RUTS DC VS. MAD PROFESSOR VS. ZION TRAIN Rhythm Collision Volume 1 & Remix Versions (Select Cuts) 2lp 16.98
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Here's one that may appeal to those interested in the recent post punk reissues such as The Pop Group, A Certain Ratio, the In The Beginning compilation, etc. From the same label that put out the 'Select Cuts From Blood & Fire' compilations comes a reissue of London's Ruts DC. Originally known as Ruts, the group added the additional initials after losing their front man Malcolm Owen to a heroin overdose. The remaining members of the group restructured their sound, modelling it much closer to the reggae and dub that had informed their rock foundation. After the unsuccessful 1981 release 'Animal Now', the group hooked up with Mad Professor at his newly constructed Ariwa Studio the following year and hammered out the 8 tracks for 'Rhythm Collision'. Although they couldn't claim to be the first of the "second wave" of punk groups to cite dub as an influence, they certainly took reggae music to heart and the overall sound of 'Rhythm Collision' is perhaps the most identifiably "reggae" of any to come out of the London scene. Combined with Mad Professor's technical wizardry the album was impressive in its ability to absorb the aesthetics of dub while avoiding being merely Jamaican imitators. Depending on one's prior familiarity with the album the indelible eighties production stamp on these tracks can be an obstacle, as can the occasional harmonica solos and cheesy vocals. But thank the heavens their bassist avoids the funky / slap bass urge on all but one track. It's really not as bad as all that, sounding at times a lot like what Tones On Tail did years later. As a bonus to the original tracks from 'Rhythm Collision' are five bonus remixes courtesy of Mad Professor. AND, on top of the original album and the Mad Professor remixes, there's an additional disc of remixes by Zion Train which were executed at Ariwa in 1998 on Mad Professor's now antique, or classic, gear. NOTE: LP version lacks the Mad Professor bonus mixes.

SAFT, JAMIE / MERZBOW Merzdub (Caminante) cd 16.98

SANDOZ Life In The Earth: Sandoz In Dub Chapter Two (Soul Jazz) cd 21.00
While he hasn't really had any projects quite as popular as his original group Cabaret Voltaire, Richard H. Kirk has been quite busy and surprisingly prolific, most often indulging his electronic side. Sandoz is his dub project inspired by the heavy dub grooves of King Tubby but with a very '90s/modern electronic feel to it. And while modern dub as the potential to be cheesy, this is actually quite good. Deep and dark and dubby, almost sounds like it could be some lost Wordsound joint. Cool.
MPEG Stream: "I and I Meditation"
MPEG Stream: "Monopolize and Destroy"

SANDOZ Life In The Earth: Sandoz In Dub Chapter Two (Soul Jazz) 2lp 24.00
While he hasn't really had any projects quite as popular as his original group Cabaret Voltaire, Richard H. Kirk has been quite busy and surprisingly prolific, most often indulging his electronic side. Sandoz is his dub project inspired by the heavy dub grooves of King Tubby but with a very '90s/modern electronic feel to it. And while modern dub as the potential to be cheesy, this is actually quite good. Deep and dark and dubby, almost sounds like it could be some lost Wordsound joint. Cool.
MPEG Stream: "I and I Meditation"
MPEG Stream: "Monopolize and Destroy"

SCARE DEM The Album (Felony) cd 14.98
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When we asked our reggae distributor for recent AQ-staff fave Ward 21, his response was a baffled "uh, yeah, sure we've got those" but when we asked about the Scare Dem records he just laughed and asked whether we were going to start selling crack. I guess Scare Dem Crew have a reputation as being Jamaica's dancehall bad boys, the progenitors of 'gangstah dancehall' possibly. Scare Dem Crew had achieved a certain amount of clout in Jamaica through several singles and session work for other stars before releasing their debut full-length album "Scared From the Crypt" in 1999 (so we're a little behind the times, call us Rip Van Winkle why don'tcha.) Featuring the vocal talents of Elephant Man, Harry Toddler and Nitty Kutchie -- all of whom have had fairly successful careers on their own since. Though "Scared From the Crypt" was apparently their first full length release, "The Album" also released in 1999 is a complete mystery in that it seems to not exist, even on the group's managerial agency's website. It's definitely the original crew and features a cameo by long time collaborator Bounty Killer, a song in which Nitty Kutchie's vocal part was recorded via phone call. The lyrics lack the insane inspired charm of Ward 21 and the Crew seems obsessively bent out of shape in their fear of "batty boys" (gays) and have not one, but four songs and a skit devoted to the subject. But if you can get past their dipshit insecurities concerning sexuality, the production on the album is generally above average with lots of edgy rhythms, pounding bass, and aggressive -- hot potato voice -- toasting to annoy the shit out of your neighbors while you chew up two by fours 'til your gums bleed.
RealAudio clip: "Big Gun Pop Out"
RealAudio clip: "Be A Shotta"

