Dub equipment and dub philosophy pt.2

Music and computers seem to be inseparable nowadays. In the last 15 years computers have taken over completely in the studio, and even on stage. A bit strange, because computers were not really designed for making music (see also Dub equipment and dub philosophy pt.1).

Serious analog delay ~ Diamond Memory Lane 2

I don't own one myself but looking at the specs and the manual it's pretty obvious that this is an absolute killer analog delay. The design is based on original Panasonic MN3005 chips (4096 stage bucket brigade style echo) which are becoming extremely rare nowadays so you have to act fast.

Foundation Compilation Reggae Series Volume 1

This is the best roots dancehall cd i've heard in 2010, featuring big veteran artists on big riddims. Don't just download the illegal mp3s like everybody else does, buy this thing, the singers & musicians & producers who created this one deserve our full respect!! No filler pure killer, available in all shops.

Runcome Sound come back again

Sista Leah the Boss DJ from Amsterdam conquering Leiden
Runcome Sound is back! Next sessions are 29th of November for Unity FM (radio show) and 18th of December at the LVC, Leiden.

David Hockney ~ Fresh Flowers

This has to be the freshest art exhibition in years.. David Hockney is showing fresh flowers, drawn on iPods and iPads and exhibited on all kinds of digital screens.

Out Now on One Love Records ~ On The Level - Vol 2

BUSH CHEMISTS & KING GENERAL ~ JAH WARRIOR ~ VIBRONICS ~ IRIE MAFFIA ~ INTINN ~ RADIKAL GURU ~ UNITYHIFI ~ VIBRATION LAB ~ ARK ITAL SOUND ~ CYPHAMUSIK ~ LOWKI & DIALECT ~ PHARMACIST ~ L5D ~ MR SLEEPZ ~ DUBSHOT & ILODICA ~ PHINGA ~ REZOUND ~ K9 ~ Z1BRKR ~ TROUBLE & INSIGHT ~ KOSINE & LDRIFT ~ XNATION ~ BROWN NOISE

Vintage vids ~ Dub from Japan & China

Visual dubb: Sougwen ~ dubstep drawings

A whole heap of classic oldskool visual dub clips over here! I found these (the remains of some workshop) via Sougwen who likes to mix up drawing and Hotflush-style dubstep. The wonderful artwork for the Love Pressure EP by Sepalcure is also her work.

Out now: ISM/DUBBHISM ~ Vintage Dubbs Vol. 1

Download: dubbhism-netlabel-009-vintage-dubbs-vol.1.rar

I-lodica strikes the rock ~ dub flows like water

a. I-lodic Rock - Ilodica by Kibir La Amlak

Jeff Koons or Kim Jong Il?

OK, so North Korean leader Kim Jong Il knows about Photoshop but does he know how much money Jeff Koons makes with this kind of stuff? Maybe he does.. who knows, if the General runs out of cash the nice white statue might show up at Christie's. Click to enlarge!!

From the nano lab ~ The Micronium

Nanomusic (not to be confused with microtonal music) just got bigger. Meet the Micronium, a nano-instrument with strings a millionth of an inch thick. It sounds kinda mesmerizing, half xylophone/half piano and it produces nice dub fx if you kick it :-)

More nanosound over here: The Quantum Hall Effects - impulse responses from nanospace for convolution reverb

The Tao of FM Synthesis #5 ~ Envelope recipes

This is already the fifth episode of The Tao of FM Synthesis and we haven’t heard a single bell sound yet.. unforgivable! Here it is...


In this bell patch the short envelope for oscillator D provides a ‘realistic’ attack while a subtle LFO adds a bit of movement to oscillator F. The change in color is caused by a constantly varying aftertouch, assigned (in the modulation matrix) to the level of oscillator E, which provides most of the bell-like color in the sustain-part of the sound.

Brother Barbés.D dubbing it live

Barbés.D from France dubbing it live at the Psychobydub festival. Especially the first tune called "Easy" feat. Sista Bethsabée is very good stuff.