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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 11 Februari (23:01 - 00:03)
Dubonic Plague - Some Faves [Just to let you all know that I am about to produce my [our] very own first-ever 12-inch dub version in flesh and blood - due any day [hour] now. I will be taking a month's pregnancy leave until all the DNA is safely remixed. More later'Whenever people ask do you know what it is, a he or a she? I always evade the issue and say, it's a DJ.] | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Wreck This Mess "is a radio program stupid" Mix #.4.wt.99m | |
| Backdoor [dub mix] | CeeoMix [1] |
| "Everybody gets everything he wants; I want an emission" | Martin Sheen [1a] |
| Dubmission Part 1 | The Vision [2] |
| Crazy Bulbous Punchbag of Sound | Andy Fairley [3] |
| Valley Dub | Twilight Circus [4] |
| Duggie Dohl Caffrey stretch Out | Black Star Liner [5] |
| I'm The Man For You, Baby | Dub Syndicate [6] |
| Bad Breed Dub | Dub Plate Vibe Crew [7] |
| "This is Dub Revolution" | Lee "Scratch Perry |
| Parallax | Spectre [8] |
| "I just Wanna Take Common Sense to High Places" Wreck Id | |
| Operation Mind Control | Skull vs Ice |
| Snoring Dub: Turn up the Controls | Aberdare Rockers [9] |
| Dorothy's Visit To Munchkin Land | Wizard of Oz [Original Outtakes] |
| Lego | Seven Dub [10] |
| "This is Dub Revolution" | Lee "Scratch Perry |
| Beyond the Hills (Ras Boras Remix) | Rootsman [11] |
| Provisional Dub | Systemwide [11a] |
| Flowers on the Slope | Pulse Der Zeit [12] |
| Ghettoprayer | Groove Corporation vs Bim Sherman [13] |
| Rescue Service (exc) | Dub Funk Association [13a] |
| WTM with BP 1992 Style | |
| Dubbing Psycho Thriller | Lee "Scratch " Perry vs Dub Syndicate [14] |
| [1] "Home is Where the Bass Is" on Incoming. One of my favorite bottomfeeder dub releases of all time. It just continues to brood and percolate from beginning to end. Unrelenting. Explorations of psychic black holes. The idea that outer space is not the hopeful terrain we have come to need to believe it to be. | |
| [1a] No doubt Sheen sampled from "Apocalypse Now". | |
| [2] Great German dub band. Sample: "We gonna get a little respect! That's fuckin great!" | |
| [3] The great apocalyptic narrator of the harrowing sci fi post-industrial film we all carry around inside us. He offered an Orson Welles-ian aspect of alienation and dread, adding depth and menace, purpose and hi-jinks to many an On-U recording. A very under-estimated force in spoken word. Beats the hades out of all the stand-up spoken wordsmiths'especially because the voice seemed disembodied, seemingly coming from internal organs we don't even have a name for. | |
| [4] "Crooklyn Dub Outernational Presents Certified Dope vol. 3" www.wordsound.com An excellent compilation from the Crooklyn Dub crew. Certified doomsday, living on the edge of meaning and fortune. When you live in NY long enough your mental color palette definitely turns to a rotting spectral range from a sick baby shit brown, to an institutional building pale olive green to shades of faded black and ashen grey. This being the case, they make some of the most profound dub where the bass forms a kind of divining rod for the aimless spirit. As for Twilight Circus: The more said the better -it's the solo dub project of Ryan Moore, the bassist for the legendary Legendary Pink Dots and more. I am always interested when a music like dub goes farther afield like Nijmegen in the Netherlands. According to my comrade at Wreck This Mess in Paris, "There is a new vinyl-album call "Dub Plates Vol. Two" which is dub with seventies Scientist and other dub-master style rmoore@globalxs.nl http:// www.bsg-inc.com/twilight/ mail order: M Rec., P.O. Box 469, 6500 Al Nijmegen, The Netherlands; | |
| [5] "Twelve Inch Confrontation Mix" on Echo Beach http://www.echobeach.de has a very pranksterish feel to it without sacrificing beautiful dubbish and drum and bassy fervor. It feels a little like an early McLaren project. The write ups mention KLF and that seems just as appropriate. They are that intriguing type of hybrid - Anglo-Asian - which blends punk, dub and hinduspeed. Includes their groundbreaking "Smoke the Prophets" EP versions. With remixes and tinkerings by rootsman and Soft Cell's Dave Bell. | |
| [6] "Strike The Balance" on On-U [EFA#: CD18647-2 / On-U#: CD 0047] Great disc from 1989. Here DS send up the Barry White sultry crooning come ons to a dub backdrop. Their influence is incalculable. | |
