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Fo’ Ur 20 by Forplay on Mixcloud

The forcast for today: mostly dubby with a chance of haze.

Tracklisting:

1. Tryptomatik - Polizia Dreadlock

2. 6Blocc - Believe it (G31 Remix)

3. DJ Shepdog - Bigger than Jamrock

4. Alborosie - Kingston Town

5. Chinese Man Records - Skank in the air

6. Damian Marley & Nas - Promised Land

7. Thievery Corporation - Blasting through the City

8. The Black Seeds - Cool me Down Dub

9. Roots Combination - Wicked A Go Dub It

10. The Dub Club - Running

11. Roots Combination - The Dub and the Restless

12. DJ Krush - On the Dub-ble

13. Cottonbelly - By Your Side (Sade Remix)

Be sure to also check out:

1. DJ Sabo - Deep Sunday Dub @solselectas

2. DJ Sach - Heavy Holiday Reggae @passionoftheweiss

The Gaslamp Killer - It’s a Rocky Road Vol. 2

I chillayed…plugged in…and shoveled 8” of blizzard.

Resident Low End Theory dj and master podcaster, Gaslamp Killer, uses a formula that packs in music of decades passed into a crème de la crème 60 minutes long mix. Killer, known fondly as Willie Bensussen, is of the breed that scours record shops and car boots for obscure vinyls that none of us know of, but we all wish we did. GLK’s minutes include everything from 60s psych and dusty folk ballads to soul samples and space jazz.

No tracklist. None necessary.

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What does your weekend sound like? My playlist (dubbed: yo party son) has seen darker days. Starting with 112, Biggie, and Return of the Mack, the weekend (sound)waves soon evolved to include everything London: dj luck & mc neat, The Artful Dodger (and Craig David), Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, and Ministry of Sound. Fortunately I have shed my bastardized transatlantic sound for a style authentique.

Imagine if you will: the funk of The Isley Brothers, fuzzed with the soul of Sade, and backed by the turntablism of Dj Krush - which is then sprinkled with the reggae dub of our man Bob, and spiced with latin and disco flavors of a bygone era. Dj Sabo promises to have you livin la vida loca.

The Doctor of Disco, as I like to think of him, has a prescription for every component of the weekend. Deep Sunday Dub, the mix featured here, is like ‘musical asprin’ for your sunday recovery on the couch.

Other Sabo Prescriptions for ‘the case of the’:

Thirsty Thursdays: Far Beyond Disco

Forplay Fridays: WMC ‘09 Miami Come Down

Spicy Saturdays: new, Cumbia Mix

*Chinese Man Records - Skank in the Air*

*Kick-ass Video*

Chinese Man Records, a French export, claims its influences to be: Reggae, Funk, 90’s Hip-Hop, Dub, and Jazz. Likening genres to chefs, one might think that too many would spoil the broth. However, the 3 turntablist do not disappoint. Their sound offers a tasteful mix of everything from supersonic dub to latin groovtronica. With an eclectic selection of breakbeats the trio features samples of Tyler Durden, The Fugees, AND Indian music across the span of their two albums. (The Groove Sessions Vol.1 and The Groove Sessions Vol. 2)

* Video Trippiness added by third party.

So as I was shuffling through iTunes waiting for a song to strike a chord to blog about, I stumbled upon The Dub and the Restless by Sonic Boom on the compilation Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions Presents Roots Compilation. While everything from the track and album title to the accompanying video might have one yearning for some ‘hearing aids’ - they aren’t needed.

This song contains some of the most original dub work I have heard. Where most dub tracks focus too heavily on looped and distorted beats and vocals, this song breathes a breath of fresh dub into the genre. Rather than trying to emphasize some funked up electronic beats, this track keeps it authentic and true to the roots. What I mean by that is that the beat seems less manufactured and more fresh. Don’t be surprised if at some point you visualize yourself in a Jamaican landscape where the world is passing you by at the pace of the song.

If the dub is what takes you there, then the ‘acid jazz’ elements are what bring you back.

Now I am always cautious about associating jazz with drugs as I get the sense that it is one of those venerated genres that no one wants to see tainted. However, a little research (read:wikipedia) showed that acid jazz, a genre developed in the UK which combines elements of jazz, funk, and hip-hop, is exactly what this song is.

The jazz infusion meshes perfectly with the dub to create a chillful melody. So where you might get lost in the pure Jamaican dub, the jazz keeps you somewhere between Jamaica and London.

*would be perfect for a Guy Ritchie movie indeed.