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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
blacktulip

blacktulip

Pregnant with mandrakes
Just want to say that Dug Out has put out some great records in the last year or two. The Dadawah album in particular is stellar, with ghostly piano that reminds me of Jack Nitzsche's spot in Sister Morphine.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
blacktulip said:
Just want to say that Dug Out has put out some great records in the last year or two. The Dadawah album in particular is stellar, with ghostly piano that reminds me of Jack Nitzsche's spot in Sister Morphine.
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Great, isn't it. Didnt' realise that Dadaweh is Ras Michael til the other day.

Dug Out re-released this too apparently:

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One of the most ridiculously brilliant records:

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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Thanks - Assack Lawn No 1/No 2 Dub off Termination Dub has always been a favourite but I never knew the original Sylford Walker track until recently, weirdly.
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
baboon2004 said:
Thanks - Assack Lawn No 1/No 2 Dub off Termination Dub has always been a favourite but I never knew the original Sylford Walker track until recently, weirdly.
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Steve Barrow's post-Blood and Fire label Hot Pot did some more Brown dub albums iirc. Probably good!
 
Sectionfive

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
Channel One played this last night

"I really wanna know. Why I'm feeling so"

"When I wake up in the morning. Jah jah is the king of this earth"


Probably obvious?
 
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catalog

Well-known member
I've been transcribing some interviews i did over the summer for an article i'm writing about some innovations that happened in the 80s with sound systems in my area. It's a real pain but there's a lot of gold.

this line stood out from yesterday:

What the reggae guys like, they tend to have what we class as bass and chip, real deep bass, real high tops. They're not particularly interested in the middle frequencies, which are quite dominant
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it just made me think, that stretch - the focus on the very top and the very bottom... it's like late capitalism isn't it, the tendency for the middle to get squeezed to nothing and the gap between the ends gets bigger.

and also brought to mind this line from Huysmans La Bas, which I had just read:

Since it is difficult to be a saint," said Des Hermies, "there is nothing for it but to be a Satanist. One of the two extemes. 'Execration of impotence, hatred of the mediocre,' that, perhaps, is one of the more indulgent definitions of Diabolism.
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version

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Legendary Moss Side/Hulme roots reggae band X-O-Dus are finally given a first vinyl edition of ‘English Black Boys’, their long thwarted debut album for Factory, including the titular, Dennis Bovell-produced 1980 single.

This first vinyl edition of the full ‘English Black Boys’ arrives 40 years after the band were forced to change their name due to similarities with a London band, and Factory effectively sidelined them in the wake of all the attention around Joy Division. The album did eventually come out on CD in 2012, but only now finds its intended vinyl existence, pairing the Dennis Bovell-produced single with contemporaneous songs plus tracks written during the ‘90s and into the ‘00s.

You can imagine that if ‘English Black Boys’ had come out in 1980, it would have become a real touchstone of the Manchester canon by now. As noted by Steve Barker “They were a community-rooted band taking a strong political stance in their lyrics, as opposed to any faux Rasta leanings, and their first single on Factory was well supported by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus.”

In an alternate timeline, they would be hailed up there on a wider level with UK reggae greats such as Matumbi and Steel Pulse, but as it is, the album remains a ghostly, richly soulful oddity from the most vital corner and era of Manchester; a place and time where working class African diaspora and Irish communities gelled, and the likes of the Nile and Reno club, Barry Adamson and A Guy Called Gerald would later come to represent to the world at large. X-O-Dus come from the foundation of all that good stuff.
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X-O-Dus -- English Black Boys
 
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