On any post, if the link is no longer good, leave a comment if you want the music re-uploaded. As long as I still have the file, or the record, cd, or cassette to re-rip, I will gladly accommodate in a timely manner all such requests.

Slinging tuneage like some fried or otherwise soused short-order cook

08 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...Grebo Rock

 

Pop Will Eat Itself formed in 1986 around Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK. Original members include: Clint Mansell - vocals, guitar; Adam Mole - guitar, keyboards; Richard March - bass: & Graham Crabb - vocals, drums. They first chose the name Wild & Wandering but after a few months (& one EP - 2,000 Light Ales from Home) they changed their name to Pop Will Eat Itself. At this time they played short, fast, psychedelic-tinged punk-pop tunes. Before the release of Box Frenzy in late 1987, they had begun incorporating house / hip hop beats & samples. They are the kings of Grebo. 

 

Pop Will Eat Itself - Box Frenzy, Rough Trade ROUGH US 33CD, 1987.
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Grebo Guru    
Beaver Patrol
Let’s Get Ugly    
U.B.L.U.D.
Inside You    
Evelyn    
There is No Love Between Us Anymore    
She’s Surreal    
Intergalactic Love Mission    
Love Missile F1-11    
Hit the Hi-Tech Groove    
Razorblade Kisses (for all you vinyl heads, I re-instated the locked groove missing on the CD release.. You can make it any length your heart desires)
 
 
 

After Box Frenzy, PWEI signed with RCA. In 1989 they released their second full-length, This is the Day...This is the Hour...This is This!. The new release added a clever union of rock synth, Dub, & electronic music.
 

PWEI is a Four Letter Word    
Preaching to the Perverted
Wise Up! Sucker (Flood mix)
Sixteen Different Flavours of Hell    
Inject Me    
Can U Dig It?
The Fuses Have Been Lit    
Poison to the Mind    
Def.Con.One (Flood mix)
Radio P.W.E.I.
Shortwave Transmission on 'Up to the Minuteman Nine'    
Satellite Ecstatica    
Not Now James, We're Busy...
Wake Up! Time to Die...    
Wise Up! Sucker (12" Youth mix)


For their next release, PWEI went for an even more electronic, slightly darker, moodier sound.
 

The Incredible P.W.E.I. vs the Moral Majority    
Dance of the Mad Bastards    
88 Seconds... & Still Counting    
X Y & Zee    
City Zen Radio 1990/2000 FM    
Dr. Nightmare's Medication Time
Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina (Extra Time mix)    
1000x No!    
Psychosexual    
Axe of Men    
Another Man's Rhubarb    
Medicine Man Speak with Forked Tongue    
Nightmare at 20,000 FT    
Very Metal Noise Pollution    
92°F (the 3rd Degree)
Lived in Splendour: Died in Chaos    
The Beat That Refused to Die    
X Y & Zee (Sensory Amplification mix)
 
 
 

Their last release on RCA was The Looks or the Lifestyle in 1992. Fuzz Townsend joined as drummer. With the addition of a live drummer, with Kerry 'The Buzzard' Hammond on guitar & Garry Hughes on keyboards, the band deserted their hard-electric style for a more grungy, alt-rock sound. This is the RCA Japan issue with three bonus tracks...
 
 

England's Finest    
Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me    
Mother    
Get the Girl + Kill the Baddies    
I've Always Been a Coward, Baby    
Token Drug Song    
Karmadrome    
Urban Futuristic (Son of South Central)    
Pretty Pretty    
I Was a Teenage Grandad    
Harry Dean Stanton    
Bulletproof    

bonus tracks -    
Bulletproof (Adrian Sherwood remix)
Dread Alert in Karmadrome    
PWEI-Zation
 
 
 

In 1996, PWEI for all intents & purposes called it a day. Individual members went on to other projects. In 2005 the band attempted to regroup with a tour & new songs planned but the reunion never amounted to anything permanent. In 2010, Graham Crabb put together an new group of musicians under the P.W.E.I. banner & began touring. They released New Noise Designed by a Sadist.
 
 
 

Hoping you see these, mauz.

07 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...Disposing of Heroes

 

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy were an American industrial hip-hop band founded in 1990 in San Francisco & lasted until 1993. The members were Michael Franti - vocals, production, multiple instruments & Rono Tse - drums, percussion, programming, both previously in The Beatnigs.

The Heroes music addressed a wide range of social issues: homophobia; media bias & abuse; & racial equality. Similar to other bands like Pop Will Eat Itself or House of Pain, the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy used sampling & scratching as a primary tool of music recording, mixing rock, hip hop, & jazz while Franti's half-spoken vocal stylings were reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron or Last Poets.

The recording of Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury was co-produced by Consolidated's Mark Pistel while Meat Beat Manifesto frontman Jack Dangers assisted with mixing. 

