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Jah Mirikle / Rebelsteppa – “Spiritual Heights”

Jah Mirikle / Rebelsteppa – “Spiritual Heights”

STD027Rebelsteppa – a Moscow-based musician and producer – together with Estonian label Strictly Dub Records and a UK poet-vocalist Jah Mirikle released a single “Spiritual Heights” recently. Musically it is a melodic, deep riddim with lyrics about spiritual nature of human being. For dessert we got two Rebelsteppa’s dub versions – “Dub Heights” contains a lot of echoes, reverbs and vocal snippets. “Spiritual Dub” exposes resonating bassline.

This release is available only as a digital download.

Links:

https://soundcloud.com/rebelsteppa

http://www.reverbnation.com/jahmirikle

http://www.strictlydub.com/

https://soundcloud.com/strictlydubs

Posted by Bedi in Recenzje
Zion Train – “Money” EP

Zion Train – “Money” EP

1000x450The dub veterans don’t slow down – they are going to release a new EP “Money” that announces the new album named “Land of the blind”, which is coming out at the end of the year. The release is opened by Jamaican bobo dread Fitta Warri, who again performs with whole Zion Train crew and shows his bests style in “Permanent Pressure”. Part-time Zion Train chatter Dubdadda in “Roots Man Play” shows his remarkable skill as a singer. Daman, who lately recorded a genius netlabel release with K-Sann (http://odgprod.com/2014/05/k-sann-ft-daman-monopolize-ep/), is responsible for the last vocal version. On the rhythm made by Zion Train his voice sounds brilliant and the lyrics about money will reach everyone.

The Zion Train rhythm “Money” deserves few words as well – the version for vocalists is a classic production in the Neils Perch style, winds section is an important element here. I’ve been surprised while listening to “Money Dub”. The rhythm seemingly doesn’t change compared with the one with vocals (of course there were reverbs, echoes, sirens etc.) and in the middle of the track something happens – the bass turns into one known better from dubstep productions for such a short time that it amazingly spices up the whole tune. I admire Perch for that he is able to use various elements and still doesn’t follow the new trends and stays on the roots path set out long before. There is nothing else left than repeat the invitation to Zion Train concert in Ostróda and unfortunately wait for some records and comments from it, eventually it’s 25 years of joy of their music!




Posted by Bedi in Recenzje
Imperial Sound Army – “Doyen/Bravery” (12”)

Imperial Sound Army – “Doyen/Bravery” (12”)

Brand new 12” from Imperial Sound Army is now available in the shops – composed and mixed by Dan I, issued by his Imperial Roots Records and distributed and marketed by Control Tower Records. We have two tracks on this release, both voiced by Fikir Amlak in modern roots style. Musically riddims are rather heavy and each vocal version has 2 different mixes with some new flavour – especially interesting piece is second version of “Doyen”, which changes the riddim from one drop to steppers and this shows how much different energy can be brought by changing the drums line.

Links:

www.imperialsoundarmy.com

https://www.facebook.com/danimperialsoundarmy

www.controltower.fr

https://www.facebook.com/controltower.fr

Posted by yarecki in Recenzje
Cultural Warriors & Krs One – “Green Related”

Cultural Warriors & Krs One – “Green Related”

I think there is no need of a wide presentation of those artists – Cultural Warriors are Swiss who destroyed many dance floors all over the Europe with their remixes and dubplates, Krs One is a living hip-hop legend. It’s not often for the soundsystem environment to cooperate and produce with the hip-hop one, but when it comes to it, it must be a banger. The single “Green Related” contains 5 tunes: two hip-hop versions, two stepper ones and one reggae-hip-hop. On the vocal versions we can hear Krs One rhyming about militant Swiss from Geneva, in the dub version Lion Paw (one of the producers from Cultural Warriors) confirms that he is talented by amazingly connecting steppers with a heavy beat, reverbs and a rumbling bass. I hope that Cultural Warriors will release more things like that – with a conscious message and highest musical level. 

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/culturalwarriorsmusic

https://soundcloud.com/cultural-warriors

Posted by Bedi in Recenzje
Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto – “Dub De Gaita” with Adrian Sherwood

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto – “Dub De Gaita” with Adrian Sherwood

KHALI_LOSGAITEROS_jacket_label_smKhaliphonic label is a new child of ZamZam Sounds, dedicated to 10”&12” releases. ZamZam has accustomed us to extraordinary music and this will be kept with this new project – as shown by the announcement of the first release.

“Dub De Gaita” is a meeting of dub and Colombian tradition – Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto are cumbia roots icons, legendary in their homeland as guardians of ancient regional music and cultural traditions. On this release they are joined by another legend – On-U Sound founder, dub master Adrian Sherwood.

First track “Maria Sola” in Vocal Mix version is a vibrant song carried by sounds of drums and a flute. In Dub Mix main emphasis is put on the riddim, in some places crossed by vocal phrases or horns parts. All of this, processed by delays and reverbs, sounds very hypnotic. Second track – “El Fin De Mundo” is a 7 minutes long wild element, where reggae skank is mixed with a lot of instruments, all in a finest style of dubbing by Adrian Sherwood.

ZamZam once again proves, that dub has no borders.

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Gaiteros-de-San-Jacinto/49332230420

https://www.facebook.com/pages/ZamZam-Sounds/341150589257161

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdNykelo5C4

(TEASER) DUB DE GAITAS EL FIN DEL MUNDO / GAITEROS DE SAN JACINTO : AMPLIFICADO Y LLORONA RECORDS from Amplificado.tv on Vimeo.

Posted by yarecki in Recenzje
Free track from Unit 137 – “Forever More” (onlyjoe feat. Ghost Writerz)

Free track from Unit 137 – “Forever More” (onlyjoe feat. Ghost Writerz)

Unit 137 gives us a free tune. “Revolution” riddim, originally created and performed by the onlyjoe band, gets a new vocal cut by the Ghost Writerz – the duo of Jason ‘Jimmy Screech’ Bradshaw and Harry ‘Sleepy Time Ghost’ Metcalfe. Sleepy is known for several originals & remixes on Unit 137, Jimmy is an MC, who works well as both rapper and singjay – which can be heard in this nice, melodic tune.

Download – http://unit137.bandcamp.com/track/forever-more-revolution-riddim

Links:

http://unit137.bandcamp.com/

http://www.unit137.com/

https://soundcloud.com/GWzUK

Posted by yarecki in News, Recenzje
Two releases from High Elements

Two releases from High Elements

Two new releases from French producer Jideh “High Elements” are just available on the market. Records were issued by Shieldrum Records and Control Tower took care of distribution.

First release with catalog number SR002 is 12” with dynamic steppers with Idren Natural and Bunning Judah on the vocal.




SR003 is a 10” with calmer riddim, decorated with nice horns part. Here we got Donovan Kingjay on the vocal and on the B side contains 2 dub versions – first with melodica, second is hypnotic, strongly dubwise variation of the riddim.




Links:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/HIGH-ELEMENTS/56382247977

www.controltower.fr

https://www.facebook.com/controltower.fr

Posted by yarecki in Recenzje