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Words by DJ Theory—
Big week of Mixtape Mondays here, with a monstrous thank you from one of North America’s baddest soundsystems, dub and tropical heat from the Bay, and a pre-carnival warmup straight from the source in London. Get crackin’ and start your week right.
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Whether you’re recovering from Coachella, 4/20 festivities, or just need new ammo to attack this Monday, we got some digital dub, undiluted dancehall and brand new ganja tunes to get your week bubbling right. We also recommend you download The Highest Grade from Snypaa Ent. that went up on Friday, as an added bonus to this weeks post.
Solomonic Sound, Jahson Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Brostep Vampires & Womp Zombies: One of the baddest juggling and dubplate soundsystems in North America, Solomonic are back with another one, with Burlington, VT’s Jahson at the controls. This one is a straight digital dub mix, cleverly playing on the title and theme of Scientist Rids The World of the Evil Curse of The Vampires, easily one of our favorite dub records of all time. Clearly looking for a break from the gritty, wompy, “brostep” that’s dominating the dubstep world, Jahson takes you back to a style and fashion that helped create and influence modern dubstep as we know it. With tracks from Die & Break Feat. MC Fats, Michael Prophet, Joe Ariwa & The Trixsters, Dubkasam, Johnny Osbourne, V.I.V.E.K., No More Babylon Feat. Kenny Knots and more, this mix will quickly have you steppin’ in your slippers. Salute to Jahson for this one, maybe we can convince him to make a download available? Plus the cover is too ill, had to post a large version so you can play “name the dubstep DJ.” Full stream below, more info here.
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
Few new artists have secured a more unanimous seal of approval from the vastly different minds that make up the LargeUp braintrust than Hollie Cook, so any new music from her is big news around here. But a new dub album from our favorite lovers rock revivalist? Sign. Us. Up.
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To celebrate Record Store Day tomorrow (4/21), VP Records is releasing a limited edition Busy Signal dub EP, on 12″ vinyl only. Reggae Dubb’n Again features dub mixes of six songs from Busy Signal’s Reggae Music Again album (which you can stream in its entirety here), including our favorite tune on the album, “119″ featuring Anthony Redrose and Joe Lickshot (Stream below), produced and engineered by Shane Brown and his father Errol Brown. VP has given us three copies of the limited-edition 12″ to give away.
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Words by DJ Theory—
We got a well-rounded serving of Mixtape Mondays for you this week, with some heavy UK vibez, nice & easy dub versions direct from Indonesia, and an early look at one Jamaica’s newest threats in the dancehall world. Get ready to click yuh download finga and get your week started right.
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Words by Jesse Serwer, via Shimmy Shimmy
“People were getting fed up [with the musicians] cos they’d drink up the rum and eat up the food, and the people didn’t have anything to sell because of them. So it was a great relief when the soundsystem came in cos you’d just put on the record and play.” That’s music legend Bunny “Striker” Lee, speaking on the practicalities that led to the genesis of sound system culture in Jamaica.
