dub.com: : : :dublog dub.com blog

Yeah its not the kind of ad they show on the telly in america.

Nice bit of Mr Perry “the creator of dub” he he… Dubbing around Dublin, in Stephen’s Green talking to the ducks, in the pub having a swift one.

Seems like Guinness got the man to do a bunch of these ads, is it just me or doesn’t seem like an easy job for the copywriter?

“Eh… Lee… waddya think about ehhh dem Aliens then Lee?”

Dub Cast 2

In tonight’s dubcast we have a selection of mp3s and tracks from around the dubspace.

Kicking off from jahtari.org Net label, the very excellent and heavy dub “Cryovolcano” by Blue Vitriol – I imagine that’s some sort of special Swedish medicine – perhaps something to resurrect you after you are cryogenically preserved in a volcano… but we know what that dub it really is.

Then from Scotland, it’s the Butch Cassidy Sound System and their “butch’s brew” which is a sort of a version of versions, ahem, a “mega-mix” if you will of their superb album “Butches Brew” – go out and get it now.

After that its the dub and vocal digitally remixed by dub.com of the powerful African Brothers “Lead us father” on easy-star – we hear they have a follow up project to the hugely popular “dub side of the moon” called “radiodread” – it’s a dub version of radiohead’s “ok computer” – looking forward to that.

Back to Jahtari – Disrupt & the Jah Bit invasion, followed by a scratch classic – susan cadogan’s “dub it baby”… a Perry gem. Slade from Burning Babylon brings the Ethiopian flavor to the dubcast with “Addis Red Dub” – check out all the albums from Burning Babylon if you haven’t already – truly some original dub flavors and styles coming through.

The Love Grocer brings their ska on the dub-sized “waiting at the gate” – what a track – always gets the girls up to dance. We go back to a deep deep riddim dub “Soldier Red – All For Jake Weekend Dub” from a version excursion Sundyberg dub championship despiracy.com had 2 years back, a classic from Tino Corp and the superb Eating Betty check out his latest cd “Reverbalism” on cd baby.

Thanks to all the artists in tonight’s dubcast – dub.com – dub worldwide – goodnight dub fans wherever you are.

Blue Vitriol- Cryovolcano
Butch Cassidy Sound System – Butches Brew
African brothers – lead us father / dub
Disrupt – jah bit invasion
Susan cadogan – dub it baby
Burning Babylon – Addis Red Dub
Love Grocer – Waiting At The Gate
Soldier Red – All For Jake Weekend Dub
Tino Corp – My Name is Tino
Eat Betty – Pharaoh is Dead

Check out dub creating and version mixing over at Anchormix.com :
“…The goal was to pay tribute to two dub heavyweights while using the songs as elements themselves and weaving in the vocal talents of Omnibus MC. In a four-round clash, DJ’s Andren and Scott Allen took turns re-mixing, looping and dubbing each track into a brand new song.Our modern take on dub is to remix the dub tracks on the fly and create a ‘dub soundscape’ that, when mixed with live vocals provides a live element that can never be recreated.”

Uncarved.org has a great interview with Lee “Scratch” Perry by Danny Kelly. There’s a brilliant quote where Mr Perry claims ‘dub’ for his own “To be fair and speak the truth, it wasn’t I and Tubby who brought about dub, but I alone! In those days Tubby had a sound system and he wanted dubs for it from me. He’d come to Randy’s studio where I worked at the time and spend days watching me messing about with the controls. As my dubs got famous and people like them, so Tubby try mixing up a few sides of his own.”

ccMixter is a great resource for dub heads worldwide. Allowing the use and re-use – edit – re-edit, mashup and remix to a community that wants it.
“ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes and audio samples licensed under Creative Commons. The CC license means you can legally download, sample, and remix the music on this site and share the results with anyone, anywhere, anytime. You can also upload your original songs to ccMixter so that other people can remix your work. Download, sample, cut-up, and share — ccMixter lets you interact with music in whatever way you want.”

The Tape Beatles & UBU Web and PhonoStatic have made a complete digital archive of their releases. The Tape Beatles ” are a collaboration of varying membership that make music and audio art recordings,”expanded cinema” performances, videos, printed publications, and works in other media. They work under the aegis of Public Works Productions. ” Ubu web also features an enormous and extensive MP3 Archive of sound poetry and other weird stuff.

Our friend Chill Will has created a very special dubsession for the Super Bowl, mute the half time sound and play this instead. Dub your TV.

Dave Hahn writes to tell us that the The legendary Dub is a Weapon and some “unknown” called Lee “Scratch” Perry will be touring together from Feb 12th-18th and possible a date in San Francisco on the 19th.