French synth-dub duo Froid Dub continue their blast of organic and digital material on this brand new 6-track album. Pushing the clash between synth wave and dub even further, the electronic beats of the TR 808 are more than ever engulfed in the slow motion vibes of the digi-bass echoes. It's another tectonic slice of future echo chamber classics from this burgeoning, but now cult outfit. Highly recommended! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Third LP from modern dubwise pioneers Froid Dub who take the digi-dub blueprint into unknown waters and unexplored bass caves. Seriously advanced tectonics and echo chamber precision at play here. Nearest comparison would be Scientist meets seekersinternational but Froid Dub sail their own ship through the ocean tides.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Bass
A2. Treasure
A3. Tear Gas Mix 2
B1. Stay
B2. Dub It Naturally
B3. Percussion Dub

THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

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Brand new collection of six dub tracks, remixed from The Bees’ classic debut album ‘Sunshine Hit Me’.

Features three tracks previously unreleased on any physical format.

Limited to 900 copies for the UK & Ireland

TRACK LISTING

1. Punchdub
2. Angry Dub
3. No Trophy Version
4. This Town Version
5. Lying In The Dub
6. Sky Holds The Dub

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KEITH’s guitar parts for “Heavy Voodoo” and its dubplate companion “Who Dares Dub’ were recorded in New York City sessions for the 2008 LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY album, Scratch Came, Scratch Saw, Scratch Conquered. Shortly after Keith’s contribution were laid down, Scratch set to work at his home in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, jamming live on mic alongside Keith’s new guitar parts. Lee’s Swiss-mountain lair was not strictly for recording, but the combination art studio, shrine and junk yard with its view of a valley and up into the snow-capped Alpine peaks, added its own influence to the recordings. Captured on portable recording gear with Lee using his special sacred jewel-encrusted Shure microphone, the Voodoo was indeed Heavy that day.

A year later, Keith was back in the same New York studio to record parts for “Books Of Moses,” for what would become Scratch’s Grammy-nominated 2010 album, Revelation. This time Keith stripped out the original track and replaced everything except the drums and organ with multiple instrumental takes of his own: bass guitar, Wurlitzer organ, acoustic piano, big drum boom and his inimitable RnB guitar riffs. Once again, vocals wizardry was added in Switzerland, in another Transcontinental collaboration.

Scratch and Keith finally got together in person in 2013 when Keith invited Scratch to New York to mix Keith’s cover of the Gregory Isaacs gem”Love Overdue.” It would be the final pairing of these two musical minds, but their small body of work was infused with magic, history, mystery, and prophecy all at once. SCRATCH’D, the Record Story Day Exclusive vinyl EP, includes the original vocal versions, “Books Of Moses” and “Heavy Voodoo,” plus new instrumental cuts, “Moses Books” (Dub Mix) and ‘Who Dares” (Dub Mix), which feature Keith’s guitar on the frontline.

TRACK LISTING

1. Book Of Moses
2. Heavy Voodoo
3. Moses Books (Dub Mix)
4. Who Dares (Dub Mix)

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Soul Jazz Records’ new one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition coloured vinyl pressing + download code exclusively for Black Friday 2023 of Soul Jazz Records’ long out of print classic ‘Studio One Kings’.

Featuring a new striking alternative sleeve design (featuring the singer Freddie McKay) as well as a special yellow coloured vinyl pressing, ‘Studio One Kings’ is a 'who's who' of the world's greatest reggae artists.

Studio One’s list of singers launched at the famous label reads like a roll call of Jamaican music. Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Johnny Osbourne and more.

This album features classic and rare tracks that span the breadth of the legendary Studio One catalogue: Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Lovers and more from the 1960s and 70s.

The album comes with sleeve-notes by the celebrated writer Chris Salewicz, author of Reggae Explosion, Rude Boy as well as notable books on Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Joe Strummer and more.

Limited to 1000 copies for the UK & Ireland.

