Mad Professor sample CD by Loopmasters

From the official propaganda:

"Mad Professor has worked super close with the Loopmasters team to create an exclusive and authentic collection of some of his most prized musical gems from the Ariwa studios reggae vaults – providing producers of Dub, Reggae, Dubstep, DnB and other musical styles with previously unheard and undiscovered audio material!

Out now: Vuelo meets Tony Dubshot - The Vuelo Tapes

Download: dubbhism-netlabel-001-vuelo-meets-tony-dubshot-the-vuelo-tapes.rar

I-lodica feat. Marcus Hillman - Dub Party

i-lodica showcase by ISM Studio

In the mix: Max Stagger - Kentucky Blue Sensi Skank

It's the return of the amazing MAX STAGGER!!! Strictly highest grade, even burn, smooth draw, kinda grabs you by the booboo.

Kentucky Blue Sensi Skank by Max Stagger on Mixcloud

South Rakkas Crew giveaway

free music doesn't get better than The Stimulus Package by SRC

Album review: Sevish - Golden Hour

I never write album reviews. It seems useless because there's so much new music nowadays. But Sean 'Sevish' Archibald is something else.

You probably haven't heard of him but anyway Golden Hour blew me away from the first time i heard it. It's released on Sean's new Split Notes netlabel (free download, creative commons license).

Kandinsky's dubb teachings - deep thought on 3D

Concepts like 'space' and 'time' are REALLY BIG. Each time a scientist or an artist invents a new way of looking at them, there's a lot of interest. Right now James Cameron's Avatar is changing the look of 3D in cinema. In the same way, Kandinsky's writings and paintings helped change ideas about 3D in painting 100 years ago.

Police investigate musicians who don't play jazzy enough

After a visitor of the Jazz Sigüenza festival called the police and claimed it was medically inadvisable for him to hear the free jazz group Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core perform, some pistol-carrying Civil Guards showed up at the concert to investigate the allegations that Mr. Ochs was not playing jazzy enough.

The end of the loudness wars

"The key is mastering for a volume-normalized world. When you, as a mastering engineer, realize what that limiter is going to do to your track when the playback software analyzes it and turns it down 11 dB, it will change the way you master. Forever."

Kandinsky's dubb teachings - contrasting sounds

Like many of Kandinsky's paintings, this one titled Accent in Pink is an ecosystem of colors, shapes and special fx. Or it might be the result of an alchemical process. This episode of Kandinsky's dubb teachings is about color, but before we talk about Kandinsky's colors let's see what is going on Accent in Pink in terms of 3D effects.

Scientific dancehall: heavyweight dancehall riddims in dub

SCIENTIFIC DANCEHALL ~ heavyweight dancehall riddims in dub

This is a little dub something i started over at Soundcloud. Feel free to contribute if you are a dub producer working with original classic dancehall riddims.

Viva Barefoot!

Stereotyp (Crunchtime, G-Stone) is a veteran producer from Vienna who has created his own dance music genre called Barefoot. Definition: funky bass music meets ragga ohne Hemmungen. Generation Bass has the full story here.

Kandinsky's dubb teachings - abstract jungle

Before we get into Kandinsky's painting styles and the relation with dub music, here's a Susan Sontag quote, taken from Against interpretation (1966).

The Tao of Wu

Most of you probably thought that the RZA is a hip hop producer. I'd say he's a dub scientist. And he's a writer too, check out the reviews of his new book 'The Tao of Wu'.



Here's a nice interview from True/Slant. Best quote: "I'd rather raise nerds than raise gangstas."

Interview and more on True/Slant
Book review @ AllHipHop.com
Interview from Colbert Nation