30 October 2022

Hallowe’en Special 2022

Perfection from one of my favorite bands, the Legendary Pink Dots.



Currently on tour US now! The Museum of Human Happiness.

11.1.22 – New Orleans, LA : Gasa Gasa  
11.3.22 – Orlando, FL : Will’s Pub  
11.4.22 – Atlanta, GA : Purgatory @ Masquerade  
11.5.22 – Asheville, NC : The Grey Eagle  
11.6.22 – Carrboro, NC : Cat’s Cradle – Back Room  
11.8.22 – Washington, DC : Pie Shop  
11.9.22 – Philadelphia, PA : Kung Fu Necktie
11.10.22 – Brooklyn, NY : Sultan Room
11.11.22 – Cambridge, MA : Middle East – Upstairs

two Canada dates
11.12.22 – Montreal, QC : Bar Le Ritz
11.13.22 – Toronto, ON : Velvet Underground

11.15.22 – Cleveland, OH : The Grog Shop
11.16.22 – Chicago, IL : Beat Kitchen  
11.17.22 – Minneapolis, MN : 7th Street Entry
11.18.22 – Omaha, NE : Reverb Lounge  
11.19.22 – Denver, CO : Mercury Cafe  
11.20.22 – Denver,CO : Mercury Cafe  (with Edward Ka-Spel solo show and Dead Voices On Air)
 

Ka-Spel sez: 

" "The Butterfly Spirit" emerged from an actual incident a few weeks ago (September 2022). I was going to collect my U.S. visa in London and for one mad moment thought it was safe to indulge in a little jaywalking. A magic centimetre or 2 saved the U.S tour (and maybe more) as a taxi sped around a corner. I learned a lesson and wrote the text for this missive on the train in the afternoon."
     EK 

 


The Butterfly Spirit
10 Days of Mourning

See you next month,

29 October 2022

Weekend of the Living Dead Dub Tricks


Bats in My Belfrey Dub
Wolfman is Everywhere Dub
Wicked Insane Evil Dub
Spells
It's Halloween Dub
Ghost Dub
Vampire Circus Dub
Magic Dub
Sympathetic Vibrations Dub
Treats
Living Dead Dub
Zombies Walk Dub
Doomsday Dub
Lochness Monster Dub
Footsteps Dub (extended)
Tricks

Mmmwwaaaaaah,

28 October 2022

Science to the Rescue

Mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's at Midnight on Friday 13th June 1981.
Greensleeves Records GRELCD25, 1990.
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The Voodoo Curse   
Dance of the Vampires   
Blood on His Lips   
Cry of the Werewolf   
The Mummy's Shroud   
The Corpse Rises   
Night of the Living Dead   
Your Teeth in My Neck   
Plague of Zombies   
Ghost of Frankenstein

BOOOOOOOOOOO,

27 October 2022

Monster Dub

Bost & Bim Meet Fabwize – Dub Monster, The Bombist Records, 2012.

Side A -

Brainstorming Dub    
The Camp on Dub Island
Dark Light Dub    
Guess Who's Back
Baby Monster Bubbling

Side B -

Awakenin' Dub    
Dub Monster
Creepy Movie
Dub Monster's Curse    
Nightmare's Dub
Oooooooooooo,

26 October 2022

Freaky Girl’s Maniacal Dub

 

Back to thoughts of Halloween. 

 

Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy 12: Dub Maniacs on the Rampage, Ariwa ARICD075, 1992.
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Dub so Hard    
Rampage in L.A.    
Feelings of Dub    
Wake Up Dub    
Maniacal Blues    
Rue Paganini Dub    
Acid meets Dub in Crystal Palace    
Big Ben Gone Wrong
Dub Service    
Soledad Brothers    
Miles From Wurzburg    
Rusty Computor
Freaky Girl

Woooooooooo,

24 October 2022

Prompted by Other Blogs, Part 5

I'm always cruising around the interweb, looking for interesting music. I'll see or hear something out there that sets me on a path.

This part of this series was actually prompted by two different blogs that combined to send me on this journey. 

 



Sal Nunziato runs Burning Wood blog. His life is music, so he knows it from the inside. He is most into 20th Century artists & their continuing output this centuty. Alway somehing there that we mere mortals probably missed.

Starting the week off with "Rolling Stone: Please Just Call it a Day".

