Final F For 2015

The Fatima Mansions – The Loyaliser CD single, Kitchenware Records SKCD67, 1994
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Tracklist –

The Loyaliser

Gary Numan’s Porsche

Arnie’s Five

Into Thinner Air with The Loyaliser (Juno Reactor mix)

Feliz año nuevo,

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Back to Alphabet City

Got both Fad Gadget & Frank Tovey under F, so let's go.

Francis John (Frank) Tovey is Fad Gadget.

He was an early practitioner in the melding of New Wave & Industrial into skewed pop songs filled with his black-humor lyrics regarding dehumanization in the modern Industrial age & the mass media's enslavement of modern society.

Fad Gadget's music was synth-driven but augmented by the sounds of electrical appliances such as electric drills or razors. The vocals were satirically deadpan.


Fad Gadget was the first artist to sign to Daniel Miller's Mute Records. "Back to Nature" was recorded as the second Mute Records release at RMS Studio in London.

Fad Gadget – Back to Nature/The Box 7", MUTE 002, 1979.

Side A –

Back to Nature

Side B –

The Box

"Back to Nature" was a great success for Mute Records so the follow-up record titled "Ricky's Hand" was recorded. The recording included Tovey's wife, Barbara, singing a vocal part near the end of the recording; the vocal part is then mixed with a synthesiser part into the outro of the song.

Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand/Handshake 7", MUTE 006, 1980.

Side A –

Ricky’s Hand

Side B –

Handshake

By the time Frank/Fad recorded the album Fireside Favourites at Blackwing Studios, he had decided to record the album without Daniel Miller's assistance. He wanted the final say to be his alone. Tovey recorded two more albums for Mute at Blackwing, Incontinent & Under the Flag. During the recording of Under the Flag Frank began using a Roland MC-4 Microcomposer. This made it easier for him to create a more controlled style of music. This style was carried on with the recording of the album Gag.


The recording of Gag was a change of direction for Tovey. It was the first time he used a band of musicians to record an album. Before he had recorded most of the musical parts himself. He also moved the recording from London to Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin. This recording included many acoustic instruments (like Joni Sackett – viola & David Simmonds – keyboards). Frank had utilized synthesisers before they were fashionable, now he moved away from electronic instrumentation which was the trend at the time. At this same time, Einstürzende Neubauten played a show with Fad Gadget at The Loft in Berlin & Tovey was moved by the use of heavy machinery for percussion. He had heard a large printing press nearby & got recording engineer Gareth Jones to record it. This was looped & would become the basis for "Collapsing New People".


Here Fad Gadget was assisted by: David Rodgers – guitar, double bass, & bass synthesizer; David Simmonds – piano, synthesizer, organ, celesta, bottles, & marimba; Joni Sackett – vocals & viola with additional vocal chores by Tovey’s wife Barbara Frost & daughter Morgan Tovey-Frost as well as guitars by Rowland S. Howard.

Fad Gadget – Gag, Mute STUMM 15, 1984.
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Side 1 –

Ideal World (featuring Rowland S Howard – guitar)

Collapsing New People

Sleep (featuring Morgan Tovey-Frost – baby vocals)

Stand Up

Speak to Me

Side 2 –

One Man’s Meat

The Ring

Jump

Ad Nauseam (featuring Rowland S Howard – guitar)

After recording Gag, Tovey began recording under his own name, Frank Tovey. In 1986 he released Snakes & Ladders. The dancefloor success of the Fad Gadget single "Collapsing New People" led to the song's inclusion on both the U.S. & Canadian versions of Snakes & Ladders as it was the first Frank Tovey or Fad Gadget album released in North America. This special edition French version includes a free limited issue 12" maxi EP with songs selected from all four previous Fad Gadget albums.

Frank Tovey – Snakes & Ladders w/bonus 4-song 12" 45, Mute STUMM 23, 1986.