 

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury, 4th & Broadway 1992.
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Satanic Reverses    
Famous & Dandy (like Amos 'N' Andy)
Television, the Drug of the Nation    
Language of Violence    
The Winter of the Long Hot Summer
Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
Everyday Life has Become a Health Risk
INS Greencard A-19 191 500
Socio-Genetic Experiment    
Music & Politics
Financial Leprosy    
California Über Alles
Water Pistol Man
 
 
 

In 1993, the duo worked with William S. Burroughs, recording music for a collaborative album entitled Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales. This album sounds nothing like Hypocrisy, much more soulful jazz influence as the Heroes were mainly providing musical background & accompaniment to Burroughs' readings. This one steers closer to the Last Poets, similarly fantastic. This is such a great excuse for me to play some more Bills. 

Interlude 1 (Wrinkled Earlobes Are a Sign of Impending Heartattacks)    
Spare Ass Annie    
Interlude 2 (This is Insane)    
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (This is Insane)
Interlude 3 (The Vultures Are Gone & Will Never Come Back)    
Mildred Pierce Reporting (Old Sarge)    
Dr. Benway Operates    
Warning to Young Couples (Huntsmen's Hounds)    
Did I Ever Tell You About the Man That Taught His Asshole to Talk?
Last Words with Ras I. Zulu
A One God Universe
Interlude 4 (Fletch is Here)    
The Junky's Christmas
Words of Advice for Young People
Last Words with Michael Franti
 
 
 

As well as being one of the last recorded works by William S. Burroughs, this was also the last album by the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. The Disposable Heroes split up shortly thereafter

Hoping you see these, mauz.

06 October 2025

Volume: Volume Four

Various - Volume Four, Volume V4CD, September 1992.
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Suede – My Insatiable One (new piano version)
Butterfly Child – We, the Inspired
Swallow – Lovesleep (vocal version)
Ultramarine – Saratoga (Jolly James remix)
Bim Sherman – Keep on Movin'
Flower Sermon – Shine
Strangelove – Zoo'd Out
Throwing Muses – Firepile (remix)
Pavement – Greenlander (demo)
The Fall – Arid Al's Dream
Babes in Toyland – Sometimes (John Loder remix)
Spectrum – Soul Kiss
Dub Syndicate – Ravi Shankar (live)
Stereolab – Super Falling Star (Moog mix)
Little Annie – Everything & More
Meat Beat Manifesto – Drop (remix)
Pop Will Eat Itself – Bulletproof (Adrian Sherwood No Half Measures mix)
The Aphex Twin – En Trance to Exit
Steroid Maximus – Volgarity

 

 

Pump Up the Volume,

05 October 2025

Volume: Volume Three

Various - Volume Three, Volume V3CD, May 1992.
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Daisy Chainsaw – I Feel Insane (recorded live at Bristol University)
Therapy? – Innocent X (Harvey Birrel remix)
Depth Charge – Daughters of Darkness
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – California Über Alles
Levitation – Cloud Shine
The Charlatans – Over Rising (instrumental)
Psychotropic Vibration – Jesus Timeshare Experience
The Breeders – Safari (remix)
Honey Tongue – Let's Sail Away (remix)
Terrorvision –    My House (Dirkhill Road mix)
Public Image Ltd – Criminal (Dave Jerdens remix)
Sweet Jesus – Sisterfy
Orbital – Belfast / Wasted (Wasted vocal mix)
Moby – Go (Subliminal mix)
Natural Life – Find Our Direction (remix)
LFO – Slow Down Speedy
Sheep on Drugs – Motorbike (remix)
Interference – Overload (live)
 
 
 

Pump Up the Volume,

04 October 2025

4,000,000 Served

 

On June 7, 2024 I posted 3,000,000 Served. On that post I sez:
       "On October 27, 2021 I sez: Over night last night my visitor count passed the 2,000,000 mark. I realize that that's no big deal in light of the length of time I've been doing this, but for a "backwater blog" like I've got going here, it's kinda major to me. In fact, I'm mightily chuffed.

Well, over night last night (June 7) my visitor count passed the 3,000,000 mark. So in less than three years I've had another million hits. So for a "backwater blog" like I've got going here, I'm even more mightily chuffed."


Well this time it only took from June 7 last year until now to pass the 4,000,000 mark. So for a "backwater blog" like I've got going here, I'm even more more mightily chuffed. I have you all to thank for making my journey here so rewarding. You are the best.

All I can really say to all of you out there cruising the interweb searching for musick is...

Thank you so much.

The Month of Mauz - Let’s Get Consolidated

 

Consolidated was a rock/hip-hop/techno group from San Francisco in the 90s. Its members, Adam Sherburne & Mark Pistel had been members of synthpop/dance outfit Until December while Philip Steir had drummed in the funk/rock group Shy Hands. Inspired by Public Enemy's politics & aggressive sound collages, the trio regrouped as Consolidated. Their music espoused their left-wing politics: pro-environment; pro-labor; pro-choice; anti-corporate; pro-animal rights. They were critical of media exploitation of women & concerned about rock music's lack of political engagement.

Their first full-length record, The Myth of Rock, is aggressively political. The music itself is complex with intricate instrumental backing recalling Tackhead, Public Enemy, late-80s sampledelica, & the brutal industrial of Test Dept.