SCARE DEM CREW Scared From the Crypt (TVT) cd 17.98
It's funny, until just now -- and we've had this album floating around the reggae section for a few weeks already -- I didn't know that the picture of the Crew on the cover is supposed to be taken in a graveyard. You'd think with an album title like "Scared From the Crypt" I would have put dos y dos together, but the execution of the photo itself makes the group look as though they're lounging around in the garden of someone's plantation style estate. Flowering shrubs aside, the crew are dressed up in brightly colored smoking jackets. Hardly scary. The Scare Dem Crew seems to struggle with their identity as tough guys, which is maybe why they have to have several anti-batty boy (gay men) songs on every album. On both albums they have a song devoted to the importance of men not dressing like women, but then choose to have their photos taken wearing jackets stolen from Jimmy Buffet's reject pile. The most hilarious slip on their part though is using the rhythm track from Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" to back up their "Girls Dem Want We", which actually works pretty well all things considered. Most of the tracks on this album are pretty weak though, lots of bouncy beats with Carnival whistle hits and crappy attempts at crooning. The best song ironically enough is the above mentioned "collaboration" with Soft Cell. Also quite nice is the opening track "Dis Scare Dem" which features Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" as its backbone. For a limited time we have some of these in stock at 10.98 if you're interested, but once they're gone the price will revert back to 17.98.
RealAudio clip: "Dis Scare Dem"
RealAudio clip: "Shotta"
RealAudio clip: "Girls Dem Want We"

SCIENTIST At The Controls of Dub: Rare Dub 1979-1980 (Jamaican Recordings) cd 21.00

SCIENTIST Dub In the Roots Tradition (Blood & Fire) cd 16.98

SCIENTIST Dubs Culture Into A Parallel Universe (Ras) cd 15.98
Sadly this Scientist release is just okay, which is a disappointment because this is one of those dub albums with one of the more classic album covers -- this one featuring a D.C. comics-esque cover of Scientist and Culture (represented here as a single dred-locked super hero in a green jumper with a big yellow "C" on front) battling it out amongst the skyscrapers. The booklet includes an interview with Lady Souljah from KALX in Berkeley conducted via phone earlier this year.

SCIENTIST Encounters Pac-Man (Greensleeves) lp 14.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica - much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: features our hero being devoured (?) by a vicious metal Pac-Man in his control room. Behind the glass in the studio a collection of ghouls looks on gleefully. Will this be the end of Scientist? On the back cover there's an entire multi-panel cartoon precursor to this scene.
RealAudio clip: "Prince's Wrath"

SCIENTIST Heavy Metal Dub (Clock Tower) cd 12.98
How can you resist a Scientist record called Heavy Metal Dub? Especially with some of THEE most amazing cover art ever, a musclebound barbarian, in reggae colored loincloth and boots, dreads sticking out from under his Viking helmet, wielding an exploding sword, standing on the wing of his red, green and yellow spaceship, there's also some aliens, some other spaceships, a weird flying reggae lollipop man, and of course 'Heavy Metal Dub' is written in a cool video game font. And oddly enough, the song titles mostly seem to reference Star Trek: "Having Fun With The Klingons", "Conversations With Khan", "Party Time On The Enterprise", "Dread In A Remulacks Dub", among others. You can't resist. So really, why even bother trying? Now here's the rub, there's nothing remotely heavy metal about this record at all outside of the cover. Even opener "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub", is just straight up classic Scientist dub, but hell, we're not complaining, cuz as far as dub records go, this one is a doozy, slithery basslines, minimal guitar, simple rhythms, bizarre wordless vocals, everything DUBBED to high heaven, the songs sounding like they started off as classic reggae jams, but the Scientist goes nuts, sending beats spinning into the ether, guitars spiraling into stuttering swirls, the whirring organs following suit, the tracks flitting from groovy laid back reggae to total tripped out psychedelic dub and back again.
And while that cover promised so so much, this is probably way better than any actual 'heavy metal dub' record could ever be anyway. At least that's what we keep telling ourselves...
MPEG Stream: "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub"
MPEG Stream: "Having Fun With Klingons"
MPEG Stream: "Rocking Time Warp Dub"

