Prompted by My Last Post

Here's a match made in musickal heaven...

The idea for this session came about following the tragic passing of Andrew Weatherall & then an incredible show in Manchester featuring Dub maestro Adrian Sherwood a few days later. At the start of the evening Adrian paid touching tribute to Andrew Weatherall, friend & oft-times collaborator.

This mix celebrates those connections with selections from both producers that span nearly 40 years from squelchy Dub in the early 80s through to deep electronica from 2020. The pallet of both producers is vast. The session features both of their work with Primal Scream, as well as Dub to pulsing floor fillers. The commonality here is heavyweight bass.

Mixed by Gentleman Kush.

 

Sherwood x Weatherall – Dub Electroniks, 2020

Brain Damage (Adrian Sherwood & Jazzwad remix) - Easy Star Allstars
JU-87 - Primal Scream
Boys Outside (Andrew Weatherall Dub 1) - Steve Mason
Here Come the Warm Dreads (featuring Brian Eno) - Lee “Scratch” Perry
Ravi Shankar - Dub Syndicate
Higher than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts) - Primal Scream
Two Semi Tones & a Raver - Adrian Sherwood
Wilmot meets Lord Scruffage - Sabres of Paradise
Wilmot - Sabres of Paradise
UK All Stars in Dub (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Congo Natty
Loaded (Andy Weatherall mix) - Primal Scream
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Weatherall’s ‘A Mix in Two Halves’ remix) - St Etienne
Late Flowering Dub - Asphodells
Release the Pressure (Adrian Sherwood mix) - Leftfield
Unknown Plunderer (Radioactive Man remix) - Andrew Weatherall
Ribcage (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Dubfire
The Only Redeemer (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Noiseshaper
Direct Action (Weatherall remix) - Radical Majik
Glide by Shooting - Two Lone Swordsmen

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work: N - Noiseshaper

 

As I've stated before when I reopened this can of worms --- 2015 --- at the time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work". It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever.

 

Noiseshaper is a Dub/reggae duo formed in 2000 in Austria, now based in Berlin, Germany made up of Florian Fleischmann & Axel Hirn. Their music incorporates Dub, conventional reggae, electronic music, & numerous other genres.

This one from Noiseshaper is on the Echo Beach label, arguably the greatest German Dub label. It was founded in 1996 by Nicolai Beverungen, label manager for On-U Sound & Crammed Discs Germany. Recorded at On-U Sound Studio, London & deftly mixed, Dubbed, & over-Dubbed by Adrian Sherwood. 

 

Noiseshaper - Real to Reel, Echo Beach EB059, 2006.
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Vice Vanity (Noiseshaper remix)
Me Done (Noiseshaper remix)
The Creator
Love to the Rhythm
Rise
You Take Control
The Only Redeemer
Jah Dub
Moving Together
All a Dem a Do
Dunk
Bushmaster (Kid Kenobi Session remix)
Walls of Silence (TV5 remix)
Fire fe Me Roots (Automatic Real to Reel edit)
Wake Up
Rough out There (Tokyo Tower remix)

Enjoy,
N

Musick that Needed Work: N - Nils Landgren

 

As I've stated before when I reopened this can of worms --- 2015 --- at the time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work". It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever.

The Man with the Red Horn - Nils Landgren

Born in 1956, Nils Landgren began playing drums at the age of six, before finally discovering the trombone at age 13. Between 1972 & 1978 Nils studied classical trombone at the music college in Karlstad with David Maytan , as well as at the University in Arvika with Ingemar Roos.

After his graduation Nils moved to Stockholm to work as a professional trombone player.
He was soon touring with the most successful Swedish pop star of that time, Björn Skifs who got to #1 in the US pop charts with "Hooked on a Feeling". In 1981 Thad Jones invited the Nils to join his new big band project Ball of Fire as lead trombone.

