Broken Beats 2

Skylarking (Noiseshaper Version)

Mr Benn - Long Time ft. Blak Twang & Blackout JA

To celebrate Easy Star All Stars﻿ current European tour, we asked Dub Architect﻿ to curate an Easy Star Records﻿ Summer Mix.  Featuring artists from Easy Star past, present, and future such as Rebelution﻿, John Brown's Body﻿, Passafire﻿, Sugar Minott﻿, Luciano﻿, Ticklah / Victor Axelrod﻿, The Meditations﻿, Cas Haley﻿, The Black Seeds﻿, and more!

Track list:
00:00:00 - The Black Seeds - "Heavy Mono E" from Into the Dojo: http://smarturl.it/0345p1
00:00:17 - The Green - "Love is Strong" from Ways & Means: http://smarturl.it/vqvnzq
00:03:44 - John Brown's Body - "The Gold (Dubmatix Remix)" from Re-Amplify: http://smarturl.it/2jmcxm
00:08:19 - Sugar Minott - "Si Mi Ya" from Hidden Treasures
00:11:39 - Luciano - "Hopes on High" from Easy Star Volume 2: Dancehall Culture: http://smarturl.it/r7bm7d
00:14:19 - Ticklah - "Nine Years" from Ticklah vs Axelrod: http://smarturl.it/4os5qu
00:17:45 - Tommy T - "Tribute to a King" from The Prester John Sessions: http://smarturl.it/j2f5py
00:21:51 - The Meditations - "Great Tribulation" from Ghetto Knowledge: http://smarturl.it/fkn5t0
00:24:58 - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad - "Love You More (Dub Architect Mix)" from Dub Volume 1: http://smarturl.it/dubvol1
00:28:37 - John Brown's Body - "Blazing Love" from Pressure Points: http://smarturl.it/3m50c5
00:32:32 - Rob Symenonn - "Anything for Jah" from Easy Star Vol 1: http://smarturl.it/mcsdvu
00:35:11 - Easy Star All-Stars - "Bed of Rose" from Until That Day EP: http://smarturl.it/fzqxbs
00:38:55 - The Green - "Forgive Me" from Hawai'i '13: http://smarturl.it/kssi0y
00:42:03 - The Black Seeds - "Strugglers" from Solid Ground: http://smarturl.it/fc7eds
00:45:55 - Michael G - "Cool Down Dub" from Easy Star Volume 2: Dancehall Culture: http://smarturl.it/kjlt9x
00:48:55 - Triston Palma - "Two Roads" from Can't Stop Us Now: http://smarturl.it/d5zpo0
00:51:40 - John Brown's Body - "Old John Brown" from Kings & Queens: http://smarturl.it/qhiyc1
00:56:51 - Passafire - "Right Thing" from Vines: http://smarturl.it/pp4u7q
00:59:35 - Cas Haley - "Better (Michael G Remix)" from Connection: http://smarturl.it/thy54m
01:04:17 - Rebelution - "Roots Reggae Music" from Count Me In: http://smarturl.it/xnufhv
01:08:36 - The Green - "Something About It" from Hawai'i '13: http://smarturl.it/2kjx5f
01:12:29 - Ticklah - "Pork Eater" from Ticklah vs Axelrod: http://smarturl.it/4os5qu
01:15:54 - Ranking Joe / Cassyman - "My Lady" from Hidden Treasures
01:18:59 - The Black Seeds - "Turn It Around" from On the Sun: http://smarturl.it/55ukij
01:23:08 - John Brown's Body - "Give Yourself Over" from Amplify: http://smarturl.it/fn4cos

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Dub Architect: http://DubArchitect.com

Easy Star Records Summer Mix - Curated by Dub Architect

Happy Halloween!  On "Black Ark Vampires" Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic Sound System have crafted a throbbing sound-man tune propelled by subsonic bass, bubbling skanks, and pulsing beats that balance the murky and mystical vibes of Perry’s classic Jamaican dub reggae recordings with the flammable energy and bass vibrations of current electronic music, fine tuning a recipe that they have slow cooked throughout their last four years of U.S. tours spreading authentic dub to a new generation in places like Coachella, Dub Champions Festival, and Red Bull Music Academy. Lyrically the track features Perry’s most focused lyrics in a decade, a poignant oath of vengeance against the vampires that corrupted the ark of the covenant and forced him to burn down his famed Black Ark studio, told in comical rhymes that echo the cadence of a Dr. Seuss story coupled with the morbidity of Edgar Allan Poe, promising the details of where, when, and how he will kill these vampires, from Kingston to London to New York City and everywhere; vampires beware; he will kill them with his hair, with fire, with electric wire, and even with roast corn. Melodically the tune packs soaring vampire hooks, spiritual vocal choirs, groaning melodica bursts, and even a few lines from dancehall vocalist Jahdan Blakkamoore, produced and recorded by Emch at his Subatomic Sound laboratory in NYC. Scratch’s vocals were recorded in Brooklyn at the Hook Studio after an NYC performance with the production assistance of On-U Sound’s legendary Adrian Sherwood, producer of some of Perry’s finest post-Jamaica recordings. The session was filmed by a Dubspot video crew after a long drive through NYC during which Perry recounted the better part of his life story as a warm up for the session.

At the age of 78, Lee "Scratch" Perry has built a life based as much on his fame as a reggae and dub inventor who exhibited boundless creativity and innovation in music composition and production, as he has on his reputation as a madman with playful wit, a propensity for lighting things on fire, a natural mystical spirituality that he famously introduced to Bob Marley, and his defiant individuality and commitment to personal freedom. "Black Ark Vampires" brilliantly ties together these divergent characteristics to create classic Lee "Scratch" Perry material on all levels.

