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Lee 'Scratch' Perry was a pioneer of dub music and worked together with artists such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Clash and The Beastie Boys At the age of 84, he passed away in 2021, but will be remembered as a true icon This legendary album of Lee Perry's studio band The Upsetters brings together the very best of...
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This album is dedicated to the memory of both Ariane 'Ari Up' Forster and Lincoln Valentine 'Style' Scott with whom the project started 'Dub No Frontiers' is inspired by and features women vocalists we knew from the UK or had met while travelling around the world Many of the singers said they felt the Dub/Reggae arena was a bit of...
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Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for 40 years His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby’s studio in Kingston Brown quickly ascended the ranks and became heir to Tubby’s throne, producing imaginative and technically...
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Out of stockThe Jamaican reggae group The Revolutionaries were set up in 1975 as the house band of the Channel One Studios With Sly Dunbar on drums and Bertram “Ranchie” McLean on bass, The Revolutionaries created the new “rockers” reggae style that would change the whole Jamaican sound Recorded at the Channel One studios, the 1979...
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In-demand slab of revolutionary dub that was originally released on the Boom-Shacka-Lacka label in 1994, featuring three mixes of an instrumental sound system shaker in the shape of "Dub Revolution" Highly regarded for their custom built dubplate cuts for Jah Shaka The Disciples have a sizable following worldwide, particularly in...
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Out of stockVersions' leaves out the vocals and exposes the production as it drifts off into instrumental bliss All-time classic, life-changing biz The hallmarks are all there; Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald have already set the world ablaze once, twice, three, four times with their work as Basic Channel and its legendary offshoots...
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Out of stockAll-time classic, life-changing biz Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald already set the world ablaze once, twice, three, four times with their work as Basic Channel and its legendary offshoots by way of the M series, Main Street, Chain Reaction, Rhythm and Sound and, of course, Burial Mix This is, in fact, the second Burial...
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Out of stockBrand new album featuring non-stop killer Studio One cuts from The Skatalites, Heptones, Lone Ranger, Horace Andy and loads more Album comes in jewel case with slipcase style CD, limited edition gatefold heavyweight double vinyl and EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD from here This is the first new Studio One/Soul Jazz release in...
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Rhythm Shower is the 1973 studio album by The Upsetters, but also features tracks by Dillinger and Sir Lord Comic Many of the rhythms on the album are known as those done by Lee “Scratch” Perry Originally released in a very limited Jamaican pressing with no sleeve, it became better known after its reissue by Trojan Records as...
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This set of Al Brown dub mixes by Paolo ‘DubFiles’ Baldini was a project that Pressure Sounds had been itching to tackle for some time They finally got around to starting on the mixes during the lockdown period, when everyone had a little more time and headspace!! Al Brown is a fine Jamaican singer who came closest to...
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Limited double purple colored vinyl LP pressing Includes photo cards and digital download Soul Jazz Records are releasing Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation's seminal 1975 album Tales of Mozambique in an expanded edition, fully remastered and with the inclusion of two bonus rare single-only tracks, full sleevenotes, exclusive...
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Reissue, originally released in 1980 Welcome to the realm of creator and mentor Michael Wadada, the man behind the exotic maneuvers of Suns of Arqa, one of the most sought-after world beat fusion project of the early eighties His main goal was to increase the vibrations of classical Indian raga with the rhythms of Niyabinghi...
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Culture is the Jamaican roots reggae group who founded in 1976 The trio was led by Joseph Hill and also featured Kenneth Dayes and Albert Walker Not long after releasing their classic debut album Two Sevens Clash, a dub version followed This version having the tunes produced by Jamaica's first female producers Sonia Pottinger and...
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Scratch The Super Ape is the 1976 studio album by Lee Perry's studio band The Upsetters The lineup consisted of Boris Gardener on bass, Mikey Benbow on drums, Earl Smith on guitar, Keith Sterling on keys and the horn quartet Bobby Ellis, Dirty Harry, Herman Marquis, and Vin Gordon The album is recorded at Lee Perry's studio and is...
