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Track: Hailing Jah Jah
Artist: Prince Jaabaal
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Oh yeah! I don’t know the riddim beneath this amazing Prince Jaabaal track, but it’s almost as good as the Trinidadian’s flow. This is a stunning track, one of those that you discover after a long day of trawling through rubbish dubstep remixes on Soundcloud that makes the whole journey worth it.

Check out more from Trinidad & Tobago’s Prince Jaabaal on Soundcloud

Source : SoundCloud / prince jaabaal
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Track: Nice Up Di Sound
Artist: iLLBiLLY HiTEC ft. Zafayah & Kappa Irie
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Here’s the latest from Berlin’s finest, iLLBiLLY HiTEC, which brings together Bulgarian artists Zafayah and Kappa Irie.

Zafayah is co-founder of Bulgaria’s first reggae label Roots Rocket, whilst Kappa Irie is one of the founders of the first Bulgarian sound system and reggae promoting agency Zionlionz Soundsystem, which has taken many of this blogs favourites over to Eastern Europe, including Solo Banton, YT and Mr. Williamz.

Check out more iLLBiLLY HiTEC on Soundcloud.

Source : SoundCloud / iLLBiLLY HiTEC
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Track: Tapes - Dungeness
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So my Friday album accidentally went on the blog yesterday, so here’s a stonking (yep stonking) track for you from London’s premier dusty dub master (not a genre) Tapes.

He’s done plenty of good stuff in the past. Check the 12” he released through Jahtari [Spotify link] back in 2009. This is the first track I’ve heard in quite some time though.

Released on London label Astro.Dynamics, Dungeness is possibly the best tune to come from Tapes yet. To me, it sounds like someone has dubbed the Radiophonic Workshop, which makes it amongst the most original and innovative music doing the rounds.

Here’s a blurb taken from the Jahtari website:

Raised from an arcane dust pile of smoldering electronics, rotted reels and jellied eels, the Tapes sound of ferric fiend J*?$!%* B^∆*!? is London’s most mains-hum ridden reggae hi-fi around! Currently Residing in his Mysterious London Labratory: “The Lodge”, Tapes goes about leisurley creating riddims with busted cassette recorders and stolen spring reverbs whilst drawing influence from a mish-mash of early English and Jamaican electronics pioneers. 

You can pick up the 7” from a few places across the web, the cheapest is Honest Jon’s, where it’s currently available for £5.

Astro.Dynamics are on Facebook and Soundcloud. Tapes is on Soundcloud too, not that there’s anything there.

Source : SoundCloud / Astro:Dynamics

A Brazilian record for your listening pleasure today. This is the debut LP from Digitaldubs, which I finally picked up on vinyl earlier this week (£11.89 from Norman).

This is a real exhibition of Brazilian dub and reggae, with fellow Brazilians Dada Yute, Jeru Banto and Tiano Bless making superb guest appearances over roots riddims that have that slow burning groove more suited to 4am in a Birmingham student’s flat rather than the beaches of Rio. 

Also appearing is Ranking Joe, known for his work with King Tubby as well as Earl Sixteen and Brinsley Forde. Contributing horns to the last two tracks is Digistep, who was last spotted by me in Brixton on Saturday blowing brass for Solo Banton.

Source : Spotify!
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Track: Respect n Unity (feat. Juza)
Artist: Mochi the Dubber
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It’s been a while since I posted anything about Spanish producer Mochi the Dubber. Here’s his latest from Soundcloud, it features fellow Spaniard Juza Mario Rivera on vocal duties. 

Juza is a young MC who has released four albums so far (apparently all available for free download, not that I can find them). He’s working on an album with Spanish riddim makers, the sessions of which I suspect this tune comes from. 

Soundcloud links:

Mochi the Dubber
Juza 

Source : SoundCloud / mochi the dubber
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Track: Sheriffen (Helgeland 8-bit Squad RMX)
Artist: Jeepstarr & Viktorious
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Here is the latest from Helgeland 8-bit Squad, who have been on remixing duties for Swedish duo Jeepstarr and Viktorious.

The original Sheriffen track is fantastic digireggae in its own right, you can listen to it on Spotify here.

Soundcloud links:

Helgeland 8-bit Squad
Jeepstarr
Viktorious

Source : SoundCloud / Helgeland 8-bit Squad