During his career, Nils Landgren has been involved in many musical styles: jazz, rock, soul, hip-hop, Big Band, funk...by his own reckoning, hundreds of albums including such international stars as ABBA, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Wyclef Jean, Herbie Hancock, Ray Parker Jr., & more

In 1992 Nils formed the Unit which in 1994 became The Funk Unit. Numerous albums came out of this Funk Unit & Nils created Funk for Life, teaming up with Doctors Without Borders, contributing one Euro of every unit sold. In 2007 Nils Landgran Funk Unit released their eighth funk album Licence to Funk teaming up with Ray Parker Jr.

Here's NLFU's second paring with Ray...

 

Nils Landgren Funk Unit with Ray Parker Jr. – Unbreakable, ACT9039-2, 2017.
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Unbreakable
Just a Kiss Away
Get Down on the Funk
Friday Night
Stars in Your Eyes
Rockin' after Midnight
Soulchild
Old School
NLFU Funk
Bow Down

Enjoy,
N

Musick that Needed Work: N - Natural Self

 

As I've stated before when I reopened this can of worms --- 2015 --- at the time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work". It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever. 

 

Natural Self is the ongoing project of producer, vocalist, & DJ Nathaniel Pearn. Originally inspired by the rhythmic force of The Bomb Squad, hip hop was the primary influence on his first forays into music before crate digging culture shed light on a whole new range of influences from funk to soul, jazz, latin, & electronica. 2008 saw Pearn releasing his highly anticipated album entitled The Art of Vibration. 

 

Natural-Self - The Art of Vibration, Tru Thoughts TRUCD162, 2008.
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Introduction   
Welcome to the Ascension   
The Rising
In the Morning
Alright Turn it Up Now   
Faultlines   
Breathe Deep
Ghost in the Machine   
The Crush   
The Laws of Motion   
Feet Keep Moving   
Another Land   
Alexander & Gabriel

 

 

 

 

In 2009 Natural Self released My Heart Beats like s Drum featuring guest vocal spots from French singer Elodie Rama. 

 

Natural Self - My Heart Beats like a Drum, Tru Thoughts TRUCD199, 2009.

The Shock You Heard   
Days Get Brighter
Every Day
Believer
Midnight Sun
Even Planets Get Lonely   
All Static   
My Heart Beats like a Drum
Our Lives are Like Waveforms, Changing Through Time
The Origin

 

 

 

 

Natural Self released Neon Hunts My Eyes in 2012. This release brings a change of direction for Pearn to a more straight forward singer-songwriter style for the first time, at the same time keeping his well honed production skills & his trademark killer rhythms. Beat-heavy & with synths aplenty, this is electronic music with warmth, energy, & heart. It has a sense of being at once futuristic & at the same time nostalgic as it explores themes of technology, the environment, the passing of time, & our place in the world.

 

Natural Self - Neon Hurts My Eyes, Tru Thoughts TRUCD250, 2012.

Metropolis   
Red Wire Blue Wire   
Machine   
Take it Back   
Pulsar   
An Invisible Light   
In a World
Mirror to the Sky
Kingdom   
O Superman (Laurie Anderson cover)
The Valleys
Paper Skyline

Enjoy,
N

Musick that Needed Work: N - Night Glitter

As I've stated before when I reopened this can of worms --- 2015 --- at the time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work". It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever. 

 

Night Glitter is a psychedelic synth-pop duo from Austin, Texas comprising John Michael Schoepf - guitar, bass, & vocals & LouLou Ghelichkhani - synthesizers, Farfisa organ, & vocals. You may recognise the name LouLou Ghelichkhani as I have shared her before as one of the female vocalists with Thievery Corporation. Guest here include Adrian Quesada on guitar, Charlie Sexton on drums, & a host of other Austin notables. This is their only releas to date.

Night Glitter - Night Glitter, Nine Mile Records NMR 0461, 2020.
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Side a -
Higher
Transparency (La Transparence)
Music for Clouds
Hanging on a Dream
Blame Game

Side B -
Space
Radio (Tous Vas)
Static
Tunnels (Serpentine)

Enjoy,
N

Musick that Needed Work: N - Noel Ellis

As I've stated before when I reopened this can of worms --- 2015 --- at the time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work". It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever.

Noel Ellis is the son of legendary Studio One/Treasure Isle recording artist Alton Ellis.