     "There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon."
sez Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) in Network (1975) sampled for "America Number One"..

.

Consolidated - The Myth of Rock, Netwerk W2-30045, 1990.
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Product    
This is a Collective    
America Number One    
Weakness (Part 1)    
Fight the Fascists    
Music That Lifts up Our Savior Jesus Christ    
Josephine the Singer    
Poland    
Is This the Cheese Dip?    
Message to the People
Stop the War Against the Black Community    
White American Male (The Truth Hurts)    
Weakness (Part 2)    
It's About that Time    
Love, Honor, & Respect
Strike    
Brian Wilson Speaks
Dysfunctional Relationship
There is a Mountain Filled with Blood    
Consolidated
 
 
 
 

Their next release, Friendly Fa$cism, was produced by MBM's Jack Danger. It veers closer to Meat Beat's 99% than The Myth of Rock. Play More Music returns a bit to the sonic aggression of Myth of Rock. The record features spoken-work snippets from the group's concerts. Are you here for music? Accept me for what I am...
Consolidated - Play More Music, Nettwerk Europe NET040CD, 1992

Industrial Music is Fascism    
Tool & Die    
CNN    
Praxis (Bold as Love)    
We Came Here for Music    
Accept Me for What I Am
Veggie Beat Manifesto    
Why I'm in the Klan    
Guerrillas in the Mist (featuring Paris)
Hello Are You There    
Infomodities 92
Animal Rights / Abortion Rights    
Wendy O Matik (featuring Wendy O Matik)
One More Song    
He    
I Reckon You Should Shut the Fuck Up & Play Some Music    
You Suck (featuring the Yeastie Girls)
The Men's Movement
Gone Fishing    
Labor vs Leisure    
A Day on the Green    
More Music / Hip O Crits    
Industry Corporate    
This Isn't a Fuckin Press Conference    
Crackhouse (featuring Crack M.C.)
More Music Please
 
 
 

Hoping you see these, mauz.

03 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...Hope You Beat the Meat

 

Meat Beat Manifesto is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers & Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK. Their sound is hard to nail down as it is constantly evolving. They make electronic dance music heavily influenced by industrial, techno, Dub, breakbeat. The band's live shows are intense audio-visual experiences, with dancers, led by choreographer Marcus Adams, in costumes designed by artist Craig Morrison, with videoclips accompanying live instruments, sequenced electronic instruments, & live DJing.

Dangers & Stephens left Perennial Divide in 1988 to take up residency in Soho. Armed Audio Warfare was scheduled to be the bands debut album, set for release in May 1988. It was to be their true Meat Beat manifesto. The masters to that album were damaged in a fire at the new Meat Beat HQ, Berwick St, Soho. New tracks were written & recorded. They were released as the 2xLP Storm the Studio in May 1989.

Here is that debut release. Take it away William S Burroughs... 

 

Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio, Sweatbox SDX040CD, 1989.
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God O.D. (Part 1)    
God O.D. (Part 2)    
God O.D. (Part 3)    
God O.D. (Part 4)    
Re-Animator (Part 1)    
Re-Animator (Part 2)    
Re-Animator (Part 3)    
Re-Animator (Part 4)    
Strap Down (Part 1)    
Strap Down (Part 2)    
I Got the Fear (Part 1)    
I Got the Fear (Part 2)    
I Got the Fear (Part 3)    
I Got the Fear (Part 4)
 
 
 
 

Armed Audio Warfare as it was released in 1990 is a compilation of previously unreleased & rare tracks that embody the initial Meat Beat's manifesto. Had Armed Audio Warfare been released as planned, it might have sounded like this. The version of "Reanimator" is exclusive to the Armed Audio Warfare release.The songs "Kneel & Buzz" & "Kick That Man" are incorrectly switched in the track listings. "Kick That Man" comes before "Kneel & Buzz". The version of "Give Your Body its Freedom" is a different version of the song from the Strap Down single. The song, "Marrs Needs Women" is a different version (& spelling) of "Mars Needs Women" which appears the God O.D. single. 
 
Meat Beat Manifesto - Armed Audio Warfare, Wax Trax Records WAXCD7106, 1990.

Genocide    
Repulsion    
Mister President    
Reanimator    
I Got the Fear    
Kick That Man    
Kneel & Buzz    
Fear Version    
Give Your Body its Freedom    
Marrs Needs Women    
Cutman
 
 
 
 

I had Subliminal Sandwich lined up for this share, but I think it's many places elsewhere on the interweb, so in place I'm sharing these four single / Maxi-singles / EPs.
 
 
Meat Beat Manifesto - Helter Skelter 12" 45rpm, Play it AgaSam Records USA, BIUS3050, 1990.

Side A -
Helter Skelter
Side AA -
Radio Babylon
 
 
 
 
Meat Beat Manifesto - Version Galore (All Versions in One) EP
Play it Again Records BIAS192CD, 1991.

