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Jah Wobble & Jon Klein

Automated Paradise

This is Jah Wobble’s first post punk LP in recent years following travel and dub records. The brash guitar driven tracks reflect his continuing preoccupation with the declining state of the nation. Driven by his experience working each week at a music based community project in Merton, with Jon Klein, it is reminiscent of Mark Stewart. Angry in an empathetic, constructive way it resolved with the beautiful instrumental ‘Brockwell Lido’. Like much of his work these days, much of the lyrical content comes while traversing London’s transport system.

Jah Wobble, is an English bass guitarist and singer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he left the band after two albums.

Following his departure from PiL, he developed a solo career. In 2012, he reunited with fellow PiL guitarist Keith Levene for Metal Box in Dub and the album Yin & Yang. Since 2013, he has been one of the featured pundits on Sunday morning's The Virtual Jukebox segment of BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo. His autobiography, Memoirs of a Geezer, was published in 2009.

Jon Klein Is an English guitarist and producer, best known for being a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees for seven years, from 1987 until 1994. He also founded Specimen and The Batcave nightclub. Klein has worked for other artists including Talvin Singh and Sinéad O'Connor. More recently he has worked as a co-producer and guitarist with Jah Wobble.

TRACK LISTING

Fading Away
Make It Stop
Who Wins
Read Between The Lines
Automated Paradise
Terminal Terminal The End
Endless Sky
Brockwell Lido

Scissorgun

Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

Scissorgun were formed in Manchester in August 2016. They are an electronic trio comprised of Dave Clarkson (formerly of Triclops) on synths, rhythms, tapes and percussion, Alan Hempsall (formerly of Factory Act Crispy Ambulance) on vocals, treated guitar, samples, loops and Adrian Ball (light show and projections). The musical scope is varied, one minute pastoral dreams, the next crashing swathes of noise chased down with a dub twist. To date they have released three albums ‘Assault Two’ (2017), ‘All You Love Is Need’ (2020) and ‘Psychological Colouring Book’ (2021). Amongst their frequent live appearances they have opened for Wrangler, Wolfgang Flur and Eric Random.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Seven Bells
2. Face Deflector
3. Fever Dream
4. Gone Rogue
5. Bad As Bingo
6. Late Nite Bento
7. Cubanos Nocturne


CD Tracklisting:
1. Seven Bells
2. Face Deflector
3. Fresh Hell 
4. Fever Dream
5. Gone Rogue
6. Late Nite Bento 
7. Bad As Bingo
8. Clam Shell Heart
9. Magic Realism 
10. Cubanos Nocturn

Kev Hopper

XIX

Dimple Discs is pleased to announce its second full release from the legendary bass player, Kev Hopper.

Stuart Maconie, Stereolab and Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas) are huge fans

The LP is black vinyl with an illustrated inner sleeve.The CD design will reflect this.

Composed, played and arranged by Kev, he would describe his sound as wonky, wobbly, electronic, surrealist Pop.

XiX explores Euclidean rhythms (overlapping, complex patterns) and is a mixture of modern electronic experimentation and Pop with extremes from Music Concrete tracks to modern electronica and featuring the distinctive use of ‘faux vocals’, modified vocals and sampling techniques. The dominant aesthetic is still melodic and rhythmic so this is a hybrid album of sorts building on Kev's past recordings. The majority of the material is instrumental but there are also four songs on it exploring topics as diverse as lancing prawns and economic collapse.

After forty years as a musician, Hopper is probably STILL best known as the bass guitarist and co-founder of Stump, an Irish-English indie /experimental /rock group formed in London in 1983. Since then he has released 14 solo albums of diverse, experimental and melodic pop with his distinctive bass playing often to the fore. He co-formed the electronica group, Ticklish in the late 90’s and was composer/bassist with Prescott in the 2010’s. He is also a visual artist (painter) and runs a Youtube site, HopperArts, interviewing artists.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hopper Arts Theme
2. Vector Prodder
3. Gruntian Forbes
4. Devils
5. Not What
6. Lance The Prawn
7. In The Murkey Blue
8. Vaz Defenz
9. Brand Street Pychodrama
10. Window Seat
11. Stumblepluck
12.The Cucurella Problem

Jah Wobble

Dub Volume 1

Dimple Discs is pleased to announce its first release from the legend that is Jah Wobble - an exclusive dub LP with full colour outer and inner sleeves based on paintings by Wobble himself. It is a completely solo work with Wobble writing playing and arranging. Lee Perry and King Tubby are deep influences with astounding top layer sonics.

