What A Gwan ? - Iyah Ranks
Dub A Gwan - Tozer
Raw Dub - Tozer

(Education Riddim)

Producer executive : Péah

Iyah Ranks - WHAT A GWAN ? / DUB A GWAN / RAW DUB (TOZER) RAR DUBPLATE

I Nity

Produced by Empress Shema / Arranged & Mixed by Chazbo 

Here I Come - Prince Jamo

Infos/Download : www.subsquadprod.com/city-squad/
Stream everywhere : www.fanlink.tv/city-squad-montpellier

[English below]

Subsquad Prod. présente le volet #10 de sa série de compilation, les CITY SQUAD, qui mettent en lumière une ville et ses artistes avec des morceaux inédits, le tout en téléchargement libre.
Après 9 compilations à travers la France, ce nouvel opus "anniversaire" présente 14 artistes de Montpellier, ville dont Subsquad Prod est originaire.

L'artwork est signé Irie Design, le mastering Subsquad Prod.

Comme toujours, la compilation est téléchargeable gratuitement, mais vous pouvez faire un don pour nous aider à pérenniser le projet !

"Now you know who dub your town..."

Merci à tous les artistes présents sur ce projet !

[English version]

Subsquad Prod present the part #10 of our serie of compilations, the CITY SQUAD. Each part presents the dub makers of a city (and its surroundings) through a compilation of exclusive tunes available for free download.

After 9 compilations through France, this "anniversary" part is dedicated to Montpellier, city where Subsquad Prod is from, and presents 14 producers from this area.

The artwork is realized by Irie Design, the mastering by Subsquad Prod.

As usual, the compilation is available for free download, but you can donate to support us & help to perpetuate the project.

Go Farmer

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Shakespearit - Go Farmer

another monday, another release ;-)…
here comes the second VINYL in the >Lion's Choice< series...

this version hails back to early 2014 when I invited Echo Ranks longside Radikal Guru for a Lion's Den meets Moonshine Recordings night to the old Yaam… we used the little time before the session and the next morning to record some dubs with Echo in my little room back then for some Berlin soundmen and had a first exchange on the idea of a collaboration… some time after this meeting I sent him a heavy steppaz riddim by Violinbwoy and he went into the studio in Leicester to record "Don't Kill Your Brother"… those vocals were then sent to Poland and got the Violinbwoy dub treatment, him creating two completely new versions… full power, full force…
as I love the style and works of vrki and his Digitron Sound project a lot, the idea wasn't far-fetched to ask him for a remix… and so he gave it the psy-hooligan-steppas-approach :P just a glimpse of what's to come after those good times we spent together this spring and summer on tour, in the studio and on different festivals and sessions… watch out for some tuff collaborations :P

grab yur copy thru https://lionsdensound.bandcamp.com/ or us directly
(if yu are in the area and have the possibility: for us it's even much better and stronger support if yu buy directly from us… either at a gig, pass thru at our yard, etc. and not thru the store, as every little service takes a little share…)


Violinbwoy feat. Echo Ranks - Don't Kill Your Brother [LIONSCHOICEV02]

A1 // Violinbwoy feat. Echo Ranks - Don't Kill Your Brother
A2 // Violinbwoy - Don't Kill Your Dub

B1 // Echo Ranks - Don't Kill Nobody, Please [Digitron Remix]
B2 // Don't Kill Dub! [Digitron Remix]

LION'S DEN /// www.lionsdensound.de /// produced & mixed by W. Przysiezny aka Violinbwoy /// remixed by T. Vrkljan aka Digitron /// lyrics & voice by T. Hanley aka Echo Ranks /// vocals recorded by S. Gibbs aka Steve Vibronics @ Vibronics Studio /// artwork by martinengelbogen.com /// mastered by Star Delta Mastering /// pressed by Delta Disc Manufacturing /// All rights reserved. © + ℗ 2016 Lion's Den

12" / 45RPM / 4 Track EP / 180g / 500pcs. limited & hand-numbered
&
DIGIKALLY (MP3 / WAV / etc.)

This series reveals some unique compositions on three different 12inch discs to take you on an extraordinary journey - a more than three year collaborative work with our good friend and musical mastermind Violinbwoy finally ready fi all sound systems around the globe. Again a path from version over version to a next version - dubwise all the way… nuff tuff riddims, mixes, dubz and vocals were sent back and forth between Poland, Germany, France, Croatia and the UK, with some nice encounters on stage, in the studio, on tour or somewhere in between…

"Don't Kill Your Brother" is a tune very much needed in those times of political turmoil and warfare. Echo Ranks from Leicester, UK, calling upon his I-dren to stop the senseless killing. A message of peace for the youths of today. In this instance with a ruff remix by the 'Balkan Dub Defenders' Digitron from Zagreb, Croatia - electronic madness style… Each side with a 'part 2' dub mix in full effect.

