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Audiopile Review: At the front of the ongoing resurgence of dub and pressurized bass exploration is Jay Glass Dubs, who has been tweaking the sound for most of the last decade. After issuing lusted after releases for Bokeh Versions, Ecstatic, Origin Peoples, and The Tapeworm, the skids have been greased...
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The debut Dub Syndicate set from 1982, pre-dating the involvement of mainstay Style Scott. This features various members of Creation Rebel and African Head Charge turning out a wild dub set, with hard-hitting rhythms and FX-mutated melodies phasing in and out of the mix. Recorded quickly with track titles cheekily...
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Beautiful, atmospheric leftfield House floater paired w/ adventurous sound trip - tip!...
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Playful, dubbed out Downtempo / Chillout excursions...
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Death Is Not The End's 333 series reissues the exceptional original cut of the late Hortense Ellis' wonderful 'Hell & Sorrow' here. It was originally produced by Jimmy Radway and released on his Fe Me Time label in the...
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Dennis Bovell’s prolific and eclectic career encompasses a huge range of music: from dub poetry to lovers rock to post-punk to disco to pop and beyond. His production work encompasses such diverse figures as The Slits, I Roy, Maximum Joy, Fela Kuti, The Pop Group, Janet Kay, Saada Bonaire, Orange...
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Cobra & The Brotherhood of the Grape is a celebration of friends making music together for many years. An album conceived in the Clot neighbourhood and recorded in Barcelona, Mallorca and Buenos Aires. An "All Stars" occasion where many of the musicians who have played in STA over 20 years...
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Lloyd James better known as Prince Jammy was born in Jamaica in 1947. He started releasing his own productions in the late debut album in 1977. Black Uhuru and Prince Jammy would go on to dominate Jamaican music into the 1980’s. In 1985 he had a huge hit with what...
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Jesse Rae: anachronist Celtic funk warrior, renegade pioneer of funk, soul & dub (collaborating with Parliament, Funkadelic, Adrian Sherwood, Roger Troutman & the Sugarhill Gang); mad pedestrian-punk-poet, steeped so much in his own mythology he exists not only outside of time but in a universe of his own making; three...
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Test Pressing Recordings are happy to return with this rather lovely cover version of the classic 'E2–E4'. it has been reworked by Alex Kassian with Mad Professor dubbing it crazy on the mix front. It's always been a record close to our hearts....
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This album was inspired by the music coming out of Jamaica in the mid 1970s, in particular the use of drum machines by Lee Perry and Aston Family Man Barrett (and Sly Stone in the USA) but also the instrumentals and dubs by Keith Hudson and Im & Count Ossie...
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Audiopile Review: Kevin ‘The Bug’ Martin crops up a lot in our newsletters. He’s been an astonishingly prolific artist since circa 1990 and has never really let up. And he’s also been an unerringly enthusiastic curator of other peoples’ work. This started in the late 80s with his Pathological label...
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Death Is Not The End sub-label 333 hit again with a reissue of a rarely encountered piece of prime UK digi, courtesy of Franklyn Bernard aka Frankie B - mixed at Fashion's A Class Studio in Clapham, and released on the Ital Stuff label in early 1986. Frankie B began...
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Death Is Not The End's 333 series is back with another dig into the catalogue of the NYC-based Flames label on this reissue of a highly coveted Revolutionaries LP, Meditation in Dub. One of reggae music's most famed session bands, The Revolutionaries were an often r/evolving cast of some of...
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Soul Jazz Records’ are releasing their classic release ‘Rastafari – The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83’ in a new one-off pressing limited edition blue coloured double vinyl edition. The album includes new tracks and is fully remastered from the original edition. // Spanning nearly 30 years of revolutionary music and featuring...
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Audiopile Review: One of the key dub originators, Keith Hudson was known as ‘the dark prince of reggae’. The cover of his unimaginably seminal 1974 album ‘Pick a Dub’ may have featured a Rasta reclining against a palm tree, but there’s nothing sun-splashed about Hudson’s music. His vision of dub...
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50th Anniversary Pressing. This deluxe reissue includes a second album with 8 bonus tracks – ‘Pick A Vocal’. The original 1974 release of Keith Hudson's 'Pick A Dub' showcased the enduring strength and pivotal importance of the development of reggae music. Keith Hudson's complete mastery of the genre and the...