This self-titled debut was recorded in Toronto in 1979 by studio wizard Jerry Brown for the pioneering Summer Records, Canada's answer to Lee Perry's Black Ark Studios. This platter is the third release in the Summer Records Jamaica to Toronto seven album series.

This self-titled features six Dub-influenced, heavy yet ethereal tracks with contributions from OG reggae maestros Jackie Mittoo, Willi Williams, & Johnny Osbourne. "Rocking Universally" is rhythmically influenced by Willi Williams' "Armagideon Time" (covered by The Clash).

Here tasteful keys, varied percussion, essential echo, Dub changeovers along with Noel's impeccable mic control gives an otherworldly twist to Summer's remarkable drum & bass sound. 

Sez to be: "an end-to-end burner for midnight tokers & cool rulers alike".

 

Noel Ellis - Noel Ellis,Summer Records SR114, 1983.
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Side A -
To Hail Selassie
Stop Your Fighting
Rocking Universally

Side B -
Marcus Garvey
Dance with Me
Memories

Enjoy,
N

Musick that Needed Work: N - Nash the Slash

Back to a Series I Started in 2015 

 

As I've stated before when I reopened this can of worms --- 2015 --- at the time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work". It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever. In the eight & a half years since I started this, I have finished through letter M.

December 5, 2023 I once more tackled this task. Dial M for Music. I made myself a promise that I'd make my way through to the end in some timely fashion. The problem is, I keep adding musick that needs work to this folder, so although I've moved onward through the alphabet, the letters I come to now keeping having more items than when I began. Such is mania.

Well, here’s N. Up first is Nash the Slash... 

 

Nash the Slash - In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash, Cut-Throat Records CUT9CD, 2008.
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Astronomy Domine
21st Century Schizoid Man
Animal Magnetism
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Baba O'Riley
Follow the Leaders
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Constantinople

Enjoy,
N

The Naterock Album Dump Part 7

 

Continuing on with part seven of a continuing series, 1980 - 1981. Remember, a .zip file marked simply Albums List will be included in each dump, so you can decide from that what you want or simply reference the list below (& with each posting).

Naterock Album Dump Part 7

Part One -

1980
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
Waiting for a Miracle - The Comsat Angels
Los Angeles - X
Sandinista - The Clash
Songs the Lord Taught Us - The Cramps
Nobody’s Heroes - Stiff Little Fingers
The Nuns - The Nuns
New Clear Days - The Vapors

1981
T.S.O.L. - T.S.O.L.
Prayers on Fire - The Birthday Party
Damaged - Black Flag
Punks Not Dead - The Exploited
Solid Gold - Gang of Four

Enjoy,
NØ

Three Epics - Part Six: Zen Takes Control

 

In 2006, Zenzile teamed up with fellow French Dubsters High Tone (from Lyon, France) to release Zentone. High Tone is another instrumental Dub group (guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, & turntables) that like Zenzile, breaks all the boundaries that separate Dub from electronic music, ethnical, world music influences. with jungle intros, Oriental samples, beats & scratches that broadens the already fluid borders of Zenzile.

 

Zenzile meets High Tone - Zentone, Jarring Effects FX054CD, 2006.
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The Source
Zentown
Crash Test
Dub Invaders
Organ Gift
Pulse Weed
Breathe
Deeper
The Drop
Wide Screen

 

 

 

 

2007s Living in Monochrome is a guitar-driven extravaganza of electro-Dub punk rock. It lives up to is name with stark black & white sound with fifty shades of grey. Numerous guest vocalists add to the splendor including regulars David Alderman, Jamika Ajalon, & Jean Gomis joined by the likes of Paul St. Hilaire & Tricky. This one is truly epic.

 

 

Zenzile - Living in Monochrome, UWe - UWe 234, 2007.