Radio Babylon (Space Children Intro mix)
Radio Babylon (Version Galore Jack Dangers remix)
Psyche-Out (Andrew Weatherall Sex Skank Stripdown)
Psyche-Out (Version 1)    
Psyche-Out (Dub)    
Radio Babylon    
Psyche-Out (Andrew Weatherall Sex Skank mix)
 
 
 
 
Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream EP, Mute 966343-2, 1993.

Mindstream (Stream of Consciousness Mix)    
Mindstream (Psychedelically Speaking mix)    
Mindstream (Mind the Bend the Mind Orbital remix)
Original Control (Electro the Robot DHS remix)
Mindstream (The Aphex Twin remix)
Mindstream (Fire Escape version)
 
 
 
 
Meat Beat Manifesto - It's the Music 12" maxi-single, Play it Again Sam Records BIAS322, 1996.

SIDE ONE (45rpm) - 
It's the Music
It's Just the Music
    
SIDE TWO (33 1/3rpm) -
I Control (Audio Collage #2)    
Asbestos Lead Asbestos (Plug mix)
 
 
 
 

& while I'm at it, here's a great one where Meat Beat Manifesto meets The Orb. This CD EP comes in an embossed round tin based on the Celtic design of the original Battersea shield.
 
 

Matron
1855 BC - The Orb vs MBM
Insane - The Orb
 
 
 

Hoping you see these, mauz.

02 October 2025

Volume: Volume Two

Various - Volume Two, Volume V2CD, November 1991.
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Barry Adamson – Odio-Amor, Odio-Amor
Lush – Tiny Smiles
The Blue Aeroplanes – Aeroplane Blues (LA mix)
MC 900 Ft Jesus – Killer Inside Me (Meat Beat Manifestation version 2)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils – All Over My Face (Scam mix)
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole (Flood remix-alternative version)
Whipped Cream – Mr Green
Spirea X – Signed DC (acoustic version)
Blur – Oily Water
The Sugarcubes – Hetero Scum
Definition of Sound –  When a Lion Awakens (full length version)
Celestial Tribes – Gold (Rudy Tambala remix)
System 7 – Miracle (Orb remix)
Bomb the Bass – Liquid Metal (remix)
EMF –    I Believe (Inframental Foetus remix)
Pulp – She's Dead
No Man – Kiss Me Stupid
Curve – Already Yours (Basement mix)
Gallon Drunk – Ruby (new version)

  

Pump Up the Volume,

01 October 2025

Weird October...Volume meets the Month of Mauz

 

I usually follow up Dubtember with Weird October. I share a bunch of musick I've collected up that is weird enough to lead up to the end of the month & my favorite holiday, Halloween

This year I'm off on a tangent more bizarre than any other I've followed. Not that the musick is so weird this month, just the idea behind it all. It began with two divergent events that mingled in my mind & led to the upcoming insanity. They both occurred in June when I was sharing Various Artists compilations. On the Party Like it’s Only $19.99 post, I received a comment from mauz.

mauz sez:
     “oh boy ... terabytes of digitalized music library that I collected frantically for more than 40 years were stolen 3 years ago (the vinyls already sold for good ages ago) .. thanks to you I am getting back some of the most precious bits .. my soul is shining again at the sound of it ... I am a music junkie, I have been working in a pirate radio (the librarian guy) and Dj in clubs for more than 10 years .. I found you following the osbcure leads of Muslimgauze, Tackead, Chrome, Andy Weatherall, Legendary Pink Dots, Cop Shoot Cop and the others we know ... You got my trust and I found links to amazing music that, surprisingly, I never heard before.

I have no words good enough to express my gratitude. nowadays I am a dirty homeless living on the streetin Berlin .. collecting money to buy a new SD card to fill up with this goodness. and the youngsters keep asking me "wtf is this great music" nobody else knows.

if I can do some humble request:more Two Lone Swordmen, more more MBM, Hiphoprisy, Consolidated, Young Gods, pls more Foetus, Alan Vega solos, Dj Spike, Keith LeBlanb Freakatorium, Radio Morocco (Nation Rec) etc etc.

ciao Maurizio

ps. forgot to mention that I was mesmerized to find Dark Star, Franz was a good friend and I recorded and mixed his second album in my studio.. featuring a track by me (Darkstar & Technogod)”

I was instantly drawn to this. I lived for several years as "a dirty homeless" so I can totally relate. Having 40 years of collected music stolen would devastate me beyond belief. Plus I believe I deduced from internal clues the identity of the author & am familiar with his music. The Dark Star reference led me to believe that he was talking about "Walking in Patterns(featuring Technogod)" from Artefacts by Dark Star, intended as the follow-up to Dark Stars's debut Travelogue that I have shared here in the past. That song was mixed by Maurizio Liguori (the Italian Adrian Sherwood), I came to believe that mauz, author of the comment, is Mauxuam (Maurizio Liguori) of Technogod & Ohmega Tribe. 