Face A –

The Cutting Edge

Snakes & Ladders

The Cutting Edge (reprise)

Shot in the Dark

Concrete

Face B –

Luxury

Small World

Luddite Joe

Megalomaniac

Maxi Face A –

Coitus Interruptus

Innocent Bystander

Maxi Face B –

Sheep Look Up

Ideal World

In 2001, Tovey resurrected his old pseudonym to support his former colleagues & Mute label-mates, Depeche Mode on their Exciter tour. Tovey suffered from heart problems since his childhood & died of a heart attack on April 3, 2002 at the age of 45. He was working on a new album at the time of his death.

F-you,

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Space Dub - Zither Style

This gem came out the same year as Audio Active’s On-U Sound release Happy Happer.

Here Audio Active are Taki 244 (Tsuyoshi Taki), 2 DD (Daisuke Omura), Masa the Al-Tamyran (Masa Osada), & Nanao (Shigemoto Nanao), on this outing joining zither great Laraaji Nanananda (Edward Larry Gordon).

Audio Active & Laraaji – The Way Out is the Way In, All Saints ASCD26, 1995.
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Tracklist –

New Laughter Mode (the Way In)

Music & Cosmic (Feel Yourself) w/Bill Nelson - guitar

Think Cosmically

How Time Flies (when You’re Having None)

Laraajingle

Space Visitors for Tea-That Lump on Your Head

Hither & Zither

Blooper’s Dance Floor

New Laughter Mode (the Way Out)

Enjoy,

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& Now for Somethin’ Completely Different

Here is Man Klan's only LP, released in 1987. Their output consists of two 12" EPs  released in 1985, this LP, & a 12" single of  "Wanting & Waiting". They were from Stockholm, Sweden although this particular LP was released on the UK label Wire. Some good female-fronted punky Goth grooves in the vein of Devils era Concrete Blonde or 4ADs X-Mal Deustchland.

Man Klan was started by Carita Palmroos – vocals & Jacki Pazda/Huberhoff – bass with Jens Lansman – guitar; & Johan Bomberg – drums on this release.

Man Klan- Flesh Machine, Wire Records WRLP007, 1987.
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Side A –

Wanting & Waiting
Everytime
Love for Pleasure

No Time for Mercy
Redheads

Side B –

Candyman
Getting Closer
Fisherman
Flesh Machine
Love Child

Enjoy,

NØ

Today's E is You, Gene

Eugene McDaniels, 70s revolutionary radical & all-around heavy cat, was once Gene McDaniels, mellow soul singer & #1 contender for the Black Scott Walker title. Here's a pair of doozies from the mid-60s Genester.

Gene McDaniels – The Facts of Life from Sometimes I'm Happy Sometimes I'm Blue LP, 

Liberty 7175, 1960.

&

Gene McDaniels – (There goes) The Forgotten Man single side B, Liberty F 55752, 1964.

Leap ahead to 1970: Here’s a Bible-toting, denim-clad McDaniels on the grainy, guerilla-styled cover shot for Outlaw accompanied by then-wife Ramona, outfitted in ammo-belt & Angela Davis afro, & a grim-faced feminist Susan James with a semi-automatic.  Like many other of us from that era, something BIG had happened to Eugene McDaniels between 1965 & 1970 that transformed him from Gene McDaniels to "Eugene McDaniels the Left Rev. Mc D". This is a back-to-the-country rock album in many places, but the funky soul shines through strongly, especially on tracks like "Reverend Lee". McDaniels recorded Outlaw with a rock/jazz band that featured legendary Miles Davis alum jazz bassist Ron Carter & ubiquitous 70s session guitarist Hugh McCracken. The group fleshed out the Rev's hippie-folk-funky dreams with smooth style. The band is largely responsible for the record’s pure cohesiveness, as they bring McDaniels disparate elements together into one of the most powerfully lasting statements of post-Aquarian Age culture.

"Under conditions of national emergency, like now, there are only two kinds of people – those who work for freedom and those who do not." -Mc D.

Eugene McDaniels – Outlaw, Atlantic SD 8259, 1970.

