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/

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

GOCOO are seven female and four male drummers who capture their audience with original grooves woven with Japanese drums, Taikos. On stage the 11 musicians from Tokyo create with almost 40 drums a music-spectacle beyond imagination. Music-wise GOCOO are one of the most sophisticated percussion groups of the present. The cosmic beats and uniquely complex poly-rhythms are of such primal nature that they reflect all known music styles and consequently unite people of all ages, ethnic and social origins and of any taste in music. No matter where GOCOO performs, at major World & Roots, Rock & Pop or alternative Music & Culture festivals, in live clubs, classic theatres and concert halls or at techno events, GOCOO takes all audiences on a mesmerizing trip between trance and ecstasy with their goose-bumps music.

GOCOO define themselves as a "Band" and while usual Taiko ensembles stoically pursue a traditional style, and while others seek new interpretations of traditional Japanese music, GOCOO's beat exhibits free-spirited Taiko music, rising freely between the East and the West, tradition and pop, rite and party and hence appealing directly to the heart of a broad range of audiences. Although GOCOO's music is often referred to as crossover or roots music, or even new terms such as Techno- and Trance-Taiko are created to pay tribute to their unique rhythms, GOCOO successfully overcame any stereotyped concepts not only of Japanese drum music and reached their own, independent cult status.

Free of ritual obligations, women, for example, have the majority among GOCOO's members. Above all the charismatic female lead drummer Kaoly Asano. "The drummers show strengths of young Japanese musicians that are usually indicative of techno pioneers such as Ken Ichi: it's a mix of Western culture and own cultural customs, moulded into new acoustic forms" says Michael Wenzel of Triggerfish. The sound of GOCOO's music is so unique that not only the makers of the MATRIX movies discovered GOCOO's tunes for their soundtracks. The band's sound can be heard in many computer games and major Japanese companies, such as Hitachi or Nissan, also use GOCOO's beats for their TV spots.

GOCOO was founded 1997 in Tokyo. They debuted the same year, remarkably unusual for a Taiko group, at the Techno Festival Rainbow 2000. Since then, GOCOO's frequent live performances at Tokyo's cult locations, such as Aoyama CAY and Shibuya On Air, are packed with young followers who usually tend to shy away from traditional music. But for them, GOCOO's trance-like, danceable sound is simply excellent rock- or pop music. GOCOO also appear side by side with other bands and DJs at rave parties or open air festivals such as the Fuji Rock Festival, Asagiri Jam, or the Hotaka Mountain Festival.

Yet, GOCOO are highly recognized among the circles of traditional Taiko: for instance GOCOO performed at the 35th Nihon no Taiko: Taiko ha Koeru (Japanese Taiko Drums Transcend) at the Japanese National Theatre in 2001 and they appeared together with the legendary, traditional Taiko ensemble Kodo at Tokyo's Earthbeat Festival in June 2005. Furthermore, GOCOO took the chance to perform with several highly achieved artists such as Korea's Kim Duk-soo of SamulNori, West-Africa's djembe player Mamady Keita, and Seiichi Tanaka of the San Francisco Taiko Ensemble. GOCOO's music reflects all these different aspects of musical diversity and interaction.

In 2000, GOCOO's first solo album Healing Asia Vol.2 was released. It was sound engineered by Shinichi Tanaka and recorded with no over-dubbing. The result was an album of intricate rhythm overlays and powerful grooves rivalling GOCOO's live performances. November of the same year marked another milestone for GOCOO with their first US tour.

At the beginning of 2002, GOCOO joined Juno Reactor (UK) for a recording session which resulted that same fall in the release of the maxi single Hotaka. In June 2002, Universal Music published GOCOO's first live album Live'01.

In January 2003, GOCOO performed for the first time in Europe: at the opening party The Cutting Edge of Japanese Underground of Graz as the Culture Capital of Europe 2003 they entertained a five-thousand strong audience. They followed-up with a tour throughout Germany. Another highlight during that year marked the joined recordings Tea House and Tetsujin with Juno Reactor as they produced the soundtrack of the Hollywood blockbusters Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. Successively, GOCOO released their first DVD Live'02. In December two new CDs with tracks performed by GOCOO were released: Juno Reactor's Zwara EP and the Best of Healing Asia: Amatsuchi No Aida.

Prior to the summer tour 2004 including appearances in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, German television 3sat broadcasted a feature on GOCOO produced in Tokyo. Additionally, GOCOO's second live album Lovebeat was released. A particular highlight of the tour was GOCOO's performance at the Swiss Gurtenfestival, broadcasted by Swiss television. While being on tour, GOCOO briefly eloped to a recording studio in Hamburg (Germany) to contribute to the soundtrack of the sequel of one of the most successful role-play computer games that was released in October 2006: Gothic III.