TRACK LISTING

1. Larry Marshall - I've Got To Make It
2. Horace Andy - Every Tongue Shall Tell
3. Alton Ellis - The Well Run Dry
4. Johnny Osbourne - Water More Than Flour
5. Anthony Rocky Ellis - I'm The Ruler
6. Cornell Campbell - Pretty Looks Isn't All
7. Alexander Henry - Please Be True
8. Burning Spear - Them A Come
9. Joe Higgs - Change Of Plan
10. Devon Russell - Roots Natty
11. Ken Boothe - Be Yourself
12. Freddie Mcgregor - I Shall Be Released
13. Freddie Mckay - Father Will Cut You Off
14. The Ethiopian - Locust
15. George Philip - One One
16. John Holt - I Don't Want To See You Cry
17. Delroy Wilson - Won't You Come Home

'The "Blouse N Skirt" EP was made in a month long period and is my most cohesive EP to date. It features my signature wubs with a few deeper cuts. "Blouse & Skirt" has been mashing up the dances for a hot minute and I'm stoked to finally make it available to the masses on the fabulous DEEP MEDi" - Chad. 

Wubs for days indeed. Chad Dubz' wubs (say that after a bumps of K) are some of the deepest we've heard for a while, and his techy beat palette and sfx squiggles and lasers elevate this into primo dubstep territory. Chuck in some complimentary rastaman vox, tones of echo chamber tomfoolery and eerie, ghosty melodies and you'll see why this has got us shaking in our subwoofers.

Massive new one from the instituion that his DEEP MEDi - don't sleep. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Trouser shaking, argy bargy dubstep from the label that'd shape the very direction of the genre through its golden era. Gotta say I'm loving it!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Blouse N Skirt
A2. Made By Nature
B1. Judgement
B2. Night Ride

Dub versions of the songs "Shining Dub" and"Shut Up Dub" from the new Lee "Scratch" Perry Album 'Heaven', recorded and mixed at "Secret Lab's studio" by Olivier Gangloff assisted by Romain Gangloff Voices recorded by Olivier Gangloff at "Studio God LSP".

Promotion across social media platforms. Advertising in, Echoes, Record Collector Magazine and Riddim.

TRACK LISTING

1. Shining Dub
2. Shut Up Dub

Bristol’s four-piece outfit Quade's debut album.

‘Of The Source’ opens in familiar territory for Quade, with distant drones and searching violin, before breaking down into perhaps the album’s most experimental track.

‘Nacre’ is the culmination of three years of work from the band, the blueprints of their songwriting and sound firmly established in the sprawling, haunting and yet hopeful record. Traipsing between gothic expansiveness and cosmic psychedelia, the record cannot be pinned down into one recognizable place. By the album’s close, the listener may be left wondering whether it was all a memory or a dream.

The recording and production of the record was collaborative, with the band drawing upon the services of Jack Ogbourne and Larry ‘Bruce’ McCarthy - two divergent pillars of Bristol’s music community - for engineering and mixing respectively.

TRACK LISTING

The Balance
Piles Copse
Of The Source
Circles
Stretching Out
Measure
Technicolour

UK lovers' rock holy grail 12” from Sonia Whittingham, produced by Glen Sloley and originally released in 1988. ‘When I look into your eyes I feel a sweet sensation. I know our love is true ‘cos you make me happy'

Isle Of Jura continue to deliver the goods, following on from that crucial reissue from The NM Band ("She Wants"). 

A 140gram pressing in full colour sleeve designed by Bradley Pinkerton.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Another UK lovers' holy grail from Isle Of Jura. Lilting chords, big soundsystem bass and a sugar sweet vocal make this a sure fire winner for daytime at the carnival.

TRACK LISTING

Sweet Sensation
Sweet Dub

Here is the much anticipated volume 4 of the Hot Sauce compilation LPs dedicated to the Trojan related UK labels between 1965 and 1975. Hot Sauce Volume 4 features outstanding original Rocksteady, Boss Reggae and early Reggae (“Reggay”) tracks including rare songs, overlooked gems, hidden treasures and a couple of hits. The record labels showcased on this fourth volume are Amalgamated, Big Shot, Duke, Explosion, Grape, High Note , JJ Records, Treasure Isle and Trojan. The tracks here have been selected according to their musical interest firstly, their rarity, and their complementarity. These tracks are all outstanding tracks, “killer tracks”, there is no “filler” whatsoever. The Hot Sauce series is a musical journey across Trojan and its labels highlighting early Jamaican Reggae’s many diverse musical genres and outstanding artists. Since the early 70s “Tighten Up” series, no compilations have really explored these labels in depth on vinyl.