Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters (and some tech talk from the heavy rollers)

Luciano & Kenny B - Africa

The Not Easy at All Productions crew from Amsterdam are not wasting any time. Wang Sang e Dangra Deng was their first collaboration with Surinam reggae artist Kenny B and it went straight to number 1 in the Surinam charts. The follow up featuring Luciano may even be bigger. Don't take my word for it, just listen to the tune in the Not Easy Myspace player. Anyway i think the riddim (called the One Blood) fits daddy Luci's voice like a glove. As a matter of fact this is one of the best rootical dancehall productions to come out of the Low Lands ever.

Fyah Kee Riddim promo mix - Not Easy At All Productions

In the Netherlands only a few producers know their business when it comes to dancehall. To my ears the Not Easy At All crew is the #1 Dutch production team in rootical dancehall. They are a group of seasoned musicians and producers who use Myspace to reach out to reggae artists worldwide. Last year their collaboration with Kenny B did well in the charts and Luciano and Bushman even visited their studio in Amsterdam but most of all they produced a whole heap of fresh tunes. Here's a riddim called the Fyah Kee mixed by L.Slinga

Dub from the nineties?

I just realized that soon the nineteen nineties will be officially retro because the first decade of the 21st century is nearly done. So was there any good dub in the nineties? The Mad Professor kept the fire burning in the UK, especially the collaborations with L$P and Jah Shaka and the Black Liberation series, but to be honest i didn't buy a lot of dub albums back in the nineties. It was the times of lounge, triphop and six zillion boring remixes. Here are some albums that i liked, not all of them are dub but they sounded good to me anyway.

Now that's what i call a heavy drink...

Steve Stoll's "Starve" effect

Techno producer Steve Stoll has entered the hardware arena. He introduces his first handmade ultra lofi stompbox called "Starve". Available now on Ebay. Here's a part of the description:

Remix: Dubba - Mansion mix by I-lodica / Drome / Dubshot

Dubba - Mansion mix started as a technoid dubstep thing by Drome. Then i added a bit of Dubshot flavour and finally I-lodica listened to it, got out his melodica and blew it to pieces. Hopefully in the future there will be more collabs with I-lodica. For those who don't know him here's a little selection of artists he has worked with: Alpha and Omega, Creation Stepper, Disciples, Dub Creator, Earl 16, Eek-a-mouse, Ghetto Priest, Horace Andy, Iration Steppas, Suns of Arqa, Teddy Dan and Zion Train. Check out the player or Myspace.

Lee Scratch Perry recommends Guinness

Robert Anton Wilson explains quantum physics

the missing link between quantum physics and dub science over here

2008 dubstep awards

best dubstep album


pinch - underwater dancehall
this one was actually dropped in november 2007 but hey.. nothing better came along (although headhunter came close)

The Quantum Hall Effects - impulse responses from nanospace for convolution reverb

After many years of fundamental research in cooperation with the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory (Leiden Institute of Physics) the ISM studio proudly presents 'the sound of nanospace'. It's all about levels of magnification and breaking down the wall between analog and digital sound. Quantum hall fx are nothing less than a PARADIGM SHIFT in the perception of time and space.

Dub equipment and dub philosophy

The first rule of dub is that there are no rules. The second rule: in the studio, any piece of equipment that can be used to create a cool effect can also be abused to create an even cooler effect. And three: although dub has a scientific side it's spontaneous like a jam session.

György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna and Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes

Politrix and music don't have a very strong link usually. But if the communist Hungarian regime had not banned some of his music because of decadence György Ligeti might have been less inspired.

Miles Davis - Call it anything & Spanish Key

Sounds from the Bitches Brew album at the Isle of Wight festival (1970) played by Miles Davis, Gary Bartz, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette and last but not least Airto Moreira, who also wrote about this concert on his website. Best quote: "Miles Davis was like the Elvis Presley of Jazz."