I’ve Got a Fever - I’m Seeing Pink Dots

 

One of my favorite bands, one that I've featured many times before as well as releases from Ryan Moore (bass, drums, percussion, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System), Niels van Hoorn (saxophones, flute, bass flute, clarinets, gadgets that need to be blown), & Martijn de Kleer (guitars, fuzz bass, banjo, violon, exotic percussion, gadgets, string driven things-plucked, bowed, & processed) as well as side project The Tear Garden (with cEvin Key).

 

I realized I have rarely posted from the extensive catalogue of Edward Ka-Spel's (Prophet Qa-Spel, Qa'Sepel, Che Banana, D'Archangel) solo releases & that I had somehow never posted anything from LPD keyboardist & song-writer The Silverman (Phil Knight, Phil Harmonix). I am about to remedy that shortcoming now. 

 

Between 1984-1990 Edward Ka-Spel released seven China Doll albums. Ka-Spel's solo output expanded on the sounds he had started along with LPD in 79. By 87 he had ventured into industial noise & experimental styles much beyond what he was doing in LPD. Eyes! China Doll & Laugh China Doll are a great accessible start into his sound. By 87s aaΔzhyd China Doll he had ventured into a darker adventurous industrial-psychedelic territory.

The first China Doll release was Eyes! China Doll. 

 

Edward Ka-Spel - Eyes! China Doll, Scarface FACE 13, 1984.
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SIDE ONE -
Mirror Soul
Avengelist    
God in a Cupboard
Blowing Bubbles (Pt 2)    
Six Cats on a Dead Man's Chest    

SIDE TWO -
'Joey' - The Video
The Char Char    
Intermezzo    
Hotel Blanc 

 

 

The same years saw the issue of Laugh China Doll...dedicated with love to Marylou.

 

 

Edward Ka-Spel - Laugh China Doll, In Phaze Records PHA6, 1984.

SIDE ONE: Laughing China Doll -

Lilith's Daughter
Eye Contact
Lady Sunshine
Find the Lady
Requiem


SIDE TWO: Nothing Else -
Suicide Pact
Paradise Then
Irrational Anthem
Lisa's Funeral
The Glass Moved By Itself
Atomic Roses

 

 

 

Now one more darker China Doll...

 

 

Edward Ka-Spel – aaΔzhyd China Doll, Torso TORSO 33028, 1987.

STEMRA 1 -

aaΔzhyd China Doll    
Flesh Parade    
The Qa' Spell    
The Unfortunate Demise of the Fabulous Puccino Brothers    

STEMRA 2 -
Nuts in May    
Traitors' Gate    
Blowing Bubbles (Part III)    
The Fool

 

 

 

Next is this live recording of a show recorded at the Wagenmeister, Basel in Switzerland on September 30, 2005. Packaged in a handmade card cover. Sing while you may.

 

 

 

Edward Ka-Spel & Silverman - Live in Basel 2005, Trademark of Quality, 2005.

Nature of Illusion    
Black Widow's Kiss    
Prisoners of War    
Hey Rainman    
Third Secret    
Atomic Roses    
Lilith's Daughter    
Setting in Snow    
Circle the Sun & You Become One    
This Fragile Love

 

 

 

Here are the first two solo releases from LPD keyboardist & writer The Silverman (Phil Knight).

First, Dream Cell, composed, performed & produced between summer 92 - autumn 94 at various locations around Nijmegen, Holland. Dedicated to Mana.

 

 

 

 

The Silverman - Dream Cell, Terminal Kaleidoscope TeKa 777, 1995.

Visitation    
Rite of Passage    
This Fragile Love    
& the Legend Days Return...    
Dream Cell #1    
Dream Cell #2    
Serpent Time    
Stream Point Entry    
Circle the Sun & You Become One    
Desecreation

 

 

 

 

 

The Silverman - Silvermandalas, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL 88CD, 1998.

Silvermandalas 1    
Silvermandalas 2    
Silvermandalas 3    
Silvermandalas 4    
Silvermandalas 5    
Silvermandalas 6    
Silvermandalas 7

 

 

 

 

To finish things off here, I came across this while I was putting this together from long overlooked files. Strange Attractor was a Dutch downtempo project active between 2004 - 2010 featuring Niels van Hoorn (LPD), Graham Lewis (Wire, He Said, Duet Emmo, more), Ryan Moore (LPD), David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, solo), Winston Tong (Tuxedomoon), Peter Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil),  & many others.

