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K Wata - Give U Space (2LP)K Wata - Give U Space (2LP)
K Wata - Give U Space (2LP)Short Span
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Deep, deep stuff on the debut album from K Wata. Long and dubwise, dark and detailed. With bass that fills and warms a space. All noir. Cast shadows against the wall. Weight being shifted and distributed with singularly delicate poise, like a knife being balanced on the end of a finger. Thereโ€™s a silvery, loose flow state to this record that maybe reveals the way some tracks were first written to be deployed live at Sustain Release 2025. Then taken back to the lab and tightened up further into the albumโ€™s final form, with beautiful mixing work between Kenzo and Chris Botta. With that in mind, Give U Space unfolds slowly and fluidly, giving the listener the chance to access and open up to the deepness of the sound, being led down a path. It rolls and builds momentum and groove, and ratchets tensions up toward peaks of energy "Whisper Dub" and "There Will Be Love". The tunes feel architectural. Rooms to be in and settle into. Simultaneously stripped back and then etched with neat little details and characterful or atmospheric sound choices. The silhouette of slo mo Memphis and Houston trap is a leading influence, especially with the drums. Mixing with bits of clickโ€™nโ€™cut sampling and psychoacoustic tricks, the penumbra of dub techno and drowsier dubstep, and SGโ€™s soft vocals rising in the ether. The presence and inspiration of the sound system is obvious in all of Kenzoโ€™s work, the music can rattle when spun up louder or blended into the club. But K Wataโ€™s uniqueness and signature comes from an often equally inward facing quality, touched by distance and longing and a sort of chiaroscuro incandescent light set up.

Persian - Dubplate #12 : Persian Meets Miles J Paralysis (12")
Persian - Dubplate #12 : Persian Meets Miles J Paralysis (12")Mysticisms
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Presenting the 2nd in the series of Persian remix EPs, following the bumping Dub House remakes from Picasso, the label is joined by Yorkshireโ€™s own young electronic folklore master, a fast-rising name, Miles J Paralysis. Whereas Picasso took the first Dubplate โ€˜Space Within Artโ€™, here Miles J delves in to the follow up โ€˜Smoke Dubโ€™, turning out a selection of dubwise cuts that build on the dark electronics of his excellent debut releases for his Crying Outcast label. Yorkshire born and based, with a love for the Moors, as well as the teachings of lore, magick and mysticism, this young producer has been emersed in music since a young age, with a penchant of Dub, Hip Hop and Reggae. Starting with Survival Dub, the anthemic Ragga Dub original morphs into 2 parts, first heading down Paralysisโ€™s alley of dark and brooding production marrying perfect touches of the vocal samples, before the amen break builds the track to the light. Smoke Mari follows, the languid Digibreaks chugger, utilizing Linval Thompsonโ€™s iconic vocals, now comes as a deep meditative Dub excursion. Stripped back to a raw essence, the vocals whirl, while hypnotic keys and dub bass complete the psychedelic mosaic. There Is No Love is modern dub style, off beat syncopation, reverb, tape delays, a lifting melody and some heavy vocal sampling all in the mix. The breakbeats of the original are jettisoned for an assurity of 4/4 thump, the atmospherics seeking the dark corners. โ€œThese are the last days; canโ€™t you see the sunshine?โ€ Zatoichiโ€™s Troubles ends the pack, the trip hop, Depth Charge dub bass cut transforms at the mixing desk of Miles J in to Dub Techno territory; haunting, melodic. Miles Jโ€™s love of the deeper side of electronic music explored. Club music but not produced for clubs. A perfect synergy of old and new. Made for the discerning. Folklore the Mystery.