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Out of stockA welcome reissue for this herbal-influenced Zion Train album, originally released on Universal Egg in 1995 A spaced-out, worldwide dub excursion into the Wonderful World of Weed For 30 years, Zion Train have been at the forefront of the UK dub and festival scene and still take their sound and message worldwide The Tasilli...
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Absolutely ESSENTIAL album from reggae dub legend Lee Perry originally released in 1980 - final work to emerge from the Black Ark studio, before its permanent destruction The last in a series of such LP masterworks as Super Ape, War In A Babylon, Police And Thieves, and The Return Of The Super Ape! Enthrallingly, it crosses...
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Out of stockOriginally only available as a digital release on Nightwind Records, LIES Records now provides the vinyl edition of what is sure to be a cult classic in the vast Legowelt catalog: Last December Danny Wolfers met up with Japanese digital dub legend Taka Noda aka Mystica Tribe to produce this Far East style heavy digital dub album...
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Out of stockSuperb new compilation from Pressure Sounds with rare and unreleased productions by Lee Perry 24 Tracks from the sound lab The Black Ark between 1972 - 1978 Featuring U Roy, Junior Byles, Dillinger, Tinga Stewart, The Ethiopians and many more Deep roots music at it's finest, play loud and...
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By the late 1970s, dub was firmly established as a favorite subgenre of the reggae canon, with every Jamaica-based record producer devoted to the style Sonia Pottinger was no exception, and with Treasure Isle Studios sound engineer Errol Brown, she had one of the best exponents in the business His dub master talents reflected in a...
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sferic mark 5 years of operations with a special deep dive into ancient/modern Mediteranean culture by Giovanni Napolano, usually known for crankier industro-dancehall output as NPLGNN (Reel Torque, Youth) as well as programming the wonderful MBE label (Beatrice Dillon, Conor Thomas, EVOL) - a proper RIYL Jay Glass Dubs, Christos...
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Out of stockThis collection of ten very classy sounding Balearic pop songs actually consists of unreleased material from 1989-1991, a fact you'd never have guessed from merely listening to it Brenda is a UK based singer and producer, and during the 80s frontperson of Brenda and the Beachballs (whose 'Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger' makes a...
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Lucifer on the Moon flips Lucifer on the Sofa's rhythm tracks inside-out, and often rebuilds them wholesale Sherwood supplied extensive additional instrumentation via ON-U's extended family of session players, including bassist Doug Wimbish and drummer Keith LeBlanc (both of whom performed in Sugarhill Records' early '80s in-house...
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What is the sound of Russian dub There is a storied history of attempts to adapt roots music to the Russian soil, but most of them can be attributed to reggae (the so-called 'northern' variety) rather than dub Gost has history with the town of Smolensk It's home to Gamayun, whose great album Filterealism was released on our label...
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The Lost Albums In Jamaican Bass Player, Bandleader, Songwriter, Singer And Producer Boris Gardiner's Discography - First Official Issue Of These Impossibly Rare Albums 1970s Jamaica suffered an unprecedented stretch of political turmoil and violence, and as the country’s economy and morale collapsed, reggae and its offshoots...
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Phillip Smart was one of the great engineers to learn his trade as understudy to the legendary dub master himself Osbourne'King Tubby'Ruddock Alongside other luminaires such as Prince Jammy and Scientist,Phillip Smart would step in at the controls when demand for King Tubby studio dubs grew to such an extent that each single...
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Out of stockStix Records, a sub-label of Favorite Recordings, proudly presents Jazz-Funk Dub Tribute, a new project by Mato with exclusive Dub versions of some of the most famous Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Funk & Fusion tracks After the amazing success of his Summer Madness / Maiden Voyage (2021) single, respectively covering Kool &...
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Cosmic Threat's Cosmic Threads on Jahtari "Six Black Hole jazz dubs by Cosmic Threat, coming together in one truely epic album straight from the astral echo chamber Jammed over various sessions in an empty Leipzig club during lockdown, Kiki Hitomi, disrupt and bass clarinet black belt Volker Hemken (from Gewandhausorchester...