About this, Sal sez:
     "I should know better. But I guess that is why it's called click bait. Rolling Stone has released their list of '50 Greatest Concept Albums' and if you can get beyond 49 without reaching for a heavy object to throw at your computer screen or crush your phone to bits, more power to you."

I haven't read fucking RS for decades. Last place I'd want to find out what's really going on in music. They're kinda just a glorified advertisement. But I read the article & all the interesting reader comment. I even checked out their list. What a load of shite. 

 



A couple days later I was visiting A History of Dubious Taste blog to catch up on things I might have missed. I have to say I don't check in with AHoDT as often as I should, but I always check out whatever is there for some suprisingly great finds.

There was a posting from October 12 that caught my attention, "The 100 Greatest UK Number 1 Singles".

After having read the Rolling Stone shitlist, I decided I should check out The Guardian's list. I figured that they had nothing to particularly gain by hyping any acts, so at least I figured their criteria would be different. Jez had been doing a series featuring these #1 songs starting with Bill Haley & the Comets - "Rock Around the Clock", #100, November 18, 2020. The Ocober 12, 2022 post was #89. It was the Sugarbabes - "Freak Like Me".

I decided to peruse The Guardian list for myself just to see how bad it was. It was worse than I had imagined. Got to #78 before I found a song I'd ever listen to, so I  decided to make a compilation of any of the songs I deemed listenable IMO. After compiling the set, I was incredulous to realize that only one song was from the 21st Century. I went back over the original Guardian list. Only twenty-five of the 100 songs were even from this century. Those were from the likes of Beyoncé, Kylie Minogue, Lil Nas X, Carly Rae Jepsen, & their ilk.

The set I compiled follows the Law of Fives & the Sacred 23, The KLF - "3am Eternal. Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond had already written a book on how to have a No. 1 record, The Manual. Guess they took a page from their own playbook. After that the list is in descending order from #78, a song I've posted here before. "Something in the Air" - Thunderclap Newman. Then the last track is one of my all time favorite songs from the first band I ever saw live, The Four Tops. Great place to end this crazy side-trip. Flash back much? 

 

Various - The Guardian List, NØ Comp., 2022.

3am Eternal - The KLF, 1991, #23
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman, 1969, #78
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum, 1967, #75
Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine, 2009, #72
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners, 1982, #68
Tainted Love - Soft Cell, 1981, #52
Can the Can - Suzi Quatro, 1973, #47
Going Underground - The Jam, 1980, #39
You Really Got Me - The Kinks, 1964, #28
Bang a Gong (Get it On) - T Rex, 1971, #21
Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Drury & the Blockheads, 1979, #18
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis, 1957, #15
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson, 1983, #6
Ghost Town - The Specials, 1981, #2
Reach Out (I'll Be There) - The Four Tops, 1966, #40

Enjoy,

21 October 2022

Black Market Finds

 

Getting ready for All Hallow's Eve. Putting together some playlists & mixtapes for the occassion. Thought I'd post up some of the source material I'm sifting through. Start off light & try to get heavier as the mood develops. Here are a few shorts from Black Market Dub to begin.
 

These selections feature: Black Market - production, mixing, Dub, mastering,  guitar; & Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace - drums, with... Mired - production, synths, melodica, sampling & Wise Owl - bass, piano, organ, & percussion where noted.

Black Market in collaboration with Mired & Wise Owl bring you five Dub reggae songs themed after five different Twilight Zone episodes. 

 


The Obsolete Man
The Howling Man
Room Twenty-two
The Hitchhiker
Eye of the Beholder 

 



It took nearly 25 years for Twin Peaks: The Retutn. It took almost an entire year for this most recent Black Market Dub collection, Welcome to Twin Peaks, the ultimate Lynchian Dub nightmare. 

 


Twin Peaks Dub
Laura Palmer's Dub
Audrey's Dub
Nightengale Dub 
 
 
 


The Outer Limits of Dub is here. Pure, heavy, Jamaican dance music. This EP is full of UFOs, pandoras boxes, & intergalactic invaders of Dub. 
 

The Outer Limits of Dub
Zanti Dub
Dub 'til Doomsday
Dub with a Glass Hand
 
 
 
 
 

About this one,Black Market sez:
     "Happy October my fellow ghouls. This time Chudan & I bring you four remixes of the fabulous Phantasm soundtrack. If you haven't seen this movie, please put it on this month. It is a lost classic, up there with Halloween & all the other great 70s and 80s slashers.' 
 
