Yabass & Friends

Brand new album June 16th on CD / DL / TC

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VERSIONIST RECORDS

INTRODUCING

A BRAND NEW NON PROFIT LABEL

AND IT'S FIRST ALBUM RELEASE

Versionist Records

WoW Pufflov
'Soul Morality'
out April 14 on CD / DL

check Versionist for more detail

On The Springline - Free Triple Album Review

Read it here

YABASS YABA RADICS - “DUBPLATE DRIFTER”

We are proud to announce this album release from Yabass featuring 9 previously unreleased dubplates from the archives of SpringlineJamaica.
This western tinged offering will excite the listener with it’s early Eighties sparce vibes and mixdown.
The tracks are taken from the spoof documentary film of the Willesden Posse’s 1981 dubplate wars with the Harlesden ‘Hang Em High’ Crew which is currently in production. 
The album is available on CD / DDL / TAPE

DDL @ iTunes / Amazon / eMusic / Spotify / RootsLabIntl
CD @ ReelPeopleMuzic.com / RootsLabIntl.com
TAPE @ ReelPeopleMuzic.com

Yabass Yaba Radics COMMUNITY ROCKER

Official release date of the new album from Yabass is March 3rd 

with a special album launch show on Sunday March 3rd at 11am UK on

ROOTSLABINTL 

Radio presented by Digikal Roots.

The station will be giving away 5 CD's and 5 Tape Cassettes of the album

plus other Yabass album giveaways throughout the show of his earlier releases.

You'll hear classic Yabass along side dubplates and music from his new album

COMMUNITY ROCKER

CD / DDL / Limited Edition Tape Cassette

MARCH 3

iTunes / Amazon / Spotify / RootsLabIntl

Debut Album From Ras Sis Highness

@RootsLabIntl.com

Brand New Releases From Springline On CD

A busy year for Springline with a big release plan on CD, brand new and good for you already available on CD is the brand new second album from London underground roots producer The Manor with a 10 track album entitled 'Foundation' which see's a more musically matured and a more rootsier vibe compared to that of his debut 2 years back, a full promotion of the album is currently running at ComeFiConquer HQ which is Springline's new imprint co/founded with foundation dub engineer Yabass.

Also just released on CD is the brand new album from

Yabass Yaba Radics

entitled

Flash It Dubwise

The third in the 'bootleg' trilogy from Yabass see's his most detailed study of the early eighties dub era

featuring wacky, melodic and sparse dub workouts given a post production mix by Springline's Gibsy Rhodes. A link to the CD can also be found at the Come Fi Conquer Stable

*COMING MAY 1st*

The second album release on CD from Wales' electro dub chill warriors

The David Powell Experience

with their album entitled

Spooky Dub

Keep up to date with SpringlineRecords and ComeFiConquer by visiting the official sites

Springline HQ

Come Fi Conquer

Bring Out The 7s

Listen to Gibsy's latest mix at..........

UNITED REGGAE

Denja - Vampire Slayer

The second album from the little known Canadian artist Denja is probably one of the most obscure albums I have heard in a very, very long time.

‘Vampire Slayer’ takes traditional dub style leanings and throws into the mix some country and folk styling to create something that verges on the unique in a world that seems to becoming more and more dominated by dub-by-numbers offerings.

To read more visit.......

Tales From Dis Yuh Underground Download

It’s been airing at United Reggae since 4^th July and celebrates some of Gibsy’s favourite underground reggae/dub works over the past couple of years and it is now available to you to download for free!

Please it would be nice if you do take a slice of this to hear your comments whether they be good, bad or even indifferent!

SpringlineJamaica Mixtape Tracklist



1. Planet Exile Willie Steen (UK) 2010
2. Crombie Rock Yabass & Oldwah (UK) 2010
3. I'm Free Iditafari Family (Germany) 2010
4. The System Sammy Gold & David Pablo (U.S) 2011
5. Speaking Toys Battle Anti Bypass (FR) 2010
6. Zion Gate Yabass & The Manor (UK) 2011
7. OutaSpace Dub Willyman 2010
8. Tyrant David Pablo & Steve Steppa (U.S) 2010
9. 4 Horseman demo Yabass (UK) 2009
10. Sweet Jamaica The Manor / SpringlineRecords (UK,FR) 2011
11. Ghetto Dub The Manor / SpringlineRecords - overmix by Gibsy (UK,FR) 2011
12. Lo Fi Test Dub Alchemist (U.S) 2010