Devon Rexi meets John T. Gast - Breathstep (LP)Devon Rexi meets John T. Gast - Breathstep (LP)
Devon Rexi meets John T. Gast - Breathstep (LP)ACCIDENTAL MEETINGS
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Following two lauded EPs on cult label South of North, Amsterdam-based Devon Rexi prepare to release their much-anticipated debut album, recorded by and in collaboration with elusive 5 Gate Temple devotee, musician and producer John T. Gast, whose acclaimed catalogue continues to flourish. Devon Rexi is a trio made up of Nicola Reverda (Nicolini), Nushin Naini and Goya van der Heyden (La Rat). Theyโ€™ve quickly carved out their own sonic world, traversing krautfunk, post-punk and psyched-up no wave, all laced with a dub-heavy experimental mentality. Breathstep captures the bandโ€™s bass-heavy incantations, ripe with melodic chaos and rhythmic improvisation, while devilish cackles and processed vocals flirt over a jukebox of dubbed snippets and sliced textures. The introduction of John T. Gast as producer and collaborator pulls the Devon Rexi sound deeper into bubbling dub territory, while his own palette is stretched and pushed into new terrain. Though Gast has firmly cemented his singular sound over the last decade, this interconnected process marks new ground for all involved. The result is a supreme convergence of esteemed musicians and a wickedly fine debut collaborative record. Breathstep finds its home on Bristol imprint Accidental Meetings, whose ever-evolving sound and wide-ranging discography continue to grow. The album was recorded over the last year across Amsterdam, Lisbon and London.

Jura Soundsystem - Morning Star (LP)Jura Soundsystem - Morning Star (LP)
Jura Soundsystem - Morning Star (LP)Temples Of Jura Records
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The follow up to 2022โ€™s โ€˜Return to the Islandโ€™ LP is a new 6 track EP influenced heavily by the evocative powers of incense and a deep sense of escapism. The EP has a more organic sound palette than its predecessor, from both the use of samples and appearance of various guest musicians. Lead track โ€˜Morning Starโ€™ features long standing collaborator Mike Burn (Udaberri Blues & Mama Capes) who adds his trademark liquid gold lead and rhythm guitar lines with live bass from Fernando Pulichino. The guest on โ€˜Savannaโ€™ is frequent Jack J collaborator Linda Fox, who provides emotive and melancholy sax over a Dub House backing track with a particularly dreamy chord progression. The EP features Instrumental Dubs of both tracks, alongside two other new productions, the 80s leaning โ€˜Hands Across the Seaโ€™ and โ€˜Wah Fixโ€™, which rounds off the more Dub influenced B side with a 125 BPM bouncy Dub House excursion. In 2026 the Jura Soundsystem project enters its 10th year and is the creative musical outlet of Isle of Jura founder Kevin Griffiths. All tracks produced at IOJ HQ in Moana, Adelaide between 2022 and 2025 with support from the incense gods of Cedarwood, Jasmine and Sandalwood. The 12โ€ is housed in a 3mm spine full sleeve designed by Bradley Pinkerton.

African Head Charge -  Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa (2LP+DL)African Head Charge -  Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa (2LP+DL)
African Head Charge - Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa (2LP+DL)On-U Sound
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Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah is on vocal duties and assisted with ground-shaking grooves from On-U mainstays Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald, and Jazzwad (amongst others). The resulting sound sculptures on this 2005 album are whipped into a dubwise frenzy by label head Adrian Sherwood. A great entry in the rich AHC back catalogue, and a fitting way to mark their return to the label.
Seekersinternational & wzrdryAV - Orbit Flares (CD)Seekersinternational & wzrdryAV - Orbit Flares (CD)
Seekersinternational & wzrdryAV - Orbit Flares (CD)Accidental Meetings
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Abstract dub dream-weavers SKRS INTL. & WZRDRY remerge at the behest of Bristolโ€™s Accidental Meetings for a super lush dose of wormholing ambient dance pressure tipped FFO Rezzett, Peak Oil/False Aralia, Second Woman. โ€˜Orbit Flaresโ€™ combines the two Canadian units for the first time in over a decade, naturally reprising an empathic level of vibes in a half hour of music that betrays illusive tekkerz developed over the interim. Any semblance of sharp edges are smudged to a brilliantly psychedelic, polychromatic lustre and laced with disciplined, yet properly wayward rhythms that tumble, buckle and vaporise in fractious delirium. Each new SKRS drop is welcome around ours but, jeez, they really push into their most impressive work here, possibly thanks to wzrdryAVโ€™s synaesthetic suss. Front to back it feel likes they catch minds/bodies in the split second before going under anaesthesia, and extrude us into pitch-bent helical vortices of plonging dub chords and gooey bass, finding bold new realms of computerised dub suss. Handrails are slippery as fuck, ground melts beneath feet, leaving bodies gyring in space between the weightless dub techno inflections of โ€˜1.1โ€™, into air-stepping chicanery on โ€˜1.2โ€™, or glitching like a hair-kissing Vladislav Delay on โ€˜1.3โ€™. The smeared chords and scudding subs of โ€˜2.1โ€™ call to mind Second Woman emulating the illusive dub-soul of False Aralia drops, and โ€˜2.3โ€™ feels like distant rig heard on a Nitrous-induced permo. Sheer class for harder to please future dub freaks.