 

Phantasm Dub (Black Market remix)
The Tall Man on Main Street (Chudan remix)
Mineshaft Chase (Chudan remix)
It's Never Over (Black Market remix)
 
 
 
 
 


About this one,Black Market sez:
     "You probably know I'm a freak about Halloween, so I had to deliver some spooky tunes for you. Dawn of The Dread is very loosely based on the film and its themes, but it features completely original music. I didn't think I could do much with the (perfect and amazing) original score by Goblin so Wise Owl & I made our own tunes." 
 

Dawn of the Dread
Destroy on Sight
Radio Chatter Dub
No More Room in Hell 


HOOOOOOOOOOOO!

19 October 2022

Bringing the Mothership in for a Landing on the Rock

What better place to end this segment of the on-going P-Funkafable than with Kidd Funkadelic himself, guitarist Michael Hampton. 

 



Micheal Hampton was tapped by George Clinton to fill the rather large gap left in the Funkadelic line-up with the departure of Eddie Hazel. EH quit the band to join The Temptations in 1974, prompted by both financial & drug-related issues. The band found itself in need of a lead guitarist that could match Hazel's amazing soloing, but could also restrain himself for long funk workouts. Although Eddie returned to the P-Funk fold in an on-again / off-again manner, Kidd Funkadelic was the full-time guitar slinger

Micheal was invited to join the Funkadelic family at an after party gig following the P-Funkadelic show at the Capitol Center in Landover, MD, 1974. Funkadelic alum Tiki Fullwood asked Micheal & his cousin (current P-Funk bassist Lige Curry) to play at the party. Michael so impressed George Clinton that he was asked to join the group. He was seventeen years old.

Hampton's first studio work was on Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out In...  Hampton made his Funkadelic debut with the classic album Let's Take it to the Stage in 1976, along with Garry Shider. His excellent guitar playing was evident throughout the album. The album was full of fuzzy, Hendrix inspired licks, wailing harmonics & rhythms that were also meant for the dancefloor.

Later that same year Funkadelic released Tales of Kidd Funkadelic. Enough said.

Heavy Metal Funkason is Hampton's only "true" solo release. Three years earlier he released the six track P-Funk Guitar Riffs for DJs which was, as the title states, a collection of P-Funk guitar riffs for DJ use. Heavy Metal Funkason is the real deal, showcasing the heavy guitar stylings of Hampton with some sweet hot Pfunk.

Heavy Metal Funkason is: Michael 'Kidd Funkadelic' Hampton - lead & rhythm guitar, keyboards, & synth bass; Lige Curry - bass & backing vocals; & Roger Parker (Dayton, OH famed drummer [Faze-O & Slave]) - drums with occasional vocals by George Clinton, Lige Curry, & Charlie Wilson (The Gap Band). 

 

Michael Hampton - Heavy Metal Funkason, P-Vine Records PCD-5355, 1998.
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Acappella Unsung Love Song (sloppy metal)
Sloppy Metal (unsung love song)
Me Anti?    
Tryin' to Get Out dis World Alive    
Heavy Metal Funkadelic    
Comebacksly
Club Metalfunkadelamack    
Cracked Up Soldier    
Wrongsididus    
Chronic Reggae    
Time to Get Up    
Duh Kidd Funkadelic Anthem
Backindadaze    
Girlz of duh World
Acappella Unsung Love Song (sloppy metal)

Funk out,

17 October 2022

To EXCESS!!

Was digging through a cardboard box of old writing scraps & came across this. Thought I'd share.

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10 March 94 - 7am

Motor City Steve is at the dawn door with a couple 40s. Just another day in hell. Prop open my right eyelid with a twist-off top. Grab a section of Steve's always present latest daily news. Got the obits. Great. I'll look & see if I made it to another day...

...but Bukowski didn't make it. San Pedro Penninsula Hospital 4 March 1994. 4pm.

Stumble awake-now but must-be-dreaming. Stagger to the phone. Make a few necessary calls. Fnord.

By now I've already decided to get stupid drunk. Hang up the phone & start to drink...not to drown any sadness nor to be "like Buk"...just want to have a good one for all the good ones he's given me. To say "I'll miss you, old man" to one typer extraordinaire.