SCIENTIST Heavy Metal Dub (Clock Tower) lp 13.98
Also on vinyl....
How can you resist a Scientist record called Heavy Metal Dub? Especially with some of THEE most amazing cover art ever, a musclebound barbarian, in reggae colored loincloth and boots, dreads sticking out from under his Viking helmet, wielding an exploding sword, standing on the wing of his red, green and yellow spaceship, there's also some aliens, some other spaceships, a weird flying reggae lollipop man, and of course 'Heavy Metal Dub' is written in a cool video game font. And oddly enough, the song titles mostly seem to reference Star Trek: "Having Fun With The Kligons", "Conversations With Kahn", "Party Time On The Enterprise", "Dread In A Remulacks Dub", among others. You can't resist. So really, why even bother trying? Now here's the rub, there's nothing remotely heavy metal about this record at all outside of the cover. Even opener "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub", is just straight up classic Scientist dub, but hell, we're not complaining, cuz as far as dub records go, this one is a doozy, slithery basslines, minimal guitar, simple rhythms, bizarre wordless vocals, everything DUBBED to high heaven, the songs sounding like they started off as classic reggae jams, but the Scientist goes nuts, sending beats spinning into the ether, guitars spiraling into stuttering swirls, the whirring organs following suit, the tracks flitting from groovy laid back reggae to total tripped out psychedelic dub and back again.
And while that cover promised so so much, this is probably way better than any actual 'heavy metal dub' record could ever be anyway. At least that's what we keep telling ourselves...
MPEG Stream: "Watch The Sound Of The Metal Dub"
MPEG Stream: "Having Fun With Klingons"
MPEG Stream: "Rocking Time Warp Dub"

SCIENTIST Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves) cd 14.98

SCIENTIST Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: Features a victorious Scientist being carried out of a venue on the shoulders of his admirers to meet the throngs of the press and his green Rolls Royce limo. Track listing: Seconds Away, Straight Left, Upper Cut, Kidney Punch, Saved By The Bell, Right Cross, Jab, One - Two, Below the Belt and, of course KNOCK OUT.
RealAudio clip: "Seconds Away"

SCIENTIST Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space (Tectronic) 2cd 21.00
Oh man, is this a match made in heaven or what? Actually, more like a match made in outer space, or in whatever warped sonic reality dub legend Scientist calls home, a dozen killer dubstep jams, worked over by the master, already blissed out and skeletal, dubbed out and droney, bass heavy and skittery, Scientist takes those original jams and sends them careening into the cosmos. Much of the bass is stripped away, but the drums, oh the drums, they get the science like nobody's business, bouncing from speaker to speaker, stuttering, and hiccupping, everything wrapped in clouds of echo and delay, the original melodies pulled apart until they're just barely-there streaks of sound, the dubbiness already in full effect, gets cranked to 11, most of the vocals are buried, but little bits of vocals are doused in effects and spit into the ether, only to have them boomerang right back, dizzying and dazzling, spaced out and psychedelic, even the most minimal stripped down tracks take on new life via Scientist's golden touch, it's hard to explain just what it is he does, but you can hear it, and feel it, the sounds are more out there, or in there, the original tracks just the blueprint for the abstract work of dubbed out sonic art they were meant to become. Totally blissed out and hypnotic, and so so so good. Makes us want to hear EVERYTHING get the Scientist dub treatment, garage rock, black metal, whatever, anything and EVERYthing.
As a bonus, included is a second bonus disc, with all the original tracks, a pretty bad ass dubstep comp all on its own.
The whole thing comes packaged in an eye popping old school reggae/dub cartoon covered 8 panel digipak, depicting Scientist manning multiple spacecrafts, each with a cadre of dubsteppers as his crew. Awesome!
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS PINCH & EMIKA "2012 Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS SHACKLETON "Hackney Marshes Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS DISTANCE "Ill Kontent Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS KODE 9 & SPACEAPE "Abeng Dub"