Expertly mastered by Anthony Chapman of Collapsed Lung and cut to get maximum clarity and volume.

Jah Wobble, is an English bass guitarist and singer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he left the band after two albums.

Following his departure from PiL, he developed a solo career. In 2012, he reunited with fellow PiL guitarist Keith Levene for 'Metal Box in Dub' and the album 'Yin & Yang'. Since 2013, he has been one of the featured pundits on Sunday morning's The Virtual Jukebox segment of BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo. His autobiography, Memoirs of a Geezer, was published in 2009.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A full LP of dub musings by the great Jah Wobble, with rich basses and horn stabs the order of the day, and beautifully produced and mastered to give that classic dub shake in the belly. A brilliant set of dubs from one of the great modern bassists.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dub In The East
2. Tyson Dub Remix
3. Existential Dub
4. Losing All Sense Of Balance Dub
5. Lovers Rock Dub
6. Tragic Slavic Dub
7. Sweet Dub
8. Old Jewish East End Of London Dub

The Near Jazz Experience

Tritone

Playing wildly improv but tuneful music - cross Can's rhythm section with Roland Kirk, and Motown and you'll get close to where The NJE is coming from. These are three musicians at the top of their game - with hints of soundtracks for spaghetti westerns and Bollywood that only enriches the mix!

The Near Jazz Experience are Terry Edwards on saxes and trumpets, Mark Bedford on bass and Simon Charterton on drums.



TRACK LISTING

1. Astro Disco
2. Tuba Cop
3. A Head
4. Bebinca Beat
5. Midwinter
6. Funky Kino
7. Evermore
8. Burner
9.Tritone
10. Character

Keeley

Floating Above Everything Else

The debut album from Keeley, Ireland’s rising stars of the modern dreampop scene. Fronted by enigmatic singer-songwriter-guitarist Keeley Moss, whose singular vision has created an amazing buzz amongst the global dreampop and nu-gaze music scene. Her songs draw from the energy of classic rock and the lyricism of folk and pop traditions, exuding a maturity about which Irish broadcaster Fiachna Ó Braonáin noted...
"Keeley goes further and deeper and carries us into a musical dreamworld that reaches in and out all at once."

Produced by Alan Maguire with mixes by veteran engineer Paul Tipler (House Of Love, Placebo, Stereolab).

Features the internationally acclaimed rocker “The Glitter And The Glue” as heard on Steve Lamacq, Radcliffe & Maconie (6Music), Mickey Bradley (BBC Radio Ulster), Rhys Mwyn (BBC Radio Cymru), and John Kennedy (Radio X), for whom she recorded a session in October 2022.

Vinyl and CD come with a special lyric insert.

TRACK LISTING

01. Seeing Everything
02. Arrive Alive
03. The Glitter And The Glue
04. Floating Above Everything Else
05. To A London Sunrise
06. Echo Everywhere
07. Forever’s Where You Are
08. Never Here Always There
09. You Never Made It That Far
10. Totally Entranced
11. Shine A Light

Telefis

Special Report

Following the incredible acclaim at UK press and radio of the two Telefís albums in 2022 and the tragic death of Cathal Coughlan in May, Jacknife Lee has collected all of the band’s remixes and alternate versions to create a commemorative companion piece called 'Special Report'.

A 22-track set across 2 CDs, 'Special Report' contains remixes and appearances from Basement Jaxx, Howie B, Thomas Leer, Jah Wobble, A Certain Ratio, Jacknife Lee and more.

Microdisney

82-84: We Hate You South African Bastards!

Comes in a sleeve that is recreated to be as close as possible to the original 1984 release on Rough Trade. Housed in an outer plastic jacket We Hate You South African Bastards! was the second album by the Irish band Microdisney (Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan), originally released by Rough Trade in 1984. The album consists of their early recordings before they moved from Cork to London, including songs that became favorites of Radio 1 DJ John Peel. The cover art was designed by the Welsh musician and artist Jon Langford, a founding member of The Mekons and The Three Johns.