OKO DJ - As Above, So Below (LP)
OKO DJ - As Above, So Below (LP)STROOM.tv
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It is often said that we find it hard to stare at the light, however, the universe never lights out. This first premise from As Above, So Below is the base point for the setting of what follows. A group of rabble-rousing guerillรจres from the commune decide to go bowling. They had entered the forest, followed its winding paths, and emerged blind after staring at the universe for too long. No longer able to find their way by observing the stars, they now have to climb on the houses and feel the vernacular roofing to find out in which direction theyโ€™re heading. They get to the bowling alley all amped up. The punters insist on lighting their cigarettes - theyโ€™re not interested in matches but rather in the cardboard cover that attaches them. The only striking going on is the sound of the skittles getting scattered, syncopating with saturated basslines, mixed vocal techniques, heavy fx, and feeding into an arsenal of bells and percussions. They start stomping on the alleys as if this was a housewarming party and they had to break in a newly laid wood floor. Moving in circles, they eventually fall through it and end up in a room where the light has been swallowed. A band including none of its original members is performing, they can only hear a warm yet throbbing hum. They soon realise the massive rolling sub is getting louder and louder and adjusting its pitch. The dust their feet was lifting is slowly sweeping around the floor and gathering in patches and lines, drawing out the Chladni figures they had seen in their dreams, experiencing the same thoughts at the same moment, they inscribe them on a loquat leaf.

FeLid - Magic Hour (CS+DL)FeLid - Magic Hour (CS+DL)
FeLid - Magic Hour (CS+DL)ato.archives
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"Magic Hour" is the second album by Tokyo-based artist FeLid. He is known as a member of the post-hardcore band the north end and as a co-organizer of the festival platform MIMINOIMI. On this work, he combines improvisational and accidental guitar sounds, lyrical ambient drones, and high-definition sound editing. The result is an album that is both accessible and deeply experimental in its approach. ------------------------------------------- Bio: FeLid is the solo project of Kazutoshi Eguchi. Drawing on all available sonic materialsโ€”including instrumental sounds, electronics, fragments of recorded audio, and environmental soundsโ€”he creates tracks and improvisational live performances through continuous processes of deconstruction and reconstruction. His practice is designed as a shared exploration of the relationship between sound and space, inviting audiences to experience and discover these connections together in real time. He is also a member of MIMINOIMI, an organizing collective dedicated to exploring ambient and experimental music from multiple perspectives, and is involved in the planning and production of the urban festival Ambient / Week.

Linval Thompson - Rebel Up (12")Linval Thompson - Rebel Up (12")
Linval Thompson - Rebel Up (12")GROOVE EXPLORATION RECORDS
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Involved in music for many years : playing music, digging & sharing reggae soul vibes, as a passionate of music, humble mรฉlomane and Dj. Engaged as a selecta on Radio Grafโ€™hit. Thanks to that, we met lot of producers, artists, beat makers etc.. Once, we were involved as a media Ina Dub Camp Festival. Thanks to the people and artists we met, We came to the fact that when youโ€™re engaged with passion in a project, truly humble and hardworking, It came to reality ! We were grateful to meet artists and producers such as Roberto Sanchez, Rico OBF, Ben Alpha Steppa, Stand High Patrol and many more grate artist and producers . Amongst them, we met Roberto Sanchez and shared a very nice vibes. We later recorded a dub plate of Linval Thompson for ยซ Groove Exploration ยป Radio show. Few month later, Roberto was proposing another dub plate and recording session with Linval Thompson. At that time, we had already experienced the blessing of writing a song , sung by an Artist. A militant Roots Reggae Legend ! I Man Max Romeo ! So, we wer connected , confident , engaged to experience this musical & spiritual work again. That is how we worked on together with Roberto: He proposed two Riddims, We choosed one, and Nesta wrote the lyrics on it. It came & fixed naturally to the Riddim and to Linval โ€˜s vibe! This ยซ Rebel Up ยป song is inspired by Platonโ€™s Cave allรฉgorie. That illustrates perfectly today situation of our blind society Enslaved in consumption & materialism Disconnected of our spiritual potential. Beyond our artistic engagement, That is the aim of this song , in a humble way , As militant Reggae Label: To make people get ou of the cave And REBEL UP !!! REBEL UP !! Nesta Egor