 

 

 

 

 

Strange Attractor - Mettle, Music for Speakers M4S33CD, 2009.

Anything
The Best Things are Left Unspoken
Evaporate
Loneliness is a Crowded Room
Sleaze
Plain Gold Ring
Sound Generation
Quietude
Snail
Heaven

Enjoy,
NØ

The Bella Brothers

In a comment to the last post (Horace Andy/Wackie's), kostas.p thanked me for the Douglas Levy produced version of "Archibella" (or "Artibella" depending on the artist release). He mentioned that there are many versions & covers. 

 

I had previously posted a couple of those (Susan Cadogan bonus tracks) but decided this would be a fine time to slap up a set of "Artibella" riddims. I started with the original Ken Boothe/Phil Pratt Artibella & (Version of), kinda went chronologically from there up through Snoop Lion & Tenor Youthman recent takes on the sound & finished with another Horace Andy outing using the same riddim. 

 

This one goes out to kostas.p (& all). 

 

Various - Arti & Archi Bella, NØ Comp., 2022.

Artibella - Ken Boothe
(Version of) Artibella - Phil Prat Allstars
Raw Roots - Bobby Kalphat
Fever - Junior Byles
Influenza Version - Susan Cadogan & the Upsetters
Fever Grass Dub - The Upsetters
Artibella - Sly & Robbie
Archibella - Freddy McGregor
Artibella - Jump with Joey
Artibella - Geotge Nooka
Archibella - Tenor Youthman
Artibella - The Sundance Kid (featuring Winston McAnuff)
La La La - Snoop Lion
Perilous Time - Horace Andy

Enjoy,
NØ

Take it Easy

 

I've been spinning Horace Andy's latest, Midnight Rocker, on a regular basis for a while now. Adrian Sherwood has the ability to get the best out of the artists he produces. Rainford & Heavy Rain exalted late stage Lee Perry. Adrian has done it again with Horace Andy. The Sherwoodcraft quality of "Safe from Harm" elevates a Massive Attack song to a whole new plateau. If you don't have Midnight Rocker yet, buy it. You will not be disappointed.

 

I am a big fan of all things Massive Attack & so I have always held Horace Andy in high regard.

In the early 80s Horace was teamed up with another of my favorite Dubwise producers Lloyd Barnes aka Bullwackie of the esteemed Wackie's label. I decided to round up most of the Andy Wackie's that I have & post it here.

First up we have their first collaboration, a 12" with Horace on Side A doing "I Don't Wanna be Left Outside" & two Versions featuring Bullwackie's All Stars on Side B. 

 

Horace Andy - I Don't Wanna be Left Outside 12", Wackie's 279, 1980.

Side A -
I Don't Wanna be Left Outside

Side B -
Zion Dub
Unknown Dub 

 

Next up... 

 

Horace Andy - Serious Thing 12", Wackie's 280, 1981.

Side A -
Serious Thing

Side B -
Version (Bullwackies All Stars) 

 

 

 

Horace's first full length on Wackie's was Dance Hall Style. The release includes the track "Eating Mess," as track B4 that is not listed on the sleeve, but is on the B-side label.

 

 

 

Horace Andy - Dance Hall Style, Wackie's w 1383, 1982.

Side A -
Money Money
Lonely Woman
Cuss Cuss

Side B -
Stop the Fuss
Spying Glass
Let's Live in Love
Eating Mess 

 

 

 

 

 

Horace Andy - Everyday People, Wackie's WR 2740, 1987.

Side One -
Let Your Teardrops Fall
Problems
Pressure
This is Reggae Music

Side Two -
Black Liberation Struggle
Everyday People
Girl, I Love You
She Don't Want Me

 

 

 

 

 

Horace Andy - Be Good 10", Wackie's WM1003,  2004.

Side A -
Be Good
Be Good (Wackie's Rhythm Force)

 

 

 

The rest of these are miscellaneous Horace/Wackie's tracks from various releases.

 

 

 

 

Horace Andy - Assorted Wackie's Prime Cuts, NØ Comp., 2022.

Live in Unity
Love Hangover
Pure Don Man
Good Will Survive
Lingering Spirit
Just My Imagination
Musical Episode
Soloman
Tribute to Bob Marley
Take it Easy

Enjoy,
NØ

Note: Somehow I overlooked this essential track. Horace Andy- Archibella 12" released on the Hamma label (one of Lloyd Barnes affiliated labels) with the outstanding Wackie’s master Douglas Levy producing. This is a cover of a old Studio One tune by Ken Boothe. 