TRACK LISTING

1. Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost
2. Michael Murphy
3. Love Your Enemies
4. Fiction Land
5. Pink Skinned Man
6. Patrick Moore Says You Can’t Sleep Here
7. Hello Rascals
8. Pretoria Quickstep

Telefís (Cathal Coughlan & Jacknife Lee)

A Dó

Telefís is Cathal Coughlan & Jacknife Lee. Features guest appearances from Sean O'Hagan, Will Sergeant, A Certain Ratio and Jah Wobble.

Telefís, the groundbreaking collaboration between two Irish iconoclasts, revered singer-songwriter Cathal Coughlan and world-renowned producer Garret "Jacknife" Lee, will release their second album "a Dó" (number two) on October 7th. Following the release of "a hAon" (number one) in March 2022, Cathal and Jacknife continued to work on music and completed the record at the end of Spring. Then sadly Cathal Coughlan died on May 18th. Their debut album 'a hAon' was widely acclaimed by the UK and Irish press and received national radio play on 6Music, Radio X, RTE, Newstalk, and dozens of other outlets. The album playfully dissected the early days of Irish society in the TV era through a prism of electronic dance music, drawing on what they saw as a 'corrosive nostalgia'. It also paid homage to their musical heroes of the punk and post-punk era. Kraftwerk fighting with The Human League for a parking spot on Capel Street.

But amongst the muscular beats and distressed synth stabs there were also strange ballads, haunting melodies and somber reflections. 'a Dó' continues to broaden these sonic horizons and opens up the band's output to outside collaborators. We have guest appearances from Cathal's longtime friend and Microdisney co-founder and High Llamas main man Sean O'Hagan on the first single "Space Is Us", Echo & The Bunnymen's Will Sergeant guests on two tracks, legendary Mancunians A Certain Ratio on another. The inimitable Jah Wobble also contributes bass smarts following his dub odyssey with the band on their single "Falun Gong Dancer" earlier this year.

As with the first album, national UK and Irish press and radio will be solicited from all the key outlets, with a series of excellent singles leading the charge, accompanied by arresting visuals and videos created by Jacknife Lee.

This album will stand testament to the ingenuity of Cathal Coughlan, one of Ireland's most revered singer-songwriters, lyricists, commentators and polymaths. RIP.

TRACK LISTING

01. Seo É Glór Na Teilifíse
02. Swinging At The Hypnodrome
03. Space Is Us (with Sean O'Hagan)
04. Stock Photo Guy (with A Certain Ratio)
05. Hare Coursing In Mayfair
06. Airstrip
07. The Age Of Cling (with Will Sergeant)
08. The Casiotone Angelus
09. Strawboy Supernova
10. Feed The Light
11. We See Showbands
12. The Carthagians
13. Circling Over Shannon (with Jah Wobble)
14. On A Country Road

TELEFIS

A HAon

Following the acclaim of Cathal Coughlan's long-awaited solo album "Song of Co- Aklan" in March 2021, Dimple Discs is proud to present the debut album by Telefis, the label's most ambitious album to date, and one that features two of Ireland's most beloved figures in popular music. Part celebration, part satire, Telefis (pronounced Tele-feesh, the Gaelic word for Television) is an exploration of Irish nostalgia and modern global hierarchies, strange characters and caricatures springing from Coughlan's fertile imagination, while Jacknife Lee creates irresistible electro-funk backdrops full of melodic, squelchy synths and thunderous basslines. A unique electronic pop collaboration between two Irish iconoclasts – acclaimed producer Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, REM, Two Door Cinema Club) and singer-lyricist Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, The Fatima Mansions)

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1

1. Seo É Glór Na Teilifíse
2. Mister Imperator
3. We Need
4. Falun Gong Dancer
5. The Symphonies Of Danny La Rue
6. Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics

SIDE 2

1. The Imperial Angelus
2. Sex Bunting
3. Ballytransnational
4. There Goes Waterface
5. Picadors
6. Stampede
7. Stop The Lights

Dragon Welding

Lights Behind The Eyes

The second solo LP from the legendary Wolfhounds' Andy Golding under his anagrammatic Dragon Welding moniker is a wondrous tapestry of ambient guitar instrumentals and sonic manipulations. This is music that channels the cosmic experimentations of 70s German avant-garde rock with a dark Essex twist that somehow has glorious poptones. 


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