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21 September 2024

Sound Systember 21

Mungo’s Hi Fi
 
 



Mungo's Hi Fi was begun by Glaswegians Doug Paine (Dougie No Pain) & Tom Tattersall (Tommy Danger) in the waning years of the last Century. Both were deejays. Upon discovering the Blood & Fire reissue albums, they turned their attention to Dub & original Roots music. At that time they deejayed as the Dub Dentist, an alliterative nod to Keith Hudson. When they started Mungo's Hi Fi, the only other Sound System around Glasgow was Rampant Sound. Doug & Tom hooked up with them as they had already an extensive Sound System. The duo helped pass out flyers & promote events for Rampant. Through this teamwork, Doug & Tom learned the basics of running a Sound System. By 2000 they had enough equipment to set up their own small Sound. Their first speaker were being thrown away by the University of Glasgow theater department. After some new drivers & some tender loving care, they became the core of Mungo’s Hi Fi. Those lasted for years.

 

Various - Mungo’s Hi Fi Sound System Champions, Rockers Revolt RRHITCD5, 2009.
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Divorce a l'Italienne featuring Marina P
Don't Let Them Break Your Heart featuring Kenny Knots
Herbalist featuring Top Cat
How You Bad So? featuring Ranking Joe
Under Arrest featuring MC Ishu
Old Time Dance featuring Mikey Murka
Ruff Mi Tuff featuring Tippa Irie
Rasta Meditation featuring Kenny Knots
Rooster featuring Aya Faith
Songs of Zion featuring Ras Charmer
Around the World featuring Suncycle
Did You Really Know featuring Soom T
 
 
 
 

Craig McLeod (Craigy Wonder) joined the crew around 2000. New blood helped keep things fresh, but just as Irration Steppas & the whole new flood of UK Dub creators, there was the need to start with the original Roots reggae heritage, rocksteady, dancehall or whatever, then switch heavily into digital steppers for a bit, jumping from one thing to another so nothing got too stale.

Mungo’s started sharing their Sound System with many other selectors & deejays so that helped expand their pallette as well.
 
Mungo's Hi Fi - Forever Ever, Scotch Bonnet SCOBCD002, 2011.

Scrub A Dub Style featuring Sugar Minott
Everyman Different featuring Pacey
Skidip featuring Charlie P
Computer Age featuring Mr Williamz
Gimme Gimme featuring Kenny Knots
Boat People featuring Pupajim
Scream featuring YT
Dem No Like It - featuring Omar Perry
Bad Bad Boy featuring Soom T
New York Boogie featuring Ranking Levy
Warm Up featuring Scotty & Zeb
Session Pon Top featuring Biga Ranx
Soundboy Police featuring Soom T
Musically Mad featuring Mr Williamz
High Grade featuring Gentlemans Dub Club
 
 
 
 

Here's something a bit more current, a cure for COVID & the lockdown blues... 
 
 
Mungo's Hi Fi - Antidote, Scotch Bonnet SCOBCD015, 2021.

Time Traveller featuring Pupajim
NHS 24 Dub featuring Jah Thomas & Lady Ann
Intravenous Dub featuring Hollie Cook
Escape from the City featuring Kiko Bun
Pulsating Dub featuring Solo Banton
Miracle Cure featuring Prince Alla
Murky Dub featuring Johnny Clarke
Epic Fail featuring Shanti D
Border Patrol featuring Charlie P & Daddy Freddy
Birds of Pleasure featuring birds
 
 
 

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9 comments:

  1. Sound System Champions
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    Forward Ever
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    Antidote
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  2. I'll start with the Antidote. I have been following this month's offerings, looking for an "in" and here it is. I am pretty much a complete neophyte when it comes to Dub and Sound Systems, etc. But I have been through the pandemic like everyone else so here's hoping this helps cure my ignorance! Many thanks.

    Brian

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    1. Dub & Sound System cover a wide variety of sounds under their broad umbrellas. You just have to kinda pick & choose, when you find s particular sound you like, then look for more of that artist or other artists with similar sounds. Much of the fun of Dub is the variety, universal enough for all to enjoy some of it. Thanks, brother.

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  3. Scottish kilt-wearing dubbers are just what the world needs now.
    A real blend of cultures.
    Guess they smoke their weed through those pipes they play in Scotland in narguile fashion.
    Curiosity is killing me so I can't resist picking this up.
    Thank you dear Man.
    Diego

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    1. They must be smoking somethin'. Look at the haze around their sound system. Takes all kinds of humankind to Dub the world. You're Dubbin' on a glacier at the tip of the world. Love ya, brother.

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  4. You just enlightened me. They wear the kilts to absorb the smoke via their testicles too. For a better profit of what Mother Nature brings us.
    Your observation skills only get better with age, dear Nathan.

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    1. My observation skills, huh. Are you implying I peaked under the sporran?

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  5. Thanks for the Mungo's HiFi. I've wondered about their name for years, and now I know!

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  6. As Diego so succinctly stated "Scottish kilt-wearing dubbers are just what the world needs now." Hope you enjoy their offerings.

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