Horace Andy - Archibella 12", Hamma 104, 198?. 

 

Side A - 

Archibella 

 

Side B - 

Jah Jah A-1 Sound 

Dub 

 

Peace out!

You Thought 8 Miles was High

 

Thunderball (1961) is the eighth James Bond offering from Ian Fleming, the fourth movie of the Bond Eon Productions franchise starring Sean Connery. 

 

Here Thunderball is Washington, DC-based trio formed in 1997. Thunderball are globally renowned purveyors of sophisticated, stereophonic-thrillers, & cinematic dub. Since their inception, their productions have shifted effortlessly between the genres of drum & bass, breakbeat, trip-hop, & downtempo. Started originally as the duo of Sid Barcelona & Steve Raskin, Thunderball now officially includes long-time collaborator Rob Myers. Rob, a fellow ESL Music label-mate, records & tours with Thievery Corporation playing sitar & guitar, most notably on the Thievery classic, "Lebanese Blonde". Thunderball actively perform their music worldwide as DJs under the moniker Thunderball Sound System featuring Mustafa Akbar & Rex Riddem as well as an 8-piece live band. 

 

 

Thunderball - 12 Mile High, Eighteenth Street Lounge Music ESL 168, 2010.
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Enter the Brahmin
12 Mile High
Make Your Move
Dub Science
Low Down Weather
IC Colors
Flippin' it On
Rico Ritmo
Rio Mescalito
Moon on the Rise
Runaway
To Catch a Vixen
Penthouse Soul 

Thunderball - 12 Mile High Remixed, Eighteenth Street Lounge Music ESL 186, 2011.

Dub Science (Zeb Remix)
12 Mile High (Al Lindrum Remix)
I C Colors (QDUP Foundation Remix)
Rio Mescalito (Thomas Blondet & Second Sky Remix)
Flippin' It On (Mash & Munkee Remix)
Low Down Weather (Empresarios Remix)
Moon On The Rise (Fort Knox Five Remix)
Rico Ritmo (Sono Rhizmo' Remix)
Make Your Move (Basement Freaks Remix)
Enter The Brahmin (Knight Riderz Remix)
12 Mile High (JPOD The Beat Chef Remix)
I C Colors (Ursula 1000 Remix)
Make Your Move (Drumagick Remix)
Rio Mescalito (Mexicans With Guns Remix)
Runaway (Ghosts On Tape Remix)
Dub Science (Enea Remix)
Enjoy,
NØ

The Only Green Day I Own

Green Day : American Idiot / Dean Gray : American Edit 

 

 

It all started on a Friday afternoon in October 2004. 'Party Ben' Gill was scrambling to get ready for his weekly Sixx Mixx mashup radio show on San Francisco station Live 105. Green Day's George W. Bush-skewing punkrawk opera American Idiot had just come out. Gill had been noticing the similarities between the Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" & Oasis' "Wonderwall". Light bulb flash...he decided to combine the two. He wanted to finish the mix with Aerosmith's "Dream On," but he couldn't find the band's 1973 power ballad in the station's library so he grabbed Eminem's Steven Tyler-sampling 2003 single "Sing for the Moment" instead. Little could he have anticipated the lightning-in-a-bottle response that his Frankensteinian creation would receive. 

 

The beauty of "Boulevard of Broken Songs" lies in its universality. Most everyone would recognize the chord progression of American Idiot's second single as well as the Gallagher brothers' biggest hit, now a staple of karaoke joints, sporting events, & that annoying guy who always brings his acoustic guitar to every party. Throw in the rousing MNM "Sing for the Moment," & a snippet of post-Britpop Travis' saccharine "Writing to Reach You". Bam, you've got a recipe for musical alchemy. 

 

Inspired by the song's success, Gill next considered doing something with American Idiot in the vein of Danger Mouse's 2004 Beatles-meets-Jay-Z copyright law-challenging opus The Grey Album. He even had a name for the project...Dean Gray (a spoonerism of "Green Day") - American Edit. Enter the story one Neil Mason, who by day was a manager at the University of Western Australia's classically-minded School of Music in Perth who made mashups under the alias Team9 in his spare time. Gill messaged him after hearing "Greenday Massacre," which combined "Wake Me up When September Ends" with the Eagles' "Lyin' Eyes," on Get Your Bootleg On.