Mauxuam (born in 1965) started making electronic music at the end of the 80s in Italy. At that time he was DJ for some local & pirate radio stations in Bologna. He also organized many underground club nights & concerts. In 1992 he had his first release on Nation Records in the UK with the Italian band Technogod, a group that toured throughout Europe often opening act for bands like Consolidated, Meat Beat Manifesto, & The Young Gods. Around the same time he founded the Lost Legion Alien Collective & Ohmega Tribe.  Late 90s found Maurizio working as a producer / remixer for the mainstream Italian music industry as well as doing soundtracks for commercials, theater, & performance art for independent video productions & cartoons. Towards the end of the millennium though, disillusioned by the music business / consumer culture, he sold all of his electronic gear & set out on a long nomadic trip, spending many years traveling between India & Australia.

I replied right away to mauz' comment, stating that I wanted to communicate further because I was interested in supplying some of his requests. It seemed perfect for me, like it would give my sharing a personal & humanitarian purpose. I included a link to an Ohmega Tribe release (see reply on the June "How Much?" if you're interested) as inticement. I have never heard anthing back. I don't know if he never saw my reply or that life on the streets had taken its toll or if he was just waiting for me to get on with it. I could only imagine terrible scenarios but decided to carry on with this concept anyway.

At the same time as mauz' comment, I came across a folder in my Various Artist section labelled VOLUME. In it was seventeen volumes of compilations that seemed to feature many of the bands that mauz mentioned. It seemed like fate.

I still have not heard from mauz, but I am pursuing this craziness anyhow. Perhaps he will see some of these posts & I will know more. Or I will just have shared a shitload of great music with you all, my friends, so either way the craziness leads to good results. So to put an end to this overly long introduction, here goes, a month-long mix of Volumes & mauz request as only NSS does it.

Pump Up the Volume - Volume One

When I was sharing the Various Artist items in June, I came across a folder I had with all the Volume volumes, all seventeen of them. Had completely forgotten all the fantastic musick these great CD 'zines comtained.

Volume was a magazine in the form of a series of compact disc compilation albums that were published in the UK in the early to mid 1990s. The albums typically contained exclusive tracks & remixes from a diverse range of indie artists. Each album was packaged with a 192-page booklet that contained features on the artists. The booklet was the size / shape of a CD jewel case. It was usually packaged with the CD case in a cardboard sleeve. Volume One was published in September 1991. The series came to an end in December 1996, with Volume Seventeen.
 

 
Robin Gibson & Rob Deacon thought up the concept of a CD with a complementary book in the early 1990s. They realized that many publishers were not interested because the record shops were already full of discount Hit compilations. Gibson was determined to publish both the CD & the publication of the highest quality. The two set up their own publishing venture which they called World's End Ltd. run out of a tiny basement flat in Edith Grove, Kensington.
 


By December 1992, Volume was selling issues for £9.99. Each issue contained otherwise unavailable tracks by obscure bands inside a smart CD-sized paperback book. The magazine was making a modest profit. The brand's visual trademark was photographs of tropical fish, with a different species appearing on the cover of each issue (in addition, the collective spines laid end to end of Volume One to Volume 10 formed the image of a shark). 

The artists featured in the magazine ranged widely from indie guitar groups such as Curve, The Wannadies, & Cocteau Twins, to ambient / techno artists such as The Orb or The Shamen to trip hop bands like Massive Attack to electronic body music group Nitzer Ebb, & hip-hop acts such as Cypress Hill. Electronic music was featured quite heavily. The CD & magazine served as an introduction to the listener / reader for new sounds from bands which had yet to break out.

By October 1996 & the fifth anniversary, editions of Volume were selling more than 25,000 copies, having been translated into French & Japanese. However, the increased number of magazines offering free CDs had eventually made the Volume compilations concept unsustainable. The company closed not long after the fifth aniversary edition came out.

Here is the Volume debut CD.
 
Various - Volume One, Volume V1CD, September 1991.
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Meat Beat Manifesto – Love Mad
Papa Sprain – Flying to Vegas (H.ark! remix)
Nitzer Ebb – Come Alive (remix)
Kitchens of Distinction – Innocence
Throwing Muses – Red Shoes (version)
The Darkside – Guitar Voodoo (live)
Dr Phibes & the House of Wax Equations – Sugarblast (edit)
The Popguns – Going Under (Vitamin K remix)
The Orb – Reefer Spin in the Galaxy
New Order – Confusion (remix)
The Shamen – Hyperreal (remix)
Fortran 5 – XX21 (remix)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult – Leather Sex (remix)
Consolidated – The Sexual Politics of Meat (edit)
The Wolfgang Press – Sucker (version)
Daisy Chainsaw – Upmanship Down
L. Kage – Another Story from Raintown
 
 
 

Pump up the Volume,

30 September 2025

Dubtember 30

Before I fold up my lounge chair & umbrella, pack up my cooler, & head off to Weird October, to pump up the Volume for the Month of Mauz, I just want to say thank you to all of you who joined me this month on Echo Beach for the busiest Dubtember ever. More than 190,000 folks dropped by the Beach this month, more than three times the usual monthly average. In fact there were a couple super-Sunny days where more than 10,000 folks crowded the beach. That's more than five times the usual daily average. You all managed to warm my heart as much as the Summer sun warmed my skin. You made my sharing seem like it really matters. So once more...THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!


