sadmanbarty

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It only just occurred to me, but john is a craner. someone who is an anthropomorphisation of a whole aesthetic value set. he is a living cyberpunk rasta baldhead inna hackney babylon.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
I would quite like it if "battybwoy" could be taken out of the title to be honest, but perhaps it is too late for that.
 

luka

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You don't want to have thirds problem where he made a great list but couldn't show it to any of his friends and comrades because of the preponderance of unreconstructed lad banter contained therein
 

john eden

male pale and stale

1. Steve Reich - Come Out (1966)

The first dub techno track. Composed of a vocal sample of Harlem rioter Daniel Hamm.

Also I believe the first time a member of the Five Percent Nation / Nation of Gods and Earths would appear on a record.
 

catalog

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1. Steve Reich - Come Out (1966)

The first dub techno track. Composed of a vocal sample of Harlem rioter Daniel Hamm.

Also I believe the first time a member of the Five Percent Nation / Nation of Gods and Earths would appear on a record.

This is really good - never heard it before.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
I would quite like it if "battybwoy" could be taken out of the title to be honest, but perhaps it is too late for that.

apologies. it was my fault for suggesting that title, i take full responsibility for it. Just for the record it was a gesture of solidarity with queers rather than intended to demonise. like yes white liberal middle class human rights campaigners, us listening to dancehall doesn't make us gay bashers does it. but of course the politics in ja are complicated.

it was intended more as a statement like this:

MCJTV6 years ago
Big up from di Scottish batty massive. Positive vibrations in mi bumba fo dis wan. Nuff nuff lubrication for di nation - BLESS !


but yeah it was probably cheap bait.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
And juke from the future. Couldnt be a better start.


1. Steve Reich - Come Out (1966)

The first dub techno track. Composed of a vocal sample of Harlem rioter Daniel Hamm.

Also I believe the first time a member of the Five Percent Nation / Nation of Gods and Earths would appear on a record.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
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2. Various Artists - MLK Dub (1999)

This snuck out under the radar at the time and a few people completely lost their shit. One of those people was Russ D of The Disciples who wrote a great review of it on his website (an incredible niche resource). I rang up Dub Vendor and ordered a copy over the phone and probably spoke to Russ' brother Lol Bell-Brown.

There were an avalanche of classic 70s dub reissues around this time and you could feel its presence everywhere. But this was Jamaica claiming Dub back with definitive yard style mixing in full digital spectrum. The yearning that only comes from knowing that whole swathes of the track have been subtracted but remain as a ghostly subliminal presence. Ethereal female backing vocals, rasta percussion and snatches of the top roots vocalists of the day. Bass that fills a room even at normal volume. Absolutely an album on its own terms - these are different mixes from the ones you would find on the b-sides of the original songs.

Not everyone will get it, but some of us are still evangelical about it 20 years later. Final Call: the last great dub LP to come out of Jamaica.

 

Woebot

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2. Various Artists - MLK Dub (1999)

This snuck out under the radar at the time and a few people completely lost their shit. One of those people was Russ D of The Disciples who wrote a great review of it on his website (an incredible niche resource). I rang up Dub Vendor and ordered a copy over the phone and probably spoke to Russ' brother Lol Bell-Brown.

There were an avalanche of classic 70s dub reissues around this time and you could feel its presence everywhere. But this was Jamaica claiming Dub back with definitive yard style mixing in full digital spectrum. The yearning that only comes from knowing that whole swathes of the track have been subtracted but remain as a ghostly subliminal presence. Ethereal female backing vocals, rasta percussion and snatches of the top roots vocalists of the day. Bass that fills a room even at normal volume. Absolutely an album on its own terms - these are different mixes from the ones you would find on the b-sides of the original songs.

Not everyone will get it, but some of us are still evangelical about it 20 years later. Final Call: the last great dub LP to come out of Jamaica.


very nice indeed. there was a period round 94 when lots of dancehall tunes were sampling dub - just the first example that springs to mind:

 
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