via Grievous Angel:
[My] dj mix of dub-pon-dub riddim excursions, all in a grime / dubstep friendly 140bpm format. In a way it presaged the remix album that’s forthcoming on Keysound, where I remixed the whole of the Blackdown and Dusk album and mixed it together.
Roy Shirley goes wild for the crowd with his “Rock Steady” show:
Excerpted from the reggae episode of the Aquarius tv show circa 1976. (Imagine the 1980 cult film Babylon if it were a BBC documentary and you’d have the reggae episode of Aquarius.)
My concert review of the Mad Professor show at Mighty in San Francisco is looooong overdue. Things have been crazy at my “day job” so the reviews were the first thing to get put on the back burner. So, enjoy these photos from the concert on March 15, 2008 and this short review:
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DJ Don Letts compiled a wicked collection of tunes for Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown from his vast collection of reggae and dub 7-inches. The album is a veritable soundtrack to London’s legendary Roxy Club circa December ‘76 – April ‘77, where the Pistols, Clash and Banshees were known to kick it while Letts spun irie tunes. Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown features 16 tracks by King Tubby, Culture, Jah Stitch, Horace Andy, Lee “Scratch” Perry, U-Roy, Junior Murvin and many more.
The album even includes the apocalyptic Culture song “Two Sevens Clash”:
When asked to describe the sound of The Bug, Kevin Martin responds, “Beats, Bombs, Bass, Weapons, Congestion, Space, Concussion and Seduction.” !!Sounds Beautiful!! Martin [the man behind the bug] has refined an arsenal of tuff tunes (with Flowdan and Warrior Queen passing the mic) and wicked remixes (for Ghislain Poirier and Thom Yorke of Radiohead) into dangerous dubplate killahs! Perhaps the don of toxic dancehall finished construction on his urban-legendary soundsystem and now makes distorted ragga dubs on a barricade of bassbins instead of a pair of studio monitors! “Poison Dart” is The Bug’s most recent weapon of choice: a staggering riddim made razor-sharp by Warrior Queen’s defiant tongue. It’s a heavy tune that aches to be played BiG and LouD in an open space where the bass can unfurl into the wide wobbling synths that decay into long echoes.
HearingTest has the brand new video for “Poison Dart” and details on the remixes by Skream, South Rakkas Crew, Stereotyp and a Flowdan version that will accompany the originals to be released in December. I’ve even posted Warrior Queen’s lyrics for “Poison Dart” which aim Warrior’s wisdom at young shottas inna de dance. If your native tongue is more patio than patois, these subtitles might help. ([More →])
Burial is such a unique artist and his music almost defies classification in any genre. His music hovers somewhere between dub, experimental electronica and psycho-acoustic phenomena. It leans more towards dub and dubstep, but often times sounds like dub played on a slow speed. Burial unearthed his sophomore album of experimental dubstep on Hyperdub last week, titled Untrue. His self-titled debut, released last year, was praised by music critics of all different tastes – even dubbed Album of the Year by The Wire magazine. ([More →])
Greensleeves is 30! A record store and label that has done so much for reggae music, from roots to jungle, is celebrating 3 decades in business with a double disc compilation release. The album contains 30 songs, each representing a different year in the history of the legendary label and it’s available on CD as well as digital download. Both versions include artwork, sleevenotes and an interview with the founders of Greensleeves.
Visa issues were the cause of Horace Andy missing several shows in the US recently, when he was scheduled to share the bill with dub and reggae heavyweights Sly and Robbie. The visa has been issued finally, Andy flew from Kingston, Jamaica to California, and the tour will proceed as planned. Cherine Anderson opens the concerts, warming up the crowd for Horace Andy’s roots reggae crooning and Sly and Robbie’s relentless and warm jamming on drums and bass. ([More →])
JAHTARI performed a digital dub/reggae set for Mary Anne Hobbs show on BBC Radio 1 last week. If you missed it, you can still listen to the stream of that show until the new one airs on Thursday Night/Friday morning depending on your time zone.
You can listen to the show while you read by clicking here to open a new window with the player innit.
Burial – ‘Stairwell’ (Demo)
Flying Lotus ft J Dilla & Phat Kat – ‘Game Over’ (White)
Magnetic Man – ‘Ligma’ (Dubplate)
Cdatakill – ‘No Brakes’ [Detritus remix] (Ad Noisium)
The Bug & Flowdan – ‘Jah War’ [Loefah mix] (Ninja)
The Download
Local – ‘They Are Local’ (Betulla)
MED – ‘Rhymes With An L’ from Peanut Butter Wolf presents Chrome Children Vol 2 (Stones Throw)
Jahtari Live Digital Laptop Reggae Set
Laurie Anderson – ‘O Superman’ (Nonesuch)
Burial starts off beautifully, lovely bass and dark synths. Hobbs keeps rolling out the dubstep for a while, including a fantastic dubstep riddim by The Bug with Flowdan pon di mic. This combo is amazing! Flowdan is pure spitfire Rastafari – like Ninjaman meets Sizzla inna concrete jungle! BIG TUNE! An interlude into experimental electronica and noise that sounds like Squarepusher left alone in a room with a toddler and a Casio, some relaxing dub frequencies that step up to UK steppers dub, building suspense, building intrigue for all these spacey sounds…. unless you skip ahead. A unique set from JAHTARI kicks in at 16:50 (BBC radio players use the time of the show). All spaced out, relaxing, digital dub. Beautiful stuff. Lay down with a warm wet cloth over your eyes or something, really relax and listen to this lovely sound. Enjoy! Then wake back up to a little Laurie Anderson and enjoy the last half hour of the show.
JAHTARI on Tour And BBC Radio – HearingTest
JAHTARI Net Label – HearingTest
Earlier, i pointed out a net-label called JAHTARI, where you can listen to streaming digital dub and reggae, or save a few releases for later… Well, i just got the scoop that Mary Anne Hobbs will be broadcasting the collective mind that is known as JAHTARI on her radio show which will broadcast either this week or next week. Mary Anne Hobbes is the dj and hostess of a radio show on BBC Radio, who specializes in “leftfield” music. She mixes and matches quite a bit of grime, experimental electronica, breakcore, noise, and lots of yummy bass beat heavy music. If you listen to this week’s archive, there is a remix of Beastie Boys’ “Paul Revere” (Best Element Remix from the LP- The Dedicated Beatheads Sound Convention Vol. 1 on Audiac) right around minute 16:54 i believe. [ok, technical detail - each show starts at 16:00 does anyone know why? and you can fast forward in 5 minute increments or 15 minute increments, so hit that 16:50 sweet spot and sit tight.] Mary Anne Hobbs show on BBC Radio 1 airs live in the UK every Friday morning (Thursday night for night-owls) 2AM- 4AM. It streams live over the internet at BBC Radio 1 MAH page and is archived for only one week before being replaced by the new show.
Watch Mary Anne Hobbs radio show page on BBC Radio 1 for the upcoming JAHTARI studio performance.
May 11 Jahtari live / RHYTHM & SOUND!! Distillery Leipzig, Sachsen
May 18 Puschkin Dresden Germany
Jun 7 Coopcorp Festival Girona / Spain
Jun 8 Dub en Sauce Festival Montpelier
Jun 9 Caixaforum (art museum) Barcelona, Spain
Jun 15 live@Esperanza Sound System Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg
Jun 22 Broke Gringos/Bo Marley/Jahtari Cologne Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Jun 23 Jahtari / Bo Marley live / DJ set Suhl, Thüringen
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