Sub Signals Vol.2 is a deep dive into underground bass, guided by artist and producer soundcloud.com/gaudi. Featuring predominantly unreleased originals and versions by some of the biggest names in the worldwide dub collective, Sub Signals Vol.2 intricately combines analogue elements with digital grooves to stunning effect. 

Much more than just a compilation, the Sub Signals series is a celebration of the evolution of the sound of dub, from its original roots in reggae to its fusion with a much wider spectrum of sounds and influences. Gaudi curated the first volume back in 2006 for the cult Canadian label Interchill, sourcing tracks and dubs from High Tone, Zion Train, Manasseh, Almamegretta, Noiseshaper, Creation Rebel, Greg Hunter, Bill Laswell’s Dubadelic and more.

15 years on, Gaudi has created the second volume, blending contributions by established reggae names Steel Pulse, Dennis Bovell and African Head Charge with next generation dub producers Alpha Steppa, Radikal Guru and Paolo Baldini Dubfiles, headline acts Groove Armada, Dub FX and The Orb with underground artists Deadbeat, Pitch Black and SUBSET, to create a seamless 75 minute mix.

“With Volume 2, I wanted to create a deep vibrational experience by shaping an aural trajectory that encompassed the many aspects of dub and its related sub-frequencies. To achieve my goal, I reached out to the artists I regularly work with to ask for contributions, in some cases digging in their archives to find what I was looking for. As the project developed, it became like a soundtrack for a non-existent black and white film that allows the listener to make their own movie based on the soundscape, frequencies and emotions within the sound-bed I designed.”

As a solo artist, Gaudi has recorded over 20 albums, while as a producer he has hundreds of productions under his belt. He has worked with legends of the reggae and electronic music worlds including Lee "Scratch" Perry, Horace Andy, Dub Pistols, Hollie Cook, Youth, Mad Professor, Prince Fatty, Lamb, Trentemøller and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Dedicated to the sound of dub in its many forms, Gaudi’s latest excursion of his Sub Signals series is pure bass therapy, designed to excite your eardrums and worry your woofers.

Sub Signals Vol.2 - Selected and Mixed by Gaudi

A sublime selection of dancefloor beats and downtempo dubs from around the globe, Mixes + Mavericks features seven remixes by Pitch Black, two live tracks that couldn’t be more different in nature or tempo, one seriously unorthodox situation (an unauthorised remix of a remix) and a track in between states, all highlighting the breadth of the duo’s sonic palette.

Whereas their previous Rarities + Remixes collection was predominantly rooted in New Zealand, Mixes + Mavericks is undoubtedly a more international affair, with all the remixed artists hailing from the northern hemisphere. Many of the connections are the result of the duo’s touring and festival appearances around the globe: they first met Gaudi at a gig in Japan, Animat and Nick Woolfson (Sounds from the Ground) at The Big Chill festival in the UK, while downtemple duo Desert Dwellers were encountered in the Californian underground. 

Other connections were more straightforward: Brighton-based Ink Project (run by Kiwi Jez Lloyd) approached them to remix “The End” and Mexico’s Sudden Reverb was introduced by label-mates Deep Fried Dub. Meanwhile Mike bumped into Radioactive Man’s Keith Tenniswood (of Two Lone Swordsmen fame) while he was getting a 7” record cut. 

Uber-producer/Killing Joke bass player Youth features in two very different ways. First up is Pitch Black’s pulsating dub mix of his collaboration with Italian producer Gaudi, from their Astronaut Alchemists album. Then there is his unsolicited remix of epsilon-blue’s 1999 remix of Speech, over which he added bass, beats and blessings.  This mash-up lurked for years in the archive under the title of Helmsdub, but only as a corrupted mp3 file. Thankfully a little detective work discovered that, much to everyone’s surprise, it had been released as Speechless (Big Circle Flat Pain Remix) on a 2004 CD compilation. A copy was tracked down, the tune was carefully re-mastered and then correctly named.

Mixes + Mavericks also features two very different live offerings: Notting Pill is a dose of atmospheric moodiness from a rare ambient set at Notting Hill Arts Club in London, held to publicise the upcoming showcase of New Zealand music at Fabric in 2003. The banging G202, meanwhile, was captured by Andre Upston at Rippon Festival in Wanaka, NZ at the turn of the millennium, and later broadcast on Radio New Zealand. It was a track that, despite being a staple of the live show for many years, was never finished, and following software updates and data dumps, the only version that exists is this live recording.

It's a Future Dub is a similarly embryonic track – eventually it became It’s the Future Knocking, from the Filtered Senses album, but here it’s a fascinating hybrid caught midway between creation and completion. Many of the elements of its future self are present, but there is a whole lot more going on, making this a fascinating signpost on a possible road-not-taken. 