SCIENTIST Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space (Originals) (Tectonic) 4lp 34.00
Vinyl version of the bonus disc that came with the Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space cd, featuring the UNmixed originals, the Scientist name and album title are definitely misleading, but this is a seriously kick ass dubstep comp regardless. If you're after the vinyl version of the Scientist mixes (and you should be), you can find that elsewhere on the aQ website...

SCIENTIST Meets the Roots Radics (Sound System) cd 12.98

SCIENTIST Meets the Roots Radics (Sound System) lp 14.98
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SCIENTIST Meets The Space Invaders (Greensleeves) cd 15.98

SCIENTIST Meets The Space Invaders (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Yet another installment of Scientist-as-superhero LPs has arrived at Aquarius. Here's the skinny once again: Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica - much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: The Scientist wields not one, but two laser pistols while simultaneously kicking and shooting those pesky Space Invaders as onlookers run for cover. Meanwhile, a brave female accomplice takes out a big purple invader with a laser rifle. On the back cover is a cute drawing of a stand up video game console cum mixing board with the album's credits displayed on its screen.
RealAudio clip: "Beam Down"

SCIENTIST Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) cd 14.98
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The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these album reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Possibly the best album in this series, 'Rids the World...' utilizes the most effects and cut up wizardry in the bunch. Along with his usual bag of tricks, Scientist brings out what sound like rhythm boxes and loads them with so much effects as to turn them into proto-synthesizers. It's also the only title in this series that attempts to match the visual theme / title with an audio equivalent: "The Voodoo Curse", which starts the album, is full of ominous effects and several other tracks get vocal intros a la Lee Perry's "Vampire" requesting blood, and other stock horror intros including Mummies, Frankenstein, Werewolves and the living dead.
Cover note: features Scientist crashing a midnight monster party on his sound system loaded air boat. All your favorites are there: the mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, and more. In the background is the Munster's house and tombstones cover the woods. Creeeeeepy!
Allan informs me to tell all you videogame fans that the reggae music on Grand Theft Auto 3's "Jah 1 Radio" for Playstation 2 is this entire album.

SCIENTIST Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Possibly the best album in this series, 'Rids the World...' utilizes the most effects and cut up wizardry in the bunch. Along with his usual bag of tricks, Scientist brings out what sound like rhythm boxes and loads them with so much effects as to turn them into proto-synthesizers. It's also the only title in this series that attempts to match the visual theme / title with an audio equivalent: "The Voodoo Curse", which starts the album, is full of ominous effects and several other tracks get vocal intros a la Lee Perry's "Vampire" requesting blood, and other stock horror intros including Mummies, Frankenstein, Werewolves and the living dead.
Cover note: features Scientist crashing a midnight monster party on his sound system loaded air boat. All your favorites are there: the mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, and more. In the background is the Munster's house and tombstones cover the woods. Creeeeeepy!
Allan informs me to tell all you videogame fans that the reggae music on Grand Theft Auto 3's "Jah 1 Radio" for Playstation 2 is this entire album.
RealAudio clip: "Blood On His Lips"

SCIENTIST Step It Up (Select Cuts) 10" 11.98
Limited edition 10" from the second volume of Select Cuts From Blood & Fire. Features extended dub versions of both Black Star Liner and Dan Donovan of Dub Cartel's mixes for the compilation.

