“The first mix is “Twiss Up” - featuring a bunch of obscure Dub tunes that you will love. We’ve loaded up the chamber with dubbed-out 80s arcade fx and lazers and digital bombs, which really help bring the soundsystem vibe to the mix. Twiss Up goes into some obscure Jamaican funk later on in the mix - featuring two tunes from a record called Prime Cuts. Then its back into Dub. Good stuff. The second mix “Be Thankful” is a more rootsier dub, deejay and early dancehall-oriented mix. Both are excellent mixes and won’t dissapoint!”
Due to unforeseen circumstances Club Keegans will be back for one night only at the Tig Barra. Dj Clinton Cards, Dj Gym Kit and Dj Lawn Bowls will be carving up the beats and roasting any available vegetable matter, whilst serving an extensive buffet which will include the funk to the folk, the dub to the disco, the soul to the ska and the hipple to the hopple. Expect a night of (mostly) good tunes, incompetence and technical difficulties.
Adieu Matt @ Club Keegans (8pm till last person leaves (around 9.45pm))
I can’t wait to see this documentary on the influence of dub on modern music, worth shelling out a few pennies for the dvd:
“The documentary “Dub Echoes” aims to show how this Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.
“Dub Echoes” was produced by a Brazilian crew, in Kingston (Jamaica), London (UK), NY, Washington, LA (US), Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil).
Key names, from both reggae and the electronic music world, talk about the birth of this genre, how it helped to change the way we perceive music and how it’s presence can still be felt today.
Another song, this time the acoustic guitar was recorded with those crappy mics you get with pcs and the drums come from a drum break lp. I’d like to redo this with a cleaner recording (and less error strewn, although thats character isnt it) and ideally a nice female vocal, although i dont have one of those so…
Heres a wee tune I was messing about with in Ableton Live, the folky sample was chopped up and rejigglified using the M-Audio Axiom controller, and the drums were programmed using the controller pads and then cleaned up (way out of time). Its not particularly good and the drums are pretty weak but it sounds ok for starters.
Another Dazed tune from the Legendary Lost Tapes of Muchalls (1996 - 1998), which is some rough and raw unadulterated funk (which apparently you can get a cream for these days):
“This is my personal selection of the finest Upsetter dubs from Lee Perry’s legendary time in his Black Ark studio. As a mix, this one is straight-up: 100% live off my 45s (replete with skips, crackles and more!), armed only with a reverb unit and a space echo to aid blends in true dancehall style.”
A remix of the 96 classic Gonch, this is a pants version just to emphasise how good you had it first time around. The track was created by flailing wildly at M-Audio Axiom 25 and then piping the resulting noise through a rhubarb patch. Some sci-fi movie directors from the 80s have travelled through time to enquire about using the futuristic sound in their films, flangers crossed!
