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

Weirder & weirder,
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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,
NØ

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,
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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,
NØ

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,
NØ

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,
NØ

Dubtember 20 - On that Dub Train to Zion

 

Everybody coming to the Dubtember Dubsplash should be familiar with Zion Train. They've been doing the good Dub reggae dancehall thing since 1988 when Neil Perch & Ben Hamilton hit the Sound System circuit out of Oxford, UK.. They were soon joined by stalwarts Colin Cod & Dave Tench. Nowadays they are a flexible line-up of Perch with a vocalist for Sound System gigs & a larger crew for stage shows. They are now based out of Cologne, Germany where they run the Abassi Sound System.

Here are two great ones from them... 

 

Zion Train - Original Sounds of the Zion, Universal Egg WWCD036, 2002.
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Zion High
Ella's Melody
Hailing up the Selector
Do U See Love
Blessed is He
Beatmass
Beautiful Children
Love Revolutionary
King of the Sounds & Blues
Behold the Rainbow
Peace & Justice
Earthquake 

 

 

 

 

Zion Train - Original Sounds of the Zion Remixed, Universal Egg WWCD038, 2004.

Hailing up the Selector (Twilight Circus mix)
Blessed Is He (Rob Smith Steppers mix)
Blessed Is He (Vibronics Blessed remix)
Love Revolutionary (Dub Creator mix)
Zion High (Dubfront mix)
Peace And Justice (Bommitommi mix)
Love Revolutionary (Love Grocer mix)
Earthquake (Unity Sound mix)
Love Revolutionary (Pier Paolo Polcari Home Again mix)
Zion High (Transglobal Underground Zion Hai Hai mix)
Peace & Justice (Molara Peace 2004 mix)
Love Revolutionary (Bommitommi Vs LBJ mix)
Beautiful Children (Darcus mix)
Do You See Love? (Bouncin' to Balafonic mix)
Beautiful Children (Speedwell Beautiful Brazil remix)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 19 - Upright Dub Tradition

Here are two by the unlikely duo of Nat Birchall & All Breadwinner. 

 

Birchall is a self taught tenor saxophonist from Chorley, Lancashire. His sound is rural north England meet free jazz meets reggae.

Nat sez:
        "I aim for a sound that conjures up vistas of sunrises and wide open landscapes."

 

 

Al Breadwinner was born Al Redfern in Manchester, UK. He is a reggae / Dub producer, studio engineer, & multi-instrumentalist. He started the project The Breadwinners to create traditional 70s style Jamaican reggae / Dub that he recorded & mixed at his home studio, The Bakery, using vintage reel-to-reel tape machines. Al plays almost all the instruments himself on his recordings including drums, bass, guitar, organ, & flute while producing & mixing in an authentic, "old-skool" analog way.

Both of these releases were recorded during Al’s collaborations with Nat. Their joint efforts produced these roots & Dub albums.

Nat Birchall meets Al Breadwinner - Tradition Disc in Dub, Tradition Disc TDLP 003, 2020.
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Side A -
Hornsman Rock    
Dub in the Heavens Pt.1    
Dub in the Heavens Pt.2    
Mystical Dub    
Struggle Dub

Side B -    
Organizer Version    
Olaudah Equiano Dub    
Freedom Man    
Congo Drum Style    
Giza Dub

 

From the same creative sessions... 

Nat Birchall meets Al Breadwinner - Upright Living, Tradition Disc TDLP 004, 2020.

Side A -
Man from Jones Town    
Dub from Manchester    
Upright Living    
Upfull Dubbing    
Mystical Dawn    

Side B -
Wise Man/Dub of the Prophet    
African Village Dance    
Village Dub    
Tribute to the Great Tommy McCook

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 18 - Glorious Dub

 

Rapha & the Noble Chanters are from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They play a nice blend of late 70s, early 80s JA traditions with a touch of Alpha Blondy all tossed in the mixer with a pinch of 80s UK (Bristol especially) stylee. This is the Dub counterpart to Rapha Pico & The Noble Chanters - Continue the Glory, 2020. 

 

Rapha Pico & the Noble Chanters - The Glory of Dub, Noble Chanters Productions, 2021.
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Side A -
Chanting Dub    
The Glory of Dub    
Everyday Dub    

Side B -
Lion Dub    
Stand for Dub    
Til the End of the Dub

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 17 - Dub Secrets

Here's a great offering from the WordSound label. 

 

Scarab is another project of label head Serath "Skiz" Fernando (hope I got it right this time Mooz) joined by illbient, Trip-hop, Downtempo, Dub, minimal electronics musician Capt. Kowatch (The Conference of the Birds) & Sassan Gan aka Professor Shehab (Qaballah Steppers, Baraka Orchestra). They released three full-lenghts under the Scarab moniker in the mid-90s. 