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Sought after rarity in the On-U Sound catalogue Last pressing was done in 2016 and is long gone so grab this opportunity to add this Science Fiction Dancehall Classic to your record collection Originally released in 1984, this is one of the most envelope-pushing records on the On-U Sound label: a rhythmic collision of noise,...
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Out of stockOm Unit surprises us with a second volume of his 'Acid Dub Studies' project, once again fusing his love for the 303 with studio techniques given to us by musical heroes such as King Tubby, Adrian Sherwood, Jammys and Basic ChannelThis second volume further solidifies the convincing narrative created by its best-selling...
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This new Studio collection on Soul Jazz Records delves deep into a melting pot world of reggae and funk and dub created at the music laboratory of 13 Brentford Road, Kingston in the 1970s - an intense collaboration of crack musicians, singers, DJs and engineers under the guidance of producer Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd Here you...
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“one of the hardest dub albums ever released” Reggae The Rough Guide There's not a lot we can add to that brief description of this set which features the production talents of Jimmy Radway and the mixing skills of Errol Thompson Dub music simply doesn't get any better than this The set has been totally remastered,...
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Out of stockA perfect showcase of the remarkable production skills of undisputed dub master Lee “Scratch” Perry, this is the final Upsetters LP to be recorded at The Black Ark studio before its closure! "There are rare instances of a sequel being better than the original, and while some might argue that Lee Perry’s muggy mid-’70s...
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Out of stockEmotional Rescue returns to what it does best by unearthing musical gems of the British post punk scene with a double pack compilation of Bristol’s short lived Recreational Records Teaming up with Bristol Archive Records, 10 songs are remastered, reissued and cut loud for DJs and collectors What is most striking is, although...
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LA based reggae drummer, Shakaman presents two solo productions featuring completely unorthodox drumming journeys losing all sense of time or realityhakaman on the drums, is all the credits you will find on this solo release of his, previously unreleased material he recorded deep in the unknown of his home studio A pure honesty is...
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It gives me the greatest honour to finally be able to announce the release of this amazing triple vinyl masterpiece by log(m) and Laraaji on Invisible, Inc It's been over a decade since Laraaji first joined forces with log(m) in their Canadian studio in early 2007 Over the following ten years the trio recorded many hours of...
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Reissue, originally released in 1982 Officially the latest album released by the British super group, Lows & Highs is the triumphant epilogue to these fascinating adventure in rhythm Featuring vocals from Crucial Tony and Lizard Logan this is probably the most straight-ahead reggae album in their whole discography Producer...
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1970s Jamaica suffered an unprecedented stretch of political turmoil and violence, and as the country’s economy and morale collapsed, reggae and its offshoots exploded worldwide Boris Gardiner enjoyed great success leading bands, issuing albums that mixed reggae, ska, soul and funk, and collaborating with the likes of Lee...
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Out of stockHorace Andy's Midnight Scorchers on On-U Sound "A companion album to the critically acclaimed Midnight Rocker, this is Adrian Sherwood’s ‘sound system’ take on the original sessions Featuring new tracks; radical dancehall re-works with MC interjections from Daddy Freddy and Lone Ranger; and stripped back instrumental...
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Hand Stamped, Hand numbered, Limited press, with insert An oddly familiar/familiarly odd entity floating about the relatively cohesive surface of contemporary electronic music, Belgium-via-Italy based duo Front De Cadeau has been knocking genres askew and blowing overused terminologies out of the water with unrelenting panache...
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Following on from 2020s acclaimed album Vodou Ale (and preceding the release of a new album in 2023), Chouk Bwa turn up the heat for this exhilarating trip into their bush of ghosts by introducing a new stripped down line- up to fire up the dance floor, based exclusively on the drums and rhythms of the Haitian kongo rite and deep...
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Out of stockArguably the greatest Jamaican record producer of all time, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was instrumental in transforming the island’s national sound throughout the Sixties and Seventies, with his unique approach to music making pushing the music beyond previously perceived boundaries To mark the first anniversary of his passing,...