Still Can't Sleep
All Day Breakfast
Rising Fist
Reflection
Sham
Giant Undertow
Pipe Dream 1
Who's for Real
Offshore
A Quest
Demon Inside
Pipe Dream 2
Last Drink on Earth

 

 

 

 

Following Living in Monochrome, Zenzile expanded their sound in numerous sound experiments: (Pawnshop - pop); (Electric Soul - soul); (Berlin - film soundtrack); (Elements - audio-visual installation). I will explore those four in a further edition featuring this great band. But for now, I'm missing the Zenzile Dub. What began as Dub became broad & cinematic, with the band dabbling in rock, progressive, electro, new wave, funk-punk or krautrock until Dub had almost completely disappearred on the 2017s Elements release. But Elements was the final stage of a long enriching musical exploration because by straying too far from Dub Zenzile ended up missing the Dub they truly loved. 

 

Zenzile sez: 

     "We want to dive back into uninhibited, fresh & danceable Dub. A pure & hard Dub à la original Zenzile. We have come full circle & are ready with a host of new riddims & a slogan that could not be clearer: DUB UNLIMITED."

First they released a new addition to their 5+1 series with guest vocalist Jayree, a classic JA style set of five vocal tracks followed by their versions. Next was a trad vocal/Dub pairing set, this time teaming up with Irie Ites featuring Trinity. More recently, Zenzile has teamed up with High Tone again for another Zentone album. Here's that second meeting...

 

 

 

High Tone meets Zenzile - Zentone Chapter 2, Jarring Effects FX157-CD, 2021.

Dub Migration
Dub Revolution
Counter Strike Dub
Disobey
Dub Parade
Hilltop Dub
Open Gate
Stone Cold Dub
Hotter than Hot
Cursed by Dub

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Three Epics - Part Five: Zile Under Zed

 

Zenzile is a Dub band from Angers, France formed in 1996. They took their name from the famous South African poet & anti-apartheid activist, Zenzile Miriam Makeba. The band is made up of, at various times, Alexandre Raux, Erik Sevret, Javier Maillet, Jean Christophe Wauthier, Matthieu Bablee, & Vincent Erdeven. 

Dub is usually an instrumental style, but the musicians of Zenzile are well-known for their leftist politics & often give voice to their beliefs lyrically with regular guest singers Jamika Ajalon, David Alderman, & Jean Gomis. 

Zenzile is a forerunner in the French 21st Century Dub movement but their style is unique, incorporating rock, electronics, punk, soul jazz, even folk. Always riddim driven, each new release focuses on the bands musically superb talents. One never knows what an upcoming Zenzile release will sound like other than that it will be great.

In 1998, Zenzile self-released their debut, a four song EP Dub Promozione to introduce themselves to the world.

Zenzile - Dub Promozione, Zenzile self-released, 1998.
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Amor y Coning
Nexus6
Long Ride
Amor y Coning (alternate take)

 

 

 

 

The following year they released their debut full-length on Crash Disques.

 

 

Zenzile - Sachem in Salem, Crash Disques CRASH CD 22, 1999.

Dub Trooper   
Dub Vendetta   
Single Shot   
Pyrrhus Victory   
H-Air   
Alkaline O.D.   
Pumpin'   
Warning   
Sachem in Salem

 

 

 

 

 

Jumping ahead to 2002s Totem, it was released on Small Axe & is more indie rock influenced Dub, true to Zenzile's exquisite musical vision while reaching out to touch on sounds the band loved.

 

 

Zenzile - Totem, Small Axe...Small 028, 2002.

Pandora's Box
Smell the Roses
Morning Daylight
Open
Anti Bass Neighbourhood
Change
Close
Axis of Evil
Western Addict
She Landed Here
Lacrima

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Three Epics - Part Four: Drop 2...The Elusive Fame

 

Even with the limited European release, increasing numbers of people were listening. Band friends Leftfield had been checking their releases. Paul Daley suggested that Pressure Drop sign to Leftfield's Hard Hands label. Tearing the Silence EP was released in 1995. Tearing the Silence gained widespread respect, enough to land a deal with Columbia's British club culture Higher Ground sublabel & the release of Pressure Drop's critically acclaimed third album, 1997s Elusive. The writing was on the wall.

