My various roots

select tracks from the upcoming 40 track 2-CD set 'Gussie Presenting the Right Tracks'.  Click here for the full tracklist and to purchase the album: http://www.vpreggae.com/GUSSIE-PRESENTING-THE-RIGHT-TRACKS-p/vp2479.2.htm 

Gussie Presenting The Right Tracks

Skylarking - Augustus Pablo

Taken from the upcoming Glitterbeat Records album:
VARIOUS ARTISTS: DUBS & VERSIONS I
Release date: October 17th 2014

Dennis Bovell: Aye Go Mila Dubwize. One of the most revered dub and reggae producers, Dennis has been making his mark on contemporary music for over 40 years. Born in Barbados, Bovell moved to south London at the age of 12 and became deeply immersed in the emerging roots, lovers rock and soundsystem cultures. He spearheaded seminal British reggae acts like Linton Kwesi Johnson and Matumbi and was also notably involved in the late 70’s post-punk scene as producer for The Slits, The Pop Group and Orange Juice. In 2012, Dennis released the dub collection Mek It Run.

Samba Toure: Aye Go Mila (Album: “Albala” / May 2013). Samba is a legend of northern Malian music. As a member of the touring ensembles for both Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, Samba gained musical experience and perspective that he brought together famously on his acclaimed third album Albala. A meditation on Mali’s humanitarian and political crisis, Folk Roots wrote that Albala “is a record full of passion, eloquence and incredible music.”


It can’t be much of a surprise that Glitterbeat would eventually assemble a collection of dubs and versions of songs by our artists. Our very first release in the spring of 2013 was a 500-piece limited edition 12” where two tracks from the Malian Afro-rock newcomer Ben Zabo were given an inspired dub treatment by legendary Berlin producer Mark Ernestus (Rhythm & Sound, Jeri Jeri). Those two tracks are included here as well as eight other reinterpretations from our growing catalog.

Having had the privilege of working with each of the Malian artists remixed for this album (Tamikrest, Ben Zabo, Samba Toure, Aminata Wassidje Traore & Lobi Traore) we can safely say that this project will not seem as strange to them as one might assume. In contemporary Malian music, reggae plays a fundamental role and nearly every electric based band we have encountered in Bamako and beyond incorporates at least some reggae elements into their sound. Also the rapid, ubiquitous rise of Hip Hop in Mali has brought samples, remixes and programming into the direct orbit of the country’s urban musicians. And in the dusty, open lots of Bamako’s sprawling neighborhoods, the music that one most frequently encounters being performed is Balani, a sort of Malian variant of dancehall, where laptop electronic beats and declamatory “toasting” are combined with samples of balafons and other traditional instruments. Balani is by definition a remix-generated music.

Bringing together the different mixers with the songs of the original artists was an exciting process. Our choices of who to invite rose intuitively out our record collections and our personal networks and almost every mixer that we approached thankfully accepted the invitation. 

Mark Ernestus was asked to fashion our original 12” not only because of our deep love for his work with the abstract dub duo Rhythm & Sound but also because of his albums in collaboration with Jeri Jeri, the Senegalese sabar group. Dubmaster Dennis Bovell’s work with Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Pop Group and Orange Juice has been a big part of our personal soundtracks for more than thirty years. His recent dub album, Mek It Run, is a killer. We were introduced to the South African Nozinja via his infectious Shangaan Electro productions. Honest Jons released an excellent remix album (Shangaan Shake) of his tracks and we thought it fitting that he join our remix dialogue. We stumbled upon the British-Ghanaian performance, visual and musical artist Larry Achiampong’s self-released LP More Mogya and were excited by its mashup of palm wine and high life samples with Hip Hop beats. We have been fans of Mark Stewart all the way back to his days in the seminal post-punk band The Pop Group, but it was his recent dub album Exorcism of Envy that really caught our collective ear. The intricate afro-techno of Harmonius Thelonious is by definition a sort of West African music remix project, and he seemed a perfect choice to invite. Rounding off the list of mixers is our old friend Dirk Dresselhaus AKA Schneider TM whose wide-open musical obsessions have embraced indie rock, analog electronics, improvisation and field recordings. He recently journeyed to Mali and Burkina Faso to study balafon music. 

With the finished master of this album right now echoing from our speakers we are already thinking about Glitterbeat: Dubs & Versions volume II. Can’t wait.