All dubs were transferred to 1/2inch Tape for extra analogue warmth, mastered with care and pressed on high quality 180g vinyl by Star Delta / Delta Disc, UK. It is also digitally available.
Conscious music fooooorward…

Listen to a preview:
https://soundcloud.com/lionsdensound/sets/dontkillyourbrother

For more information visit:
www.lionsdensound.de

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A2 - Violinbwoy - Don't Kill Your Dub

From the album KEY TO THE UNIVERSE, available at I-Roots Records: https://iroots.bandcamp.com/album/fikir-amlak-king-alpha-key-to-the-universe

The third eye
Brow center
When visualized and vitalized
Bestoweth the faculty of sonomancy 
 
Third eye
Open up your eye
Open up your heavens
Where the powers they reside
Third eye
Open up your eye
Inner third eye
 
It is the window of the soul
From where the presence of Jah looks out
Let the seeker focus now between the eyebrows
Opened for the prophet and revealed somehow
Treasures that were hidden from the intellect yow
Focus your eye
 
In the book of yellow castles
In the middle of the square inch
Dwells the heavenly Jah Most Eye
Utmost emptiness and life
 
Close both eyes to see with that eye
Close both eyes and you will surmise
Between the two eyes is the Master
The unseen lord oh Jah Jah

By practicing meditation 
And by studying and discipline
By giving yourself to humanity
The entire system
Brick by brick
Step by step
Becomes alive
So the lower man, the fallen man
Becomes the great man
Influence of the soul

Fikir Amlak & King Alpha - Third Eye & Third Dub

Available on all digital outlets: https://smarturl.it/SUM3R
Get the wavs: https://iroots.bandcamp.com/album/fikir-amlak-king-alpha-sumer

SUMER

Sumer ah the root and the Sumer ah the might
Sumer ah the great and the Sumer ah the
Sumer ah the faith and the Sumer ah the right 
See it deh
Sumer rule ah rule 
See it deh

Black Head the same one
Harrapan Nubian same one yeah
Born as a free man 
Inna land civilized Kingman
Astronomy came from
Art and mathematics dem come from
Architecture and language dem come 
Dem come, come from

Enki gave to Inanna
From Eridu irrigation manner
Goddess of Uruk Inanna
City of Kish Etana
Deep inna Taurus Mountain
From Tell Brak came all the plowmen 
Enmerkar built all around it
Ah so the Lagash found it 

Sumeru
Well it was written, yeah
Inna cuneiform tablets of old 
And we were given, yeah
Agriculture and wheels to grow
It’s a dishonor yeah
Sumer was whitewashed yeah
Dem never know it yeah
Sumer from Shem come, yeah
Look in Grimaldi yeah
Look at the Combe-Capelle
Look at La Madeleine
Men of La Madeleine
Look inna Valletta
and Nahr Antelias
Wam Battu Bushman yeah
Aurignacian yeah
From Spain to Brittany
You’ll find the legacy 
Sardinia, Ostorf, Caithness

Between two rivers yeah 
Mat Umeri yeah
Ug Sag Gig Ga yeah
Sumeru Kiengi yeah
En and Lugal yeah 
Shinar Sngr
Sanhara
Shumer yeah 
Sumeru

Fikir Amlak & King Alpha - Sumer & Sumer Dub

Dub plate cuts available here: https://iroots.bandcamp.com/album/journey-of-life-dub-plate

Joshua Hales & King Alpha - Journey of Life dub plate

ROOTS ISTA POSSE DUBPLATE 2010 ~ SISTER CHARLOTTE ~ JAH IS WATCHING YOU

DUBPLATE STYLE Sister Charlotte - Jah Is Watching You

First, second, third generation 
We are all Manutension’s children!!!
 
Two decades after its birth in Jamaica, Dub Music finally arrived in France. Throughout the country, there were different points of contact and a main one was the city of Bordeaux. In the 90s, this breakthrough was especially around the band Improvisators Dub. 

Among the instigators of the project, Manutension did not limit himself to play the guitar during the gigs. He also persisted to spread the Sound System culture around him, by regularly hosting dances and inviting people such as the UK Dub scene, hitherto unknown in France. Manutension and the Impro inspired others very quickly. It is first the Uzinadub crew who proceeded from the end of the 90s under an Electroroots6tm configuration with someone called Dub Machinist. 
Later on, it is him who inaugurated the Control Tower label of his friend Sir Hill, another survivor of the Uzinadub. A new generation determidly got into the Dub adventure with the new millennium. One of the most virulent activists, Gary Dub (he will become Gary Clunk only after) was part of the Natty Breakz collective and was one of the creators of the French Dub Released netlabel. Subsequently, he founded the Storm & Break label with his buddy Hatman, and he set up the groups Uptown Rebel then Subvivors, always in a live Dub spirit inspired by Improvisators Dub. 

Dub Machinist and Gary Clunk are therefore two representatives of what is now called the Bordeaux Dub School, which directly descends from the experimental work of Manutension and Impro Dub. 

In 2020, our two accomplices isolated themselves ten days in the countryside to create an album with four hands for the netlabel Culture Dub Records. On the program of “Dub Machinist meets Gary Clunk”, twelve tracks in which electronic loops, digital keyboards and instruments played live respond to each other in a joyful fusion that does honor the French Dub Touch as defined by the pioneers of the 90s.  

After an introduction reminiscent of how machines have forever changed the way we think about music, Gary Clunk and Dub Machinist do their best, on punchy stepper rhythms, to juggle different atmospheres: horror films for 'From the grave' , digital with blues atmosphere on 'Saloon walk', melancholic accents on 'Do you hear', travels in Indian lands with a sitar on 'Dub Mahal', science fiction on 'Jaffa dance', at bottom of theremin, or still jungle on 'Jungle Land'.  
The two artists sign the remix of ‘Mr Babylon', a musical tribute to their fathers with their vision from the original Improvisators Dub track resulting with a clear and distinct sound without embellishment. 

It is much more than the meeting of two emblematic producers of the Bordeaux Dub School, this album is a great moment of dub. Quite simply. Zagazai! 
 
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Fikir Amlak & King Alpha - Third Eye & Third Dub

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