In November 2005, they released American Edit, which Gill describes tongue-in-cheek as an "eclectic circus of nonsense".

Even though the duo gave American Edit away for free, ten days later they received a cease & desist notice from Green Day's label, Warner Records. While Gill was no stranger to receiving takedown notices for his mashups, it was a fellow Get Your Bootleg On member in Portland by the name of Noisehead who set up AmericanEdit.org & helped organize "Dean Gray Tuesday" (an intended evocation of 2004s The Grey Album's "Grey Tuesday" which saw more than 170 sites post the album for download after EMI served Danger Mouse with a cease & desist). 

 

 

Dean Gray Tuesday took place on December 13, 2005. The album was hosted on a number of participating websites as torrents, direct MP3 downloads or ZIP archives.  It was incredibly successful thanks to the online bootlegger community. Despite only sending out 200 CD promo copies, the stunt brought Dean Gray plenty of press attention, with American Edit receiving favorable reviews from MTV, SPIN, the San Francisco Chronicle, & others. 

 

 

Dean Gray - American Edit (enhanced), Homemade Records, 2006.
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American Jesus
     1.1 - American Edit
     1.2 - Jesus' Tears
     1.3 - Summer of the Damned
     1.4 - Suburban Ring
     1.5 - It's Like That
Dr. Who on Holiday
Boulevard of Broken Songs
The Bad Homecoming
St. Jimmy the Prankster
Novocaine Rhapsody
Impossible Rebel
Ashanti's Letterbomb
Greenday Massacre
Whatsername (Susanna Hoffs)

bonus track
Boulevard of Broken Songs (dance mix '05)

Enjoy,
NØ

The Men with the X-Ray Eyes

 

St. Louis quartet Raymilland existed from 1979 to 1981. They played only eight shows in their career. Those live gigs were something, though. Locally, they opened for Magazine at the Kiel Exhibition Hall & Ultravox at Mississippi Nights. In Chicago they supported Adrian Belew, punk band Chelsea, & Tuxedomoon. They were scheduled to open for Joy Division's first American tour which was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances (Ian's suicide).

The original 7" of this legendary St. Louis band. 

 

Raymilland – Raymilland 7", Praxis 002076X, 1980.

A Side –
Talk

B Side –
Distant View

Enjoy,

What’s Going on with Psychedelic Soul?

 

I was thrilled with the recent release by Monophonics entitled Sage Motel. Monophonics are one of the best (right up there with Black Pumas or St. Paul & the Broken Bones) soul outfits going today. Sage Motel is the epitome of what they do best, which is Norman Whitfield era psychedelic soul. SM is a return to Monophonics deepest roots, channeling the Whitfield/Marvin Gaye nexus perfectly. Vocalist Kelly Finnigan is in top form. I have posted earlier Monophonics here. Thought I'd give you some more. 

 

One of my personal favorite Monophonics' releases is Sound of Sinning. On Sound of Sinning the band ventured beyond their comfort zone to incorporate the psychedelic sound of the 60s & 70s into their psychedelic soul sound. They blend sounds of Northern soul, doo-wop, rock 'n' roll, psych pop, even cinematic themes. Sound of Sinning was produced by singer Kelly Finnigan & guitarist Ian McDonald. They recorded it on an old Tascam eight-track 1/4" tape machine to capture that true old school analog soul style. 

 

Monophonics - Sound of Sinning, Transistor Sound TSMPCD 001,  2015.
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Lying Eyes
Sound of Sinning
La La La Love Me
Promises
Falling Apart
Hanging On
Strange Love
Find My Way Back Home
Holding Back Your Love
Too Long
Everyone's Got...

Enjoy,
NØ

Microdisney Mansions

 

I was deeply saddened when I heard of the passing of Cathal Coughlan.

I have long been a fan of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions (here & here), & Cathal's solo works.

This is music Cathal was working on recently.

Telefís (tele-feesh) is the Irish Gaelic word for television. It is Coughlan working with acclaimed fellow Irish iconoclast composer/mixer/producer Garret "Jacknife" Lee.

I have added the original Telefis version of "Falun Gong Dancer" from a hAon to the three song Falun Gong Dancer EP released this January with Jah Wobble.

R.I.P. CC. 

