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August 10 2009

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Half The Size, Double the Flavour - Fri 14th Aug @ Rakinos

Written By 3 - August 10 2009

Half the Size, Double the Flavour

Monthly club night at Rakinos featuring short residents and tall guests. This month Junior and Bobby Brazuka are joined by Aimee & R.I.A.

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August 08 2009

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Lee Perry Vs Horsepower Productions - Exercising

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Music Clip: Lee Perry Vs Horsepower Productions - Exercising

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After the Moody Boyz epic dubstep fix of ‘God Smiled’, the dancehall tune-up of ‘International Broadcaster’, and Kode 9’s funky style workout on ‘Yellow Tongue’, this latest episode in the Lee Perry bespoke remix series adds yet another twist to the musical path, with a hair-raising interpretation from Horsepower Productions. Seeping into halflight zones of bruised ambient dub, over the course of six minutes ‘Exercising’ builds like a distant tropical storm, it’s dense clouds gathering ominously on the horizon while Lee Perry’s shamanic spiritual abstractions add to the sense of heavy weather ahead. Built from similar strands of the low end gene pool as Kode 9 & The Spaceape’s ‘Sine Of The Times’, Horsepower’s brooding view of ‘Exercising’ discards dubstep’s recognised rhythmic frameworks in favour of a largely beat-free excursion, relying instead on swelling subs and oscillating bassline pulses for it’s unstoppable low tempo momentum. Tapping congas, echoing woodblocks and skeletal skittering noises dart insect-like across the mix, while the droning tabla and reverbed melodic guitar figures of Adrian Sherwood’s original production maintain an air of dread occidental mystery. With an equally massive no-vocal take on the flip, this is a simultaneously skin-chilling and oppressively close body heat raising journey to the heart of darkness, and yet another must-have release from the ever mighty On-U Sound.

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August 08 2009

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Upcoming: Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information 2LP & CD (Strut)

Written By 3 - August 08 2009

From Ventvox.com Strut Record's Information Inspiration series has established itself as a reliable source of globe-trotting, genre-bending sounds; the product of spontaneous collaborations between two musical forces.  Hot on the heels of volumes from Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics, Horace Andy & Ashley Beedle and Sly & Robbie & Amp Fiddler, Strut is pleased to announce that the latest volume will feature legendary Fela Kuti drummer and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen along side Finnish electronic / jazz maverick Jimi Tenor.  The is a raw and forward-thinking take on Afrobeat which will thrill fans looking for the next evolution in worldly future funk.  See the teaser trailer below for a taste. To preorder a copy please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

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August 08 2009

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Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - Pleasure Dub (Pressure Sounds) CD & LP

Written By 3 - August 08 2009

Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - Pleasure Dub (Pressure Sounds)

Duke Reid died from cancer in 1974 and his nephew, Errol Brown, who had been a junior engineer at Treasure Isle and who would go on to become one of the key engineers at Bob Marley's Tuff Gong Studio, took over the studio controls. He mixed three dub albums at Treasure Isle that dressed down and dubbed up some of the best of the Bond Street catalogue. Snatches of the original vocals were woven in and out of mixes that sound as fresh and as vital today as they did when they were first released, both in their original sixties incarnations and their seventies counteractions. "Treasure Dub Volume One" and "Treasure Dub Volume Two" have been available in various incarnations ever since. However, "PLEASURE DUB", the best of the set featuring Errol Brown's cuts to rock steady classics such as "The Right Track" by Phyllis Dillon, "The Tide Is High" and "Riding On A High & Windy Way" from The Paragons and "Things You Say You Love" by The Jamaicans has never been re-pressed since its initial release. "PLEASURE DUB" is a record we have wanted to release for a long, long time and we are all delighted to be able to finally add a Treasure Isle album to the Pressure Sounds catalogue.

1.Tracking Dub 2.Love Dub 3.Dub With Strings 4.Lift Off 5.Ride De Dub 6.Rema Skank 7.Bond Street Rock 8.Many Questions 9.The Attorney 10.Silver Hour 11.Twilight Rock 12.Dreads Leaving Babylon 13.Side Walk Doctor CD only 14.I Shave The Barber CD only 15.Barbering CD only 16.Seven Eleven (7-11) CD only 17.I See Your Face Version CD only 18.Scrubit (featuring Lizzy) CD only Get at Conch on CD or LP

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August 06 2009

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New In At Conch!!

Written By 3 - August 06 2009

Greetings,

Just a quick message to let you all know about a new drop of bits hitting the shelves at Conch. 

Below is a wee taster of some of the titles in at Conch this week..

Lopez - Beat Dispenser 12" (Keep Up)
Taggy Matcher - Sure Shot 7" (Stix)
Pseudo Slang - We'll Keep Looking LP (Fat Beats)
24 Carat - EP2 (Remixes By Marc Mac / Fulgeance) 12" (Jazzmin Records)
Total Science - Soul Patrol / Wasting Time Ft. Phonte 12" (CIA)
Francisco Mora Catlet - Baba Lu Aye (Carl Craig Remix) 12" (Premier Cru)
Various - Best Of Codek EP (Concent Productions)
Orquesta Escencia - Carnaval / Escencia 12" (Jazzman)
Linkwood Family - Miles Away (Intrusion Dubs) 12" (Firecracker)
Soulphiction - Underground Railroad 12" (Philpot Records)
Kero One - Early Believers 2LP (Jakarta)


Also don't forget Eru Dangerspiel this Sat @ the Town Hall

Tickets $20 - $25 from www.buytickets.co.nz

Easy,
Dustin, Cian, Brent, Bobby & Jim

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