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Death Is Not The End turns 10 years old in May and as part of the celebrations we are committing a selection of DINTE NTS Radio shows from over the years to cassette. Kicking off with this recent special Skateland Soundtapes, 1980-1986 - comprising a selection of clips from sessions...
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Time Splitters is a various artist compilation created and produced by Richmond VA based Deskulling in collaboration with veteran Spanish Town JA artist I Jahbar between 2021 and 2023. This 21 track 50 plus minute Dancehall epic also includes other veteran vocalists such as G Sudden, RDL Shellah, Buddydon, and...
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Twin Cities duo Feel Free Hi Fi return to their in-house imprint Digital Sting with their first full length entitled I was so far in I was out. After two prior EP's and collaborations with Equiknoxx and Duppy Gun Feel Free Hi Fi deliver 8 new tracks of...
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G Version III from Kyoto Japan arrives on Digital Sting via a correspondence going back a few years that grew out of mutual musical connections and a deep appreciation for the Jamaican soundsystem diaspora. G Version grew up with a love of Hip Hop, R&B, and Reggae and...
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Originally released in 1986, Off The Beaten Track still sounds forward thinking, forging a new middle ground between dub and electronic music. Programmed chants and unexpected sounds (barking dogs, breaking glass, gypsy violin loops) are dropped onto a fluid rhythmic bed. A landmark recording in the integration of sampling technology...
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Rated by many to be the pinnacle in their catalogue, this third album from 1983 saw the reggae collective really hitting their stride. On microphone duties, Prince Far I and Bim Sherman are joined by Mikey Dread (fresh from his work with The Clash) and Ashanti Roy (The Congos) for...
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40th anniversary reissue of the debut Creation Rebel album, originally released on pre-On-U Sound label Hitrun in 1978. Recommended for fans of Scientist, King Tubby and the Wackies label. This is the seminal first studio work by revered dub producer Adrian Sherwood (Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, African Head Charge), engineered...
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The second album by the loose On-U collective, originally released in 1982. Featuring Prince Far I, Bim Sherman, Jah Woosh, plus members of the Roots Radics, The Slits and Glaxo Babies.
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2024 repress. "Totally killer previously unreleased dub companion LP to Flick Wilson's School Days LP. Jah Life was no slacker when it came to mixing dubs, and sat in with Scientist at King Tubby's for the mixing of many of the classic Junjo/Radics/Scientist albums. But more importantly, they also mixed...
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Audiopile Review: Dub reggae introduced an extraordinary new principle to music. Any given recording of a song could be reimagined in any number of ways. The arrival of sampling took this a quantum leap beyond. Now, fragments of any recorded sound could be recombined and recontextualized to infinity. These innovations...
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Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Studio One Dub Fire Special’ brings together 18 heavyweight dub cuts all recorded at 13 Brentford Road in the 1970s. Featuring a stellar selection of dub cuts to classic and foundation songs recorded at Studio One with music from the legendary in-house bands - The Sound...
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Originally recorded in 1978 (following the recording of Dub from Creation), the mighty Starship Africa was already envisioned as the debut album by one DJ Superstar, toasting over a series of rhythms performed by the basic Creation Rebel unit, with Misty in Roots' Tony Henry on superbly melodic bass. These...
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A heavyweight slab of UK roots and dub, originally released on the Jah Warrior label in 1997 gets a welcome reissue by Partial Records. Presented in a showcase style, with each vocal followed by the dub counterpart. Produced by Jah Warrior and mixed by Dougie Wardrop in London....
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A sublime set of roots, vocal and dubbed out instrumental magic, Close Encounters Of The Third World is a real lost gem in the treasure-filled Creation Rebel back catalogue. A true cross-atlantic collaboration - initial rhythm tracks were laid down in London in 1978, with horns and vocals overdubbed at...
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Audiopile Review: Bless, bless, bless Warp Records for enabling this ongoing reissue series which mines the copious vaults of Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound label. The many post-punk-dub-reggae projects helmed by Sherwood sound as primal and futuristic as they did a few decades ago. This latest set of reissues focuses on...
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First time available on vinyl since 1982. Psychotic Jonkanoo was the sixth Creation Rebel album in three years, originally licensed to the post-punk oriented Glaswegian label Statik. Another solid set of killer dub, albeit less instrumentally inclined than their previous efforts and more focussed on militant-style conscious chants. Bandleader...
