Mysteries of Dubb ~ How low can you go?

Back in the 80's most people didn't really understand the power of the 808 bass drum. Then Chuck D of Public Enemy came along. Being a philosophical kind of person, he posed what is perhaps the most fundamental question in modern music: Bass! How low can you go?

Man a real badman

Toronto's mayor Rob Ford confused the mainstream Canadian media with this patois style rant against his own police department. The Jamaica Gleaner helps out with a transcription: "They chase me around for five months, mon, (expletive). Leave me alone, mon. They got me five months, mon. They're trying to tell me we're counter-surveying you. He's here and I'm here … cho (expletives)!"

Livid DS1 ~ a USB MIDI controller that looks like a mixer

This week Dubspot announced a remarkable hardware collab: "We could never find a single complementary controller on the market to meet our functionality and durability needs, so we decided to simply build one ourselves, with Livid Instruments as the perfect partner." 

The Black Widow ~ The Coldest War

The Black Widow ~ The Coldest War by Dubbhism Mixx Cassettes 

This is a tale about a cold hearted ex-KGB agent with a spider fetish. Schizophrenic killer robots are wiping out the last pockets of resistance in the so-called free world. Who can stop them?

Download: The Black Widow ~ The Coldest War

Dubb Cloud: Radikal Guru ~ Speakah ~ Sista Bethsabée ~ Ital Tek ~ Noïthingness ~ Caballo

Radikal Guru ~ Speakah ~ Sista Bethsabée ~ Ital Tek ~ FaltyDL ~ Noïthingness ~ W I L D L I F E ~ Karetus ft. Clinton Sly ~ Caballo ~ Alive ~ Egoless ~ Untold ~  Frikstailers

Lazer vs. Mungo's Hifi

Alan Watts on science, death, the void etc.

MODULO

A short documentary about modular synths and Hugh Le Caine.

Mysteries of Dubb ~ The Fourth Dimension

Drums + Bass + Space = Dubb. The math is simple. But the mystery remains: how can we visualize the highly paradoxical local spatiality of Dubb in accurate, and even rigorous ways? About 100 years ago, Claude Fayette Bragdon investigated these questions in A Primer of Higher Space (The Fourth Dimension) and Four-dimensional Vistas.

VA ~ Explorations in Dub (Dub-o-phonic)

The dub-o-phonic netlabel gets busy again. Here's a "musical journey to some unknown areas of dub music". Compiled by Dub Thomas, the album tries to find the hidden elements of dub music in other musical genres, but it really sounds very dubby most of the time, which is ok.

Dubb Cloud: LIN/LOG ~ Infradead ~ Todd Barton ~ dougcl ~ Ron Millar

LIN/LOG ~ Infradead ~ Todd Barton ~ dougcl ~ Ron Millar

The Electronic Church of St. Delia

If Saint John Coltrane can have his own church, surely the electronic music martyr Delia Derbyshire can have one too. The WikiDelia is the place where true believers publish details about Saint Delia's vita.

The Lisbon Dub Collective

Gonçalo Coelho, Tiago Jónatas and Pedro Delmas are The Lisbon Dub Collective and they are now on SoundCloud. They've uploaded an alternate take of their opening track for Strictly Analog Dub (Dubbhism netlabel) and a few takes of a track titled 'Organize Dub'.

Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom ~ Triumph and Torment

Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom ~ Triumph and Torment by Dubbhism Mixx Cassettes

Download: Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom ~ Triumph and Torment