 

Pressure Drop - Elusive, Higher Ground/Hard Hands, 1997.
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Intro    
Writing on the Wall
Got to Be for Real
Silently Bad Minded
Foetus
My Friend
Let Me Be Me
Uh Oh
Darkness
Don't Run Away (extended version)
Dusk
Sounds of Time
Obsessed
The Road
End of the Road

 

 

 

 

Pressure Drop's music was born out of a musical fusion reflecting the multi-ethnic culture the duo  both grew up with in London during a golden age in 20th century music. They could be considered in the vanguard of early 1990s music makers alongside other luminaries such as Massive Attack or Smith & Mighty, Their last sound venture was the 2001s Tread, recorded for Columbia after the duo had moved to Brighton. This is the warrior sound!

 

 

 

Pressure Drop - Tread, Columbia 499584 2, 2001.

PD-on-Sea    
Warrior Sound    
Hip Hop Fanatic    
Senorita    
Unconditional    
The Spiral Stare    
Promises    
Rhudeboy Rhapsody    
Raise Up    
Funkee Joint    
Freak Show    
Take My Hand    
Spirit Shine

 

 

 

 

Enjoy an epic tale,
NØ

Three Epics - Part Three: Pressure 1

The second group covered by Three Epics in this series is Pressure Drop & the musical partnership of Justin Langlands / Dave Henley. I intimated about this part in a post last month, No Pressure. 

 

 

In the late 80s & early 90s in many parts of the UK, illegal rave warehouse parties were combining bass/drum throbbing Dub with scratchy blues dance grooves & hip-hop beats to create a new sound. Mutual friend DJ Paul Guntrip enlisted Dave & Justin to play their eclectic selection of funk, soul, hip-hop, rap, reggae, early house, & film soundtracks at his Heavy Duty night in the Wag Club, London.

After some sampladelic garage singles, Pressure Drop released their first album, 1992s Upset. Upset was written, recorded, produced, & mixed between 1990-1991, in a rented room situated in a house near Ladbroke Grove, London, which was used by the independent record company Big World as offices. It consisted of an intro, an outro, & 11 full tracks featuring six guest vocalists including performances by Joanna Law, the sister of Simon Law who played piano with Soul to Soul; Mark Cornell, who later formed the band Sunchilde; & Rob Gallagher/Constantine Weir of Galliano; with Paul Daley, co-founder of Leftfield on percussion alongside saxophonist Scott Garland & jazz trumpet player Gerard Presencer.

The album was licensed from Big World but due to an unfortunate business situation it was only released in Germany, Austria & Switzerland on Boombastic Records. Later that year Logic Records licensed it, releasing a limited number of copies in the UK as a double 12" vinyl format.

 

Pressure Drop - Upset, Boombastic Records LP 212 040, 1992.
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Side A (Other Side) -        
Intro    
You're Mine
Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow
Big Noise    
The Gardener
Gotta Make it Home
I'm Your Fool

Side B (This Side) -
Nice Touch
Groove Me
Spirits Fall
People Shall Govern
Back2Back
Outro

 

 

 

 

1993s Front Row suffered the same fate as Upset & was only released in the same rather more forward thinking G.A.S. territories.

 

 

Pressure Drop - Front Row, Marlboro Music MRO 8735-2, 1993.

Call to Service    
Unify    
Symptom    
Nice Up the Area    
Running    
Wake Up the Minds
Souls of the City
Dreams
Mmmnn    
A to Z    
Mindless Games
Looking for a Life
Legacy    
After the Storm

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Three Epics - Part Two: Ella 2...the Killer & Beyond

Salmonella Dub - Killervision, Salmonella Dub 07243 847608 2 3, 1999.
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Dragon    
For the Love of It    
Drifting    
Crazy 80's    
Peyote Dub    
Justice    
Johnny    
No Worries 2000    
Savage    
Kaikoura Rim

 

 

Salmonella Dub - One Drop East, Virgin 7243 592471 2 0,2003.

Longtime    
Slide    
Dancehall Girl    
Nu Steppa
Dub Survivor    
Ez On    
Octopus    
Simmer Down    
Pure
Bubble

 

 

Here's one last release from Salmonella Dub, Remixes & Radio Cuts with some remixes from some of my faves, Mad Professor, Dreadzone, Adrian Sherwood. Thought this would be a good dropping off point. The band has many other offerings & all are great listens. Check them out... 