But the drunk didn't happen until several night later after a gallery showing with free wine. Then later beer & Wild Turkey with Scott Free & sad poet friend F. Smella.

But the drunk didn't happen that 7am Motor City Steve obit Buk morning because daily life kept inseting bits of reality upon the tapestry of fantay that years of sharing Hank's wild times had painted in the instant my beer-cap propped open eye had scanned "Charles Bukowski Dead at 73, Poet Whose Subject was EXCESS!"

Was EXCESS!

I guess I somehow understand the oh-so twisted 'logic' of that be-here-now reality that I was forced to face that particular day. Sober & responsible. But it sucked.

Bye, Hank.

To EXCESS! 



If you'd like to download & hear another version of "The Most" from Bukowski in Dub, go here.

Enjoy,
NØ 

15 October 2022

Back on the Mothership Connection

 

Walter 'Junie' Morrison was lead singer, keyboardist, producer, & writer for the Ohio Players during the early 70s. He contributed to the hit albums Pain, Pleasure, & Ecstasy.  He was responsible for the chart-topping hit "Funky Worm".  He left Ohio Players in 1974 to pursue a solo career.

In 1977, Morrison linked up with George Clinton / Parliament-Funkadelic as the band's musical director.  He was only with them until 1980, but in that short time became the force behind smash records like One Nation Under a Groove, Motor Booty Affair, & Gloryhallastoopid.  He co-wrote one of the band's biggest hits, "(Not Just) Knee Deep".

Junie died on January 21, 2017. 

 

Junie Morrison - Evacuate Your Seats, ZE Records 90191-1, 1984.
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Side One -

Tease Me    
Show Me Yours    
Stick it In    
Gyrate    

Side Two -

Break 6
Driving in a Porsche
Techno-Freqs    
Here with You Tonight

Funk off,

14 October 2022

Prompted by Other Blogs, Part 4

I'm always cruising around the interweb, looking for interesting music. I'll see or hear something out there that sets me on a path. 

 

Every few days I check out Things & Time Will Tell blog. 

 



A few days ago I noticed a post titled "Sade at the Movies (for Beginners)". Being a career-long Sade fan, I was drawn in.

MM starts off:
     "Sade fans aren't impatient...their last studio release was 2010...I've never heard news, leaks, or promises of a new record coming despite the twelve year gap."

Well, there's this. Stuart Matthewman, multi-instumentalist, songwriter, & original member of Sade's band, told Rated R&B that the singer is back in the studio.
     "We're working on a new album with a bunch of songs fans will love."

MM went on:
     "There's been the occasional 'best of' compilation or vinyl reissue, but we haven't even seen 'deluxe edition' cash-ins packed with demo tracks & no compilations collecting the 12" edits, official remixes, or non-album B sides that are out there."

That set me on this path...

Presenting: a mix of B-sides & non-album tracks; a set of 'super deluxe' remixes; & a compilation of Sade in the House.

Let's start of with one taken from MMs post, "Killer Blow". 

 


Killer Blow
Should I Love You
Room 55
Spirit
Red Eye
Mum
Wired
Haunt Me
Love Affair with Life
Make Some Room
The Big Unknown
Flower of the Universe 

 

 

 

 


Every Word (Paul Helsby remix)
Cherish the Day (Ronin remix)
Why Can't We Live Together (Don Cerati's Color Blind remix)
Your Love is King (Dj Prince bootleg remix)
Stronger than Pride (Eli's No Idea original mix)
Flower of the Universe (No ID remix)
No Ordinary Love (Millok private remake)
Paradise (Pete Le Freq refreq)
Kiss of Life (Sohl's classic mix)
King of Sorrow (Fun Lovin' Criminals remix)
 
 
 
 

No Ordinary Love - Hazmat
I Never Thought I'd See the Day (house cafe mix) - OtherSoul
Hang On to Your Love (remake) -Sample Gee
Couldn't Love You More (special edit) - Spiritchasers
I Never Thought - Musk Men
Love is Stronger than Pride (edit) - Kaytra
Like a Tattoo (motel edit) - Conan Liquid Crates
Wae (refreak) - Dj Spinna
Pearls (rework) - ReelSoul
Nothing Can Come Bewteen Us (remix) - Alysha Kid

Enjoy,

13 October 2022

Still in a P-Funk Kinda Groove

Eramus Hall - Gohead features the Eramus Hall gang plus P-Funk All Stars musical director Garry Shide, P-Funk family member Gary Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy's Rubber Band, P-Funk All Stars, & Sweat Band vocalist Robert 'P-Nut' Johnson, P-Funk All Star Lige Curry, P-Funk Queen of Funk Mallia Franklin, & P-Funk & Brides of Funkenstein percussionist Larry Fratangelo. Production help from George Clinton.