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Side One –

Outlaw

Sagittarius Red

Welfare City

Silent Majority

Love Letter to America

Side Two –

Unspoken Dreams of Light

Cherrystones

Reverend Lee

Black Boy

Outlaw's follow-up, 1971s Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse cover superimposes McDaniels' screaming face on a painting of a samurai battle scene. This release features a more jazz-inflected moodiness than Outlaw. While much of Outlaw was countrified blues, casually arranged, Headless Heroes is a much tougher, tighter, & more adventurous outing. With a distinctive two-bass attack supplied by the tag-team of prog hero Miroslav Vitous on acoustic & Gary King electric, HHotA is largely the work of seasoned jazzmen essaying early 70s funk.

Vice President Spiro Agnew allegedly called Atlantic to issue a verbal cease-&-desist order upon the release of Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse. Altantic pulled support for & finally sales of the album, though they cited "poor sales numbers".

Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse, Atlantic SD 8281, 1971.

Side One –

The Lord is Back

Jagger the Dagger

Lovin’ Man

Headless Heroes

Susan Jane

Side Two –

Freedom Death Dance

Supermarket Blues

The Parasite (for Buffy)

In 1975, Gene (once more) McDaniels released Natural Juices. Here McDaniels delivers his by-now perfected blend of Soul/Funk combined with his exceptional songwriting abilities.

Gene McDaniels – Natural Juices, Ode Records SP 77028, 1975.

Side 1 –

Feel like Makin' Love

Lady Fair

Natural Juices

Can't Get Enough of You

River

Side 2 –

Shell of a Man

Dream of You & Me

Waterfall

Honey Can You Know

The Perfect Dream

But just before he became a true Outlaw, McDaniels handled the vocal duties on my favorite Bobby Hutcherson release, Blue Notes's Now! from 1969. Here is that sometimes neglected gem. If you've come along this far with Eu/Gene, you should really enjoy this (I added some alternate takes as a bonus).

Bobby's band members: Bobby Hutcherson – vibraphone & marimba; Harold Land - tenor saxophone; Kenny Barron & George Cables – piano; Wally Richardson – guitar; Herbie Lewis & James Leary – bass; Joe Chambers & Eddie Marshall – drums; Candido Camero – congas; Gene McDaniels – vocals; Hilda Harris, Albertine M. Robinson, Christine Spencer, Eileen Gilbert, & Maeretha Stewart - backing vocals; Stanley Cowell – piano & electric piano; Manny Boyd - tenor & soprano saxophone; & Bobbye Hall Porter – percussion.

Bobby Hutcherson – Now!, Blue Note BST 84333, 1969.

Side One –

Slow Change
Hello to the Wind
Now!

Side Two –

The Creators
Black Heroes

+ bonus tracks –

Slow Change II
Now! II
Hello to the Wind (live)
Now! (reprise)

Enjoy,
NØ

Death of a Dog

Back in August I decided to start going through a folder I have called “Musick that Needs Work” (cleaning up the sound, fixing the tags, getting the art work, whatever).

I’d made it through the Ds (Dakila, Darshan Ambient, & Dot Allison) before I drifted off into Dub & harvest & krazy kat adventures. Think I’ll venture back to that dreaded folderland (it was helping me straighten out messes that I’ve left too long undone) until the end of the year (or until life once more distracts me).

Brought to you by the letter E & pertinent to out dismal times…

Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack to White Dog. White Dog is a 1982 film directed by famous cult filmmaker Samuel Fuller. The film depicts the struggle of a dog trainer named Keys (played by the great Paul Winfield) trying to retrain a stray dog found by a young actress (a ‘young actress’ Kristy McNichol), that is a "white dog", that is, a dog trained by racists to viciously attack any black person. Fuller uses the film as a platform to deliver an anti-racist message as it examines the question of whether racism is a treatable problem or an incurable condition.

The film takes a hard look at racism. Fuller's uses melodrama & metaphors to present his argument. The film’s disheartening ending makes its point that while racism is learned, it cannot be cured. Many critics have questioned the film's lack of release in the United States when it was completed in 1982 (Paramount Pictures feared “negative press”) & have applauded its belated release (2008) by Criterion.