 

Salmonella Dub - Remixes & Radio Cuts, Dub Conspiracy 6151004508, 2005.

Conspiracy Dub    
Drifting (radio cut)    
Push on Thru (Adrian Sherwood remix)
Savage (Fibre mix)
For the Love of It (David Harrow radio cut)    
Tui Dub (Mad Professor remix)
Outdoor Stylez    
Wytaliba (Dreadzone remix)
Ez On (Concord Dawn remix)
Tha Bromley East Roller (LP version)    
Longtime featuring YT (Sativa Records Crew remix)
Platetectonics (Fattyboom Groove Corp remix)
Mercy (DJ Mu remix)
Orbital (Yasmin Makes Me Feel Good mix)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Three Epics - Part One: Salmon 1

Today I am starting a six part series sharing the works of three different bands. Each of the three is difficult to pigeon-hole into a particular genre. They each have their own unique styles that have created epic aural works.

All three are adjacent to Dub in some ways & that brought them to my attention over the years. While some bands stick to one recognizable style throughout their career (which can be good or bas) & some bands wear numerous guises (which can be bad or good), these three all speak through a voice true to their talents without falling into repetition.

I will try to begin at their beginnings with the sounds that first caught my ears & then travel through their wonderous diversity. All I can say is plunge in anywhere, beginning, middle, or end. Listen in any order you deem suitable to your mood. But most of all, Enjoy.

The first group in this series is Salmonella Dub.

Last Dubtember I began the month with two of their Dub Plate offerings, which you can find here.

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Salmonella Dub is a Dub outfit from Christchurch, New Zealand formed in 1992 by members of Golf Course Alligators. GCA would use lighthearted Dub covers of Nancy Sinatra, The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds, Public Enemy, even Fred Daggs "Larry Loves Barry" to win over skeptical audiences. They took the name Salmonella Dub because of these "bad-taste" Dub cover versions. At the time in New Zealand, Dub/roots/reggae freak-outs weren't in vogue. Grunge & dance music held sway. In the early 90s, New Zealand's liquor licensing laws changed, allowing pubs & clubs to stay open late, totally revitalizing the country's live music scene. The members of Golf Course Alligators (Andrew Penman - guitar, Mark Tyler - bass, & Dave Deakins -drums) officially became Salmonella Dub. In the early days they lacked money for cassettes so they raided the bins of a record store, finding discarded copies of things like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles albums to serve as their early tape stock.

Dub for Straights is an early self-released  CD from Salmonella Dub. All tracks were recorded live at Bob's Magic Carpet Studios in August 1993 except ''Reggi Flute'' recorded live at the Dux de Luxe 10/03/1993 & ''We the Dub Yore'' recorded in 1994. David Wernham, the band's engineer tidied up versions recovered off old cassettes & put them out on CD.

 

Salmonella Dub - Dub for Straights, self-released DUBCON0030, 1994.
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Cinncinati Kid    
Dub for Straights    
Shabba Dub    
John Banks    
Horses Arse    
We the Dub Yore    
Regi Flute

 

 

 

 

To prepare for their first, self-titled album in 1994, Peter Wood - trumpet, keyboard & Conan Wilcox - saxophone, percussion were invited to join the band. Salmonella Dub was released through the independent label Curious Records.

 

 

Salmonella Dub - Salmonella Dub, Curious Recordings, 1994.

Orbital    
Cock the Roach    
Trumpet Dub    
Cincinnati Kid    
Wee the Dub Yore
Orbital (Yasmin Dub)    
Pigmy    
Pukaki    
Meantime    
Chuff    
Ceremonial Dub    
Industry in Africa    
The Final Calling    
Bad Acid Hysteria    
Chuff the House    
Lost Soul (Acid Dub)    
bonus tracks -
More Dub Crazy    
Final Out

 

 

 

 

Following quickly from this album the band released Dub Tom Foolery, a 7 track EP mixed by Mike Hodgson of Pitchblack.

 

Salmonella Dub - Dub Tom Foolery EP, Curious Recordings CD002, 1995.