This is their third, most accomplished offering. 

  

Scarab - Secrets of the Past & Future, WordSound WSCD019, 1996.
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Seekers of Truth (Tulab El Haqq)    
Danger
Scent of Arura    
Burnt Offerings    
The Castle of Nonexistence (Bath Badgerd)    
Fall of the Towers of Convention    
Internal Dynasty
The Lost Sonic
Untitled I
Untitled II

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 16 - Can’t Scratch nah Better Dub

 

Perry needs no introduction here or anywhere music is loved. The true Upsetter. 

Here are a couple as varied as the man himself. 

The first one is just what the name states, a collection of rare cuts from Scratch from the Black Aek days.

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Cutting Razor: Rare Cuts from the Black Ark,
Heartbeat Records, 2003.
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Cutting Razor (alternate mix) - Junior Byles & the Versatiles
Staring - Time Unlimited
Let's Fall in Love - Junior Murvin    
What a Sin - Lee Perry
Sufferer's Time - The Heptone’s    
One Step Forward - Max Romeo    
Righteous Judgment - The Upsetters    
Black Candle - Leo Graham    
Big Tongue Buster (alternate mix)- Leo Graham    
Come Along - The Bluebells    
Yama Khy (alternate take)- U Roy    
Land of Love - Sons of Light    
Feelings (alternate take) - Sharon Isaacs
Mister Craven - Junior Murvin    
Walk the Streets - Rajah Ruffin    
4 & 20 Dreadlocks - Evon Jones 
Judgment - Time Unlimited

 

 

 

This next one is a 21st Century offering with Perry's vocal improvisation matched with British multi-instumentalist musician Steve Marshall's songwriting, all instrumentation, & production. 

 

Lee "Scratch" Perry - The End of an American Dream, Megaware Records MEGW 0242, 2007.

Disarm
Are You Ready?
The End of an American Dream
One God Rain
So Be It
I Will Be There
I am the God of Fire
The Lord's Prayer
I Am New Yorker
Teddy Bear
Hallo Jamaica
Shazam
Memories
Uooba Skooba
Cats Bats Rats
Disco Cats

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 15 - Dub Royalty

 

Roy Cousins was already famous as a reggae great when in 1979 cataracts diminished Roy's sight to the point that he concentrated solely on production work which he could carry out in the relative safety of the recording studio. Cousins was at work producing Prince Far I's final album in 1983, Umkhonto We Sizwe, when Far-I was fatally shot before the album was finished. This event prompted Cousins to emigrate to Liverpool, England, 

He opened a record shop, Cousins Cove, where he also produced & released records on his Tamoki-Wambesi & Dove labels, both from his back-catalogue, & new recordings of visiting Jamaican artists. This collection features production by Roy on riddims originally licensed by Roots Radics to Roy back in his Jamaica days.. 

 

Roy Cousins - presents Kings & Queens of Dub, Tamoki Wambesi TWCD1017, 2011.
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Hail Him    
Queen Sheba    
The Lion of Judah    
Rise with the King    
Ruler of the Universe    
All the High Priests Give Praises    
Chant & Give Praises    
Jah Kingdom Live Forever    
Ruler of the Nation    
Black Prince & Princesses    
Take Off Your Shoes Before You Enter    
The Wrong Side of the Baldhead,the Right Side of the Dread    
Kingdom Rise & Fall    
Blessing for the Faithful    
Mau-Mau Uprising    
King David Experience    
Humble & Be Bless    
Spirit of Love & Life

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubtember 14 - Matrix Dub

Another music project conceived & constructed by Bill Laswell with additional production by Talvin Singh (track 4 & 8), Karsh Kale (track 5), Matt Howe with Trilok Gurtu (track 7). 

 

The Table Beat Science players are: Ustad Sultan Khan: sarangi & vocal (track 2 & 6); Talvin Singh: tabla, virus manipulation, & vox (track 4 & 8); Karsh Kale: drums (track 5 & 8), tabla, keyboards, & electronics (track 5); Bill Laswell: bass (tracks 1-3, 6 & 9) & sound construction; Zakir Hussain: tabla; Trilok Gurtu: tabla, drums (track 7) with Brad Somatik: logic programming (track 4).

 

 

Tabla Beat Science - Tabla Matrix: Adventures in Electro-Acoustic Hypercussion,
Palm Pictures PALMCD2046-2, 2000.
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Secret Channel
Magnetic
Audiomaze
Don't Worry.com
Palmistry
Devotional
Big Brother
Triangular Objects
Biotech
Alla

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