Lost Dubs – A 22-Week Archive Release

Lost Dubs is a journey through the archives of accomplice — 22 unreleased tracks produced between the late ’90s and 2010s, finally brought to light.

These are the sounds that lived on hard drives and burned CDs, nearly forgotten after years of moves, broken backups, and shifting scenes. Some were played in underground clubs in Montreal and Seoul; others never left the studio. Together, they chart a personal history of dance music across acid, dub, breakbeat, techno, and beyond.

This series isn’t about hype or polish. It’s about legacy — sharing the raw, unfiltered music that shaped an artist but stayed unheard.

🗓️ Released one track every Monday from August 4 to December 29, 2025, Lost Dubs is equal parts time capsule and protest against silence. Because music doesn’t matter until it’s heard.

Lost Dubs

This one’s a manifesto. Vinyl static. Acid line arpeggios. Crisp hand-coded drums. It’s pure accomplice — programmed in Sonic Foundry Acid, with a 303 emulator squelching over breaks and vocal samples from Beat Street (1984) laying down the ethos: “I got my own style.”

This track doesn’t follow trends. It nods to b-boy culture, rave grit, and that sacred space where dancing isn’t just permitted — it’s protected. The aesthetic? Raw. Unapologetic. Custom-coded. A love letter to acid techno, break dancing, and individuality.

“If you’re going to arrest people for dancing, maybe you’re the one who needs some advice.”

Dancing, that I know.

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Lost Dubs 001 - I Got My Own Style (2008)

“The music… owns you.”

Some tracks are made for peak time.
This one was made for the shadows.

Certain Dubs for Certain Clubs was built in 2007 and rinsed out on the system at Club Cargo in Hongdae, Seoul — back when I was a resident at Konkrete Jungle Seoul. That club had low ceilings, heavy bass, and zero tolerance for fluff. It was the kind of room where this track belonged.

Built around a haunting vocal sample from Good Will Hunting (1997), this dub pulses with repetition, restraint, and that peculiar intimacy you only find in dark spaces. It’s not flashy — it’s hypnotic. It’s not for every dancefloor — it’s for certain clubs.

“Certain clubs. You get in there… the music owns you.”

This is the darkness I seek when I party. You might too.
lyrics
Yeah, I know.
I go places, I interact, you know.
I hide from people.
Certain clubs.
You get in there.
The music,
owns you.
Yeah, I know.
The music,
owns you.
Certain clubs.
Certain clubs.

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Lost Dubs 002 - Certain Dubs For Certain Clubs (2007)

💿 Lost Dubs 003 – Bla Blam (2006)

Bla Blam isn’t glorifying the gun — it’s condemning it.

The main hook lifts from Dr. Dre’s Let Me Ride (1992) — “Blam-blam, blam ’til dem fall / Listen to the shots” — while the breakdown drops into dialogue from the 1973 Jimmy Cliff classic The Harder They Come. The samples echo over heavy percussion, their repetition turning from swagger to something more unsettling.

For anyone who knows me, my stance is no secret — I despise gun violence. This track takes the language of gun culture and forces listeners to confront its weight.
Every blam and shots is an opportunity to think about the real-world violence they represent.

Played loud, it’s a rhythm. Heard closely, it’s a statement.

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Lost Dubs 003 – Bla Blam (2006)

2008 was a turning point. I felt like I was standing on the edge of something bigger than myself, chasing a sound I could finally call my own.

My Sound was exactly that — me drawing a line in the sand and saying: this is accomplice. Built from raw textures, hypnotic grooves, and the stubborn refusal to copy anyone else, it became a declaration of independence in music form.

Looking back, this was me defining my sound — and realizing I didn’t need anyone’s permission to own it

Lost Dubs 004 - My Sound (2005)

💿 Lost Dubs 005 – Freedom Will Come (2006)

2006 was a year I was digging deep into dub — not just as a sound, but as a philosophy. Freedom Will Come samples the words of an activist dub poet, echoing with the urgency of struggle and the promise of liberation.

“You can only push a dog around so many times before that dog will turn around and bite you.”

This wasn’t about the polished club floor. It was about the other side of dance music — the protest, the poetry, the call for change. Heavy bass, rolling percussion, and the voice of resistance carried through delay and reverb until it felt like a mantra: freedom will come.

Lost Dubs 005 - Freedom Will Come (2006)

This one was my take on the phenomenal field recordings of Alan Lomax — whose work has influenced generations of musicians, often without them even knowing it.

Anyone who lived through the ’90s, or at least the party kids who were there, will likely recognize Lomax’s legacy through Moby’s sampling of Sounds of the South (1960) to create the trip-hop anthems Natural Blues and Honey.

Now, decades later, those same recordings are available in the public domain via archive.org, but back when I first found Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary (recorded by Alan Lomax in 1958 at Parchman, Mississippi), it felt like discovering unpolished gold.

I made so many tracks using those samples — this is the only one that survived. Another super chill tune: just me playing chords on my keyboard, building something to calm, to drift with, something to dub.

Lost Dubs 014 - Something to Dub (2010)

DJ/producer since 1997, Toronto-born accomplice is a proudly genre-fluid selector with deep roots in Montreal’s underground.

From early residencies with iDJ and Junglist Fridays at Blue Dog, to his time in South Korea where he held down slots at Vinyl Underground (Busan), Konkrete Jungle Seoul, and festivals like Pentaport, accomplice has always thrived where bass meets boundary-pushing energy.

Now based lakeside in cottage country north of Toronto, accomplice continues to move dance floors in unexpected ways—bridging decades of influence through sets that blend depth, soul, and surprise.

Releases:
2008 – Celestial Conspiracy – Waterwings EP [CC001R]
2009 – Substruk Records – Babylon EP [SUB007]
2010 – Bludclot Recordings – Loose [BLUDCLOTdigital005]
2010 – Monkey Dub Records – My Sound
2010 – Steppaheadz Recordz – Freedom Will Come

Mail: jamieson@accomplicated.ca
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Management: management@accomplicated.ca