++Chris Eckman & Peter Weber: Glitterbeat Records

www.glitterbeat.com

Dennis Bovell - Aye Go Mila Dubwize

Here's the first single of our new project Special Blend "Ladies First"
this song called "Monsters to stars" is a deep and melancholic mind-blowing reggae tune sung by the very talented Ellen Birath (swedish female singer based in Paris)

Monsters To Stars (feat Ellen Birath) (from Special Blend "Ladies First"

Noiseshaper - We Love Reggae

Caribbean Driftwood (CBV4)

Madmax first EP: EPure out now

5 Tracks and dubz

Also available on streaming platforms distrokid.com/hyperfollow/madmaxhifi/epure

and Bandcamp madmaxhifi.bandcamp.com/album/epure

Composed/mixed/Mastered by MadMax Hifi

October 2025

MDMXHF Records

One drop

Manu Chao & Prince Fatty - Politik Kills (2008)
http://bbpiratesradio.over-blog.com/article-30360331.html

Manu Chao & Prince Fatty - Politik Kills

Blend Mishkin  Roots Evolution - Original (feat. Skarra Mucci  Mandinka Warrior) [Nice Up!].mp3

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Sista Ruby - Think And Wanda (Daddy Vertigo Edit)

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The band from Valencia KI-SAP has been regularly on the stages of Spain, Germany, France, Holland and Portugal for almost 15 years. Five albums released (4 recorded in the studio and one on stage). 16.000 copies sold, a real record if we consider the present times and bear in mind that are self-published discs and managed alternatively by non-commercial distributors and social squat centres. Around 100,000 free downloads from the band’s web site. Through this period their musical evolution has covered the path that goes from Ska-Punk to the Reggae-Roots/Ska-Rocksteady, their present approach. On stage or at the studio the band’s mode has always been intensified by themes of instrumental ska in the classic fashion. An this is what produced the birth of a parallel project, THE SHAKE IT UP’S that enables them to penetrate in that “vintage” side.

In 2007 they decided to deliver a 100% instrumental album in which they go more deeply into what has happened to the style since its birth in the Caribbean at the beginning of the decade of the 50’s: Ska-Swing, Ska-2Tone, Ska-Jazz, Rocksteady, Dub… These are the elements that shape the 12 cuts included in this work where influences of the likes of the Skatalites, Rico Rodriguez, Don Drummond, Augustus Pablo, New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, can be found. Also counting with guest collaborations from “Skaparapid”,“Benifajazz Big Band” or jazz trombonist Toni Belenguer.

As said, this CD is their personal view of what has happened to Ska since its birth until the present moment when Ska is a beat but also a way of understanding music that is practiced all around the world. Produced by J.L.Shipley (except Reggae-Dub cuts which are also co-produced by Dr. Jau). Music to think with the feet and dance with the head.

THE SHAKE IT UP'S - Dub 125 (feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson)

Hugh Mundell Spotlight Mix 2012

Jacob Miller - Truth Has Come Again

Melodica player and up-and-coming reggae force Addis Pablo (son of the late Augustus Pablo) and his group Suns of Dub re-imagine reggae posse cut "Selassie Souljahz" (featuring Chronixx, Protoje and Kabaka Pyramid and Sizzla) in dub form.

Get the full story here: http://largeup.okayplayer.com/2013/04/23/audio-addis-pablo-the-suns-of-dub-selassie-souljahz-vocal-dub/ 

"Selassie Souljahz In Dub" EP is out May 7 on Royal Order Music. 

ADDIS PABLO & THE SUNS OF DUB - Selassie Souljahz (Melodica Version)

http://oficinademacacos.blogspot.com/2008/08/rockamovya.html

(Rockamovya) Rockamovya - Take The Night

Jah slave - Keith and tex - Stop that train riddim version dub - cut 1 -  2013

BRIXTON RECORDS is an independent record label specialized in Jamaican sounds founded in 1998 as the natural offspring of an existing record store. From its humble origins releasing material by a new generation of ska and reggae enthusiasts it has evolved to be a reputable brand including renowned international acts like The Aggrolites, The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble and David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 and also The Starlites, Soweto, The Pepper Pots, Root Diamoons…. Brixton Records owns two sub-labels (Silver Bullets and Guns Of Brixton Records) and also acts as concert promoter and band manager.

BRIXTON RECORDS es una compañía discográfica independiente especializada en sonidos jamaicanos, fundada en 1998 como evolución natural de una tienda de discos existente. Desde sus humildes orígenes publicando material de una nueva generación de músicos entusiastas del ska y el reggae se ha convertido en una reputada marca incluyendo a renombradas bandas internacionales como The Aggrolites, The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble y David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 además de The Starlites, Soweto, The Pepper Pots, Root Diamoons….Brixton Records cuenta con dos sub-sellos (Silver Bullets y Guns Of Brixton Records) y también actúa como promotora de conciertos y manager de bandas.

THE SHAKE IT UP'S - Dub 125 (feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson)

Brixton Records

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