In autumn 2005 GOCOO performed 34 concerts during a two months long tour through Europe and Mexico. And in April 2006 GOCOO conquered for the first time Australia where they performed two memorable concerts at the internationally acclaimed East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival before the band returned in June to Europe for the fourth time. They performed in Germany, Czech, Serbia and Greece. The concert in Belgrade was recorded by Serbia's national TV and later broadcasted.

The latest live album Earthbeat was released in Spring 2007 and the following summer GOCOO came to Europe for their so far most extensive and successful tour through Europe. They performed in 10 countries on the stages of the biggest music festivals like the Sziget or Italia Wave, entertaining audiences of up to 25.000.

2008 marked the next peak in GOCOO's history. The Band was not only chosen to musically represent the entire Asian continent at the opening event of the UN Conference on Biological Diversity in Bonn (Germany), performing side by side with Bob Geldof and Daniela Mercury. GOCOO also performed in front of the so far largest crowd ever: 30.000 people listened to their beats at the Mawazine Festival Rabat (Maroc). And also for the first time ever, the band performed within one year a world tour including countries of all five continents.

In its edition of July 8, 2009, Newsweek Japan published in a special under the headline "100 Japanese people who overcame cultural barriers and shine in the world" a list pf Japan's top 100 challengers, pioneers, heroes and icons. Besides celebrities like actor, filmmaker and entertainer Takeshi Kitano or historical figures such as Ieyasu Tokugawa, the band GOCOO was also included into the list, as "their borderless sound, a mix of rock and ethnic music from around the world, is cherished by international audiences” Newsweek said.

After taking a creative break in 2010, GOCOO returned in Spring 2011 with the new live CD and DVD Roots of Joy to Europe and Maroc. GOCOO was honoured to open the Festival Mawazine in Rabat together with music legend Quincy Jones. The Budapest Summer Festival also chose GOCOO to perform the opening concert. During the entire tour GOCOO invited their audiences to write down their messages to the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on Japanese flags. These flags were given to the victims during a charity concert in the disaster area.

2012 the band returned to Europe for another fantastic Summer tour through 7 countries with many concerts in front of huge audiences. To name a few highlights: GOCOO performed at MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL, entranced more than 20.000 people at BOOM Festival and played once again at Europe’s biggest music event, the SZIGET Festival. After performing in 2007 on SZIGET’s World Music Stage, GOCOO was this time chosen to open the festival’s main stage. With this for the first time ever an instrumental world music artist performed side by side with the international mainstream pop/rock acts on the main stage of the ”Best European Major Festival 2011” Award winner. A true milestone in GOCOO’s career. The concert was broadcasted live and worldwide via YouTube.

2013 GOCOO returned with their new live CD Eleven to Europe. The band toured 7 countries performing 15 concerts including, already for the second time, a show at Peter Gabriel's renowned WOMAD Festival (UK). The concerts in Belgrade, Sarajevo und Zagreb were recorded for later broadcast, the concert in Zegrab was also broadcasted live and nationwide. In addition GOCOO performed live and without playback on Germany's major national TV station ZDF (ZDF Fernsehgarten).

Lead drummer, Kaoly Asano, attracts much attention as a female Taiko artist. Whenever not performing with GOCOO on stage, she teaches the art of playing the Taiko at her famous Taiko school in Tokyo.


Press clippings

Rave Magazine Australia
“Their message of global unity resonates with the audience as strongly as their hypnotic sound.”

The Jakarta Post
“The crowd was torn between wonder and ecstasy. The audience had virtually gone wild, carrying on the Herculean energy spawned by the band.”

Tink.ch Swiss
“Within an hour the lovable Japanese band was overwhelmed with euphoria and hardly released from the stage. The eleven musicians were for sure one of the discoveries of the Openair Gampel.”

Coburger Tagblatt
”With unleashed power Kaoly Asano and her musicians reach a higher level of musical existence with their flowing sound storm.”

Schwäbische Zeitung
“The audience goes crazy. The Drummers from Tokyo get such a delight in playing across to the audience of the sold out big tent that they are hardly tameable.”

Nice Martin
“You can not comprehend GOCOO just with your ears – the entire body is needed and maybe even your soul. The audience breaks out into rejoicings after each piece.”

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
“Vigorous and full of energy the eleven musicians create a primal drum thunderstorm. From the first moment on the rhythmic spark made the audience, which was completely thrilled, catch fire.”

Regiomusik
“Nobody was able to escape from the rhythms. They were, without exaggeration, cosmic beats.”