Beautifully accompanied by Tim Prebble's Cyanotype images, Mixes + Mavericks is a showcase of Pitch Black’s sonic diversity as remixers and maintains the trademark production aesthetic that has won them thousands of fans and filled dancefloors around the globe.

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Pitch Black - Mixes + Mavericks

soundcloud.com/subsetdubs returns with the Aperture EP, which blends live instrumentation with electronic and dub sensibilities.

The upbeat opener Duende Revisited, recorded live at the Brisbane Meanjin Reggae Festival, revolves around horns from an earlier tune, dropped atop a gnarly bass squelch. The moody I Am Earthbound is awash with richly effected layers of guitar and bass, while the dub-techno inspired Habitat is enlivened by melodica. The title track's shuffling dub groove perfectly leads in to the closing Solutions of Synthesis, a deep exploration of the origins of life.

As in photography, the Aperture EP is many-structured, filtering light and sound, and focussing to a point of many colours, moods and emotions.

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SUBSET - Aperture

Having recently re-connected with some of the artists featured on our first ever release, the compilation Mashing Up Creation, which came out on CD in January 1997 (preceded by a 12” sampler in late 1996), we’re now in a position to re-release a 2022 versions of the collection, featuring 8 out of 10 of the original tracks.

As we said at the time, the compilation is a culmination of a variety of artists from trance, techno, jazz, trip-hop and drum‘n’bass coming together. Opening with 100th Monkey’s bittersweet psycho-tropical Backwater Dub and Adephli’s far-out jazz homage Jah Weybridge, the album twists through to the cosmic fractals of Doof. Add the lazy haze of 23’s multi-cultural melange to Etherealites’ traditional roots style, and Mashing Up Creation covers all the avenues that dub has evolved into since the blessed days of Lee Perry, King Tubby and the other grand masters of dub….

Despite being a very loose outfit (it did take us over a year to put together one release), we managed to get some amazing press. Mashing Up Creation was described as “music for the millennium” (DJ Magazine), “an absolute must for chillout collectors” (Essence Magazine) and  “un rayon de soleil” (Tr@nsdub@lity), while The Sunday Times (really) hailed it as “a pleasure to have…growling and throbbing away in your life”. Our favourite review, however, and the highest comparison we could ever wish for, was in Sleaze Nation, who accused us of “carrying on where original dub hijackers The Orb left off”.

Obviously it’s all been downhill since then, but we hope you enjoy the tunes as much as we still do.

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Mashing Up Creation

Having recently re-connected with some of the artists featured on our first releases, we’re now in a position to re-release a 2022 version of Dubbed on Planet Skunk, featuring 8 out of 10 of the original tracks.

This is an edited version of what we said at the time: the dubmission crew return with another compilation, which rolls its way through dubs drawn from across the musical spectrum. In the dub corner, we have modern roots champion, Alpha & Omega; acid dub pioneers, Zion Train; and bass technicians, V-Neck. In the techno corner, we have trance pioneer Doof; sonic terrorists, Quirk; and the eclectic lunacy of Qualia. From the club corner, the exceptionally cunning Lone Stuntman, and from the punk corner, growling mad Stratfordians, Hedonastik.

As with Mashing Up Creation, we managed to get some pretty amazing press feedback: our “red-eyed trawl through modern computer-based emulations of the original Jamaican blueprint” (DJ magazine) featured “ten Tracks of pure hedonastic pleasure” (Kiss FM) “where the bass is mightier than the keyboard and the FX are awesome” (Music Week). While we liked Muzik’s description, “low-end frequency modulations for the post-club comedown”, we loved Weed World’s: they hailed Dubbed on Planet Skunk as “a stoned selection guaranteed to enhance your high”.

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Dubbed on Planet Skunk

Dub FX - Dub Everyday (Gaudi's Sub Signals Remix)(preview)

100th Monkey - Fly Higher Dub (preview)

Paolo Baldini Dubfiles - Ethiolò Dub (preview)

Radikal Guru - Badman Skank (preview)

Alpha Steppa - Colour (preview)

Simm feat. Phelimuncasi - Cracks (preview)

AUX25 - Passing Through (preview)

Shpongle - How The Jellyfish Jumped Up The Mountain (Cosmic Trigger Remix)(preview)

The first single from the second volume in Gaudi's Sub Signals series is a deep-dub version of Groove Armada's "Oh Tweak to Me", which is available to download or stream from
Bandcamp https://bit.ly/3iKqMvv
Spotify https://spoti.fi/3agBBAQ
Apple https://apple.co/3lkva62

Sub Signals Vol.2 is a deep dive into underground bass, guided by artist and producer soundcloud.com/gaudi. Featuring predominantly unreleased originals and versions by some of the biggest names in the worldwide dub collective, Sub Signals Vol.2 intricately combines analogue elements with digital grooves to stunning effect. 