Eramus Hall was named by George Clinton after seeing a building named "Eramus Hall" in Chicago. Their two albums, Your Love is My Desire & Gohead have a heavy post P-Funk vibe but it is their smooth soul sound combined with super tight jazz funk that really shines. 

EH are: Marvin Williams - guitar & vocals; Michael Gatheright - keyboards & vocals; Joe Anderson - bass & vocals; James Wilkerson - percussion, trumpet, & vocals; & Bernard Provost - drums. With Clip Payne - backing vocals, William Tillery - alto-sax, Grady Smith - trumpet & vocals.

Eramus Hall - Gohead, Capitol Records ST-12376, 1984.
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Side 1 -
I Can't Keep My Head
Stuck in the Mud
Freaky but Sneaky
Stir it Up

Side 2 -
Keep Me Burnin'
Checkin' You, Checkin' Yourself Out
Will You Love Me?
I Can't Keep My Head (reprise)

Enjoy,

12 October 2022

Music for My Brother Eddie Hazel --- Spacey T. Doing the Honors

More P-Funk connectivity.


Billy 'Bass' Nelson, original Funkadelic bassist along with P-Funker drummer Jerome 'Bigfoot' Brailey, Fishbone guitarist Spacey T. Singleton, P-Funky O.G. keyboardist Bernie Worrell, P-Funk family vocalist Gary Mudbone Cooper, with additional help from Bernard Fowler & Grandmaster Melle Mel. Produced by Bill Laswell doing that O.G. Funk thang with the gangsta funk-metal styling. 

I wanna know if it's good to ya, baby.

This work is dedicated to Eddie Hazel --- April 10, 1950 - December 23, 1992. R.I.P. Haze. 

 

O.G. Funk - Out of the Dark, Rykodisc (Black Arc series) RCD 10303, 1993.
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Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Funk in the House
Funkadelic Groupie
Music for My Brother
I've Been Alone
I Wanna Know
Don't Take Your Love Away from Me
Out of the Dark
Angie

Enjoy,


11 October 2022

U...& I & I

This one goes out to "Anon before". Praise.


Ya'll probably know Detroit music stalwart Joseph 'Amp' Fiddler. Productions, or keyboard work or singing or songwriting. Maybe from his years in both Funkadelic & Parliament (85-96). Maybe his work with Jamiroquai or Prince or Was (Not Was) or Fishbone.



This one has him teamed up with the Taxi two-some. Some FunkR'n'BSoulDub. Have a listen. 

 

Amp Fiddler / Sly & Robbie - Inspiration Information, Strut STRUT038CD, 2008.
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Crazy Day
Drama Inside
I Fell on the Wagon
U
Blackhouse (Paint the White House Black)
Be Alright
I Believe in You
Serious
Lonely
Vibrationship
Changes
This World

Enjoy,

10 October 2022

No Feminist, She’s an Individualist

Ranking Ann , the brilliant militant reggae MC was born Ann Swinton. Ranking Ann came to prominence as part of the Black Rock Posse sound system, playing in & around London. She began her recording career with an uncompromising debut, "Liberated Woman" which is featured here.

Ranking Ann in the Dancehall style with help from Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace, Jah Shaka, & Tony Benjamin aided in production by Mad Professor for that Dubby edge. I've got two versions of this one. One from 1991, the Ariwa re-release of their 1982 album. This one from 2003 with two bonus tracks. & as a favor to all I've added a second version of Rough Justice Dub. 

 

Ranking Ann - A Slice of English Toast reissue, RAS Records RAS 06076-89823-2, 2003.
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A Slice of English Toast
Black Rock Possee    
Problem Lady
Moonlight Lover    
Liberated Woman    
Love on a Mountain Top   
 
bonus tracks -   
Kill the Police Bill
Rough Justice Dub

bonus bonus track -
Rough Justice Dub 2  

Enjoy,

09 October 2022

Prompted by Other Blogs, Part 3

I'm always cruising around the interweb, looking for interesting music. I'll see or hear something out there that sets me on a path. 

