dub music

Yes, it's amazing.

We are going to move on to another one of your own works, which is Bumper Ball Dub.

Please can you share the creation of these works, the story of these works, and also introduce it?

Well, this is from an album I've done with Massive Attack and it became a very famous album.

Who would you say out of your peers, like production wise, the producers that you really rate? Maybe you can give us like a top three, maybe if not a top three, a top five, if it's too difficult.

well there's loads of people I don't know because you know obviously you know I've got friends who like peers who like rivals and You know, but because I've done a lot of things across the spectrum of reggae.

I've done Roots and Dub and I've done Lovers Rock, you know.

So, I don't know, you need to find some people who've done just that, you know.

And, um, in return we sang and played percussion on, uh, My Jamaican Guy, which was a fantastic experience.

Dub is something that figures, you know, in a, in a big way-

Yeah

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These guys are from the east.

Include Desert Reggae and Dub and the track we heard, Arrente Reggae Woman.

That has got some upstrokes and ska in there.

Desert reggae slash dub slash saltwater ska.

The Chicago Sun-Times likened the album to the Clash's Sandinista without the filler.

AllMusic wrote that the deep bass lines of Dub and the one-drop snap of the drums merely add another filter to the overall picture of distance and ambivalence.

Though it's worth noting that the Mekans take to reggae like ducks to water, and this is perhaps the tightest and best-focused album of the group released in the 80s.

As Twin Tones struck a deal with A&M Records to distribute some of their better known artists, the Mekons found themselves on a major label for 1989's The Mekons Rock and Roll.

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And I li- I downloaded an album on Apple Music called Dubs by Dubstep

Yeah

... and it was just like, it was clearly just, like, AI generated fucking-

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Gotta say a big shout-out to Dub Kitchen.

I played there last weekend in Chelmsford, Essex.

The Dub Kitchen was a nice vibe.

We partied all night, you know what I mean? We played some good reggae music, some dancehall, some ...

A bit of everything for everybody there, and they, they, they enjoyed it very much, yeah? So big up yourselves, and we'll see you again soon, yeah? Do remember, follow Reggae in the City podcast on Instagram and also at Original Daddy English.

Blessed, this is Matt tomorrow present for Daddy English, Reggae in the City podcast.

[reggae music] Where would I be now-