Join Producer Toby Davies as he performs live dubs from the studio and takes your questions!
Lee “Scratch” Perry Tribute
Don Letts’ Culture Clash Radio
Don pays tribute to the visionary Jamaican producer and artist Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, who died on 29th August, and whose groundbreaking work changed the course of popular music. As well as the music and Don’s thoughts and memories of working with Scratch, we also hear from the great man, through an interview recorded in 2007, some of which has never been broadcast.
BBC Radio 6 Music – Don Letts’ Culture Clash Radio, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry RIP
Alpha Steppa ~ How I made “Black Wax Riddim”
Dub Reggae Instrumental 2021 #shorts
Hopeton Overton Brown is “The Scientist”
TapeOp.com
Jamaican electronics whiz kid Hopeton Overton Brown got his moniker “Scientist” from none other than one of dub music production’s founding fathers, King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock). As a teenager he began engineering and mixing out of Tubby’s, later moving to Channel One and Tuff Gong studios. He is one of the genre’s most prolific and creative forces, while also remaining a sought-after mix engineer and producer. In addition to his own impressive, if not stunning body of solo work, he has worked with Jamaican legends Bob Marley, Roots Radics, Prince/King Jammy, Peter Tosh, and Horace Andy, to name just a few. Meanwhile, current artists such as Hempress Sativa, Ted Sirota, and Khruangbin have all benefitted from his otherworldly presentations of their music. To watch him mix is like watching man and machine become one. His mixes are dance-like performances on the console, and the sound pictures he paints are mystical and dreamlike. I tracked Scientist down and had the pleasure of digging deeper with one of music’s unique geniuses.
Full article here.
Dubapest HiFi – Documentary (2020)
Dubapest HiFi is the first real reggae soundsystem in Hungary. The sound’s 2 selectas and operators are Jahfar and Captain Midnite, accompanied by Haroon Ayyaz on the microphone. The sound currently has 6 scoops, 2 double kick boxes, 4 mid-high boxes and two tweeter boxes, with 30 000 watts in amps. The 2 selectas play various styles as roots reggae, dub, stepper, early and new digital. Jahfar’s selection is more deep and spiritual, Midnite likes to shake up the dance digital style while Haroon Ayyaz promotes love, harmony and consciousness on the microphone. The combination of their music taste introduces the listener to a wide spectrum of real reggae music. Dubapest HiFi’s goal is to unite the people through the messages in reggae music, to wake up the people with love in this consumerist generation.
Lee “Scratch” Perry: Super Ape Upsets the Studio
If you are a music producer, mixer, label owner, songwriter, or electronic music maker, you owe a debt to Lee “Scratch” Perry.
Full interview here – tapeop.com
Japan’s unexpected relationship with reggae
When Japan was first introduced to reggae music there was something about the music and the lifestyle that really spoke to people – particularly in this Japanese city.
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Mad Professor Analogue Is… Mad Professor
Prominent figure in the English Dub music scene for over forty years and founder of label and studio Ariwa in 1979, Neil Fraser, aka Mad Professor, is one of the most notorious and prolific second generation dub music producers. Following the lead of dub pioneers and masters, the likes of King Tubby or Lee “Scratch” Perry, Mad Professor experiments with machines in his own transgressive way. His album “Dub Me Crazy”, produced at the Ariwa studio in the ‘80s, has contributed a great deal to reggae’s transition into the electronic era. Fraser has worked on tracks for numerous artists and bands such as Depeche Mode, Jamiroquai, the Beastie Boys, Massive Attack, Rancid, The Orb, not to mention reggae musicians including Horace Andy, Johnny Clarke, Sly & Robbie, Buju Banton or U-Roy. All have, at least once, entrusted their compositions to the wild electronic wizard, whose career will undoubtedly be remembered as a cornerstone in the history of Britain’s thriving Bass music.
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Daddy U-Roy Interview “Speaks on ‘the genius of King Tubby”
I NEVE KNEW TV had the honor of interviewing the legendary ” father of hip-hop” Daddy U Roy. In this clip he speaks about his early experiences in the business and ‘crazy’ story describing the genius of King Tubby…Enjoy…
Musicology: The History of Dub Mixing Techniques – by Alex Watts
Musical history is littered with examples of innovators using technology in creative ways that have wide reaching and lasting affects. In part one of this article we examine the techniques and equipment used in the creation of dub music, a genre that would grow to birth and influence not only reggae but pop and all types of electronic dance music, including quite notably dubstep, jungle and drum’n’bass, as well as having a major hand in the invention of the remix and hip-hop.
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