SCIENTIST Wins the World Cup (Greensleeves") lp 12.98
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Wow. Pretty advanced reissue job on this Scientist -- the engineer for King Tubby who later went on to out Tubby Tubby -- lp from 1982 . If you look at the back cover of this you'll see in the lower left hand corner that now ubiquitous "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo. But wait, this is an lp. Yep, some Jamaican company has taken to merely scanning the Greensleeves CD covers, themselves originally scanned from old lps, and reproducing the artwork without any adjustments for the format. In fact, they did a horrible job of cropping as well and the letters get cut off at the bottom... Or maybe they're just imitating them fancy pants design savvy labels like Warp and other clients of Designers Republic. It's got another one of those great cover that fits the Scientist-as-super-hero theme with our man scoring a goal against team whitey.

SCIENTIST Wins The World Cup (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Cover note: features a victorious Scientist knocking in the winning goal against team whitey. And yet there is one brother on whitey's team who's making a failed attempt to block Scientist's kick. Could this be a competing engineer? Former employer? Who knows.
RealAudio clip: "Ten Dangerous Matches"

SCIENTIST AND PRINCE JAMMY Strike Back (Trojan) cd 14.98
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This good album was recorded in 1982 (two years after the "Big Showdown") at Channel One and King Tubby's, with the Roots Radics band supplying the rhythms. Yet another classic album of dub, and made more so by its ridiculous cover art (featured in the Jamaican music cover art book Stir It Up): an amalgam of images from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Battle Star Galactica, and Flash Gordon. Plus the song titles are hard to beat: "C-3PO + R2D2 = The Force", "The Crushing Of The Stormtroopers", "Buck Rogers In The Black Hole" and more. But no, you won't find any science fiction references in the music, just straight up dub. A final word of warning because I know some of you have concerns about dub and vocals, there are a few brief moments of singing on this album, albeit only at the beginnings of songs, so if that rubs your hiney the wrong way, then steer clear of this.

SCIENTIST VS. PRINCE JAMMY Big Showdown At King Tubby's (Greensleeves) cd 17.98
Another great Jamaican dub reissue, this one from 1980. Two heavyweights battle it out in the studio with mixers and microphones. Ten tracks of the Roots Radics band alternately dubbed by Scientist and Prince Jammy and renamed Round 1, 2, etc. A description would not be complete here without mentioning the cover, which features a drawing of the two fighters in a boxing ring and sitting at their mixing consoles in each corner. The Scientist even has a bunson burner heating up some green liquid in a beaker atop his mixer. Highly recommended!

SCIENTIST VS. PRINCE JAMMY Big Showdown At King Tubby's (Greensleeves) lp 12.98
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Greensleeves finally gets off their duffs and reissues their classic Scientist dub LPs that have been floating around in various bootleg editions for ages now. Not only are they decent pressings, but they're pretty competitively priced to boot (the unsavory LP edition of "Wins The World Cup" that we had had in previously retailed for the same price as these.) Plus, you get the original artwork in all its heroic cartoon glory (possibly some of the greatest album cover art to come out of Jamaica, much of the time it seems people will buy them for cover alone.) With these handsome new editions there's really no reason to own the CD version anymore unless you no longer own a turntable (we do have all these Scientist albums available on CD as well for those who lack vinylability) and there's certainly no reason to waste good money on bootlegs. Let's hope that Greensleeves keeps these things in print for a while this time. The albums in this series are composed of tracks recorded by the Roots Radics band at Channel 1 between 1981 and 1982 which were later mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's.
The dubs on these LPs reside on the very minimal side of the dub spectrum. Not much in the way of additional tracking was done for these records aside from percussion. The rest of the crafting is done by the Scientist behind the mixing board chopping up the tracks, recklessly sliding faders and pouring tons of delay and reverb atop the mix.
Even though it was just a gimmicky way of doing a split LP by Greensleeves, I still find myself asking who the winner is of this faux boxing match between two of King Tubby's greatest proteges. There is no loser of course, but you can take this home and compare the pair's dubbing stlyles as they go through all ten rounds back to back.
Cover art note: features a drawing of the two fighters in a boxing ring loaded with speakers around its sides and sitting at their mixing consoles in each corner. The Scientist even has a bunson burner heating up some green liquid in a beaker atop his mixer.
RealAudio clip: "Round 1"