 

Telefis with Jah Wobble - Falun Gong Dancer EP, Dimple Discs, 2022.
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Falun Gong Dancer (a hAon version)
Falun Gong Dancer (with Jah Wobble)
Falun Gong Dancer (Dub with Jah Wobble)
Falun Gong Dancer (Donkey’s Gudge Dub with Jah Wobble)

Enjoy,
NØ

Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου

 

I was visiting the Albums I Wish Existed blog & d'led a tribute to Vangelis (Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíon) who died from complications due to treatment of COVID-19 on May 17, 2022 in a Paris, France hospital. The album is the Blade Runner score. This work caps a forty years journey Michael Solof has taken to finally create the perfect soundtrack. Go check it out & tell'em NØ sent ya.

I spent last evening listening to the two discs & re-envisioned the entire movie via the music. It was a far better mind-movie than even the near perfect original film was. Dics One's full length version of "Blade Runner Blues" is a stunning masterpiece & Disc Two's "Zhora's Retirement" is the epitome of what Vangelis was all about in a concise nugget of musicianship mastery.

While I was listening to this fine find, I thought about another soundtrack that mines a similar vein that I also think is top-notch go-to musick. Tangerine Dream's soundtrack to William Friedkin's Sorcerer released in 1977. Sorcerer is the third adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur. The first adaptation was the 1953 French thriller film The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot & starring Yves Montand. The film won both the Golden Bear & the Palme d'Or at the 1953 Berlin Film Festival & Cannes Film Festival. 

 

I had first viewed that film at an underground art house in San Francisco in 1968. I thought it was fantastic. It is an existential thriller, one of the most original & shocking French melodramas of the 50s. It is a parable about man's true power or lack thereof over his own fate in the modern world. The film's extended suspense sequences portray violence as a vision of human existence. The combination of nonstop suspense with biting satire is first rate. The film was ranked #9 in Empire's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema". 

 

After viewing The Wages of Fear, I sought out the second adaptation, Violent Road, also known as Hell's Highway, a 1958 American film version directed by Howard W. Koch starring Brian Keith. With a less talented cast, weaker story line, & poorer production, I was less than thrilled.

The French Connection - 1971.

The Exorcist - 1973.

...when I heard that in 1977 William Friedkin was releasing a remake of The Wages of Fear, I was there.

 Actually I was in Cleveland, OhighO in June 77 when the film hit the theaters. I dug Roy Scheider from Friedkin's earlier The French Connection & of course, Spielberg's Jaws so I figured everything would be fine. I was not disappointed. The thing I remember the most was the great effect the score by Tangerine Dream had on the overall experience.

I guess I should explain that in Clouzot's version, an oil well owned by an American company Southern Oil Company catches fire & the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks 300 miles over mountain dirt roads around Las Piedras in some unnamed outback, loaded with the nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames. 

In the much inferior Koch version, an out-of-control test rocket causes massive death & destruction. This forces the company to the relocate the rocket development plant. Trucker Mitch Barton (Brian Keith) assembles a team of several other men for a nearly suicidal mission to drive three trucks to move the rocket fuel made from hydrazine, nitric acid, & concentrated hydrogen peroxide safely over a rough mountain road within three days. 

In Friedkin's take on the material, four outcasts from varied backgrounds meet in an off-the-beaten-path South American (Colombia actually recreated in Ecuador) village of Porvenir, where an oil well explodes. The only way to extinguish the fire is to use dynamite. The men are hired to transport the cargo of aged, poorly kept dynamite that is so unstable that it is 'sweating' its dangerous basic ingredient, nitroglycerin over 200 miles to the oil field. 

 

"One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive."
— William Friedkin

Spine-tingling, nail-baiting, edge-of-your-seat fun. Go watch any or all.

Here I present directly from Tangerine Dream Sorcerer 2014. It is the first live 2CD recording from the Eastgate Music & Arts Theatre in Vienna. CD1 is a quality studio sound remake of the original analog version of 77s Sorcerer. CD2 is additional sensational new material Edgar Froese composed but that was not used for the movie that will hopefully blow yer mind. Come along for this adventurous travel with two trucks through the Latin American jungle. The film title Sorcerer comes from the name Socier (Fr. - sorcerer) painted across the hood of one of the trucks. The other truck is Lazaro (i.e. - Lazarus)

As to the music, Friedkin had attended a Tangerine Dream concert in a derelict church in the Black Forest. He was an immediate & avid admirer of the band. He stated in the liner notes for the soundtrack that had he heard them sooner he would have asked them to score The Exorcist, & that he considers the film Sorcerer & Tangerine Dream's score to be "inseparable".