Included is a 16 page booklet that delves deeply into the whole production-process fiascos & Fuller’s frustration with Hollywood.

Ennio Morricone – White Dog soundtrack, FSM Vol. 13 No. 3, 2010.

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Tracklist –

Main Title

Sick Dog

Death of a Dog

Walking Dog

Dog’s Escape

Saving Cops

Chasing Rabbits

Dog Pound – The Girl’s Thought

Sweeper Attack

Dog’s Return

Stewardess Surprise

Untitled 3M3

Certainties & Uncertainties of the Dog

Cure or Kill – Dog’s Escape

Protected Attack

Sorrowful Julie

Cage Escape

Attack #2

After the Murder

White Dog

White Dog 2

Absent-mindedly from a Radio far Away

The Girl & her Problems

Cured Canine

Attempts at Fidelity

Death of a Dog – End Credits

Bonus tracks

Second Theme: The Girl & the Dog

Guitar Venizia

After the Murder (alternate)

Absent-mindedly from a Radio far Away (source music)

Lamb Bone Muzak

Inside the Church

Death of a Dog (part 1)

Death of a Dog (part 2 – album track)

Enjoy while we can,

NØ

Yes it is Bless

Dub Syndicate - Pure Thrillseekers is essentially a collection of previously released Dub Syndicate material from the Europe-based Lion & Roots label (much of it familiar to No Bed of Roses & Acres of Space owners, listeners, or followers).

Dub Syndicate – Pure Thrillseekers, Shanachie 45062, 2005.
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Tracklist –

Tricks (vocals by Cornell Campbell)

Weeping Eyes (vocals by Gregory Isaacs)

Breath of Fresh Air

Guns & Cocaine Crime (vocals by Jah Bless)

One in a Billion (vocals by Luciano)

Private Dub

Kingston 14 (vocals by Gregory Isaacs)

Time Dub

Ready for the World (vocals by Moses)

God is a Man (vocals by Junior Reid)

Yes it is Bless (vocals by Little David)

Sound Clash (extended)

bonus tracks –

Time (live)

Time (version)

Live on, Style!

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Delayed Impact

Massive Dub from Clive Chin recorded at Randy's Studio 17 North Parade Kingston Jamaica between 1972 & 1975 with all the heavy hitters: Bertram "Ranchie" McLean, Karl Pitterson, Mikey Chung, & Tarzan Nelson – guitar; Ansel Collins – keyboards & melodica; Augustus Pablo, Earl "Wire" Lindo, Robbie Lyn, & Tyrone Downie – keyboards; Tommy McCook – tenor saxophone; Vin Gordon – trombone; "Chicago" Steve – harmonica; Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Lloyd Parks, & Val Douglas – bass; Eric Lamont – percussion; & Carlton Barrett, Mikey "Boo" Richards, & Sly Dunbar – drums.

Impact All Stars – Forward the Bass: Dub from Randy's 1972-1975,
Blood & Fire BAFLP 022, 1998.
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Side One –

Jaro

Maro

Ordinary Version Chapter 3

Extraordinary Version

Wire Dub

Shining Dub

Easy Come Dub

Side Two –

Dubwise Situation

Last of the Jestering

Oh Jah Dub

Sabotage Dub

S-Corner Dub

Just Another Dub

Upbeat Version

Verdict in Dub

Enjoy,

NØ

Deadly Dreams

Various – The Men with the Deadly Dreams cassette, White Stains Tapes werk 002, 1981.

Side A –

Christopher R. Watson – News Cut-up 2/5/81

Rema Rema – Why ask why?

Eyeless in Gaza – Pale saints

Culturcide – Land of Birds

Side B –

Chris Carter – Climbing

Rema Rema – Christopher

A House – Words From a Radio

Richard H. Kirk – Powermad

M. A. Peacock – Voices

Enjoy,

NØ

Bright Star

My friend Jonder said it best:

"It was nice of Bernie Sanders to fill in as a guest blogger while Farmer Nathan was busy toiling in the fields."

