Originally from Edo State, Nigeria, by way of NYC,  Prince Osula cuts a raw and raucous versioning of Max Romeo's "Chase The Devil". This limited edition lathe cut 45 makes Scratch's session sound positively tame.
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Prince Osula - Kick The Devil's Butt

BOBBY AITKEN & THE CARIB BEATS - ONE WAY STREET / CRYING TIME 7" (BA) DKR-270

DKR270A - Val Bennett With Bobby Aitken & The Carib Beats - One Way Street

Following the success of the 2021 reissue of Ambient Warrior’s cult classic Dub Journey's (1995), Isle of Jura is pleased to present their previously unreleased second album, II. The album was recorded from 1995 to 1999 and is born from the same oceanside fusion of instrumental dub, reggae, bossa nova and tango music that made Dub Journey's so distinctive and memorable; II is an equally sublime collection of eleven unheard tracks from the brilliant minds of Ronnie Lion and Andrea Terrano. 

Evoking the delights of white sands, palm trees and sunsets, all set against clear waters and endless blue skies, Dub Journey’s and II document the golden moment when Ambient Warrior came together during the mid-90s to create some of the most Balearic Dub ever made. “Music is the greatest traveller, isn’t it?” says Ronnie. “It gets to places the actual artists can’t even get to really.” 

The son of an orphaned Jamaican jazz trumpet player and professional boxer who enlisted in the military after stowing away on a boat to London, Ronnie grew up between Germany, Singapore and the UK before becoming a working musician in his mid-teens. A bass player by trade, he honed his skills playing in a series of soul, jazz-funk, blues, rock and reggae bands that performed throughout the UK. 

By the time Ambient Warrior released Dub Journey’s, Ronnie and his business partner Ras Joseph were running the Lion Inc. recording studio and record label in Brixton, London. Having set up distribution arrangements with Roots Records (UK) and Semaphore (DEU/NL), they recorded and released a series of singles, compilations and solo albums from a who’s who of roots reggae artists, including Twinkle Brothers, Delroy Washington, Michael Prophet, Alton Ellis, Little Roy, and Ronnie’s own band The Amharic. “Lion was a regular port of call for visiting Jamaican artists,” reflects Ronnie. “When you were in London, it was on the route.” 

An accomplished guitarist, producer and recording engineer from Trieste, Italy, Andrea grew up listening to Russian folk, Klezmer and the Italian harmony tradition in a Sicilian-Ukrainian family. After completing compulsory Italian military service, he moved to London to continue studying music. One night, he turned up at Lion Inc. and approached them about running audio engineering classes from the studio. 

In Andrea, Ronnie found a collaborator who shared his desire to create borderless music that reflected the diversity of their backgrounds. “I wanted to do something that had no boundaries,” Ronnie explains. “If you’re working on a roots album, it has to sound a certain way, but with Ambient, especially in the nineties, it was just a license to let off. You could do whatever you wanted to do.” “It was a melting pot of influences like London itself,” adds Andrea. 

Although they wrote most of II at the same time as they were recording Dub Journey’s, it took them several years to finish off the album. “Things never got done quickly,” Ronnie remembers. By the time it was complete, Roots Records had gone out of business, leaving Lion Inc. without UK distribution. Not long after, their Brixton studio flooded, bringing the label to a close. 

These days, Andrea continues to work as a session guitarist, recording engineer and producer in London. Over the last two decades, he has collaborated regularly with Basement Jaxx and released several solo albums. Ronnie, on the other hand, lives on a boat equipped with an onboard studio, where he has recorded a series of oceanic dub albums off the British coast. Twenty-eight years after the release of Dub Journey’s, he recently started working on demos for a third Ambient Warrior album he hopes to record with Andrea in the not-so-distant future. 

Pressed on heavyweight 180 Gram Vinyl with full sleeve artwork from Bradley Pinkerton.

Ambient Warrior - Dub Lounge

1. Rupie Edwards- Im Gonna Live Some Life
2. Jah Woosh- Collie Sound
3. Success Allstars- Live Some Life Version
4, Success- Allstars-  Dr. Satan Echo Chamber
5.  El Sisco Delgado-  Mi No Mata
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Rupie Edwards-Early Collection -Live Some Life, Collie Sound, Dr. Satan Echo Chamber & Mi No Mata

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01. African Head Charge - Drumming Is A Language
02. Creation Rebel & The New Age Steppers - Threat to Creation
03. Mad Professor - Indian Dub
04. Alek Lee - Telephone (Dub)
05. Compass Point All Stars - Peanut Butter
06. Culture Club - Murder Rap Trap (Featuring Captain Crucial)
07. Lee "Scratch" Perry & Dub Syndicate - Jungle (original 7" version)
08. Samory I  - Crown
09. Bunny "Striker" Lee - Zion Gates Dub
10. Franco Califano - Tac (Dub)
11. Mina - L'Aquila (Little Tony Negri Dub Version)