The Australian
“The Japanese taiko drumming ensemble GOCOO is the personification of power and grace.”

Mannheimer Morgen
“GOCOO is drumming cannon-like and synchronous an intense beat of which any heavy metal band can only dream of. The audience is thrilled and hypnotised by the magic of the drums, which are accelerating the heartbeat and make the mind fly, and the gorgeous choreography of the show.”

Südwest Presse
“A entrancing spectacle for your ears and eyes. An inferno of syncopes and polyrhythmic attacks with a musical diversity that glides seamless back and forth between Japanese drumming tradition and western influences.”

Stuttgarter Zeitung
“GOCOO unfolds an impressive dynamic that finally dissolves in the harmonious cosmos of a total rhythm."

Neue Presse
”With vast energy and contagious joy GOCOO drums itself and the audience into a state of ecstasy - they are drumming down all borders between east and west, tradition and pop, rite and party.”

Frankfurter Rundschau
”Regarding the outspread of the dynamical threshold, long crescendo and decrescendo, the group is by no means ranked behind a first class symphony orchestra.”

Kateigaho International Edition
”The hall fills with the mighty sound of taiko drums. Deep, heavy, thick, and furious sound. The music of GOCOO infiltrates the very core of those who hear it.“

Drums & Percussion
”On stage you have to think of this band as a force of nature: performing unbelievable intensive and transferring the energy and enthusiasm on the audience.”

Triggerfish
”Even Slayers Dave Lombardo would be amazed: just when you start to believe that the humanly possible drumming frequency is reached, GOCOO increases the speed that even experienced galley convicts would cringe. The drummers show strengths of young Japanese musicians, usually only known from techno pioneers such as Ken Ichi.”

Wiesbadener Kurier
”In the beginning, there was the fire – in the end there is GOCOO with a fantastic rhythmic orgy, that started in the bottom of the heart, that is wild, full of persuasiveness and power without denial of the own tradition. Fascinating? Exciting? Ecstatic? Yes, all of that but even more.”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
”Dark thunder fills the big hall, which increases to a flickering rhythmic-thunderstorm. GOCOO are 11 men and women, who brought the great Japanese drum tradition with unbelievable exuberance and overwhelming energy into our modern times.” 

GOCOO Fuzing

Big dub reggae/dub selection I played at Eden Festival's Vishnu Lounge back in 2012, actually one of my first DJ outings!

Kalpataru Tree - Moonbloom
SUN:MONX - Parma Panorama
UB40 - Food for thought
International observer - House Of The Rising Dub
Sly & Robbie - Who's In The Tomb
Easy star all stars - Money (Mad Professor Remix) 
Easy star all stars - Speak To Me/Breathe (In The Air) (Dubmatix Remix)
Scientist - Dance of the Vampires
Cimarons - Rooting for a cause
Burning Spear - Institution
Tanya Stephens - It's A Pity
Guitoud - Conscious (Rasta Version)
Guitoud - Combination (feat Algar)
Don Carlos - Favourite Cup
Alpha Omega - Who Is The Ruler
Trevor Junior - I & I Time
Eek A Mouse - Ganga Smuggling
Triston Palma - Joker Smoke
Hugh Mundell - Jacqueline
Johnny Osbourne & Pappa Tullo - Rock And Come on Ya
Max Romeo - War ina Babylon
Ini Kamoze - A Trouble You, A Trouble Me
Alborosie - Kingston Town
Ras Benji - Let Rasta In
Ini kamoze - World A Music
Triston Palma - Sensimilla
The Jamaicans - Ba Ba Boom
Guitoud - Coming Jah
Guitoud - Chains
Creation Rebel - Independent Man
Alborosie - Rolling like a Rock
The Scientist - Taxi to Baltimore
Sly & Robbie - Baltimore


Vishnu Lounge Dub [Mix]

Track 2 of my Character Building EP OUT NOW on Addictech Recordings

HOOVES - ASPIRE

Get it: https://gaudimusic.bandcamp.com/album/dub-sweat-tears
This track featured Ojos De Brujo is taken from GAUDI's album "Dub, Sweat & Tears", a commemorative “dub release” to mark the 10th anniversary of his groundbreaking album Bass, Sweat & Tears, released in 2004 by Interchill Records. Still the label’s best-selling release, it has reached the n.2 on iTunes European chart, the n.14 in the USA, appeared on more than 100 compilations and 4 movies worldwide.
An organic fusion of reggae, nu-beat and global influences inspired by native cultures from around the world, taking the listener to a journey from Burkina Faso to Iran, from Pakistan to India, to Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Spain, Italy, working with an astonishing 42 musicians from all over the globe, each bringing a special flavor to the project's stew. 
It received a massive acclaim from the press, fans and fellow artists alike, with Massive Attack and Pete Namlook declaring it an "awesome album with excellent production".