Enjoy this one from my memory via prompt from Vangelis from the stars above Porvenir, that remote village in... 

 

 

Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer 2014 (Cinematographic Score) 2xCD, Eastgate 068 CD, 2014.
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CD One -

Search    
The Call    
Creation    
Vengeance    
The Journey    
Grind    
Abyss    
Mountain Road    
Impressions of Sorcerer    
Sorcerer Theme (Betrayal)    

CD Two -

 
Approaching the Danger    
Servant of Misery    
Rain & Thunder    
In the Mist of the Night    
Nebulous Jungle Path    
Distance & Hope    
Jungle on Fire    
Crash at Dawn    
Fast Ride to Disaster

From Jackie Scanlon / Juan Dominguez to the world,
NØ

Ring for the Night Nurse

 

"Night Nurse" is a classic Jamaican reggae tune from Gregory Isaacs. Shortly after signing to Island Records in 1982, Isaacs released the single in advance of his 1982 album of the same name. The album was a top 40 hit on the UK Albums Chart, hugely popular in the clubs & received heavy radio play.

I featured a Dub version of Night Nurse on the Flabba Holt / Bingy Bunny post (an outing with Flabba & Style Scott called Nurse in Dub).

A cover version of "Night Nurse" was released in 1997 by Sly & Robbie featuring Mick Hucknall which also became a hit single in the UK. Dedicated Isaacs fans should appreciate the authenticity Sly & Robbie kept on the track.

Here are most all the versions of said take on said tune by Sly & Robbie with a great group of cohorts (the Adrian Sherwood Dub the Patient track, Jah’s 12" mix, both Groove Corp tracks...excellent additions).

Sly & Robbie feat Mick Hucknall - Night Nurse CD1, EastWest EW129CD1, 1997.
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Night Nurse (Radio mix)
Night Nurse Dub with Vocal mix)
Night Nurse (Jah Wobble Radio mix)
Night Nurse (Jah Wobble 12" mix) 

 

 

 

 

Sly & Robbie feat. Mick Hucknall - Nightnurse CD2, EastWest EW129CD2, 1997.

Nightnurse (Sly & Robbie Radio mix)
Nightnurse (Sly & Robbie Dub mix)
Nightnurse (On-U Sound 12" mix)
Nightnurse (On-U Sound Dub the Patient)
Nightnurse (Groove Corporation Intellectual Beauty mix)
Nightnurse (Groove Corporation Zionic Man mix)
Nightnurse (Delano Dancehall mix)

Enjoy,
NØ

Ask Mr.Science

Moved from the left to the right coast last summer. This year will be my first indoor grow. Don't have any knowledge as Cali was all open-air. Been playing the girls a heavy heavy rotations of Dubwise. They feel the bass throb & JA vibe to their roots. They seem to be really responding to these two. Flabba's bass is divine.

Hope you mere mortals enjoy it as well as the alien breed does... 

 

Both of these were recorded at Channel One Recording Studio & mixed at King Tubby's Studio with Roots.Radics.

Roots Radics here are: Noel 'Sorvell' Bailey - lead guitat; Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont - rhythm guitar; Gladstone 'Gladdie' Anderson - piano; Wycliff 'Steely' Johnson & Winston Wright - organ; Errol 'Flabba' Holt - bass; Carlton 'Santa' Davis - drums & Noel 'Skully' Simms & Christopher 'Sky Juice' Blake - percussion.

Dub Landing mixed by Scientist, Dub Landing 2 mixed by Prince Jammy & Scientist.

Produced by Linval Thompson. 

 

Scientist - Dub Landing, Starlight Records SLD 901, 1981.
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Side A -
Invaders
Landing
Dark Side
Attack
Beaming

Side B -
Vulcan
Black Out
Time Passage
Meteorite
Galaxy 

Scientist & Prince Jammy - Dub Landing Vol: 2, Starlight Records SLDLP 903, 1982.