SCIENTIST, THE Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space (Scientist Mixes) (Tectonic) 2lp 22.00
NOW ON VINYL!!
Oh man, is this a match made in heaven or what? Actually, more like a match made in outer space, or in whatever warped sonic reality dub legend Scientist calls home, a dozen killer dubstep jams, from the likes of Pinch and Kode9 and Shackleton, worked over by the master, already blissed out and skeletal, dubbed out and droney, bass heavy and skittery, Scientist takes those original jams and sends them careening into the cosmos. Much of the bass is stripped away, but the drums, oh the drums, they get the science like nobody's business, bouncing from speaker to speaker, stuttering, and hiccupping, everything wrapped in clouds of echo and delay, the original melodies pulled apart until they're just barely-there streaks of sound, the dubbiness already in full effect, gets cranked to 11, most of the vocals are buried, but little bits of vocals are doused in effects and spit into the ether, only to have them boomerang right back, dizzying and dazzling, spaced out and psychedelic, even the most minimal stripped down tracks take on new life via Scientist's golden touch, it's hard to explain just what it is he does, but you can hear it, and feel it, the sounds are more out there, or in there, the original tracks just the blueprint for the abstract work of dubbed out sonic art they were meant to become. Totally blissed out and hypnotic, and so so so good. Makes us want to hear EVERYTHING get the Scientist dub treatment, garage rock, black metal, whatever, anything and EVERYthing.
The whole thing comes packaged in an eye popping old school reggae/dub cartoon covered jacket, depicting Scientist manning multiple spacecrafts, each with a cadre of dubsteppers as his crew. Awesome!
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS PINCH & EMIKA "2012 Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS SHACKLETON "Hackney Marshes Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS DISTANCE "Ill Kontent Dub"
MPEG Stream: SCIENTIST VS KODE 9 & SPACEAPE "Abeng Dub"

SHERIFF LINDO AND THE HAMMER Ten Dubs That Shook The World (EM Records) cd 23.00
Another lost gem from the fine folks at EM records in Japan. How do they do it? We're having trouble even discerning a pattern other than the fact that pretty much everything they release totally rules! This disc is called Ten Dubs That Shook The World and we weren't actually sure it was even a dub record until we threw it on, but it is, and no surprise here, it absolutely rules! Just the fact that one of the tracks is called "Grossly Overweight Dub" pretty much guaranteed that this would be a winner. The interesting thing about Sherriff Lindo & The Hammer is that it is actually the work of Anthony Maher who just so happens to be a member of sound experimentalists the Loop Orchestra. Which makes a bit of sense, when you realize that the Loop Orchestra utilized only analog tape machines and spliced tape to produce their Jeck like dronescapes. Exactly the sort of musical mind and old school approach that would lead someone to be into folks like Lee Perry, King Tubby, Prince Jammy and the like. So when Maher wasn't meticulously plotting out collaged soundscapes with his loop buddies he was holed up in his home studio concocting a vast array of tripped out psychedelic dubs. We're huge proponents of effects, especially in dub, take that snare, hit the delay and let it repeat forever and ever and ever, better still, change the speed and pitch while it's going and create a stuttering wall of dizzying sound. The Bush Chemists are still the champions when it comes to pushing the limits of FX common sense in the quest for the ultimate dub, but Sheriff Lindo comes close. But this isn't gimmicky or anything, this is true dub, but just with an extra helping of delay, so snares stutter and hiccup, huge swaths of melody get buried in sonic murk before drifting higher and higher in the mix, dreamlike dubs floating in a psych swirl of careening rhythms and subtle simple melodies, so awesome. Definitely one of our new favorite dub records (well, new OLD records, as this came out on lp years ago, only 250 copies pressed, but youknow what we mean). Definitely worthy of a place alongside the Perry's and Jammy's and Tubby's in your collection for sure.
As with all EM releases, super deluxe liner notes, original album cover art, lots of photos, and this time liner notes in English too!!!
MPEG Stream: "Dub House Of Horrors"
MPEG Stream: "Grossly Overweight Dub"

SHERMAN, BIM Need To Live, the (EFA) 2lp 16.98
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Collection of rare alternate and otherwise unreleased tracks of Bim Sherman recorded for Adrian Sherwood's ON-U Sound label between 1981 and 1995. Only available on LP.