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Mixino #67 - Bob Corsi

Here’s my remix of Site Nonsite’s track Creative Life Store. It features on Site Nonsite’s newly released Remixed album, featuring new interpretations of songs from his Japan EPs series:  https://soundcloud.com/sitenonsite
You can purchase the cassette version and digital album on Bandcamp here: https://sitenonsite.bandcamp.com/album/remixed

Site Nonsite - Creative Life Store (Karen Vogt's High As A Kite Mix)

The Heptones- Forward On A Yard, Revolution & Sorrows- with Ranking King

Tonight on @radioalhara, episode 13 of our radioshow 'Feeding the Gentry' w/ Use Knife. Another necessary  round of resistance music alternating with Palestinian voices (Muqata'a, Ghost Producer, Le Trio Joubran and Maya Al Khaldi), because it's all intertwined. From resisting Belgian colonialism (Adou Elenga) and the contemporary aftermath of said colonialism (KOKOKO! & Youniss) to tracks against Dutch and English colonialism, state/police violence and slave trades (Raja Kirik, Nico Van Apeldoorn, Sons Of Kemet and Moor Mother feat. Kyle Kidd: LIVERPOOL won being the slaving trade post transiting most slaves). We also play Las Tesis chilling live performance against violence against woman in Chili, a lovesong by Kurdish band Awara and a track from Saint Abdullah & Eomac's new album they “recorded within a few weeks in October after the war broke out as they tried to keep their heads above water.”

00:00 Muqata'a  مقاطعة - Shay'an Fa Shay'an شَيئاً فشَيئاً
03:44 KOKOKO! - Azo Toke
07:39 Youniss - Escaper
09:57 Adou Elenga - Mokili Ekobaluka (Ata Ndele)
13:33 Ghost Producer / Badawi - Shot Gun Colonialism (featuring Jah Chemistry)
16:37 Raja Kirik - Act II. Budhal Gumuruh
26:16 Nico Van Apeldoorn - Wie vermoordde Hans K.?
32:59 Awara - Love
34:46 Saint Abdullah & Eomac - The people who initiate a new world
37:33 Le Trio Joubran - Misage
42:17 Maya Al Khaldi  - زغرتوا Zaghritu
46:18 Las Tesis - Un violador en tu camino (live)
49:31 Sons Of Kemet - My Queen is Harriet Tubman
55:03 Moor Mother feat. Kyle Kidd - LIVERPOOL WINS

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'Feeding the Gentry' w/ Use Knife on Radio alHara Ep 13 - Resistance Music

Directions Out Of Town is the latest and teased as (possibly) the last LP by DIY electronic abstract pop wizard Finlay Shakespeare.

Directions Out Of Town is a fierce mix of headstrong pop bangers. Fact. There is simply no one else traversing the field that Shakespeare is exploring. It can be lonely in the desert, Simon says. Lyrically, Directions Out Of Town is dealing with loss; personally, geographically, politically, culturally - a general decay of everything.

This new record is heavily inspired by structural film where the results unravel a method where metaphor is removed from the act of sound synthesis, production and mix of the tracks. Fiercely independent and brimming with integrity this is a deeply effective journey through machines of the human experience.

The track titles are telling: ‘Away’, ‘Get’, ‘Direction’, ‘I go for a walk’, etc. This is sentiment via complex synthesis wrung through patterns of pop. One also finds ways out that only turn out to be false/untrue. “I essentially don’t know where I belong any more. This record is the precursor to that.”

What is ostensibly an electro pop record reveals a multitude of layers and depth as one man and his machines wrestle with the reality of this tangled matrix. If the charts had brains this would be album of the year.

Finlay Shakespeare is an electronic musician working in the UK. His fascination for synthesized sound was born out of his parents’ record collection, leading him to explore the electronic music of decades past throughout his teenage years. While starting to write and record his own tracks, he also began learning analogue electronics, which led him to design and build his own equipment. To date, he has released work on Editions Mego, Superpang, and his own GOTO Records.

Directions Out Of Town

Face Value (Trio Mandala)

Finlay Shakespeare 'Face Value (Trio Mandala)' (EMEGO310)

QRP is taken from my upcoming EP on Waxing Crescent Records.

"Perimeter Points" is released May 17th.

Perimeter Points

This Is Reggae

Clint Eastwood

Shella Record is a reissue label run by Earl Grey/Chris Flanagan 
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