About this item

Mysticisms' Dubplate series comes to the label’s spiritual home of Hackney, the stomping ground of the Douglas Dougie Waldrop and his Conscious Sounds label . The music of the Dub Specialists is presented with extended re-edits by label owners Piers Harrison and Stuart Chuggy Leath, alongside rising selector star Millie McKee and studio master extraordinaire Matt Bruce (Vanity Project).

Formed in 1989, Conscious Sounds and the Conscious Music studio have been mainstays on the UK digital roots scene to this day, working with the likes of Bush Chemists, Johan Dan, Kenny Knots and Pablo Gad. The Dub Specialists was a project created by Dougie to put aside studio sessions and explore a new interest in samplers, working with friend Chris Petter (Love Grocer) and his interest in jazz and funk.

Using the Atari 1040 running Cubase, with a Soundcraft mixer, drum loops and reggae basslines were played over funk samples and layered with Petter’s chords to create a series of short tracks for DJ play. Releasing 3 albums between 1995 and 1999 on the sub label Crispy Music, they have more recently been gaining cult status.

The tracks chosen all come from the first and increasingly sought after LP, "Dub To Dub Break To Break" and have been extended, stretched, looped and dubbed by the label family to form a club friendly EP. From the dancefloor jams of "Dub De Funk" and "Funkin’ Dub" to the deeper "Movin Ya" (with additional flute by Millie) and "Murderous Style", this is a unique fusion of funk and digi-dub that fits perfectly the ideals of the Dubplate Series.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Breaks and dub collide in a deadly combo that's a bit baggy, a bit crusty and a lot bass in your face London!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Dub To Funk (Piers Harrison Re-edit)
A2. Movin Ya (Millie McKee Re-Edit)
B1. Funkin Dub (Vanity Project Re-Edit)
B2. Murderous Style (Chuggy Re-edit)