Dubblestandart’s Chrome Optimism

This is weird and beautiful. It’s Dubblestandart‘s Chrome Optimism, featuring the vocals of Lee Perry and snippets from an interview with movie director David Lynch (“the ideas tell you how you wanna be”” ànd some samples of Jean-Michel Jarre’s synthesizer anthem “Oxygen”. All of them thrown into a superb mix.
The song is taken from their excellent 2009 Return From Planet Dub album.

I am The Upsetter

There’s such an enormous wealth of Lee Perry music and productions, that now there’s even a blog dedicated exclusively to nothing but the music and productions of Lee Perry. It’s aptly titled I am The Upsetter. Scratch it!

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.

Lee Perry and Ari Up performing with Dubblestandart

Nice one. Lee Scratch Perry joining Ari Up (of Slits fame) for an unannounced performance with Dubblestandart.

Want more? There’s a longer edit in higher resolution of the Brooklyn performance over at  vimeo.

Dubblestandart “Return from Planet Dub”

Dubblestandart has a new album ready for release, featuring Ari Up & Lee Scratch Perry. “Return from Planet Dub” is already their 11th album since the early 90s, when they started releasing productions in the name of dub. Those who already heard the album (to be released early june), call it “one aural trip that needs to be heard” (Reggae Vibes) or a “sonic exploration that inches dub further into uncharted territory, taking Perry and Ari Up beyond their own boundaries (David Katz).

From what we already heard of it ourselves, we have to agree with this. There’s of course Lee Perry dispensing his wisdom and madness, aided by the superb backings. There’s Dubblestandard revisiting all time classics such as ‘Disco Devil’ and ‘Blackboard Jungle Dub’. There’s some tunes reminding us of the very best of On-U Sound. There’s the abstract vocals of postmodern dancehall queen Ari Up. There’s the excursions into dubble-though dubstep. There’s even Jean-Michel Jarre (of all people) turning up on Planet Dub.

You can listen to some tracks for yourself on their MySpace page.

Or listen below to the radio edit of Chrome Optmism, not only featuring the vocals of Lee Perry and snippets from an interview with movie director David Lynch, but even samples of Jean-Michel Jarre’s synthesizer anthem “Oxygen”. Weird and wonderfull.

With “Return from Planet Dub”, Dubblestandard have set up to show once again that Vienna still can be Jamaican territory. As they did from the beginning, when they chose dub music as their musical lodestar. For two decades now they have been turning it into a European bass guerrilla driven by political awareness and spaced out sounds. All based on a strong commitment to original reggae and dub. This new album is a big one.

Perry meets Lennon mashup

A great mashup of Max Romeo’s “Chase The Devil” (produced by Lee Perry) & The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life”, recently uploaded on Adrian Sherwood’s myspace page with some pictures to match. Somebody played around with some software, added some pictures and put the result on Youtube. Wondering how long it’s going to stay up, so listen fast.

More dubs and some other great tunes on Adrian Sherwood’s myspace page. He has recently released Lee Perry’s “The Mighty Upsetter” on the On-U Sound Label. One of the best Perry albums in years and with a dub companion on the way.

Lee Perry: dub makes sex

from an interview with Lee Scratch Perry:

You will perform at the Dublime event at Fabric later this month, celebrating all things related to dub. So I would like to begin by asking you about dub itself. What is dub?

Well dub is your heart and your brain. The beat of the drum is the beat of the human heart. When God was starting to make man, he make man different from animals. So that’s why him make man after him make animals, that he can know that the music is going to be the heart of the human being, so he would make it a drumbeat: toof, toof, toof, toof, and when you listen to your little heart, it go boof, boof, boof, boof, and sometimes it makes a drum: Boof, toof, boof, and you play on the cymbal to it. Then you might want a bass inside, and the bass is going to be your brain. And the bass can’t play anything else but poom poom. Anything the bass play, it’s always saying “poom poom,” to turn on the girl and make the girl want to dance and turn on the man.

So dub is a sensual thing?

Yes, it makes sex.