Bim Sherman - Ghetto Dub (LP)Bim Sherman - Ghetto Dub (LP)
Bim Sherman - Ghetto Dub (LP)WEEK-END RECORDS
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The long-overdue revival of Bim Shermanโ€™s catalog begins here. These essential recordings will become widely available again for the first time in decades, opening a new chapter in the appreciation of one of Jamaicaโ€™s most distinctive voices and representing a major moment for reggae and dub aficionados around the world. This reissue series will not only preserve his legacy but will also offer listeners the chance to experience the depth and timeless resonance of Shermanโ€™s work in its full glory.

Bim Shermanโ€”born Jarret Lloyd Vincent, in Westmoreland, Jamaicaโ€”holds a unique place in reggae history. Emerging in the mid 70s, his ethereal, haunting vocal style quickly set him apart from his contemporaries. He was soon collaborating with the top producers and musicians of the era, including Adrian Sherwood and the On-U Sound collective, bridging the gap between roots reggae and experimental dub and laying the groundwork for the fusion of Jamaican sounds with the vibrant underground scene in the UK. His career, from Kingston to London to Mumbai, was marked by an artistic daring and spiritual intensity that has earned him enduring respect across generations.

The centerpiece of this reissue campaign is Ghetto Dub from 1988, a record that distills Shermanโ€™s artistry into its most potent form. Originally released in a limited number, the album embodies the stark yet soulful beauty of dub production. With its reverb-drenched drums, cavernous basslines, and echo-laden atmospherics, Ghetto Dub transforms Shermanโ€™s various tracks into spectral presences that drift in and out of the mix. The arrangement and productionโ€”minimal yet profoundly texturedโ€”captures both the raw urgency of Jamaican street culture and the forward-looking experimentation of the UK dub scene. Each track unfolds like a meditation, balancing grit with grace, density with space. Ghetto Dub is more than an album; it is an immersive soundscape that reaffirms Bim Sherman as one of reggaeโ€™s most otherworldly and visionary figures.

Augustus Pablo - Augustus Pablo At King Tubby's (LP)
Augustus Pablo - Augustus Pablo At King Tubby's (LP)Radiation Roots
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The visionary musician and record producer Augustus Pablo made some of the most unique and individual recordings in the history of reggae. As with his friend and mentor, Jackie Mittoo, the man born Horace Swaby was of mixed Indian and African heritage, and although his middle-class background might have pointed him in a very different direction, the lure of Jamaica's sound system culture captured him at a young age, particularly after debilitating health problems saw him drop out of school. He began recording as a session keyboardist as the '60s gave way to the '70s, but everything changed when a school-friend introduced him to the melodica, a small plastic keyboard operated by a mouthpiece, which he used on seminal recordings for producer Herman Chin-Loy, credited to Augustus Pablo on the release. During the early 1970s, Pablo crafted melodica instrumentals for all of the leading reggae producers, scoring "best instrumental" for "Java" in 1973, and launching the Rockers label to showcase self-produced work at the same time. This multi-faceted compilation, first issued on Bunny Lee's Attack label in 2005, compiles memorable melodica interpretations of some of Lee's greatest productions, recorded over dub cuts of immortal numbers such as Cornell Campbell's "Queen Of The Minstrel" and John Holt's "My Desire".

Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators - King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station (LP)
Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators - King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station (LP)Radiation Roots
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Originally released in 1975. Tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook is rightly considered a giant of Jamaican music. Chosen by Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd to be leader of The Skatalites in the early 1960s, he went on to become the chief exponent of rock steady as leader of The Supersonics house band at Treasure Isle. McCook remained a key session player throughout the reggae era, and during the roots reggae heyday of the mid-1970s, his expressive melodies found particularly strong outlet, especially on the music he created for grassroots producer Bunny 'Striker' Lee as a member of The Aggrovators, the studio outfit Lee hand-picked from the cream of Jamaica's musical crop. When enhanced by the adventurous mixing experiments of King Tubby, the engineer that turned dub into an art form, instrumental Aggrovators music became positively ethereal, yielding an exceptional listening experience. On King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station, Tommy McCook blows mean sax and flute over dubs of outstanding tracks by Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, Linval Thompson, Delroy Wilson, and others greats. LP version comes with four bonus tracks.