I am deeply indebted to Senator Sanders, but he doesn't post enough musick. Let's start to fix that right now.

Tenor Saw (Clive Bright) was a Prince of Jamaican Dancehall. He is hailed as one of the most influential singers of the Jamaican digital era of the mid 80s.

In August 1988 he was killed by a motor vehicle in Houston, Texas. The official cause of death was listed as a hit & run accident. Many of those who knew him insisted that he was murdered. He was only 21 years old.

I like dancehall style well enough, but around here we favor Dub. Here's a compilation of Tenor Saw Dubwise.

Tenor Saw - In Dub, various sources, 1985.
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Tracklist -

Lots of Dub
Woman Dub
Shirley Dub
Sunday Dub
Eni Meeni Mini Mo Dub
Progress Dub
Dub Fever
Give Up Dub
Jah Guide Dub
I & I Dub
Rub-A-Dub Dub
Run Come Dub Me
Time Dub
Praise Jah with Dub

Enjoy,
NØ

If DoG is GoD, then BuD is DuB

It's that time of year again. I might be kinda scarce for a while. I'll be checking heavy traffic & trying to keep up with requests & re-ups, but until things are back to normal (???), I leave you with this…

Various - Baskin' n Riddim 52 Flavas

part 1

Stoned Immaculate – Dub Syndicate featuring Akabu

Herb – The Revolutionaries

Sinsemilia – Sly & Robbie

Marijuana Dreams – Dubblestandart

Jamaica Colley Dub – The Revolutionaries

Bud’s Bush – Roots Radics

Weed Specialist – Audio Active

Herbs of Dub – Jah Lloyd

Bush Weed – Lee 'Scratch' Perry & the Upsetters
Dub Spliff – Michael Rose

Collie Rock – Lone Ranger

Lamb's Bread Herb – King Tubby

Marijuana – The Revolutionaries

Herbsman Anthem – Jah Warrior

Ganja Roots – Sly & the Revolutionaries

Rolla – Sheriff Lindo & the Hammer

Collie in Dub – The Revolutionaries

Bubbling Sweet Tonight Version – Two Friends Crew

Jamaican Grass – Joe Gibbs & the Professionals

Kasha Herb Rock – Mikey Dread

Marijuana Dub – Harry Mudie meets King Tubby

Marijuana Dub – Mad Professor & Prince Fatty featuring Earl 16

Free Up the Weed – Lee 'Scratch' Perry & the Upsetters

Lambsbread – The Revolutionaries

Hemp Dub – B.R. Stylers

Leggo the Herb Man Dub – Glen Brown & King Tubby

part 2

Legalize It (Dub Version) – Peter Tosh

Half Ounce – Joe Gibbs & the Professionals

Heb Dub / Collie Dub – Legendary Skatalites meet King Tubby

Ganja Syrup – Maxie

Lambs Bread Dubwise – Glen Brown & King Tubby

Weed Specialist – Two Badcard

Herbman Style from the Ghetto – Winston Edwards

Lambs Bread Collie – Cedric 'Im' Brooks & the Light of Shaba

Smoke the Weed Dub – Michael Palmer

Collie – The Revolutionaries

Afghani Dub – The Mothman

Collie Dub – Horace Andy

Lick Weed Dub – King Tubby meets Jacob Miller

The Marijuana Affair – Joe Gibbs & the Professionals

Dub Ganja – Max Romeo

Collie Dub – King Tubby

Acapulco Gold – The Revolutionaries

Purple Skunk Dub – Bush Chemists

Free the Marijuana – Audio Active featuring Bim Sherman

Big Spliff – Black Uhuru

Sensimilia Dub – King Tubby

(I Love) Marijuana Dub – Linval Thompson

Weed Specialist (remix) – Audio Active

Marijuana Dreams (Dub) – Dubblestandart

Ganja – Joe White

High Times – Roots Underground

Toke, toke, pass,

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Om Shiva Shankara Hari Hari Ganga!

