Nine specials from the archives, spanning 1980-2015, out here for the first time.
Kicking off in his front room studio in Bruce Road, Thornton Heath; finishing with a late rescue from 2015 Black Ark sessions in tribute to Lee Perry.
Outstanding set of dubs originally released in the late-1970s, by way of Carl Campbell’s record shop on Church Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
Sly & Robbie, Augustus Pablo, Chinna, Tommy McCook and co; with Mikey Jarrett doing the ebullient intros.
Dub For Joy is the standout, amongst several heavyweight killers.
‘Spacious and oblivious FM-synthesizer-based New Age and Dark-Ambient. Dusty cosmic sonics interfere with slow growing pads, one-hit-percussions, metallic clanks, synth-flutes, psychedelic-SPA-melodies, dark long driven drones with monophonic bass drops, deep church organs and arpeggios. Fog and space.’
Two swingeing, hypnotic excursions by the Brooklynite (aka Lichens). Ethereal and melancholic, Magnamite ponders ‘the relationship of machine and human’; whilst the wilder pulsations of Heart Of Sogguth bear witness to a ‘unified human machine wherein the voice becomes the rhythm — all become one instrument’.