For this last Echo Beach day I'm sharing a special Anniversary shout-out to Echo Beach's inspiration, none other than On-U Sound.

Various - On-U Sound 30 Anniversary King Size Dub Special, Echo Beach EB085, 2011.
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Wadada (Means Love) - Dub Syndicate    
Political Confusion - Lee Perry    
Stop that Train     - Graciella Rodriguez
To be Rich is a Crime    - Jeb Loy Nichols
Virgin - Prince Far I & Singers And Players    
Mountain Melody - Creation Rebel    
Blow the Man Down - Crispy Horns    
Weedspecialist     - 2Badcard
International Broadcaster (Jungle remix) - Lee Perry vs Moody Boyz with LSK & Roots Manuva
More is Insane (10 Inch version) - Strange Parcels & Bim Sherman    
One Drop - Revolutionary Dub Warriors    
Conquer - New Age Steppers    
Take Heed & Smoke up Your Collyweed - African Head Charge    
Rise & Shine - Harry Beckett    
I Got a Song to Sing - Little Axe    
Death & the Lady - Ian King
 
 


It's the end of the Beach party but remember, always Dub on,
NØ 

29 September 2025

Dubtember 29

 

This is the debut album of Paul Zasky & Jed Smith, producers of New Blade Runners of Dub.
Building on the legacy of Paul Zasky's internationally known Dub reggae band Dubblestandart, New Blade Runners of Dub blends LA native composer/producer Jed Smith's new school visions of sound & Zasky's European shaped Dub reggae background in a unique way.

New Blade Runners of Dub - New Blade Runners of Dub, Echo Beach EB172, 2022.
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New Blade Runners of Dub Theme (BETA FISH remix)
Solitary Confinement
Chrome Optimism (BETA FISH remix)
Touch Me    
Fly Me to the Moon (BETA FISH mix)
Europe Again (BETA FISH remix)
The Asimov Solution    
Looking for Things    
In My Space
Cry Cry 2049
New Blade Runners of Dub Theme/Virus Dub (Ale X remix)
Europe Again (Andy Miccolis mix)
Love & Hate

Kowabunga...Dub's Up

28 September 2025

Dubtember 28

Various - King Size Dub Chapter 69, Echo Beach EB073, 2009.
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Echo Beach (Go Home Productions Beached Dub mix) - M&M
Racist Friend - Deepchild featuring Andy B
Peace & Love - Dubmatix featuring Linval Thompson
Live & Let Dub - Junglehammer vs Daktari 
Addicted - Smoke
Accusation (Ruts DC & Steve Dub mix) - The Ruts DC
House of the Rising Dub - International Observer
Walking on the Moon - Duxanne
Privat Life - Dubvisionist
Why Dub - Sam Ragga Band
Jeanny - Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
I Do Voodoo (Dub) - Dubblestandart & Lee "Scratch" Perry & Gudrun
Struggle (Pre Fade Listening mix) - Dub Syndicate
Telefon Dub (Guillaume Metenier remix) - Sugar Sugar
Me Done - Ari Up vs. X. A. Cute
 
 
 

Kowabunga...Dub's Up,

27 September 2025

Dubtember 27

Lee Scratch Perry

Lee 'Scratch' Perry is, as the liner notes sez, 
     ''file under – The Legend !!!''

We all (should) know this musickal Legend, the Upsetter himself, Rainford Perry.
 
 

Here he teamed up with Dubblestandart, the Viennese  Dub/reggae phenoms. Together with Ari Up, they released Dubblestandart / Lee Perry & Ari-Up - Return from Planet Dub.

Much of that release is here remixed by producer, DJ, remixer Robo Bass Hifi (Markus Kammann) who delivers a tight combination of Roots, jungle, Dub, dubstep, UK digiDub, & drum 'n' bass. His electro reggae flavour is drenched in BASS!
 
 


 
On this excursion, Robo Bass Hifi leads Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Dubblestandart into his dark room to augment his mastery of the deep, thick bass. Great 21st Century Perry outings, both the original & the remix.
 
 
Echo Beach EB105, 2014.