Cannabis or ganja is associated with worship of the Hindu deity Shiva, who is popularly believed to like the hemp plant. Cannabis is offered to Shiva images, especially on Shivratri festival. This practice is particularly witnessed at the temples of Benares, Baidynath, & Tarakeswar.

Cannabis is not only offered to Shiva, but also consumed by Shaivite yogis. Ganja is smoked by some Shaivite devotees & cannabis itself is seen as a gift (prasad or offering) to Shiva to aid in sadhana (spiritual exercise). In India, the Aghora sect of Tantra & a significant section of Shaivite Tantrics ritually partake of marijuana as part of their sadhana. Some of the wandering ascetics in India known as sadhus smoke ganja out of a clay chillum.

& what does he feel when he is on such a high? Madhusudan closes his eyes in bliss as he recalls:

"We all know that God resides everywhere. But we see Him in bits & pieces. Cannabis makes me see God in His entirety. It is a sight of such unalloyed joy that tears well up in my eyes."

Ganga – Les Musiques du Gange 3xCD, Virgin Classics, 1998.
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CD1 – The Himalayas to the Eternal City (Gomuk to Benares)

Tracklist –

Mantras (The Magical Formulas of Wandering Monks

The Bells of Gangotri

The Legend of the Ganges

Pungi (The Snake-charmer’s Tune)

Upanishad (Vedic Chants)

Dhol (Divali Percussion at Haridwar)

Nautanki (Popular Theater at Kanpur)

Triveni (at Allahabad)

Ode (to Ganja)

The Bride’s Farewell

Kajari (at Mirzapur)

Nirgun Pad (at Varanasi)

Hori (Raga Kafi)

CD2 – The cities of Shiva in the heart of Bihar (Benares to Jahangira)

Tracklist –

Hanuman Arati (Nocturnal Rite for the Monkey God)

Birha (Portrait of Shiva)

Pachra (Dedicated to Ganja)

Khari Birba (Washerman’s Song)

Kevat Ka Sohar (Boatman’s Song)

Kilona (Song for Children)

Banni Mata Ka Geet (Ceremony of Possession)

Karikha Lal (Tantric Rite)

Sohar (Propitiatory Rite)

Kohbar (Fertility Rite)

Ropni Geet (Seedtime Song)

Kajri Dhun (Shahnai Tune for Dawn)

CD3 – Doorway to Bouches Bengal Ganges (Patna to Calcutta)

Tracklist –

Domui (Wedding Song)

Jatsar (Milling Song)

Viva Geet (Song for the Young Married Couple)

Lori (Cradle Song)

Hori Jogira ( Song for the Festival of Colors)

Ma Melinir Gaan (Maidens’ Song)

Patar Banshi (Karamsha Leaf Solo)

O Doyal (Wandering Bard’s Song)

Manush (Baul Song)

Bhatiyali (Boatman’s Song)

Murshidi (Mystic Minstrel)

Bhashan (excerpt from The Behula Legend)

Kali Kirtana (Devotional Music for the Goddess of Destruction)

Bam Bam Bholanath!

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Any Questions?

For those of you not sure about the plant from Outer Space, here's some handy information.

In the words of DJ Madlib:

"aka Son of Super Ape...All Jamaican sounds: Dub. Roots. Reggae. Good stuff as I would say…a musical disc from the flick of the wrist to make you jump & twist."

Madlib – Madlib Medicine Show No. 4: 420 Chalice All-Stars, Madlib Invasion, 2010.
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Tracklist –

What Are The Medical Benefits Of Smoking Marijuana?

What Are The Negative Risks Of Smoking It?

What Alternatives Are There To Smokings?

Are A Lot Of Pesticides On Pot?

Where Is All This Pot Coming From?

So What Does The Law Say About These Dispensaries And Their Various Pot Products?

How Much Pot Am I Allowed To Have At One Time?

How Do I Get A Prescription?

Will My Name End Up On Some DEA List?

FYI,

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Happy Birthday Bernie Sanders...Socialist Dub

Back on August 26 I started wading through a folder I had gathering dust called "Musick that Needs Work". I've managed to get nine artists straightened or 'worked' out so as far as TCB, so good. Now I got to the letter E just in time for this week-end’s Dub Excursion.