Perry loves to dance and loves dancehall. His nickname actually comes from the name of dance he invented called Chicken Scratch. During his tours with Subatomic Sound System, Scratch had a voracious appetite for hearing new sounds and was interested in the "Vampires & Informers" dubstep track Subatomic Sound System had produced for dancehall vocalist Elephant Man. Perry began performing on the riddim live which led to developing the lyrics for Black Ark Vampires and Subatomic developing a riddim for Perry that captured his vibes. Though Perry is known for seldom giving straight answers and many have wondered if he really burned down the Black Ark studio, Emch from Subatomic Sound System says that one night after performing a show in California, he and percussionist Larry McDonald, a Black Ark studio veteran, were talking backstage when Scratch told them the reasons for his own longevity: "Stress will kill you. That’s why I had to burn down the Black Ark." He said the popularity of the studio had attracted the vampires who came to suck him dry and corrupted the magic of Black Ark, but rather than let that slowly destroy him like a cancer, he chose to close the book on that chapter of his life and move on by torching the studio and making an exodus to the UK leaving the vampires with nothing but the ashes.

THE ARTISTS: Grammy winning reggae and dub inventor Lee "Scratch" Perry is a living legend, one of Jamaica’s most prolific producers and a true original with a spirit that has defined and influenced countless artists across genres and generation, decades of great Jamaican artists from Bob Marley to Max Romeo, punk rockers The Clash, The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, The Orb, The Beastie Boys, Paul McCartney, Kode9, and the list goes on. At 78 he continues to tour, record, and paint incessantly.

Spearhead by producer, DJ, and instrumentalist Emch, NYC’s Subatomic Sound System is leading a dub music renaissance, founders of the US & Europe Dub Champions Festival, 4 years acting as the live band for legend Lee "Scratch" Perry on tours including Coachella & Red Bull Music Academy; plus independently touring North America, Europe, and Asia, and for a decade producing flavors ranging from classic dub to dubstep.

THE SUBATOMIC SOUND LABEL: Subatomic Sound specializes in limited edition exclusive vinyl releases that push the envelope of dub, reggae, & dancehall in the context of electronic bass music through forward sounding productions and unlikely collaborations with icons such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, David Lynch, Anthony B, Elephant Man, Ari Up of The Slits, as well as new school torchbearers like Dubblestandart, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Dub Gabriel, and many more. Subatomic Sound actively produces events and founded the annual Dub Champions Festival running 4 years in the USA and Europe. Subatomic Sound Radio airs on Brooklyn Radio and for three years ran on KEXP’s Radio New York, 91.5FM broadcast which transmitted to a footprint of 11 million listeners.

Lee Scratch Perry & Subatomic Sound System "Black Ark Vampires" vinyl 45 mix

Produced by Paolo Baldini and Fitzroy Green.

2 The World

Inna Jamaica pt. 2

Inna Jamaica Pt. 2 (feat. Forelock And Hempress Sativa)

Jamaica No Problem

A unique project with someones of the greatest musicians in reggae and jazz music: Will Bernard one of the tallest jazzman in the world, Leeroy "Horsemouth" Wallace (The Abyssinians, Burning Spear), and three of the Groundation's members: Marcus Urani, Ryan Newman, and Harrison Stafford... Just really good sound...

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KRS X Hopeton - So Hard My Friend

"HIGH & GRITTY" DUBMATIX Remix Edit

The Hempolics "Boss Clock Me Style" J Star Remix

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New York City's Easy Star Records has produced three of the best-selling and trendsetting reggae albums around - the Easy Star All-Stars' Dub Side of the Moon, Radiodread and Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band - while building an international brand and roster that has come to signify quality and class.

The independent label has created an impressive body of work that includes those above-mentioned in-house productions, along with progressive recordings from envelope-pushing acts like Protoje, Jesse Royal, John Brown's Body, The Skints, The Black Seeds, Rebelution, Passafire, Backbeat Soundsystem, Gentleman's Dub Club, Cas Haley, New Kingston, The Expanders, Lila Ike, The Late Ones, Marcus Gad, Tommy T, JonQuan and Ticklah; reissues of classic reggae from the vaults of Sugar Minott and Linval Thompson; new music from reggae legends The Meditations and Sister Carol; and collaborations with international reggae stars like Matisyahu,  Michael Rose, U Roy, Luciano, Anthony B, Christofer Martin and Morgan Heritage.

Easy Star has steadily built a scene that extends in many directions, following any path where reggae leads, bringing together young producers and musicians, reggae stars, and even artists outside the genre who have been influenced by Jamaican music, like Citizen Cope, blues musician/musicologist Corey Harris, Janelle Monáe, Jason Mraz and Kelly Clarkson.

The label manages its in-house musical collective/touring band The Easy Star All-Stars, who have played in over 30 countries on 6 continents. Dub Side of the Moon, Radiodread, Lonely Hearts and Thrillah have formed the backbone of a growing franchise of reggae re-inventions of classic albums; the band is at work on the next installment, targeted for 2022.

Easy Star has also developed a strong sense of how to market reggae to both core genre fans and a mass audience, leading to work consulting on marketing for albums such as Gov't Mule's Mighty High. Easy Star's musical director Michael Goldwasser produced albums for Corey Harris and Israeli band Hatikva 6, as well as remixes by Umphrey's McGee, Rebelution, Jason Mraz, Yoko Ono and more, bringing the Easy Star sound further outside the family. And Easy Star has raised its profile as a lifestyle brand with events such as Easy Star Reggae Tuesdays, which was one of the longest-running weekly reggae parties in New York.