I Fi feat Dub Shepherds and Pinnacle Sound - Bush Tea (7")I Fi feat Dub Shepherds and Pinnacle Sound - Bush Tea (7")
I Fi feat Dub Shepherds and Pinnacle Sound - Bush Tea (7")BAT RECORDS
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Due to high demand of dubplates, the "Bush Tea" is finally released in vinyl 7"!

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Pinnacle Sound -  Still Dread (LP)Pinnacle Sound -  Still Dread (LP)
Pinnacle Sound - Still Dread (LP)BAT RECORDS
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We take the same and start again A winter week at One Buck studio, 4 musicians. Ocman Dread and Ras Salam once again call on Jolly Joseph and Dr Charty to accompany them on guitar, bass, keyboards... The recordings of this session do not suggest the negative temperatures and the frost outside, the riddims are sunny and sound warm. Pinnacle Sound's 5th album is in the wake of the previous ones, roots that make you smile. Breath is life The rest takes place at the Bat Records studio. The Dub Shepherds refine these takes where breath and grain mingle, in search of the authenticity that has made Pinnacle Sound special since its beginnings. With the help of vintage machines and magnetic tapes, the album takes shape and begins to take shape. Many guests Another Pinnacle Sound trademark, numerous guests behind the microphone are present on this disc as on the previous ones. We find the essentials: Marcus I and Jolly Joseph, to which are added new voices, like Payoh SoulRebel who opens the album with the unequivocal โ€œDownpressureโ€: we are here to have a good time! Big news on this album, the presence of female voices! The trio The Steadies delivers the brilliant โ€œThank Youโ€, and Nina Murple signs the ballad โ€œBy The Trainโ€. You will have understood, Pinnacle Sound unveils a rich and generous new album, 10 tracks from the most kitsch to the most profound, which will leave no one indifferent.

Max Romeo - The Time is Now (12")Max Romeo - The Time is Now (12")
Max Romeo - The Time is Now (12")GROOVE EXPLORATION RECORDS
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The Time is Now was recorded in 2023, during Max Romeo Tour, before his concert in Compiรจgne France.

Crazy Hertz meets Alpha & Omega - Philosofy (7")Crazy Hertz meets Alpha & Omega - Philosofy (7")
Crazy Hertz meets Alpha & Omega - Philosofy (7")DUBATRIATION RECORDS
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This 4th chapter of the Dubatriation Dubplate Style series presents Philosofy, an epic melodica instrumental crafted by Italian producer Crazy Hertz in a combination with his mentors and UK dub legends Alpha & Omega. While most of the lead instruments have been played by A&O, bass, drums and soundscapes have been provided by Crazy Hertz who also showed his terrific mixing skills on both sides, delivering an immersive dub on the flip.

Ashanti Selah & Hark - Dub & Fire (LP)
Ashanti Selah & Hark - Dub & Fire (LP)ASHANTI SELAH MUSIC
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"Dub & Fire" is a collaborative album by Ashanti Selah, a leading force in the next generation of UK dub, and Hark, a producer known for his soundsystem-ready riddims. Building on their previous release, "Smoke & Fire," the album deconstructs and reshapes those tracks into a tighter, heavy-hitting dub counterpart built straight for the dancefloor

Elijah Minnelli - Clams As A Main Meal (LP)Elijah Minnelli - Clams As A Main Meal (LP)
Elijah Minnelli - Clams As A Main Meal (LP)Breadminster County Council
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Even in these most turbulent of times, dub musician and fatigued onlooker Elijah Minnelli remains an inexplicable stalwart on the lower rungs of the Breadminster County Council.

His latest record โ€˜Clams As A Main Mealโ€™ continues his astute siphoning of council funds, this time with help from the Breadminster Board of Abstinence. As a further mark of respect, the original head of the Board, Dr. K'houldoux, graces the cover art in his infamous โ€˜Looming Moon of Desireโ€™ guise.*

As fine a backdrop as any for Minneliโ€™s off-brand dub experiments, and โ€˜Clamsโ€ฆโ€™ is the truest representation of his varied wheelhouse yetโ€ฆ

We find vocal appearances from dub goliath Dennis Bovell and Welsh-language singer Carwyn Ellis. A pair of tracks which build on 2024โ€™s acclaimed โ€˜Perpetual Musketโ€™, a collection of folk songs reworked alongside reggae vocalists, released by FatCat Records. It garnered glowing reviews, with nods from The Guardian and The Quietus concluding with prominent appearances on their respective yearly round-up lists.

