15 October, 2024

474 Ground Control




Continuing the dub theme, here's another mixed bag.  Super excited for the brand new Pelican Daughters album and happy I could include one of the tracks here.  Thanks to https://higher-thansun.blogspot.com/ for the exclusive Orb track here.  Scientist dubbing up New Age Steppers, Rob Smith having his way with a Police cover band, Black Uhuru inviting Natty Dreadlocks over for dinner (My daughter's nickname is Natty Dreadlocks and she joked that this song is about her). Ended this with a fun one from Adrian Sherwood.

00:00  DJ Spooky meets Mad Professor & Rob Swift - Creation Rebel
04:40  DubXanne - Roxanne (Rsd AKA Rob Smith Dub Mix)
09:14  Scientist & Dubiterian - Guiding Star Dub
13:50  Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Version)
19:45  Talisman - Things a Dub
23:53  Dubkasm - Dub Void
27:56  Pelican Daughters - Biology Teacher
34:21  Telefis with Jah Wobble - Falun Gong Dancer (Jah Wobble remix)
38:50  Subsurfing - The Number Readers (Highvelocitywords Dub)
46:06  Rootmasters - Janis Joplin's Mum
50:26  Children of Dub - Herb (Ambient 3)
55:05  The Orb - Towers of Dub (Raw Mix #5)
59:48  Teledubgnosis - Polar Cap Dub
65:49  Om Unit - Dissolved
69:25  Adrian Sherwood - Space Oddity Dubmix


13 October, 2024

473 From the depths comes levity



Lots of variety here, some straying a bit from traditional roots dub stylings.  Great songs throughout and ending with some light and delicate electronic dub. 

00:00  The Drastics - Deconstructionists
03:43  Jah Scouse - Merge (Vegan Mix)
07:38  Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - Farbballet (In Dub)
08:37  Darkwood Dub - Nepravdab
16:05  Future Pilot A.K.A. - Dammers or Czukay?
18:18  Llwybr Llaethog - Mynd Adre' Aub
22:51  Ott - Sommersettler
29:46  Four Tet - Warmer Places
34:18  Tosca - Annanas (Uko Dub)
37:29  New Age Doom & Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Holy Dub
40:45  Future Pilot A.K.A. - Battle At The Gates of Dub
41:52  Holy Tongue - Under a Veil, Under A Garment
46:43  Deepchord Presents: Echospace - Abraxas
52:03  Holy Tongue meets Shackleton - The Other Side of the Bridge
57:13  Hempolics - Feedback
62:37  KILN - Pinemarten
67:57  Ghost Dubs - Hot Wired
71:57  Jan Jelinek - Drift
76:58  Pole - Heim


11 October, 2024

472 Lee Scratch Perry - Skanking With The Upsetters vol 2


This year's Record Store Day heralded the release of Lee 'Scratch' Perry & The Upsetters - Skanking With The Upsetters, a collection of his "skank" titled tracks.  I was thrilled when I heard this was coming out, only to be sadly disappointed when the only record store in my small town didn't receive any copies.  I came home, and diligently went through my library and found I could rebuild that tracklist with the files I already had.   In this effort, I found another 24 or so tracks with "Skank" in the title that are either from Lee Sratch Perry, The Upsetters, or from his productions.   Hence, I went forth and pulled this second volume together.  Spotify only had 16 of the 22 tracks.

00:00  Kentucky Skank
03:26  African Skank
06:34  Kuchy Skank
09:25  Jucky Skank
13:29  Mooving Skank
16:13  Keep On Skanking
18:35  Kaya Skank
21:33  Doctor Skank
23:42  Lorna Skank
26:54  Rejoice In Skank
30:07  Solja Man Skank
33:52  So Many Skanks
36:43  Tighten Up Skank
39:18  Quiet Skanking
42:55  Caveman Skank
45:30  Apeman Skank
47:52  Jungle Skank
50:08  Big Bird Skank
53:39  Boloman Skank
56:38  Cow Thief Skank
59:58  Pious Skanking
63:12  Dreamland Skank


09 October, 2024

471b In Dub vol 2




Second mix all from "In Dub" named albums, mostly from bands I wouldn't have usually associated with the dub genre.

00:00  KMFDM - Para Dub
03:08  Peaking Lights - Cosmick Dub
10:40  Nocturnal Emissions - Bean Counter
15:42  Sandoz - Monopolize and Destroy
21:46  Pizzicato Five - Contact (Percolator Mix)
26:27  Meat Beat Manifesto - Spinning Round Dub
31:52  Jah Wobble - Careering
37:53  Renegade Soundwave - Black Eye Boy
44:04  Godflesh - Kingdom Come (version)
49:45  Killing Joke - This World Hell (Cult of Youth Ambient Samara Dub Mix)
56:59  Hallucinogen - Spiritual Antiseptic (Minty Fresh Confidence Mix)
65:15  Basement 5 - Paranoiaclaustrophobia Dub
69:59  I-LP-O IN DUB - Father Sun Rudealis


07 October, 2024

471a In Dub vol 1




In music nothing excites me quite like a non-reggae artist releasing an album simply titled "In Dub."   Sometimes the idea is better than the execution.  I'm a sucker and will always check it out just in case there are one or two tracks that really stand out.  Sure a couple of these are loose interpretations of this theme.  I-LP-O in Dub, has that 'in dub' in the artist name, Beatundercontrol is already pretty much a dub group, Mark Nelson's outing is from "In Daylight dub."  On the second mix Pizzicato Five's EP is subtitled "Combinaison Spaciale EP: Pizzicato Five In Dub" and Jeremy Taylor was listed as "Miles Davis in Dub" when I originally downloaded it - which is not the correct name of the album.  Still, they all have that same theme and are quite enjoyable on their own. A few artists are on these mixes twice because they have more than one album titled as "in dub."

00:00  Serge Gainsbourg - Drifter's Dub
03:32  Beatundercontrol - Neutron Dub
10:03  NIC in DUB - Twilight Circus Norge Head Charge
14:45  Sandoz - Chant To Jah
21:47  Almamegretta - Alma Dub
27:06  Dread - Blood Into Dub
34:24  William S Burroughs - Virus B-23 (Cities of The Red Night)
37:58  Nocturnal Emissions - Levitation Dub
42:58  The Pop Group - 3:38 (Dennis Bovell Dub Version)
47:38  Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood - Whirlpool Dub (Reset in Dub version)
52:17  Mark Nelson - Quarry A
57:59  HiM - Six
68:57  Jeremy Taylor - Flamenco Sketches (dub)