Featuring an all star cast of heavy JA Dubmeisters: Radcliffe 'Duggie' Bryan & Willie Lindo – guitar; Robbie Shakespeare – bass & guitar; Ansel Collins, Earl 'Wire' Lindo, Harold Butler, & Winston Wright – keyboards; Cedric 'Im' Brooks & Dean Fraser – tenor saxophone; 'Deadley' Headley Bennett & Herman Marquis – alto saxophone; Bobby Ellis, Clive Hunt, & David Madden – trumpet; Nambo & Vin 'Don D Jr' Gordon – trombone; Bertram 'Ranchie' McLean – bass; Count Ossie, Harry Powell, & Uziah 'Sticky' Thompson – percussion; Michael 'Mickey Boo' Richards & Sly Dunbar – drums.

Recorded at Arthur 'Duke' Reid's Treasure Isle Studios & Channel One. Produced by S.E. Pottinger. Mixed by Duke's nephew Errol Brown at Treasure Isle (except track 1-5 mixed by Geoffrey Chung).

Errol Brown presents Dub Over Dub: 27 Track Dub Extravaganza 2xCD,
Heartbeat Records CDHB202/203, 1996.
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Tracklist –

CD 1 –

Sly Special

Revelation Chapter One

Jah Caught Them Dub

Falling in Dub

Woman Iron Rock

Black Cat Version

Over Dub

Dub Outta Control

Dub & Harmony

Love Dub

Strictly Roots

Su Su Mouth

Forward in Dub

Downtown Rock

CD 2 –

Lion Dub

Dub in Peace

Phase One Special

A Living Dub

Shy Nation Skank

Peace & Inity

Dub it in a Dreamland

Chatty Dub

This Yah Dub

Winning Version

Dub Walla

Ital Dub

Socialist Dub

I & I will vanquish Babylon. Truss me,
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From Mike to Dot --- Microdot --- Trip-pop

Dot Allison is a Scottish singer/songwriter. In addition to solo ventures, Allison's career path has also concentrated on collaborative efforts. She has worked with Scott Walker, Massive Attack, Paul Weller, Hal David, Arab Strap, Mick Harvey, Pascal Gabriel, Kevin Shields, Pete Doherty, Xenomania, & Gary Mounfield.

My first exposure to Ms. Allison was when she was fronting the band One Dove in the early 1990s. Although often referred to as a dance act, One Dove's sound was actually characterized by primarily electronic textures with heavy processing influenced by laid back Jamaican Dub & Eno-esque ambience.

One Dove – Morning Dove White, FFRR 162351042-2, 1993.
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Tracklist –

Fallen

White Love (Guitar Paradise mix)

Breakdown (Cellophane Boat mix)

The Goes the Cure (w/Jah Wobble – bass)

Sirens

(The Transient) Truth

My Friend

Why Don’t You Take Me

White Love (piano reprise)

White Love (radio mix)

Breakdown (radio mix)

In 1999 Allison released her debut solo album Afterglow. It is a song-oriented pop CD. Allison penned 7 of the 11 tracks on her debut release.

Dot Allison – Afterglow, Arista 07822-16600-2, 1999.

Tracklist –

Colour Me

Tomorrow Never Comes

Close Your Eyes

Message Personnel

I Wanna Feel the Chill

Morning Sun

Did I Imagine You?

Mo' Pop

Alpha Female

In Winter Still

Message Personnel (Arab Strap remix)

It was followed by the electro & house music inspired We Are Science in 2002. On this, her sophomore effort, Dot wrote all the songs.

Dot Allison – We are Science, Mantra Recordings MNTCD 1028, 2002.

Tracklist –

We’re Only Science

Substance

You Can be Replaced

Performance

Wishing Stone

Make it Happen

Strung Out

I Think I Love You

Hex

Lover

Substance (Felix Da Housecat remix)

We’re Only Science (Slam remix)

Enjoy,

NØ