Elsewhere, the album finds Minnelli in a more experimental mode, all wheezing contraptions and cockeyed bass, creaking with the weight of creation, a satisfying tactility laid seam-side up.

As well as โ€˜Perpetual Musketโ€™, the new album follows years of sold out 7" singles, handmade and self-released. Online, the tracks have amassed global streams numbering in the millions. His tracks have found play across an eclectic range of radio mixes and dance floors, most notably the likes of Andrew Weatherall, Batu, Optimo and Zakia Sewell (BBC6Music).

It is perhaps worth mentioning that this everbuilding interest in his work is at great odds with the growing suspicions amongst his fellow townsfolk, who see his Breadminster County Council Music Initiative as nothing more than an empty cash-grab.

*For further reading on the Breadminster Board of Abstinence, please see below.

Further Reading on the Breadminster Board of Abstinence

In the late 70s, Breadminster was awash with the last vestiges of the hippy era. Though the flared silhouette of the lower leg remained, the utopian ideals that had once flowed merrily around the youth's shaded ankles had begun to wane. LSD and free love had led to a sharp spike in population and a generation of children raised by air-headed psychonauts unprepared for the bleary-eyed strictures of parenthood.

Aware of the crisis, the County Council entrusted Dr. Paulinque K'houldoux to spearhead a pushback, and it was his pro-abstinence movement - a mixture of education initiatives and radical renutrition campaigns - that came to impact Breadminster's census deep into the new millennium.

Being a pseudo-archipelago Breadminster has fundamentally limited resources, however deep-seated ties to distant coastal villages meant that oysters were a regular part of the local diet. K'houldoux pinpointed this as a factor in the town's overpopulation, and believed that simply replacing these with clams (a โ€œlesser molluskโ€) would help lower the erotic urges of the people. It was his โ€œanti-aphrodesiaโ€ movement that first championed the idea of โ€œClams As A Main Meal,โ€ and the slogan โ€œConsider Abstinenceโ€ carried the message yet further.

The Breadminster Board of Abstinence soon became involved in all cultural happenings in the area, with K'houldoux MCing at prominent festivals and performances, sometimes dressed as the โ€œLooming Moon of Desireโ€ - an idea of his relating to the tide, seafood, menstrual cycles, and his privately held celestial predilections.

It was in 1981 that it was revealed Dr. K'houldoux had never fully qualified as a doctor and was seeking exile in Breadminster due to a series of botched bracelet heists in which he had previously been involved. K'houldoux was subsequently extradited to Basingstoke, where he served 3 of a 12-year sentence, owing to the lunar-oriented prisoner health campaigns he helped implement.

It has been a strange twist of bureaucratic fate that the Breadminster Board of Abstinence has never stopped receiving public funding, despite its lack of clear utility. And while its roots are tied to a rose-tinted past, the Board continues to sponsor cultural events and projects to this day.

An extract from: Eugeniq Schooner's article in Sydney Parishioner: โ€œClams, Breadminster and Countercultural Abstinence Trendsโ€ (2008)

Dubkasm - Transformed In Dub (CD)
Dubkasm - Transformed In Dub (CD)SUFFERAHS CHOICE
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"As if this Anglo-Brazilian duoยดs debut album wasnยดt impressive enough, its version arrives training a magnifying glass on the studio wizardry of Dubkasm. This dub is lean, stripping the originalยดs rich sound far down to the bone โ€“ โ€Ta Gravando Agora` is empty streets and alleyways in which we catch glimpses of a lone, wandering melodica. Out from among the trees denuded of their leaves soars the lone sprial of a saxophone on โ€Woodsman Dubโ€. Tena Stelin opens โ€Play I Some Dubโ€ strong and brash before slipping down the echo chamber to a fanfare of horns, after which the bass and drums are left to explore the chasm left open. Stelin attempts to regain a foothold in the song, but the edges of the bottomless pit are too slippery. And when Christine Millerยดs beautiful voice rises with a single, "only so much to give", the entire less-is-more aesthetic is justified for all time. Not every track is boiled down to the skeleton. โ€Betoยดs Yardโ€ is lush in detail and features the bounciest bassline on the entire album. And not every track reworks album material. โ€Memories of Xylonโ€, for example, is a tribute to Lidj Xylon, a passionate, lion of a singer who recently passed away in Ethiopia. The partnership of DJ Stryda and Digistep, though stretching back to the mid-nineties, has certainly spilled forth delights in the past months from the horn of plenty which is the Transform I project. The trilogy was completed recently with a remix album featuring exciting and innovative names from the far reaches of the reggae diaspora." - Stephen Fruitman, Sonomu

