Lion Dub
Golden Age with Tena Stelin
Golden Age Dub
Subliminal Messages with Tena Stelin
Subliminal Messages Dub    
Evil Doer Retire with Talawa    
Evil Doer Retire Dub

 

 

 

 

& a great one from Conscious Sounds head man Dougie Wardrop's Bush Chemists wth Culture Freeman. Culture Freeman is well known for his work with the Bush Chemists. He also works as an MC with Jah Warrior Sound System.

 

 

Culture Freeman & the Bush Chemists - Conqueror, Dubhead DBHD009CD, 1998.

Pressure
Version
Conqueror
Version
Easy Squeeze
Version
Armagideon
Version
Red a Fire
Version
Rasta International
Version
Dread in a Babylon
Version
The Fittest
Version

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Conscious Vibronics

While I was compling the month long Sound Systember, I gathered up way more than I had time to share. Several offerings from both Vibronics & Dougie Wardrop's Conscious Sounds ended up in the Overflow. Let's take on a few of those now. 

 

Steve 'Splitz' Vibronics & Richi Rootz put together Vibronics in 1995. They were key players in the 07 Egg Experience show & soon signed to Zion Train's Universal Egg label.

Performers on this one are: Boney L; Frankie Binns; Madu; Mark Iration; Richi Rootz; Stevie Splitz; Vitamin M; & Wayne McArthur. 

 

Vibronics - Dubliftment, Universal Egg WWCD037, 2004.
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Only One Dub    
Mount Zion-I    
Dub Forever    
Deep Root Dub    
Red, Gold, & Green    
Highland Dub    
Dub Herbs    
Volcano    
East End Dub    
Dub Struggle    
Sound Minded    
Dinosaur

 

 

 

Here's a Dubplate series that missed the cut on Sound Systember's Indica Dubs share Principles of Dubplate series. All the 10" mixes are different from the LP mixes; produced together by Vibronics & Indica Dubs, half of the tracks mixed at the Indica Dubs studio, the other half mixed at Vibronics' The Dub Cupboard studio.

 

 

Indica Dubs meets Vibronics - Principles of Dubplate Series, Vibronics self-released, 2021.

Jah is Here (deluxe version) featuring Shiva
Dub is Here
Dub Stream (deluxe version) featuring Vanya O
Rising Dub
Be Yourself featuring Danny Red
Truthful Dub    
Hunted (deluxe version)
Shadow Dub
Messenger of Peace featuring the Splitz Horns
Messengers of Dub
Icons (deluxe version)
Icons Dubplate mix

 

 

 

& this is a great set of Vibronic/Conscious Sounds Dub clash covering fifty years of Dub.

 

..

Vibronics meets Conscious Sounds - Half Century Dub (Five Decades in the Mix),
Scoop SCOOP056CD, 2017.

Vibronics – Dub Jahovia (1970s)
Conscious Sounds – Leave ya Dub (1970s)
Vibronics – Try a Dub (1980s)
Conscious Sounds – Dub Somebody (1980s)
Vibronics – Long Time Dub (1990s)
Conscious Sounds – Jah Light Jah Dub (1990s)
Vibronics – Babylon Dub Down (2000s)
Conscious Sounds – China Dub (2000s)
Vibronics – Blaze a Fire Dub (2010s)
Conscious Sounds – Hail up Dub (2010s)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The Adjacent Ones: Kanka

Heading back into the realm of more Pure Dub, here's some Freach electro-Dub to finish up the Dub Adjacent & tie back into Vibronics coming up next...

Alexis Langloi, a Dub producer & multi instrumentalist from Rouen, France, is Kanka. At one time he was percussionist &sampler for the band King Riddim. Since the early 2000s he has had a prolific solo career, releasing more than a dozen full-lengths & nearly twice as many singles. He has collaborated with Vibronics (segue), Mark Iration (of Iration Steppas), Ranking Joe, & more. 