Springline C90 mixtape Side1

Available for freedownload now

Springline mixtape


Mixed by Gibsy
1 CHANNEL 1 - YABASS (released on Real People Reggae - Now deleted)
2 TEACHERS AND FARMERS - STEVE STEPPA (from album 'Flow Like Version')
3 MY ALL - LYRIKILL (as above)
4 VERSION - FLOW PROD (as above)
5 A SMILE DEM FATHER WANT - I REBEL (as above)
6 MI CANT BELIEVE IT - LION I LEVI (as above)
7 ROCKING THE HILLS - SAMSON (as above)
8 REVELATION - THE MANOR (released on Revelation Congo)
9 KING TUTS REVENGE - HIMPERIAL ROCKERS (released on New dub Evolution)
10 NEW PHAROAHS DUB - HIMPERIAL ROCKERS (as above)
11 NO SOLUTION - STEVE STEPPA (from album 'Flow Like Version')
12 VERSION - FLOW PROD (as above)
13 I AM - LYRIKILL & SPLIFFINGTON (non release)

Read the review of the

Himperial Rockers

album
New Dub Evolution
Now at .....

Springline Mix Tape (part 1)

Over at the UNITED REGGAE online magazine

you can now listen to the........

Springline Mix Tape

(part 1)

The mix blended by Gibsy, from deep in his Corsican Dub Bunker highlights some great Springline tracks from past, present and future. If you do give it a listen please leave a comment, it’s always good to hear peoples thoughts.

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So as the end of 2009 approaches Springline looks back at what we feel has been quite a vintage year for reggae. There has been a multitude of great albums released this year from established artists the likes of Buju Banton, Alboroise, Chezidek, Lutan Fyah, Tarrus Riley, The Aggrolites and of course Pama International. There have also been fantastic releases from new and up and coming acts like Queen Ifrica, Baijie, Greenroom Rockers and of course Springlines very own Hassle
This Year has also seen us reviewing classic old Funk and Soul LP’s which we at Springline have a great affection for along with our Reggae. It has also taken us slightly by surprise just how many great acts there are out there that are keeping this vibe alive, big respects to Alice Russell, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Lack of Afro, all at Daptone and Thru Thought records to name but a few.
For me though album of the year has to go to Madness and the excellent Liberty of Norton Folgate. Now I’ve been a fan of Madness since the beginning, but I will admit that even I could never have dreamed of them releasing such a complete and totally captivating tour de force as this. 30 yrs in the making and worth every minute! The only problem I see for them now is how are they going to top it, but if they can at least match its majestic brilliance then any follow up will be a much sought after album.
Also worth a mention are a couple of albums from the underground, Bigga Haitian's album "Sak Pasé" from WalkUp Records in New York, plus the recent release from the new 'free' label DUBKEY Records with their 4th release entitled 'All Kinda Wall' by DoobieSounds Prods featuring various artists with a very ultra modern roots sound. To find out more about DUBKEY, download and hear what we're talking about go to www.dubkey.com/

As for next year, well coming up from the Springline stable we’re gonna see the release of the second EP and 3rd album from Hassle, they’ve also just signed a brand new contract with our SpringlineMusic label.
The second album from Lyrikill and more It’s sure gonna be a busy musical 2010 so keep checking in here.
You might like to tune in to our own humble radio station SpringlineRadio1 were we will continue to playlist underground Reggae from all nations alongside classics from yesteryear all supported by a healthy
Sprinkling of funk, rare groove and soul find it at
www.live365.com/stations/springlinemusic

So finally to play this year out on the flashplayer are a selection of tunes that have brightened up the Springline office over the last 12 months whether they be tunes from the past, present or future. Thanks once again for all your support during 2009
Now check out the tunes on the player, we hope you enjoy them and hope that 2010 will be just as good!

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FORWARD!!