Panza    
Daisy Fields (Part 1 & 2)    
Tom Foolery    
Panza Dub    
Dub for Straights    
Orbital (Projector mix)
Sundeck Dakking

Enjoy,
NØ

Smeg II: Wiping Off the Rest

Here's a full length from the same year as the lat 7". 

 

Smegma - Ism, Tim/Kerr Records TK92CD027. 1993.
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Tickner's Hideaway
Emergency Plan "B"   
Exterminate   
Hoedad
Rock it Harder   
Jungle Nausea   
Walkie-Talkie   
It's Going Good
Modern Living   
Magnifying Glass
Prattle
3 BHit   
Voxx (Wild mix)   
Exotic Hayride   
Flashback

 

 

 

 

33 1/3 is Smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde out-jazz influences. The title references both the revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century & also Smegma's celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being one of the most free thinking original American underground groups.

 

Smegma - 33 1/3, Important Records IMPERC137, 2007.

Percrash   
Glossolalia   
Antics   
World of Plugs
The Door   
Not Right   
Up There

 

 

 

 

 

With the release of Mirage, Smegma has recorded a stunning masterpiece with four of the original members (Ju Suk Reet Meate, Donkey Flybye, Ace Farren & Oblivia) working together again for the first time in many years, keeping alive their unique brand of old school primitive, avant/garage music. The CD was recorded at a Smegma house party in Portland, September 25, 2010 & includes a bonus 1974 original Pasadena unreleased recording.

 

Smegma - Mirage, Important Records imprec311, 2010.

World of My Own   
Mirage   
F-85 Turborocket   
Oh Yeh   
That Party of Wales   
Quiet on the Set Rioux I (March 16,1974 previously unreleased)

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Smeg 1: Dripping with Smegma

As I mentioned in the cheese-like post from last month, I've got plenty of Smegma & I'm not ashamed to admit in. In fact, I'm willing to share it with you here. 

 

Smegma was founded in Pasadena, California in 1973, but moved to Oregon two years later. At the onset, they were part of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). LAFMS formed in the 1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective & multimedia publishing vehicle. Originally started by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe Potts, & Rick Potts, soon joined by Tom Recchion of Doo-Dooettes, LAFMS incorporated free improvisation, modular synthesizers, tape music, sampling, musique concrète, homemade instruments, noise, mail art. & avant-rock in permissive anarchic sessions at the Raymond Building & at Poo-Bah Record Shop in old Pasadena. 

 

Poo-Bah Records, with its import bins & backroom jam space, attracted the pseudonymous artists forming the initial incarnation of long-running collective Smegma. Early members Ju Suk Reet Meate, Dennis Duck, Cheez-it Ritz, Big Dirty, Amazon Bambi, & Dr. Id contributed to various LAFMS compilations & combos before several core members relocated to Portland, where they recorded their debut album Glamour Girl 1941. 

 

Smegma - Glamour Girl 1941, Los Angeles Free Music Society LAFMS#08, 1979.
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Side A -
Difference
1980 A.R. (After Radiation)
Prowing Nose
Die Wo-Wo

Side B -
I am Not Artist
Ladies Nite at the "Ortho Lounge"
Half a Billion

 

 

 

 

Beyond its roots in LAFMS, Smegma would help shape the early Portland punk scene in the late 70s alongside Wipers & Neo Boys. Back then, virtually nobody thought it was cool to be in a band made up primarily of non-musicians, much less one that combined fried free improv moves with nods to straight 1950s rock & roll.

Ju Suk Reet Meate sez:
     "If we played at a party in the 1970s, there would be a riot. People would hate us, and be physically threatening! People didn't put up with weirdo shit."

Here are a few singles... 

 

Smegma - The Whey/Fish Story 7", Ignorance is Bliss Bliss 3, 1991.

Side A - The Whey
Side B - Fish Story

 

 

 

 

Smegma - Boils & Carbuncles/Found & Lost 7", Tim/Kerr Records TK917-007, 1991

Side A - Boils & Carbuncles
Side B - Found & Lost 

Smegma - Thicket 7", Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI169, 1993.

Side A - Thicket
Side B - Vox

 

 

 

Smegma pt. 2 tomorrow.

Enjoy,
NØ