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

1st Single of the upcoming Album: SEBASTIAN STURM & EXILE AIRLINE - GET UP & GET GOING COMING IN OCTOBRE, 2011 on Rootdown Records

CHECK VIDEO:  unplugged Version of "Get Going"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22N2scEYqPU

Sebastian Sturm & Exile Airline - Get going

Nosferatu

Stone flip-flops, and other important matters.

The Essence Without Words

No lyrics. No tears. No explanation.
Just riddim — pure, raw, echoing essence.

The Sea-Goat becomes vibration.
You don’t hear his story — you feel it.
This track is Capricorn itself:
Climbing bass, deep structure, delay that stretches like time.

This is ritual music.
You don’t listen. You enter.

9.) Crowned in Silence

Sly And Robbie - Ballistic Squeeze

This is an acoustic version of Clinton Fearon's hit during his time with The Gladiators: "Chatty Chatty Mouth", from the album "Heart And Soul extended"
Written and composed by Clinton Fearon
All vocals and instruments played by Clinton Fearon
(c) and (p) 2012 Boogie Brown Productions

Song available on Itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chatty-chatty-mouth/id899385686?i=899385697

More about Clinton Fearon:
www.ClintonFearon.com
www.facebook.com/ClintonFearonMusic
www.twitter.com/clintonfearon

Heart And Soul (extended)

Chatty Chatty Mouth

Mi Amor

Hey everyone! 

Enjoy this deep disco version of a classic dub/reggae tune by Linton Kwesi Johnson. 
Let me know if you dig this type o thing, i will post much more dub/reggae reworks

In other news, Starlight EP is out and available at all proper record stores. Get some!

www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/439564-01.htm









LKJ - Reggae Sounds (The Noodleman Dub)

WARM MY SOUL reggae version

http://www.REGGAEVILLE.com
http://www.ELIJAH.ch/

NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER
@ http://www.100-days.net/de/projekt/elijah-new-album/project



Elijah - Gun Cry feat. Terry Lynn [Pre-Release 2013]

Granular Meets J Dubby at Echo Mountain to produce the vibrations of J dubular. The union and resulting journey is not one of ascension or descent, but about how to sonically (and scenically) navigate the terrain. J Dubby’s drums and Granular’s bass establish the foundational “riddim” of their travels as the duo takes us spelunking through caverns of reverb haunted by flocks of bats screeching ambient white noise. The splash of metallic puddles resonates in the space between our ears and drones in the ether of our mind’s eye. And just as one becomes disoriented by the soundscapes within Echo Mountain, people all over the world join hands as J Dubby’s righteous organ propels the locomotion of a “Dub Train.” In these moments of resolution we are reminded that our tour guides are not the first to traverse the crags of Echo Mountain, yet in their voyages they have found new paths through a rich tradition mapped by dub explorers.

Mi Amor

Jdubular

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