New releases on Fresh Poulp Records

2010 seems to have barely started and it’s already been a busy year for dub releases, free and non-free. Time to draw your attention to some albums very much worth listening to.

We’re starting things off with two albums on the excellent Fresh Poulp label. Self Control is the first album from French dub producer Zazen. The heavy bass lines and the steady rhythms provide a solid base for his original soundscapes. Strong and spiritual at the same time, this is a hypnotic album with not one weak track.

Then there’s Afirmativa from brasil-based singer Andreia Dacal. It’s the second time Fresh Poulp goes Brasil, after the Dubalizer album, and we surely hope they will do this more often in the future. Andreia Dacal brings an exciting mix of reggae, dub, rap and Brazilian music. Nice one!

Of course you can download both albums for free from Fresh Poulp Records. Which by the way is one of our favorite netlabels.

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.

Trailer for Dubkasm’s debut album ‘Transform I’

Wicked trailer for Dubkasm‘s debut album ‘Transform I’. Gives us a brief insight into the making of the debut album, filmed in Bristol and Brazil, where the project was realised. Wetting the appetite for the works of Digistep and DJ Stryda.

The album is announced as “Nyahbinghi rhythms bonding with Samba, Brazilian instruments such as berimbau, zabumba, cavaquinho and cuica to create the first ever album of authentic UK dub fused with Brazilian sounds.” You can further wet your appetite at their MySpace page.

Brasil meets Jamaica ina rough dub style

Based in Sao Paulo, sound engineer Buguinha Dub is one of the big names on the Brasilian dub scene.

With “Vitrola Adubada” he brings us a new dub album that blends Jamaica, Brasil and more in a unique way. Most of the dubs on “Vitrola Adubada” originate  from the recordings that Buguinha Dub made with Brasilian reggae, dancehall, samba and afrobeat musicians. There’s a rough feel to these dubs, especially with the addition of some old school analog effects and a big slice of madness. The result is unique and fascinating. Just the way we love our dubs!

“Vitrola Adubada” is released on netlabel Les Cristaux Liquident. You can download the album from their site. Below you can listen to “Fino da massa 1″.

By the way, if you want to hear more dub made in Brasil, go check out the new Cannabits netlabel. They recently released volume 2 of the Pac-o-Mania sampler.