In Dub, Sweat & Tears Gaudi reshaped his ten years old original tracks using only and rigorously analogue studio equipment such as tape echoes, spring reverbs, valve compressors, a production technique that helped him to create a completely new sonic experience, pointing out all the obscured details, the most minute percussive rings and beeps and the most mesmerizing basslines.

Whether it is the timeless classic sounds of the original Bass, Sweat & Tears, which still sounds brand new and fresh these ten years down the line, or the newly dubbed companion release Dub, Sweat & Tears, this music proves that Gaudi remains one of Electronic music's most unique and innovative producers, a man who is justifiably proud of his past, while continuing to blaze new trails into the future.

More Gaudi: 
Website: http://www.gaudimusic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaudimusic/
YouTube: http://bit.ly/gaudimusic
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/originsmusic/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaudimusic/

A global favourite in the electronica and dub reggae music scenes, UK based producer GAUDI keeps his ever-growing fan base returning to the dance floor with his infectious bass-driven tunes and innovative live performances. Honouring the traditions of old school dub by performing on stage without a computer, GAUDI’s incredible sonic manipulations are interwoven with live Theremin, Moog, Vocoder, Tape Echoes, Percussion and live vocals - all of which makes for a one-of- a-kind experience not to be missed.

GAUDI - Babylon Flamenco in dub

First Volume of "Take Away" by Fanfara Electronica.

Pepouze remix by SIKADA

Special thanks to : Timboletti, Sikada, Cardamohm, BAM, Umeme Afrorave, Baja Frequencia, Momo & all the followers !!!

Out on Global Hybrid Records

free download

Pepouze (Sikada Remix)

Written and produced by A. Denholm 
I started this one on boxing day, hence the name
It was analogue summed using an SSL Duality console at ACM Guildford by 
A. Denholm and Professor Stretch
Mastered by Frankie Akwright just in time to play as the final tune on our last Pagoda set at SGP. 
Frankie, you rock.
This is another tune in the Banging Chillout collection
Thanks to Kitty and Jude for the image
Much Love    ;)

x )'( x

Yule

Buy on Beatport

YULE

Orange Ade - Order and Progress (Free Download)

Another from the forthcoming album > featuring SHANE KELLAHAN on sitar and tampura

bigbUd MEDITATION DUB

We're proud to follow up our “Third Light” album with a companion selection of remixes entitled “The Light Within”, with the remixers hailing from across the globe *and* the bass music spectrum. The resultant ten-track collection is playful, spiritual and sensory, with upbeat tempos and slithering effects woven deep into the rhythmic pulses and dark undercurrents of our original tracks.

Bookended by uptempo versions of “Daylight Wasting” from International Observer and Berlin bassheads qnp, “The Light Within” features contemporary bass cuts from Portland’s Bodie and Christchurch’s Akcept, downtempo grooves by Argentinian dubsalon and South Korean mcthfg, dancefloor dubs from Mexico’s Tor.Ma in Dub and Brisbanite SUBSET, as well as drum and bass by Wellingtonian Zuke and the legendary UK producer Adrian Sherwood.

Contemplative but cheerful, either way, as “A Doubtful Sound” states, ‘The rhythm IS gonna get ya!’

The Light Within

Pitch Black - A Doubtful Sound (Adrian Sherwood Dub Mix)(preview)

Patchbay x Know Wave Guest Show
Episode 10 
27.2.2021

Obzerv X Omizu:

Obzerv & Omizu are back for one solid hour of pure sound system friendly bangers.

Tracklist:
Ka Diy - Rise
Kahn - Dread (Dubkasm Dub 4)
Mungk - Phalanx 
Process - Isolate 
Mexican Stepper - Brutal Skunk
Speng Bond - Open The Borders 
Somah - Binural (feat. Surreal)
TakaTuka & GehLekTek - Shiko
Tadan - Alien Is An Archetype
Enko - Evocation Tribe
Mr Gasmask - Urtektram
Gana - Warehouse Fever 
Jaquarius - Metamine
Stakka & Skynet - Bios-Fear (feat. Konflict)
Redrum- Itchy Belly
Ryme Tyme- Judgement Day
Matrix - Asylum 
Source Direct - Wanton Conduct 
Terrance & Phillip - DnB Religion (feat. KT Kinga)

Obzerv B2B Omizu - Sound System Session (Episode: 10 - Patchbay x Know Wave, 27.2.2021)

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