 

Kanka - Watch Your Step, Dubalistik VOC4672, 2014.
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Venus Dub
Worries & Problems
Ghost Oof Dub
London
Disconnect Yourself
Straight Dub
37
Never Let Them
Rainbow Dub
Spring
Stepperstyle
We Love Bass

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The Adjacent Ones: Federsen

 

Federsen is the performing moniker of San Francisco electronic musician Chris Kelly, His music is heavily influenced by Dub recording techniques, using vintage tape delays & old analog equipment to create a distinctive deep bass sound of Dub-infused electronic music.  

 

Federsen - Magnetic Transmissions, Deepindub.org did041, 2010.
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Gravity Mass Weight    
Octavian    
Cosmic Texture    
Gaps in Mind    
Freedom from the Known    
Path    
Magellic Clouds
Simplex

On Echo Relics, the CD contains only nine tracks, but when purchased from Silent Season it came with a digital download bonus track that I included... 

Federsen - Echo Relics, Silent Season SSD04, 2011.

Classical Unity    
Alpha    
Djembe Dub
Fragile Systems    
Gamma    
Mannahatta    
Phytoplankton    
16 Moons    
The Open Road
bonus track -
Magnetic Reference Laboratory

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The Adjacent Ones: Pulshar

 

The last track of Dublicator Deep Routes, "Burning Echoes (Pulshar remix)" led me to explore Pulshar. Pablo Bolivar & Sergio Sainz Vidal have been creating music as Pulshar since 2007. That year they released  their debut EP Babylon Fall Collection, an EP much reminiscent of the style of Rhythm & Sound Dub techno that I recently shared, with a heavy Jamaican influence. 

 

Pulshar - Babylon Fall Collection EP, Phonobox 004, 2007.
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Side A -
Mr Money Man
Ashmatic
No Meditation
Sde B -
KMS (Pablo Bolivar Space edit)
KMS
Dub by the River

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The Adjacent Ones: Dublicator

 

Dublicator is Tamás Olejnik from Pécs, Hungary, a prolific electronic music producer & artist known for his deep, hypnotic brand of Dub techno, crafting soundscapes with a captivating fusion of resonant basslines, echoing synths, & minimalistic percussion, His work is characterized by the meticulous layering of sound.

Deep Roots & Deep Routes showcase his reputation as a purveyor of lush, textural rhythms that resonate with the foundational elements of Dub-infused electronic music.

These two are a good taste of Hungarian paprika-spiced Elecrto-Dub... 

 

Dublicator - Deep Roots, Deepindub.org did029, 2009.
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Echos of Babylon    
Lonely Phantom    
Let Them Hear    
A Dumb King's Words    
Deep Roots

 

 

 

 

Dublicator - Deep Routes, AvantRoots AR016, 2010.

Children of Chords    
Message from Zion    
Deep Routes    
Burning Echoes    
Burning Echoes (Pulshar remake)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The Adjacent Ones: Frenk Dublin

Dub from Dublin 

 

This one puts the Dub in Dub techno (he even has Dub in his name).

 

Frenk Dublin is a second generation Dub producer. He started releasing his own material in 2013. Since then he's been honing his Dub chops while drifting over to the deeper, more Dub techno side of the genre in recent years with a steady stream of top drawer EPs & LPs to his name. 

 

 

Frenk Dublin - The Blue Mountain EP, Dub Communication DUBCOM048D, 2024.
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Exodus
Barracuda
The Jaguar
Kessel
Erangel
Blue Mountain
Undying Land

 

 

 

 

This next one opens up with Dublin's take on the classic Rhythm & Sound template, with Tenor Youthman's righteous vocals calling to mind the Rhythm & Sound / Tikiman collaborations, with Dublin's deep, hypnotic riddim cranked up to 11. If you’'e enjoying sharing these Dub adjacent sounds then don't delay to grab these. They will not disappoint.

 

 

Frenk Dublin - Quantum Dubs, Moonshine Recordings MSLP019, 2025

Side A -    
Our Progress featuring Tenor Youthman
The Root of All Evil
Into the Void
Mystery Dub

Side B -
The Resistor featuring Don Fe
Quantum Dub
Night Owl
Our Progress (SND & RTN Version)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The Adjacent Ones: Beat Pharmacy

When I was sharing bands like Another Channel & Babe Roots, I gathered up a shit-stack of Ambient Dub, Dub techno, & Dub House. Some I liked (the more Dub influenced, the better), some I didn't (some was just too steeped in the techno repetitiveness or the Ambient calm). Most of it just ended up in Overflow. 