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Audiopile Review: The two minds behind Gaia Tones drop this EP of tracks culled from their archives, dating back to the days just before they donned their current guise. While their releases as GT have tended toward deeply lysergic, near ritualistic riddems, these recordings reveal their more house-oriented origins, albeit...
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Welcome to ‘Instrumental Dubs #2’, a deep dive into the world of the Dub version and beyond. The A side has a distinct boogie feel, starting slow with a George Kerr produced cut from 1984 followed by a Brit Funk-esq instrumental from Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes originally released on...
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Much celebrated and influential album from legendary UK-based producer The Rootsman, which effortlessly merges dub reggae, dancehall, Middle Eastern, and Indian flavors with electronic dance music with astonishing and original results. Realms of the Unseen originally surfaced on the Third Eye Music label back in 1999 on CD and as...
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Battle Of Armagideon is one of the essential albums by Lee 'Scratch' Perry & The Upsetters. Perry's technique as a mixer and producer will get to you in many ways. “I'm a Madman” is the best-known album track, wherein Perry acknowledged his lunatic persona. The Spin Alternative Record Guide deemed...
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Conceived, written and recorded during the COVID pandemic, ‘King Perry’ is Lee Scratch Perry’s posthumous album, produced by Daniel Boyle, and featuring guest performances from Greentea Peng, Shaun Ryder, Tricky, Marta, Rose Waite and Fifi Rong. Two tracks were also co- produced with Tricky, who releases Perry’s last works...
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18 years on from its original release Studio One Dub remains super-hard hitting featuring classic + rare Dub tracks from Studio One, many available on vinyl for the first time in over thirty years. Studio One Dub includes the dubs of many classic tracks such as Horace Andy’s “Skylarkin”, Johnny...
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Studio One Story' is a documentary this is both a staggering slice of musical history and a definitive guide to Studio One, Jamaica's greatest ever record company, and its legendary founder, Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd. Often described as the Motown of Jamaica, or 'The University Of Reggae', Studio One is where...
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French synth-dub duo Froid Dub continue their blast of organic and digital material on this brand new 6-track album. Pushing the clash between synth wave and dub even further, the electronic beats of the TR-808 are more than ever engulfed in the slow motion vibes of the digi-bass echoes. <iframe...
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Kruder & Dorfmeister launched a world career in the 1990s. The two musicians of the Viennese downtempo sound were assigned by artists such as Madonna, Depeche Mode and Roni Size with remix work. Their successful mix album "The K&D Sessions" (1998) was played up and down in clubs from Ibiza...
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Our fourth release comes in the form of a collection of rich, pulsating ambient/dub techno from Pan•American - the solo project of post-rock trio Ladbradford's front man Mark Nelson. Drawn to the incredible depth and texture of these tracks, we hope to shine a light on Mark's more exploratory electronic...
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Keith Hudson’s Pick A Dub is a classic album by many standards; released in 1974, the session features performances from reggae legends Augustus Pablo, Big Youth and Carlton and Aston Barrett. The 1994 re-issue on the Blood & Fire label introduced a new generation to its" austere sonic qualities" and...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson's 'Forces of Victory' has been reissued on heavyweight vinyl in celebration of Black History Month. The album was remastered at Abbey Road and features a bonus disc of dub versions, extended mixes and expanded album artwork. ...
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Making music is trying to start over again every time. It’s a matter of questioning and approaching. It’s never settling for the sound that fills the world around. It’s looking for a door in the sky. And maybe find it, open it, go beyond it. Rod Modell and Gigi Masin,...
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Hostile Environment is the first album in over forty years from the legendary Creation Rebel, who were the original On-U Sound house band and responsible for classics such as Dub from Creation and Starship Africa. The trio of Crucial Tony, Eskimo Fox and Magoo are back with producer Adrian Sherwood...
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With its strong but unvarnished pop melodies, dubby production and sprinklings of exuberant racket nicked from free jazz records, D’Ya Hear Me’s contents would flow perfectly on a mixtape along with The Slits, Raincoats, Young Marble Giants, early PiL, and Vivien Goldman’s “Launderette” single. But Ray’s track would be the...
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