Side A -
Earth
Reconnaissance
Base
Life
Contact

Side B -
Denial
City of Gold
Betrayal
Conquest
Victory

Enjoy,
NØ

Let's Go Fishin'

Have I ever mentioned that I listen to music nearly twenty-four hours a day now. I wear earbuds at night. My dreams are orchestrated by the whims of shuffle. My few sojourns out into public these hermit / CoVid days are about the only time I'm music-less. I really want to step to the soundtrack of my life. I also have to be the DJ for the event. Just rambling...it's the anniversary of my birth & I'm contented & very high.

Never really been a huge fan of ska, although I in no way dislike it. I am a fan of Subhumans, however & so have always liked the punk ska of Subhumans off-shoot, Citizen Fish. Being vegetarian more than fifty years, vegan more than fifteen years, I love their vegan vehemence. Never got around to them for some reason except for a split with Leftover Crack on this fantastic singles & more megapost. Remedying that lack now. 

 

 

Citizen Fish formed in 1989 in the Bath area in jolly old England. The original members were: Dick Lucas - vocals (Culture Shock & Subhumans); Jasper Pattison - bass (Culture Shock); Trotsky - drums (Subhumans); & some guy named Larry - guitar. Following the release of their first album, Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Larry left the band. He was replaced by Phil (Subhumans). In 2006 Silas Berney replaced Trotsky (still plays with Subhumans). 

 

 

My first live encounter with Citizen Fish came about like this: EAT POOP! 'zine put on a all-ages show at Clover Hall, San Jose. It headlined Rancid. The POOPsters all knew Lars & his brother Rob Dapello (Campbell Cali crew, yeah!!!) from the San Jose alternative music scene. It was the first time Rancid played in San Jose. April 92 Lars contacted me & asked if anyone wanted on the guestlist for a show at Klub Kommotion in San Francisco. Rancid was playing with the Gr'ups (a band we also knew well from the West Oakland scene) & Citizen Fish. Black Dahlia, Krusty D' Klown, Food King, & myself made the jaunt up S.F. way. It was simply a fantastic show. Nuff sed. 

 

 

One of my favorite releases is 2011s Goods on Jello Biafra's Alternative Testicle label. The latest that I have is 2015, but I'm aware that they  played at the Ska Punk Fish Party on February 19 this year. It was an all day event at Rockaway Park, UK (Cloud Hill, Temple Cloud just south of Bristol) with Citizen Fish, Culture Shock, & Last Tree Squad.

Here's a smattering of their output... 

 

Citizen Fish - Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Bluurg Records fish 24CD, 1990.
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Supermarket Song
Break into a Run / Rainbows
Possession
Small Scale Wars
Home Economics
Paint
Talk is Cheap
Face Off / Youth
Flesh & Blood
Get Off the Phone
Experiment Earth
How to Write Ultimate Protest Songs
Charity 

 

 

 

 

 

Citizen Fish - Disposable Dream / Flesh & Blood II 7", Bluurg Records Fish 27, 1992.

this side -
Disposable Dream
that side -
Flesh & Blood II

 

 

 

 

 

Citizen Fish -  Millennia Madness, Lookout! Records LOOKOUT!123CD, 1995.

P.C. Musical Chairs
Next Big Thing
Can't Be Bothered
2000 & One
Panic in the Supermarket
Can't Complain
Faster
Phone in Sick
Refugees Go West
Backlash
Friends
Skin

 

 

 

 

 

Citizen Fish -  Life Size, Honest Don's DON 036-2, 2001.

Over the Fence    
Revolution    
Out of Control
Picture This    
Internal Release    
Autographs
Back to Zero    
Choice of Viewing    
Lose the Instructions    
Somewhere to Go    
Shrink the Distance    
Will Swap (featuring the Wessex Unorthodox Choral Sextet) 

Citizen Fish - Goods, Alternative Tentacles Virus 424, 2011.

Shelf Life
Free Speech
Human Conditioner
Overseas
Better
Click
How Far Does it Go?
Insane
Marker Pen
Fearless
Discomfort Zone
Spotless
Wake Up

 

 

 

 

 

Citizen Fish - Dancing on Spikes EP, Bluurg Records fish52,  2012.

Unemplode
HD Riot
Beyond Belief
Over
Write it All Down
It Can't Go on Forever

 

 

 

 

 

Citizen Fish - Manmade 10" vinyl EP, Bluurg Records Fish53, 2015.

 
Side A -
Manmade
Face to Face
World's Gone Mad

Side B -
Paralysed
Manmade Dub

Go Vegan,
NØ