 



I recently started checking out A Few Good Times in My Life blog since friend Jonder added it to his list over at jonderblog

 



The other day A Few Good Times featured Hadsworth Revolution by Steel Pulse.

 



Steel Pulse are one of the best UK reggae outfits ever. I included an expanded & remastered version of their Earth Crisis on a April 2018 post called Dubbin’ Me Now because of the great Dubs that were bonus tracks on that particular version. You can find it here.

Though basically a great roots reggae band, Steel Pulse have an extensive Dub catalogue, deep enough to whip up this compilation. 

 

Steel Pulse - In Dub, NØ Comp., 2022

Sound Check (Dub)
Dub to My Roots
Ku Klux Klan (Dub)
Revolution Dub (Take 1)
Prodigal Dub
"Dub" Marcus Say (Rally Dub)
Luv Nyah (Nyah Luv Dub)
Soldiers (Dub)
Nyahbinghi
Mansatta
Dubite
Maka Dub
Revolution Dub (Take 1 extended mix)
Prediction Dub (7" mix)
Mark of the Beast
Your House (Dub)
Chant Them in Dub
Dub Squad
"More Dub" Marcus Say
Prodigal Son Dub (Extended mix)
Revolution Dub (Tale 3)
Bad Man Dub (Take 1)
Taxi (dub)
A Who Responsible (Dub)

Enjoy,

08 October 2022

Butterfly Three Ways

Another one from Martin Glover on the LSD (Liquid Sound Design) label.


In the words of Wordsworth.

Dub Trees - Nature Never Did Betray the Heart that Loved Her, LSD BFLCD 42, 2000.
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Buffalo (Utterly Incredible too Long Ago Sometimes mix)
Cobalt Waterfall (Opalescent Dawn mix)
A Way of Being Free (Are You Sitting Comfortably Very Smooth, Very Peaceful mix)
Butterfly Trilogy (recorded by Suns of Arqa)
     a. Butterfly Trilogy I (Technicolour Sun)
     b. Butterfly Trilogy II (Starship Wadada)
     c. Butterfly Trilogy III (Sine Wave)
La Rosa (Live While You Live) [Messianic Dub mix]
Orpheus (Urban Primitive Dub mix)
Magnetica (The Love that Moves the Sun & Stars mix) with vocals by Zodiac Mindwarp
Dreamlab (Telescopic Dub Mix)
Concrete Tourist (Chalice Dub mix)
Freaks of Nature (Natural Dub mix) with original vocal recording produced by Adrian Sherwood
Return of the Native (Duir the Oak Dub)

Enjoy,

07 October 2022

Dread in the Zone

 

Dreadzone are contemporaries of UK acid-house era acts Leftfield, The Orb, & Massive Attack, but Dreadzone's roots reach back to Mick Jones's urban groove-oriented post-Clash act, Big Audio Dynamite.

Writer, producer, DJ, drummer, programmer, sample addict, & Head Dread Greg Roberts started as B.A.D's first drummer in 1984. When B.A.D. morphed into Big Audio Dynamite II in 1990, Greg, along with the rest of the original group: keyboardist Dan Donovan; bassist Leo Williams; & sounds-effects operator Don Letts left & went on together to form Dreadzone.

Here's a compilation I put together from singles & EPs. 

 


Fight the Power (original mix)
Captain Dread (single edit)
Little Britain
Zion Youth (Dreadzone mix)
Life, Love, & Unity (Ninety Six mix)
Earth Angel (album version)
King Dub Rock (in the Party)
Gangster
Fight the Power (Dreadzone Dub)
Little Britain (More Rocker mix)
Zion Youth (Digidub mix)
Life, Love, & Unit (Drumhead mix)
Earth Angel (William Orbit mix)
Gangster (She is Danger remix)

Enjoy,

06 October 2022

The Sky is on Fire

 

A collaboration between members of Dub Trees, The Orb, Suns of Arqa, Tangerine Dream, Dreadzone and Uri Geller. Inspired by the Kumba Mela gathering which is held every four years by the River Ganges. 

