Abassi meets Dub All Sense

Abassi All Stars meet southern Italian dub crew Dub All Sense for the fourth Dub Conference release. Of course you should buy this one from Deep Root. It’s a limited edition, this time pressed on pink vinyl. Or you can download it for free, in which case of course you’ll miss the touch of vinyl and the artwork.

In the garden of dub

Positive Vibes is a new netlabel out of the United States, founded by Kris Naphtali who wants to share the good vibes with as many people as possible. The first release on the label is the compilation “In The Garden Of Dub”, a nice collection of reggae and dub tunes from around the globe.

The album starts off with the slow paced “Deliverance Prayer” of Kibir La Amlak, immediately followed by Belgium’s finest Crucial Alphonso‘s and his Ayubu Steppers. A great start for an album that delivers its promise of positive vibes and contains many good quality tunes. There’s for instance an excellent Roots Hi-Tek with a dark souding and intriguing Bulawayo Rock. Massada rounds things off nicely with their minimalistic dub style.

You can download In The Garden Of Dub for free from Kris Naphtali’s website.

Version Big-Fi Gives It To Zumbah

Boohbah characters meet Version Big-Fi riding on Bob Marley’s Jammin’ riddim for this clip. Give it to Zumbah.
Just to wet your appetite for their soon to be released “Beats, Dubs and Everyting Else Vol. 1″.

Abassi meets Dubmatix: Eko Dub

This is the third installment in the Dub Conference series. For this one Abassi All Stars teamed up with the excellent Dubmatix from Canada for a dancehall smash – dubwise! It’s a 7″ release on the Deep Root label, with an Abassi dub cut on the A side and a Dubmatix dubwise cut on the flipside.

No doubt you will want to get your hands on one of those great limited edition 7″ clear (see through) vinyls. But if you want to have a listen first, both tunes are now avalaible as a free download. Get them from here and enjoy!

Dub Conference Series
The idea behind the Dub Conference Series is to take a co-written tune and have it mixed by each production team then presenting the results in a strictly limited 7″ inch vinyl format. Previously in the series were Vibronics (Root34) and Prof Skank (Root35). Meanwhile the fourth 7″ in this series (Root37) has been released, featuring the Italian Dub All Sense crew.

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!

Stop That Train 19

Another one of those fine fine mixtapes, courtesy of Version Big-Fi. Play it or download it from their blog.
If you want to hear more, you can download all (nineteen!) “Stop that train” podcasts from this link. Highly addictive, highly recommended.

And while you’re there, have a listen at the latest release from this Reading based dub collective. “Hands Up” is once again a smash, with the a-side of this single referring to the classic digital deejay reggae in a UK style and the b-side dubbing it all up into a great party tune. The dub is definitely our favourite, but don’t worry because both tunes are wicked. Big Five once again for this Version Big-Fi tune.

Reality SoulJahs voicing Kibir La Amlak riddims

Reality SoulJahs voicing Kibir La Amlak riddims. Dubplate style.

Version Big-Fi – I Make The Hits

Version Big-Fi have a new 7″ for download. “I Make The Hits” comes with the riddim cut on the virtual B-side and with a very low budget (but highly enjoyable) video. Watch, listen and enjoy it.

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.

Musik Line

Musik Line is a brand new online journal / blog dedicated to sound system culture and to African, Caribbean and other music. It features short articles, interviews, mixes, reviews and other interesting sonic and literary fragments.

The first issue is now online and features range from Gnawa Music and the Black Diaspora in Morocco to a snapshot of the hip hop scene in Mauritania in 2005. This is truely fascinating stuff.