Black Jade - Rockers (LP)
Black Jade - Rockers (LP)Solid Roots
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Definitely ahead of its time, Black Jade approach was very sophisticated, creating more than a serious cult in downtown London. While their debut โ€˜Contempoโ€™ was a โ€˜religiousโ€™ dub affair, their sophomore album showcased a more rootsy direction. Published as a mere private press in the second half of the seventies, the album is finally available in a long overdue re-issue.

Jackie Mittoo - The Keyboard King (LP)
Jackie Mittoo - The Keyboard King (LP)Radiation Roots
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Radiation Roots present a reissue of Jackie Mittoo's The Keyboard King, originally released in 1976. Jackie Mittoo's contribution to reggae music is immeasurable. Of mixed Indian and African-Jamaican heritage, the man born Donat Roy Mittoo was a gifted musician that played piano in The Skatalites at the age of 16. He was a very important part of reggae's evolution, having been a crucial member of the Studio One house band from its very foundation, being employed as the main keyboardist and musical arranger for an extended period, working closely there with Lee 'Scratch' Perry and countless other important figures, as well as relegating Leroy Sibbles to the bass. Although Mittoo migrated to Canada in the late 1960s, he frequently returned to Jamaica to record, maintaining his Studio One connection, and also issuing a sublime series of albums for Bunny Lee in the mid-1970s. The Keyboard King was first issued on Third World in 1976, and features Mr. Mittoo's delightful organ workouts, completely reconfiguring hits by John Holt, Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, and Bunny & Skully, among others.
Scientist  โ€“ Scientist Wins The World Cup (LP)
Scientist โ€“ Scientist Wins The World Cup (LP)Dub Mir
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Scientist's name can be found all over any dub record collection; he was a protรฉgรฉ of King Tubby, and many would say that when dub fell on quieter times it was Scientist who breathed new life into it. His pared-down mixing style suited the dancehall reggae sound that arrived as the '70s rolled into the '80s. This 1982 album includes the priceless dub of Johnny Osbourne's classic "Give a Little Love," as well as further cuts of the likes of Hugh Mundell and Wayne Jarrett. Scientist is always in control.
Scientist - In The Kingdom Of Dub (LP)
Scientist - In The Kingdom Of Dub (LP)Superior Viaduct
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Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for 40 years. His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby's studio in Kingston. Brown quickly ascended the ranks and became heir to Tubby's throne, producing imaginative and technically impressive mixes that solidified his forward-looking nickname.

Originally released in 1981, In The Kingdom Of Dub remains one of the best early LPs in Scientist's long career. Produced by Roy Cousins at Channel One and featuring Sly & Robbie along with members of The Revolutionaries, The Aggrovators and The Soul Syndicate, the album offers a wide range of arresting rhythms, bold effect drops and exquisitely melodic bass. From "18 Drumalie Avenue Dub" (a reference to King Tubby's address) to "Burning Sun Dub," Scientist lays down a veritable roadmap of dub – filled with disintegrating echoes of satiny organ and textural guitar – firmly cementing his place as one of the true innovators in Jamaican popular music.

Dadawah - Peace And Love - Wadadasow (LP)
Dadawah - Peace And Love - Wadadasow (LP)Antarctica Starts Here
ยฅ4,785
Dark, hypnotic, tripping nyabinghi from 1974. Led by Ras Michael over four extended excursions, the music is organic, sublime and expansive, grounation-drums and bass heavy (with no rhythm guitar, rather Willie Lindo brilliantly improvising a kind of dazed, harmolodic blues). Lloyd Charmers and Federal engineer George Raymond stayed up all night after the session, to mix the recording, opening out the enraptured mood into echoing space, adding sparse, startling effects to the keyboards. At no cost to its deep spirituality, this is the closest reggae comes to psychedelia. Lovingly returned to its original, singular glory, restored at Abbey Road, with superfly vinyl in old-school, hand-assembled sleeves.

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