 

For the next few I'll share some of the ones I liked. Guess I'll start out with Beat Pharmacy. Ties in perfectly to start this section because Constant Pressure track 4 "Hot Spot Slash", The Singles Part 1 track 3, "Don’t Bodda Me", & Wikkid Times tracks 1 "Sunshine" feature vocals by the previously shared Paul St. Hilaire (segue)...

On Constant Pressure, Beat Pharmacy (Brendon Moeller) leans heavily into his Deep house roots. Tracks like "Hot Spot Splash", "Wata", & "Slow Down" bring out the Dub. "Velocity" seems to find the perfect balance between the two styles. 

 

Beat Pharmacy - Constant Pressure, Deep Space Media DS50164, 2006.
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Club Dread - words & vocals by Mikey Dread
Tangerine    
Caramel    
Hot Spot Splash - words & vocals by Paul St. Hilaire
Velocity    
Slow Down    
Pieces - words & vocals by Ursula Rucker
Worship    
Wata (Water) - vocals by Allan Hope
Rat Race    
Floating

 

 

 

Here's a collection of Beat Pharmacy singles up to this point (Part 1)... 

 

Beat Pharmacy - The Singles Part 1, Deep Space Media 259061921, 2007.

New Dawn (Minimal Dub)    
Here to Go (Club Dub)    
Don't Bodda Me with Paul St. Hilaire    
Floating (edit)    
Club Dread (Harmonic mix) with Mikey Dread
Club Dread (Sub-Harmonic mix)
Wata (Deep Dub)    
Wata (Acid Dub) with Mutabaruka    
Frozen (Dub)

 

 

 

This one is the Dub version remix of 2008s Wikkid Times. Here Moeller creates something quite unique, some heavy electronic downtempo Dub. You should all give a listen. I think you will enjoy... 

 

 

Beat Pharmacy - Wikkid Times (Versions). Deep Space Media DS50210V, 2009.

Sunshine Dub with Paul St. Hilaire
Hope & Frustration Dub
Assassination of the Mind Dub
Backwards Never Dub
Time Dub with Damon Aaron
Rooftops Dub with Coppa
Nuclear Race Dub
Piece of Mind Dub
Strangers Dub
Ghostship Dub

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Woo Hoo Bernie!

Leaving Africa now & heading on to a run of Dub adjacent sounds, but first, although this is not Dub but a blast of jazz/funk/classical, I'm sharing it now, because I feel like it. 

A brief interlude before some Ambient Dub, Dub techno, & Dub house. Just a palate cleanser before the rest of Dubwise. 

 

I gathered up this one quite recently...in fact when I was working on the X-Ambias Day shares this past December.

In the essay sheet included in Outland, Bill sez:
       " I got along very well with Peter and obviously we did many things together. I think of his stories. Starting out, he was playing guitar and worked in a bank. Everyday going home, with his guitar, he would pass a river, and stop and play with the river flowing. I think that’s where the ambient obsession began. I made a piece with Bernie Worrell called "By a River (for Peter)". It is the first track of the box set compilation Die Welt ist Klang: a Tribute to Pete Namlook."

 

 

Well, that track is on this mixtape that Bill made for Sean Westergaard for broadcast on his July 29, 2016 show What It Is on WCBN. It was Bill's high-five way of sharing his camaradarie for Bernie Worrell, a lost friend.

Bernie had died the previos June 24. 

R.I.P. Never forget. 

 

 

Book of Woo Vol.1: Bill Laswell Mix Tape, broadcast July 29,2016.
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Alabama 
Blood Secrets 
At Mos'Spheres 
Volunteered Slavery / Bern's Blues / Outer Spaceways 
Woo Doo 
By a River (for Peter) 
X-Factor 
In a Silent Way 
Flashlight - Redux 
Revelation in Black Light 
Flex 
Outer Woo
I'd Rather Be with You 
Black & Strong (Homesick)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