Much more than just a compilation, the Sub Signals series is a celebration of the evolution of the sound of dub, from its original roots in reggae to its fusion with a much wider spectrum of sounds and influences. Gaudi curated the first volume back in 2006 for the cult Canadian label Interchill, sourcing tracks and dubs from High Tone, Zion Train, Manasseh, Almamegretta, Noiseshaper, Creation Rebel, Greg Hunter, Bill Laswell’s Dubadelic and more.

15 years on, Gaudi has created the second volume, blending contributions by established reggae names Steel Pulse, Dennis Bovell and African Head Charge with next generation dub producers Alpha Steppa, Radikal Guru and Paolo Baldini Dubfiles, headline acts Groove Armada, Dub FX and The Orb with underground artists Deadbeat, Pitch Black and SUBSET, to create a seamless 75 minute mix.

“With Volume 2, I wanted to create a deep vibrational experience by shaping an aural trajectory that encompassed the many aspects of dub and its related sub-frequencies. To achieve my goal, I reached out to the artists I regularly work with to ask for contributions, in some cases digging in their archives to find what I was looking for. As the project developed, it became like a soundtrack for a non-existent black and white film that allows the listener to make their own movie based on the soundscape, frequencies and emotions within the sound-bed I designed.”

As a solo artist, Gaudi has recorded over 20 albums, while as a producer he has hundreds of productions under his belt. He has worked with legends of the reggae and electronic music worlds including Lee "Scratch" Perry, Horace Andy, Dub Pistols, Hollie Cook, Youth, Mad Professor, Prince Fatty, Lamb, Trentemøller and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Dedicated to the sound of dub in its many forms, Gaudi’s latest excursion of his Sub Signals series is pure bass therapy, designed to excite your eardrums and worry your woofers.

Pre-order from
https://gaudimusic.bandcamp.com/album/sub-signals-vol-2
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sub-signals-vol-2-dj-mix/1587831272
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sub-Signals-Vol-2-Gaudi/dp/B09GW149LG/

Gaudi ft. Groove Armada - Oh Tweak To Me (Gaudi Version)(preview)

3head - Afnaz (Dennis Bovell Dub Mix)(preview)

SUBSET - The Astrogator (Sub Signals Mix)(preview)

David Harrow - In My Head (Inside My Head Mix)(preview)

The Orb - Say Cheese (Gaudi's Dubble Mozzarella Mix)(preview)

Pitch Black - Transient Transmission (Adrian Sherwood's Delta B(0)=B Remix)(preview)

Sudden Reverb / Nahuatl Jaguar - Sound Tlakotli (Deadbeat Remix)(preview)

Six years after their debut dropped, Deep Fried Dub return with a veritable smorgasbord of dub soaked delights, dripping with antipodean flavour. 

Marinated in bass culture, Slow Cooked features a sizzling selection of dubwise cuts, opening with a tasty slice of reggae, Shine, and ending with the saucy dub house of KAOS. 

In between are sandwiched the dubstep infused 100 IRE and Condensor, spicy tech-dub joints Ivory Towers and Kryptology, and bass heavy breaks on Tectonic Dubplate and Snake Oil.

Out on November 11th, but available to pre-order from Bandcamp from today.


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Deep Fried Dub - Slow Cooked promo mix

Sudden Reverb returns with another subversive groove, drenched in dub and delay. His original is complemented by Pitch Black's uptempo breaks remix and SUBSET's wonky downtempo dub.

Sudden Reverb - Distanced (Pitch Black's Light, The Fastest Thing We Know Remix)(preview)

Nick Woolfson - Silver With A Cloud Lining (Pitch Black's Johnny Open The Door Remix)(preview)

Pitch Black - Speech (Youth's Re - Rub Of Epsilon - Blue's Speechless Remix)(preview)

Ink Project Feat. Fifi Rong - The End (Pitch Black's This Is The End Of Suffering Remix)(preview)

Youth & Gaudi - The Gods Must Be Crazy (Pitch Black's Hubristic Prayerformance Mix)(preview)

Pitch Black - It's A Future Dub (preview)

SUBSET - Solutions Of Synthesis (preview)

SUBSET - Aperture (preview)

SUBSET - Habitat (preview)

SUBSET - I Am Earthbound (preview)

SUBSET - Duende Revisited (preview)

Doof - Baba, We Love Dub So(preview)

Etherealites - Unbelievers(preview)

The Blue Voice - Pear Shaped Dub(preview)

Blu - Dubmarine(preview)

23 - Five Six Dub(preview)

Adelphi - Jah Weybridge(preview)

Longing, Krishna explained in the Bhagavad Gita, can be harnessed as a path to divinity in Bhakti Yoga. The composition features both the major and minor key in the same melody and this descent expresses the bittersweet yearning of loss. 