| [7] "Voice of Dub" on Solardub Records out of Germany. A bit rudimentary but has its numerous instants where the dub seems to gurgle with potential inspiration. | |
| [8] "The End" on Word Sound www.wordsound.com is filled with lethargic and cantakerous beats that herald the end of some sort of world as we know it today. The beats are pure dub at its most elemental. | |
| [8a] "Computer World" on Warner Brothers is a disc with so much lasting power, it sounds contemporary if not STILL ahead of its time. Pretty much "invented" the notion of cyborgian soul, or that cognitively dissonant notion of man-machine, hot-cold, calculated-impulsive. Dates from 1981! | |
| [9] "A Reggae Selection" I found this while renovating a friend's attic. There was a whole box of these with cassette labels etc. Indicating a shoestring cottage industry = a self-produced cassette. On that elvel alone it is really really interesting with all sorts of fun effects and LSP like use of disparate samples. Who are they? I am guessing transplanted Brits who were living in Amsterdam for a time. Anyone have more info on them? | |
| [10] "Rock It Tonight" plus Remixes is another new one on Echo Beach echo@on-line.de and is by the Paris-based duo [ex of Les Satellites which was a kind of aberrant post-rockabilly bunch in I'm not mistaken and Babylon Fighters, which was punky reggae - if memory ever serves me correctly] Seven Dub who have gone headlong into innovative dance music. Which manages to forge yet another tributary into the sultry squashed soul post-industrial Massive Attack vocals sit atop throbbing dubby, jazzy house beats. They've worked with members of the legendary [if sometimes overrated] Last Poets as well as Fela Kuti's son, Femi, and Manu Dibango. | |
| [11] "Versions of the Unseen EP" on BSI www.bsi-records.com and also check out Rootsman at www.screen-style.com/thrideye Here remixed by various personages, my fave being the remix by Ras Boras of Treponem Pal of France which turned from an industiral punk outfit into France's own variety of Renegade Sound Wave. Rootsman combines the best of many worlds sounding at times like Sandinista -era Clash or the most melifluous outings of Muslimgauze. Poppy yet unafraid to push the faders and provoke. | |
| [11a] "Systemwide meets Muslimgauze" on BSI www.bsi-records.com is pure viral infection contracted from latterday Muslimgauze. It bottoms out, lists, is about to capsize - how much noiise can there be inside sound? From the rainy west coast of America. | |
| [12] "At Checkpoint Charlie" by Pulse Der Zeit vs the Mad Professor on that great label of forgotten gems, ROIR. I really like this label because they keep making us realize that in the heated rush to judge and acclaim much great material is left behind to gather dust in the shadow of the great publicity machine. Yet another German ensemble, they were among the first to maintain that delicate balance "between technology and feel" as Ben Mapp notes in his liner notes of this great cassette. Combining in that forceful manner soul through steely-cold vocal chords, here by Soer La Blanche singing reggae tunes in German for the first time [ever]. Here in the hands of the Mad Prof they are able to take up words not readily associated with singing. This was at the crossroads, crudely outfitted Mad Prof began his Ariwa label shortly after his interactions here. | |
| [13] "Trust-Belief-Love-Respect" Various Artists vs Reverend E.C.H.O. at Mombak City on Echo Beach http://www.echobeach.de One of the more committed labels stretching the beats and the entire sonic boundaries of dub beyond what ears have grown used to. Here E.C.H.O. sets forth the basic schizoidal dialectic between info overload and the ability of music to get beyond, supersede and defeat those who would have our souls relegated to ISBNs. All the retakes and cross-pollinations have a way of hurling us into OTHER World Music - roots in the cosmos. This is a collection of head to head remixes of Tackhead, Groove Corporation, Dreadzone, Ruts DC vs Zion Train, Djins... | |
| [13a] "Sound of Heavyweight" check them out - more info at kelvin@tantyrecord.com | |
| [14] For the DNA tributary of where Beefheart meets Sun Ra - Lee Scratch Perry has produced some of the most insanely relevant rants that should be considered poetry. "This is the return of the captain Lee "Scratch" Perry / heads of government you are charged with sacrilege / / heads of government you are charged with public jestering ' I find you guilty and sentence you, / heads of government, to poverty and famine and hardship and bad luck - bye bye hypocrites'" | |