Back in 2004, I was deep into experimenting with samples, textures, and the energy of clash culture. Having a Roni pulls from two very different worlds: Vanilla Ice’s Havin’ a Roni (1989) and a Bodyguard vs Waggy Tee soundclash from 1992.

The result is something playful and raw, an unapologetic mash of pop absurdity and sound system intensity. Equal parts tongue-in-cheek and heavy in spirit, it’s the kind of track that could only come from a moment when boundaries felt less rigid.

Lost Dubs 009 - Having a Roni (2004)

Commissioned by the Simcoe Contemporary Dancers in 2013, Cappuccino was my first time writing music to a dance instead of the other way around. The choreography was already complete, and I was asked to create the soundtrack around it. At first, that felt backwards — until my partner, who has an honours degree in dance, explained that it’s actually common practice.

So I sat with the video they sent me. Watched it over and over — at least a thousand times. From the detuned toy piano to the cellos, both strummed and bowed, every note and sound is mapped directly to the dancers’ movements.

For the record, I’m a coffee drinker, but for the longest time I thought it was called Capuchin, like the monkey. Turns out, it’s Cappuccino. Which honestly makes a lot more sense. Otherwise, those are some pretty chill monkeys.

Lost Dubs 011 - Cappuccino (2013)

Venus is someone I met while living in Seoul — though I couldn’t tell you exactly when, because they’re the kind of person who feels like they’ve always been part of your life. My life is better for having known them.

Venus is one of those rare people who make things happen. I’ve shared many dance floors with them and found myself behind the decks plenty of times because of them too. They even once visited us at a cottage in Muskoka — and somehow, that didn’t feel random at all.

This track was commissioned by Venus for a project they were involved in. It’s a groovy slow burn at walking pace — less of a dance floor jam, more of a “drive down the coastline during the gloaming” kind of vibe.

🎧 Lost Dubs is a 22-week release series of previously unreleased accomplice tracks, spanning two decades of production.

Lost Dubs 012 - Walking With Venus (2012)

💿 Lost Dubs 013 – Something to Rewind (2010)

In 2010, I was working quietly alone in my headphones, in a “studio” that was really just a closet in a windowless room. There was no face-to-face connection with any kind of community. That solitude completely changed what I was making — and who I was making it for.

I was trying to get a baby to sleep. We shared a wall with a shift worker who would pound on the wall to “soothe” our screaming baby. So aside from that one time I played my partner “this really chill Burial track you just have to hear,” bass music was mostly kept to a minimum.

Something to Rewind is a chill tune — just drums, bass, and me playing chords on my M-Audio Oxygen 8 keyboard (which I still have). The only vocal sample quietly says, “Listen up.”

I’ve never pretended to be an emcee, and sadly most of my hip hop productions were lost when a hard drive died. But this track feels like it could use the blessing of a proper emcee — someone who understands what it means to make something in the quiet, and hope it’s heard.

Lost Dubs 013 - Something to Rewind (2010)

This one was my take on the phenomenal field recordings of Alan Lomax — whose work has influenced generations of musicians, often without them even knowing it.

Anyone who lived through the ’90s, or at least the party kids who were there, will likely recognize Lomax’s legacy through Moby’s sampling of Sounds of the South (1960) to create the trip-hop anthems Natural Blues and Honey.

Now, decades later, those same recordings are available in the public domain via archive.org, but back when I first found Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary (recorded by Alan Lomax in 1958 at Parchman, Mississippi), it felt like discovering unpolished gold.

I made so many tracks using those samples — this is the only one that survived. Another super chill tune: just me playing chords on my keyboard, building something to calm, to drift with, something to dub.

Lost Dubs 014 - Something to Dub (2010)

DJ/producer since 1997, Toronto-born accomplice is a proudly genre-fluid selector with deep roots in Montreal’s underground.

From early residencies with iDJ and Junglist Fridays at Blue Dog, to his time in South Korea where he held down slots at Vinyl Underground (Busan), Konkrete Jungle Seoul, and festivals like Pentaport, accomplice has always thrived where bass meets boundary-pushing energy.

Now based lakeside in cottage country north of Toronto, accomplice continues to move dance floors in unexpected ways—bridging decades of influence through sets that blend depth, soul, and surprise.

Releases:
2008 – Celestial Conspiracy – Waterwings EP [CC001R]
2009 – Substruk Records – Babylon EP [SUB007]
2010 – Bludclot Recordings – Loose [BLUDCLOTdigital005]
2010 – Monkey Dub Records – My Sound
2010 – Steppaheadz Recordz – Freedom Will Come

Mail: jamieson@accomplicated.ca
Booking: booking@accomplicated.ca
Management: management@accomplicated.ca

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