Dub from Brasil
With this new release (they call it their next to last release for 2009), french netlabel Fresh Poulp Records has taken the road to Brasil. They ended up in São Paulo where they met up with producer Wagner Bagão aka Dubalizer.
To some of you this name perhaps might ring a bell, as earlier this year Dubalizer was already present on the Dub Tentacles compilation. Now he his first full album Sub Existencia. Fourteen tracks presenting the dub skills of Dubalizer and featuring many artists of the new brasilian scene. Fresh Poulp calls it “a tasty blend of roots reggae, dub, electronic music and latin flavours”. And that’s exactly what it is: a very fine global dub adventure.
Download it from the Fresh Poulp site.
Some more brasilian dub
And while we’re in Brasil, why not have another taste of brasilian dub. Cannabits is a recently created netlabel that wants to promote dub made in Brasil. Last year they published two Pac-o-Mania compilations (and a third one is said to be on the way). Grab a slice of brasilian dub and download both of them from the Cannabits site.
Add comment 23 november 2009
King Midas Sound
King Midas Sound is the new outfit of Kevin Martin (also known as The Bug and much much more) and Trinidad-born poet and singer Roger Robinson. The tune above is taken from the beautifull 2008 Hyperdub 12″ ‘Cool Out’/'One Ting’.
Their new album is due to be out end of this month. From what you can hear on their myspace page, it promises to be equally great. Mixing haunting dub with tearjerking ballads, this is 21st century lovers rock with a ghostly feel. Wordsound take power again with King Midas Sound.
Some more King Midas Sound: John Eden (uncarved.org) had a long talk with Martin and Robinson for FACT magazine, he aptly subtitled it The melancholy of hope. You can read pre-release reviews from Boomkat and BBC, the latter calling the album already a classic. And King Midas Sound have started a blog with some artwork, some linkage and Kevin Martin’s excellent sleevenotes for the classic “Macro Dub Infection” compilation.
Add comment 17 november 2009
The Jah of 8-Bit-Chip-Dub-Digital-Laptop-Reggae-Music
Full analog 8-bit rewind going fast forward with this nice article about the Jahtari label, Disrupt and the flea market fortune. You can find it over at Phlow magazine.
The article comes with a Phlow Jahtari Mixtape entitled “A Fistful Of Dub”.
And while you’re there, check out the rest of Phlow magazine. It’s THE netlabel magazine with regular updates, well-written articles, interviews and some great mixes and compilations all for free. Essential!
2 comments 12 november 2009
Lee Perry On The Wire 1987
Streamola has delved up this tape of an On The Wire radio session with Lee Scratch Perry and Adrian Sherwood. The broadcast dates back from 1987, the year both dubmasters released the classic Time Boom X The Devil Dead album on On-U Sound. Listen to it or download it from the Streamola blog.
Over at Streamola you can also enjoy lots of streams that were originally webcast on the now defunct streamola.com in the period 1999–2001. There’s some truely great stuff over there.
Add comment 25 oktober 2009
Mungo’s Hi Fi with Soom T
Life can be simple. You take a great sound system. You take a great singer. You put one and one together and what do you get? Right.
Mungo’s Hi Fi performing live at a garden party with Soom T on vocals. Glasgow style!
Add comment 23 oktober 2009
Kode9 podcast for XLR8R
On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Hyperdub label, labelhead Kode9 will be releasing a two-disc compilation. “5″ will both look back at the label’s history and show us the groundwork for its future.
Those of you who can’t wait till next week, can now listen to the podcast he posted on XLR8R. He takes a little step back in time for a set comprised of classic UK garage and 2-step from the period 1999-2002.
He already played this “Bubble ‘N’ Squeak Mix” for a special broadcast of the “On the Wire” radioshow, where he was one of the guests celebrating 25 years of On the Wire. Now you get a proper download from the XLR8R site. Enjoy!
3 comments 21 oktober 2009
Bo Marley live
Funny and funky. Bo Marley performing live in front of a Leipzig supermarket. Including their nearly classic “Fleish”.
Add comment 19 oktober 2009
Some webcam rapping
How do you call this? A webcam rap? Still, this sounds really crazy. It’s Swedish rapper Eboi spitting on Busta Rhymes Break Ya Neck instrumental.
Add comment 13 oktober 2009
The Wire meets Pressure Sounds
Derek Walmsley from the Wire Magazine invited Noel Hawks of ace reggae label Pressure Sounds into the studio of Resonance FM. Hawks is interviewed and selects some great tracks. Have a listen.
Add comment 10 oktober 2009
Radio Mauritsstad
For those of you that understand dutch, belgian radio maker Zjakki Willems has produced a great series of radio documentaries on the musical traditions of Recife and Pernambuco. Brasil that is. With Radio Mauritsstad he digs into the roots of this Brasilian musical melting pot, also takes a closer look at the mangue beat (and much more) and finally ends with today’s vibrating music scene. With interviews and lots of exciting music.
For those of you that don’t understand dutch: never mind the talking, just listen to the music.
And by the way, glad to see that the sadly missed belgian radio show Cucamonga has turned itself into an equally fascinating blog.
Add comment 9 oktober 2009