 

The Kumba Mela Experiment - East of the River Ganges, Liquid Sound Design bFLCd51, 2001.
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East of the River Ganges (Mango in My Flute mix) with Dub Judah & Brother Culture.
Elephant Trax (Hammer to the Nail Dub) with Youth (Martin Glover) & Brother Culture.
Cleaning Fluid (Druids, Dreads, & Sadhus mix) withYouth & Uri Geller.
Spiritual Journey (Mother’s Milk edit) with Youth.
The Kumba Mela (Himalayan Dub) withYouth.
Life After Death (Glass Key Dub) with Youth, Wandal, Shani, & Uri Geller.
That Which I Could Only Sense (Phoenix Dub) with Youth, Darren Evans, & Brother Culture
Interstellar Hiss (Sky is on Fire Dub) withYouth, &Yoad Nevo.
Be Conscious (On Namai & Shiveye mix) with Suns of Arqa, She Shiva Sellase Sound System,  Nick Manasseh & Brother Culture.
Outro (Don't Want to Lose Your Love Dub edit) with Youth & the Great Late T. McK (shahman Terence McKenna).

Enjoy,

05 October 2022

DAT DUB

Iration Steppas meet D. Rootical - Original Dub D.A.T., Iration Steppas ISCD 005, 1996.
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Lightning Dub
Fear Not    
Running Away (remix)    
Scud Missile (remix)    
Untold Melody    
Kilimanjaro (remix)    
Akasha    
Reminiscence Dub    
Brain Damage    
Zulu Tribe    
Remove Ya    
High Rise Vibration (remix)    
Lightning (Pieces like Rice Grain mix)    
International Footstep (remix)    
Way Down in a Babylon (remix)

Enjoy,


04 October 2022

Old or New Millenium...Dub It!

Manasseh meets the Equaliser - Dub the Millenium, Acid Jazz JAZID 106CD, 1994.
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Absentee
Shakout
Spirit Dance
Market Place
Circle of Stone    
East   
Wikkaman
Aquarius    
One Small Step
Millennium
Souljah    
Surface Tension

Enjoy,

03 October 2022

More On-U While I’m at It

Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Makumba Rock 10" discoplate, On-U Sound ON-U DP62, 2019.

Side A1 -
Makumba Rock (extended Discoplate version)

Side AA1 -
Heaven & Hell

Always Rainford,

01 October 2022

Some Dub for Oct. One Small Step at a Time

Here's one that doesn't show up often. 

Adrian & Skip doing their thing with Revolutionary Dub Warriors. 

The Revolutionary Dub Warriors sound is that of raw roots reggae dubbed up in their own unique way. The band use live drums, bass, & percussion but also use electronic effects & instruments to enhance the mesmerising effect of their music.

 

For this release, Revolutionary Dub Warriors are three Steves & a Rich: Rich Paterson - keyboards; Steve Swan - bass; Steve Taylor - percussion, & Steve Cruickshank - drums. 

 

Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Reaction Dub Part 1: Deliverance, On-U Sound ON-U CD68, 1994.
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Walkabout
Centenary Dub    
Industrial    
Mystic    
Dread    
Mount Uhuru    
Dub the E    
Squat    
One Drop    
Industrial (version 2)    
Warrior

You all probably know Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser. Neil Fraser? You know...Mad Professor. Dub man extraordinaire from Guyanna. You've heard him on his own or teamed up with Scratch , Ruts DC, Yabby You, Mafia & Fluxy, Massive Attack. He runs Ariwa. He's  been laying down the rock-solid Dub since 1982s Beyond the Realms of Dub (Dub Me Crazy! The Second Chapter). So??? Dubstep???

I never really got into Dubstep much.

Wonderful Wiki sez:
 
     “Dubstep is a genre of dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. It is generally characterised by sparse, syncopated rhythmic patterns with prominent sub-bass frequencies. The origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican Sound System scene drawing on a lineage of Dub.”

I loved Dub in its true form. I love 20th Century Dub. I love 21st Century Dub. So leave it to the Mad one himself to conjour up The Roots of Dubstep. You’ve got to listen to this one. This shit rocks! 

 

Mad Professor - The Roots of Dubstep, Ariwa ARICD 245, 2011.

Jail House Dub    
Slave Catcher    
Inverted Minds    
Why You Treat Me so Bad?    
Spa Dub    
Firm Roots    
Tribal Ground    
Return of Mandinka    
Open Dub Door    
Concrete Bunker    
Costa Chica    
Battle of Juffre

Enjoy,