Holiwater Band - Longing (edit)

Kabir Chaura is the suburb of Varanasi where Kabir lived, and where this track began. The writings of Kabir have profoundly influenced those on a devotional path for the 500 years since his death. His teachings stress the importance of a devoted but balanced path but are also notable for their criticisms of social injustice and exploitation. 

Holiwater Band - Kabir Chaura (edit)

Alpha & Omega - Only Jah Children (preview)

Hedonastik - Revelations (preview)

Quirk - Haile Senseitive (preview)

The Lone Stuntman - Thank You For Smoking (preview)

V - Neck - Dub Trifle (preview)

Qualia - Plasma (Freshwater Mix)(preview)

Doof - Skunked On Planet Dub (preview)

Sounds From The Ground - Snow (Zion Train Remix)(preview)

Amazing mix by DJ Maggie (Moontribe/Ball of Waxx): http://www.facebook.com/chilledbeats

1. Third Ear Audio – Intro
2. WooB – 10 Ton Laboratory
3. Third Ear Audio – Up in Smoke
4. Pitch Black – Speech (International Observer Mix)
5. Pitch Black – Electric Earth (DC Mix)
6. Pitch Black – Ape to Angel
7.Blu – Dubmarine
8. Third Ear Audio – Ethereality
9. Pitch Black – 1000 Mile Drift (Simon Flowers Lost at Sea Mix)
10. Pitch Black – Freefall (Alucidnation’s Lucid Dream Mix)
11.Steffe – Heart of Fire
12. Pitch Black – Freefall (Alucidnation Remix)
13. Doof – Baba, We Love Dub So
14. Pitch Black – Harmonia (Krusseldorf Remix)

DJ Maggie's Therein Lies the Dub mix

Deep Fried Dub - Kryptology (Isaac Chambers Remix feat Dub Princess)(preview)

For his Dubmission debut, soundcloud.com/ishdub has created nine downtempo gems that mix cutting edge production with live instrumentation, all underpinned with hearty basslines.

BassLife

IshDub - Masters Of Life (preview)

100th Monkey - Backwater Dub (Purple Pineapple Mix)(preview)

Dubmission Records have blazed a trail of warped woofers since the mid 90’s, when they launched with a trio of bass heavy dubwise compilations. 

In 1996, they kicked off with the Mashing Up Creation album, which featured tracks by Doof, Adelphi and http://soundcloud.com/andyguthrie amongst others. It was reviewed favourably by The Sunday Times, DJ and Sleaze Nation – the latter describing it as “carrying on where original dub hijackers The Orb left off!” It was swiftly followed by Dubbed On Planet Skunk, with stand out tracks from http://soundcloud.com/zion-train, Quirk and Alpha & Omega. The third instalment took 2 years to put together – More Bass Than Space was a double album which represented every spectrum of the modern dub scene, with tunes from artists as diverse as Hallucinogen, http://soundcloud.com/woob, http://soundcloud.com/solarquest, Singers&Players and Tribal Drift. It sold well all over the world, and led to tours of Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and USA.

From 2001-5, the Dubmission crew concentrated more on artist management and event promotion than releasing records. However after hearing Ape to Angel by http://soundcloud.com/pitchblacknz, they decided to bring Dubmission out of “retirement”, as it represented everything and more that the label had tried to achieve.  

Since then the label has gone from strength to strength, with several more releases from http://soundcloud.com/pitchblacknz (Frequencies Fall, Rude Mechanicals, Rhythm, Sound & Movement plus their first two albums, Futureproof and Electronomicon), as well as Seen, Heard and Felt by http://soundcloud.com/international-observer, Make Animals Happy by http://soundcloud.com/warptechnique, Third Ear Audio’s Third Ear Audio and Paddy Free’s Karekare. The crew has also found time to compile two smoky collections for the Japanese label, Wakyo: On A Dubmission Volumes One and Two.

In 2010, to celebrate 15 years of business, they released 15 titles, including new EPs by http://soundcloud.com/pitchblacknz, http://soundcloud.com/warptechnique, Doof and Green Monitor, plus re-issued classic but deleted albums by Bluey, Stress Assassin and Bill&Ben, as well as playing 15 shows around the world and uploading 15 DJ mixes of Dubmission music to download.

The last few years have seen EPs released by http://soundcloud.com/akashaexperience, http://soundcloud.com/quanta-uk and http://soundcloud.com/erssound., two albums and an EP by http://soundcloud.com/deepfrieddub, a collection of http://soundcloud.com/pitchblacknz remixes of other artists and a new compilation series, The Next Mission, designed to showcase up and coming talent.  

All Dubmission releases are available from http://dubmission.bandcamp.com

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