SHERWOOD, ADRIAN Zero Zero One / Pass The Rizla (Green Tea) 10" 9.98
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Seems it's been a while since I've heard anything from Mr Sherwood that's tickled my ear. Though not groundbreaking, the two tasty bits here are as good as any of the dub homages on either of the Select Cuts From Blood & Fire comps and it makes me wonder why Sherwood wasn't invited to play a part in them. "Pass the Rizla" features guest vocals from longtime collaborator Bim Sherman and some pounding nyabhinghi drumming that he has such a penchant for.

SHITMAT Killababylonkutz (Planet Mu) cd 14.98
Oh man, is this good! We've been going on and on about drum and bass, the amen break, all that late nineties jungle, and how we can never get enough. Well, we can't. And it seems like we needn't worry. Lately we've had reissues of classic Remarc stuff as well as that wicked Soundmurderer mix cd from a few months back. But as you know, we may love jungle, but we especially like our beats BIG and HEAVY and DISTORTED, so when we discovered DJ Scud and all that Ambush label stuff as well as Kevin Martin's Bug project, who took dancehall and infused it with spastic jungle rhythms and then distorted and twisted them into intense and abrasive, speaker destroying, head banging, dance floor clearing kicks to the head, we were SOLD. And as the beats got heavier and more twisted, and the hard dancehall got harder and harder we were in heaven. So here we have the latest and maybe greatest in a long line of digital hardcore style dancehall mashups, courtesy of one fellow called Shitmat. One thing to point out is that all of the tracks on Killababylonkutz are actually the same song, but it's a testimony to Shitmat's deft hand and skillful progamming that it took us a while to even realise that we were listening to really different versions of the same song! The toasting is hard and fierce, a raspy Jamaican howl, fleet and tongue-twisting, but over the course of the record, it's sped up and chopped up, slowed down and stretched out, so that if you weren't paying attention, you would really think the vocals on each track were completely different. And of course everything is buried in an avalanche of buzzing, spastic beats, tumbling all over the place, threatening to fall into utter chaos, complete noise, but always barely hanging on and slipping back into a wickedly catchy, prickly and pounding beat. Sonically, Shitmat twists his original "Babylon", into all sorts of shapes, a loping reggae dirge with buzzing bass and throbbing beats, all out splattery drill and bass, classic 4 on the floor hardcore jungle, and everything in between. Towards the end of the record, he lets things get a little goofy like mashing up the "Babylon" vocals to Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" and using what sounds like the theme from Benny Hill! Still fun but silly. But c'mon, who cares?!? It hardly matters since the rest of the record is so good, and so hard, and so heavy and so totally great! Fans of DHR, Alec Empire, DJ Scud, DJ/ Rupture and the like who have been itching for some more serious hardcore dancehall mayhem may find this stuck in their cd player FOREVER!
MPEG Stream: "Original Babylon"
MPEG Stream: "Rudeboy Babylon"
MPEG Stream: "Rough Babylon"