Chase the Devil
Let 'em Take It
Blackboard Jungle
Fungus Rock
I Foo China
Give Thanks & Praises
Chrome Optimism
I Do Voodoo
Island Girl (Defending Rights & Justice version)
Surrender Dub
I Foo China (7'' edit)
Chrome Optimism (Deep Jungle mix)
 
 
 

Kowabunga...Dub's Up,

26 September 2025

Dubtember 26

Various - King Size Dub 25, Echo Beach EB177, 2022.
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Punky Reggae Party (Rob Smith aka RSD Aotearoa Dub) - Seanie T. meets Aldubb
Magic (Anarchy version) - Dubinator featuring Dieter Meier
Sleepless - Dubjestic
Hypocrite (Dub) - Dennis Bovell meets Dubblestandart
Black Arc - Dubmatix meets Future Dub Orchestra
Easy Riding (Dubvisionist's Echo Beach remix) - Automat featuring Paul St. Hilaire
Trance Plane (KSD edit) - Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
Transmissions - Dubmatix
Komm in Mein Haus (Umberto Echo Dub) - Seeed
'O Dub Comm'è (Gaudi Dub Trip) - Almamegretta
Sunshine Dub (KSD edit) - C. Jones meets Ale X
Heroes - Dubby Stardust featuring Jasmine Ash
Every Kind of People (Deadbeat's Root mix) - RE-201 featuring Mika Bajinski
Heart of Glass (Dub) - Dubxanne aka Guido Craveiro featuring Sara Lugo
Pinhead - Dubmones
Love & Hate - New Bladerunners of Dub featuring Santa Davis & Ama B.
Dunk - Paolo Baldini DubFiles meets Noiseshaper
 
 
 

Kowabunga...Dub's Up,

25 September 2025

Dubtember 25...Bonus

 

At some point in October I'll be sharing some KLF. While I was gathering the releases for that future share, I came across this one that I forgot I had. Am adding it as a bonus share for Dubtember as it was part of the Echo Beach Serious Collectors series. 

 

Kopyright Liberation Front - Waiting for the Rights of Mu, Echo Beach EB014, 1997.
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Waiting
The Rites of Mu
 


Kowabunga - Dub's Up,

Dubtember 25, Twenty-five

Various - King Size Dub 24, Echo Beach EB206, 2024.
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Reality in the Dark - Noiseshaper featuring Simple Straw
Steppah (Dubmatix Dub remix) - Sharon Marley & Big Youth
Heavy Heavy Monster Dub - New Blade Runners of Dub meets Dubblestandart
Pet Sematary (7" Dub) - Dubmones featuring Horseman & Shniece
Dub Queen - Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
Don't Cry.... It's Only Rhythm - Blundetto Meets Soul Sugar
Baby I Love You So (Dub You Too) - aDUBta & The Black Oak Roots Allstars featuring  Ammoye
God is a Man (Dubmatix Steppers remix) - Dub Syndicate
Dub Mentalny Fitness - Dubblestandart
Expensive Shit (King Size Dub edit) - Cpt. Yossarian
Greter than Dub - Philipp Greter
Seaven Seas (Deadbeat remix) - Illbilly Hitec
Complexity - Dubinator meets Alien Levi
Licence to Dub - Soul Sugar
Test Dept. - TVS (Trance Vision Steppers)
Landscape of Dub - Oliver Frost
Try (Dubstrumental by Dubvissionist) - Total Hip Replacement

 

 

Kowabunga...Dub's Up,

24 September 2025

Dubtember 24, Twenty-five

 

Formed in 2017, L.A.B., from Whakatane, New Zealand have become one of the most-popular acts in New Zealand music. An eclectic mix of reggae, electronic, blues & funk all combine to create a sound entirely their own.

The band is made up of: Joel Shadbolt – guitar & vocals; Stu Kora – keysboards & vocals; Miharo Gregory – keysboards; Ara Adams-Tamatea – bass, & Brad Kora – drums & vocals. Since their inception, L.A.B. have performed at almost every major festival across NZ, as well as multiple sold-out headline tours of Australia. They won two 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards including the People's Choice Award.

I have shared producer, engineer, bassist, & sonic visionary Paolo Baldini before here.

His first band was B.R. Stylers, an Italian reggae Dub band from Pordenone, Italy founded in 2000. B.R. Stylers stood out in the Italian reggae scene thanks to Paolo's innovative use of electronics & UK-inspired sounds, a distinctive feature for his music ever since.

In 2006 Baldini joined Italy's longest-established reggae band Africa Unite (shared here earlier). As well as playing bass, he produced two of their albums (Controlli & Rootz). Over time, Paolo's approach & techniques became increasingly analog, inspired by Jamaican Dub legends such as King Tubby & Scientist. 

 



In 2014 Baldini debuted his solo project Paolo Baldini DubFiles, focusing on his work as a Dubmaster. In February 2015 he travelled to Jamaica to record what would become his second album, entitled At Song Embassy Papine Kingston 6. Dozens of artists from the Papine ghetto, many unknown to the mainstream public, transformed Baldini's riddims into a tribute to the spontaneity & genius of Jamaican music. Baldini has worked with Dubblestandart (Dub ME Crazy), Al Brown & Inner Force, Mellow Mood, Imperial Sound Army, & many more.

