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July 2010 - This week’s episode of
Radio Dubroom is completely livicated to the
works of Conscious Sounds Studio’s and
Vibronics of the UK and the Italian based
Dub band/collective BR Stylers. Roots and
culture galore, with almost all tracks
coming with their vocal and Dub version!
A big THANK
YOU! should be given to Dougie Wardrop and
Steve Vibronics for granting permission to
the Dubroom for playing their -outstanding-
material on Radio Dubroom. Both names are
well established within the UK DUB and ROOTS
scene, not without reason because they have
helped to give birth to what in the meantime
is known under the name EURODUB and ROOTS,
of which BR Stylers is one very, very fine
example.
This is
truly a heavyweight podcast, carrying three
musical generations of producers and artists
all represented by one of the best. From
Dougie Wardop’s Conscious Sounds to
Vibronics to the Italian based BR Stylers,
this is an all-killer-no-filler selection
featuring singers like Tena Stelin, Prince
Alla and Jah Free.
This is one
and a half hour of pure uplifting sounds for
the heart and soul.
Conscious
Sounds
The
Conscious Sounds studio and label is run by
Dougie Wardrop. He is widely seen as one of
the founders of the sound we come to know as
UK DUB and ROOTS, even though Dougie himself
seem to prefer to call bascially everything
“Reggae” rather then point out to the
location of where the music is made. Still,
the specific sound that Dougie helped
shaping needs a name, even though it spread
to the rest of Europe and even beyond so we
now speak about EURODUB and well.
As said,
Dougie Wardrop was there at the birth. In an
interview
with the English Culture Reggae website,
you can read how the music took shape after
Jamaica basically turned to Dancehall with
the Sleng-Teng riddim and so on, somewhere
in the 1980’s. Even in London, there was
just one place to go if you wanted to hear
Roots Music: JAH Shaka. Dougie Wardrop and
others started to provide the much needed
Roots and Culture music to the Spound
Systems and the rest is history, of which
you can hear a little bit in this podcast.
Vibronics
This year,
Steve Vibronics can look back at 15 years of
works within the UK DUB and ROOTS scene. He
got his inspiration from the Aba Shant-I
Sound System and handed his first recording
over to the owner of the sound. It didn’t
take long for them to cut dub plates from
the recording, and the rest is history. A
very interesting history, that is.
He signed
up for Zion Train’s Universal Egg label,
toured with them and then went on to
collaborate with UK based Dub Activist Jah
Free for an album where both names provided
half of the material. Steve Vibronics went
on to produce one crucial dub plate after
the other, released two more full length
albums and has in the mean time founded his
own SCOOPS label, of which we play some very
nice selections in this podcast.
BR
Stylers
From
Conscious Sounds in the 1980’s to
Vibronics in the 1990’s, 2000 gave birth
to one very interesting DUB and ROOTS
collective/band based in the northern parts
of Italy. Their first big appearance was at
the well-known Rototom Sunsplash festival,
which was then still held in Italy. The
response was very good and that should not
be a suprise for anyone who has even heard
just one tune of the group.
They kept
on performing in a wide number of countries,
sharing stages with Mad Professor, Zion
Train and other greats from the UK DUB and
ROOTS scene. While doing so, they released
one album after the other, most of which can
be downloaded for free straight from their
website. The sound of BR Stylers is of
course massively inspired by UK DUB and
ROOTS, and in their own might they can be
seen as one of the first generations of
EURODUB and ROOTS: uplifting, inspiring
music both lyrically and musically, always
accompanied by a heavy bass and crucial Dub
versions.
PLAYLIST
PART
1: COURTESY CONSCIOUS
SOUNDS STUDIO
01. Tena
Stelin and Centry - Jah Can Help Us Dub
02. Barry Issacs and Centry - Jah Bible
03. Sentry - Jah Bible Dub
04. Cyrenius Black - Jah Is My Rock
(Discomix)
05. Cyrenius Black - No Peace (Discomix)
06. Tena Stelin and Centry - Can’t Touch
jah
07. Centry - Can’t Touch Jah Dub
PART
2: COURTESY VIBRONICS
08. Tena
Stelin and Vibronics - Hold On To Jah
09. Livication Riddim Section and Vibronics
- Hold On To Jah Dub
10. Madu and Vibronics - Don’t Judge
11. Livication Riddim Section and Vibronics
- Judgement Version
12. Wayne Mc Arthur and Vibronics - Mercy
13. Livication Riddim Section and Vibronics
- Version
14. Vibronics - Jah Music
15. Vibronics - Jah Dub
PART
3: BR
STYLERS!
16.
Vibronics and BR Stylers - Over This Place
17. BR Stylers - 100
18. BR Stylers - 100 Dub
19. Jah Free and BR Stylers - Jah Free vs BR
Stylers
20. BR Stylers - Let Them Shine
21. BR Stylers - Let Them Shine Dub
22. BR Stylers - Come Back To The Truth
23. BR Stylers - Come Back To The Truth Dub
PART
4: THE FINALE
24. Errol
Matthis and Jah Bunny - Path Of The Just
(CONSCIOUS SOUNDS)
25. Vibronics and BR Stylers - Internet
Exclusive Remix (VIBRONICSS)
26. Prince Alla and BR Stylers - Santur (BR
STYLERS)
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