SHITMAT Killababylonkutz (Planet Mu) 2lp 19.98
One of last week's records of the week, now available on vinyl. Oh man, is this good! We've been going on and on about drum and bass, the amen break, all that late nineties jungle, and how we can never get enough. Well, we can't. And it seems like we needn't worry. Lately we've had reissues of classic Remarc stuff as well as that wicked Soundmurderer mix cd from a few months back. But as you know, we may love jungle, but we especially like our beats BIG and HEAVY and DISTORTED, so when we discovered DJ Scud and all that Ambush label stuff as well as Kevin Martin's Bug project, who took dancehall and infused it with spastic jungle rhythms and then distorted and twisted them into intense and abrasive, speaker destroying, head banging, dance floor clearing kicks to the head, we were SOLD. And as the beats got heavier and more twisted, and the hard dancehall got harder and harder we were in heaven. So here we have the latest and maybe greatest in a long line of digital hardcore style dancehall mashups, courtesy of one fellow called Shitmat. One thing to point out is that all of the tracks on Killababylonkutz are actually the same song, but it's a testimony to Shitmat's deft hand and skillful progamming that it took us a while to even realise that we were listening to really different versions of the same song! The toasting is hard and fierce, a raspy Jamaican howl, fleet and tongue-twisting, but over the course of the record, it's sped up and chopped up, slowed down and stretched out, so that if you weren't paying attention, you would really think the vocals on each track were completely different. And of course everything is buried in an avalanche of buzzing, spastic beats, tumbling all over the place, threatening to fall into utter chaos, complete noise, but always barely hanging on and slipping back into a wickedly catchy, prickly and pounding beat. Sonically, Shitmat twists his original "Babylon", into all sorts of shapes, a loping reggae dirge with buzzing bass and throbbing beats, all out splattery drill and bass, classic 4 on the floor hardcore jungle, and everything in between. Towards the end of the record, he lets things get a little goofy like mashing up the "Babylon" vocals to Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" and using what sounds like the theme from Benny Hill! Still fun but silly. But c'mon, who cares?!? It hardly matters since the rest of the record is so good, and so hard, and so heavy and so totally great! Fans of DHR, Alec Empire, DJ Scud, DJ/ Rupture and the like who have been itching for some more serious hardcore dancehall mayhem may find this stuck in their cd player FOREVER!
MPEG Stream: "Original Babylon"
MPEG Stream: "Rudeboy Babylon"
MPEG Stream: "Rough Babylon"

SIMPLETON Coco Cola Bottle (Special Remix) 7" 2.98
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Hip hop remix. Rhythm = "Superwoman" (Lil' Mo).

SIZZLA Advance (Killa) 7" 2.98
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Hip hop remix. Rhythm = "Wait A Minute" (Ray J).

SIZZLA Ain't Gonna See Us Fall (VP Music Group) cd 14.98
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MPEG Stream: "Sad Mistake"
MPEG Stream: "Judgement Tek Dem"

SIZZLA Blaze Fire Blaze (Whodat) cd 14.98
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SIZZLA Breath of Life (Special Remix) 7" 2.98
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Hip hop remix. Rhythm = "Who's That Girl" (Eve)

SIZZLA Bushy Bushy (RMC) 7" 2.98
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Hip hop remix. Rhythm = "One Minute Man" (Missy Elliott).

SIZZLA Get Progressive (RMC) 7" 2.98
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Hip hop remix. Rhythm = "Oh Yeah" (Foxy Brown) mixed with Maytals "54-46". B-side says "version" but has Elephant Man on it singing his theme song with "Spiderman" melody.

SIZZLA Girls Medley (RMC) 7" 2.98
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SIZZLA Judgement (Special Remix) 7" 2.98
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Hip hop remix. Rhythm = "I'm A Thug" (Trick Daddy).

SIZZLA / CAPLETON Ganja Man Mix (RMC) 7" 2.98
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Rhythm = "We Thuggin'" (Fat Joe).

SKATALITES MEET KING TUBBY Legendary Skatalites In Dub (Motion) cd 15.98
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Excellent collection of dub from some of the best. Recorded in 1975, at the zenith of dub engineering technology by the master of the knobs and faders (and acknowledged inventor of dub) King Tubby. But no dub record would be anything without an excellent set of musicians to boot, and in this incarnation of the Skatalites you have a giant heaping tablespoon of them, including (but not limited to): Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook, Ernest Ranglin, Ras Michael, Augustus Pablo and Jackie Mittoo. Lots of long, no hurry jams, with gobs of spring reverb, a smattering of tape echo, and pounding Nyabhinghi rhythms. So stoney that it's almost guaranteed to make you forget what you were doing if you listen to this disk long enough.
RealAudio clip: "Heavens Gate"

SKREAM & CLUEKID Sandsnake (Disfigured Dubz) 12" 12.98

SLY & ROBBIE Meet Bunny Lee At Dub Station (Jamaican) cd 15.98

SLY & ROBBIE Meet Bunny Lee At Dub Station (Jamaican) lp 14.98

SLY AND THE REVOLUTIONARIES Sensi Dub Vol. 1 (Om?) lp 12.98
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SLY AND THE REVOLUTIONARIES WITH JAH THOMAS Black Ash Dub (Trojan) cd 14.98