L.A.B. & Paolo Baldini DubFiles - L.A.B. in Dub, Echo Beach EB185, 2022.
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Shadows Dub
Running Dub
The Watchman Dub
No Roots Dub
Baby Will You Let Me Dub
Why oh Why Dub
Boy King Dub
Like Fire Dub
Rocketship Dub
Fashion Dread Dub

 

 

Kowabunga...Dub's Up,

23 September 2025

Dubtember 23, Twenty-five

Various - King Size Dub 23, Echo Reach EB193, 2023.
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Rock Your Bone - Noiseshaper featuring Simple Straw
Trouble in My Soul (Dubvisionist Dub remix) - Mexican Dubwiser featuring Artwork Jamal
Cocaine (Dubinator Dub version) - Reggaesta featuring Earl 16
Magic (Art version) - Dubinator featuring Alan Moore
Schüüfele (Dub Spencer & Trance Hill remix) - Dieter Meier
Master Blaster (Dub) - Dubby Wonder featuring Eugene Tambourine    
Armagideon Time (Rob Smith aka RSD Onedrop remix) - Seanie T. meets Aldubb
Echo Beach (Dreadzone remix) - Martha & the Muffins
Mafia (Dub) - Misled Convoy meets Uncle Fester on Acid featuring Bim Sherman
Personal Jesus (Dub) - Dub Mode featuring Joseph Holiday
Shadows Dub - L.A.B meets Paolo Baldini DubFiles
Blue Monday (Dub) - Dubmatix featuring Barry Ashworth
Guns of Brixton (Manasseh remix) - Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
Solution - Kleer Vs. Dubinator
Born to Be Dub (Zion Train remix) - RE-201 featuring Awa Fall
The Robots (Dub) - Kid Loco meets Soul Sugar

Digital bonus edition bonus tracks - 
Counter Pro-ism - Downslow
Police in Helicopter (RSD 160 Chopper vocal remix) - Dubinator & Seanie T
Zombie (in Dub) - Captain Yossarian
(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay (Dub remix) - Dub Stax & Ammoye
Jah Music (Ffl Ambient Dub) - Sista Sherin
Schön Ist's (Dub fugue) - Dubment
Music Monks (2 da People) - Lengualerta

 


Kowabunga...Dub's Up,

22 September 2025

Dubtember 22, Twenty-five

Various - King Size Dub Chapter 15, Echo Beach EB083, 2011.
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Rhythm Collision (RSD aka Rob Smith remix) - Ruts DC
Dunk (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Noiseshaper
Bar Tender (Dub) - Soul Sugar featuring Carlton Livingston
Echo Beach (Grand Phabao remix) - Martha & the Muffins
City Breakers (Dub) - Up, Bustle, & Out
Black Cinderella (Dub) - Tackhead
Todo es Jah (Dub) - Datcha Chando
Dem Can't Stop We from Talk (Tivoli Gardens Dub) - Dubblestandart featuring Anthony B. & Gudrun
The Chronicles - Subatomic Sound System featuring Treasure Don
Deep Dark Dub (TVS remix) - Dubmatix
The Saints go Marching Through All the Popular Tunes - Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
Just a Little Dub - Jamaram
Another Dance Dub (Umberto Echo Dub) - Al Jawala
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (Wie Regen im Meer) (Darryl Jenifer Dub) - Kein Hass Da
Rootsman - Maffia Tone
Wa Doo Dubb - Aldubb meets Citizen Sound featuring Ammoye
 
 
 

Kowabunga...Dub's Up,

21 September 2025

We Interrupt This Program for a Public Service Announcement

 

Scottish DJ, producer, remixer, radio host, writer, event promoter, music consultant, activist, & label boss from Glasgow, JD Twitch (Keith McIvor) died from terminal brain cancer on September 19th.

Beginning as  'Twitch' while running the long-standing techno/leftfield night Pure in Edinburgh in 1990, then adding the 'JD' prefix in the late 90s for the Optimo nights in Glasgow. 

I've got one of his DJ mixes on cassette that I'll share right now, from the Solar Lodge, March 2021. 

 

JD Twitch – SMI²LE- Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, Life Extension cassette,
Optimo Music OMT003, 2021.
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Side A -
untitled

Side B -
untitled

 


R.I.P.

Dubtember 21, Twenty-five

 

Kid Loco is Jean-Yves Prieur, French electronic musician, DJ, remixer, & producer born in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. I first heard of Kid Loco from his trip-hop adjacent A Grand Love Story. On this one, Kid Loco once more calls on Soul Sugar (Guillaume Méténier).



As a all-around keyboard master, Soul Sugar has been featured on numerous Kid Loco productions for more than twenty years. From synthesizer to clavinet, from the Fender Rhodes to the Leslie organ, the "Funky Frenchman" is no stranger to any keyboard instrument.

Here the two decide to somehow Dub up the works of Kraftwerk. 

What a concept. Only on Echo Beach... 

 

Kid Loco meets Soul Sugar - Kraft Dub Werk, Echo Beach EB203, 2024.
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Ruckzuck    
Autobahn (Bass version)    
Radioactivity    
Antenna (Vox edit)    
Trans Europe Express    
The Robots    
Neon Lights    
Computer Love    
The Robots (Dub)    
Trans Europe Express (Dub)    
Antenna (bonus Beat edit)    
Autobahn (NB edit)

 

 

Kowabunga...Dub’s Up,