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

GPS beatmap: the most laborious remix method ever

GPS Beatmap was created by mad scientist/electronic music artist Jesse Stiles. The voice over is really the fun part of this clip: "obscure landmarks begin to gain new significance by their association with unique musical juxtapositions" :-)

Synced spasms in dub

I was never into that Ryoji Ikeda stuff until i saw this. Now it makes sense. I think the man responsible for the sonic interaction gear, Daito Manabe, also did the music. More on Youtube.

Nice Scientist video

I've been trying for a long time now to update my stuff at Scientist's dubmusic.com website but i can't get in... What i did find there was a video of Scientist enjoying a smoke and mixing it up.

Kandinsky's dubb teachings - intro

100 years ago, Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first painters to develop a 100% abstract style at a time when many artists were working in 'half abstract' styles like cubism and so on. Almost immediately Kandinsky's abstract work got a lot of attention and after a few years (around the time of World War I) other painters also got into pure abstraction. Today Malevich, Rothko, Mondrian, De Kooning and Jackson Pollock are all famous for their abstract works.

RSD - Rob Smith leads the way

About 75% of the music labelled as dubstep sounds like melodic death metal done on a laptop. Only a handful of producers aim for a dub sound, in other words fat riddims made with nothing but drums, bass and echoplates.

Album review: Mad Professor - Audio illusions of dub

The Mad Professor will mix any kind of style you'd care to throw at him. That's why i expected Audio illusions of dub to be a dubstep album (or at least have a few dubsteppy tracks) because the dubstep 'label' is being used to promote this new album. But it turns out that's just a bit of illusion (or marketing).

Wycliffe 'Steely' Johnson R.I.P.

It's the end of an era. Steely & Clevie was one of the greatest production teams ever. Here's a link to the Jamaica Star: Steely will be missed. And more news and a tribute from the Gleaner.

Does humor belong in music?

Fresh!