A DUB STORY

Seeing as a new DVD and double CD has just been released "Dub Echoes" (reviewed this month), and due to the fact that I have been listening to quite a bit of it as well just lately we thought this month we'd have a bit of a Dub Fest!
Now to be totally honest I do generally prefer a bit of vocals with my music so when it comes to the choice between dub version or vocal version you know which one I'll pick. Having said that though there are some mighty fine dub versions and dub artists out there who can do some really great and interesting things with other people's tunes, or creating these mystical soundscape forms from scratch.
The origins of dub are said to have come about quite by chance when in Kingston in around 1968, sound system operator Ruddy Redwood went to Duke Reid's Treasure Isle studio to cut a one-off dub plate. The engineer Byron Smith, it is told left the vocal track out by accident, but Redwood liked this keeping the result and played it at his next dance with his deejay Wassy toasting over the rhythm. This went down a storm and the idea of mixing an instrumental / dub version of a song was born.
Errol Thompson is credited with having released the first strictly instrumental reggae album, in 1970, entitled "The Undertaker", and was performed by Derrick Harriott and the Crystalites. This innovative album credits "Sound Effects" to Derrick Harriott.
The real pioneers of dub though in those early days are widely accepted as being producers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, and Lee "Scratch" Perry. Similar experiments with recordings at the mixing desk were also done by producers Clive Chin, Herman Chin Loy and Lynval Anderson (aka Andy Capp). These producers, especially Tubby and Perry, looked upon the mixing desk as an instrument, and experimented with, and manipulated tracks to come up with something totally new and different from the tunes original format.
The main reason for producing these multiple dub versions in the early days was purely economic: a record producer could use a recording he owned to produce numerous versions from a single studio session, and so milk more money back from his original outlay. A dub version also gave a producer or remix engineer opportunity to show off their more creative side. These dubs were typically the B-side of a single, with the A-side dedicated to making a popular hit, and these B-sides also became the start to providing something for DJs to ‘chat’ / ‘toast’ over. In the mid to late 1970s dub was becoming so popular that a dub version of an existing vocal LP was some times released along side or a few months after the vocal version. Also dubbed up instrumental tracks for which no vocals existed were now being produced. Indeed in the early 80s, as well as helping popularise reggae with a white audience UB40's “Present Arms In Dub” became the first ever reggae dub album to hit the UK top 40.
Dub has continued to progress from that point to this, its popularity waxing and waning with changes in musical fashion. Almost all reggae singles still carry an instrumental version on the B-side and these are still used by many sound systems as a blank canvas for live singers and DJs. Dub can also be looked upon as the prelude to many dance and pop music genres, techno, jungle, dubstep, drum and bass, house music, and trip hop to name but a few. Also over the past few years some bands with a passing reggae influence have released dub LP’s of their original versions. Some notable records are Gorillaz vs Spacemonkeyz “Laika Come Home”, a dubbed up version of the Gorillaz debut (reviewed here this month). The Dead 60s excellent 2Tone, Clash, inspired debut also received the same treatment, with its 3 minute stomps reduced down to some fine 3 minute dubs by Central Nervous System. Hard Fi’s whose “Stars of CCTV” was a big hit in the UK, also took what I believe was a very courage’s career decision, which was to allow their chart topping 750000 odd selling LP to be completely remixed by the likes of Roots Manuva, Gran Tourismo and Wrongtom who has also dubbed up work for the likes of Pama International.
So dub today….having seen the Dub Echoes DVD and heard the CD there is proof that the style is still very much alive and kicking and maybe even having a bit of resurgence thanks in part to the work of people like Roots Manuva, Wrongtom and also the Dub Step style. One thing I do feel I can say with confidence though is that despite dub coming about by 'accident' this style of reggae has had a more far reaching effect and influence on people and music than all the other reggae styles put together.

Check out Rockers Revolt for a bit of a movers and shakers in Dub A - Z
http://www.rockersrevolt.com/2008/05/29/the-a-z-of-dub/
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Don't forget to download a special dub mix by our very own King of the Dubwise Excursion...Gibsy. The mix includes dubs by King Tubby, Scientist, Prince Jammy & Mikey Dread plus more. It is only available for a short while so grab it while you can! (the link is somewhere on the right hand side)
You can also tune in to Sound Of Now to hear these and many more dubs in full

http://www.live365.com/stations/springlinemusic
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My Top 5 Ital Dubs....


1. kING tUBBY - dUB gONE cRAZY

2. Scientist v Prince Jammy- Big Showdown

3. Pick A Dub - Kieth Hudson

4. Laika Come Home - Gorillaz vs Spacemonkeyz

5. Massive Attack vs Mad Profesor

If you would like to add your Top 5 dubs then please do so in the comments or send us them at the email springlinemusic@fastmail.fm and I'll dress 'em up a bit and add them on here, we'd love to know what you like!

A GIBBS EYE VIEW ON THE WORLD OF DUB

A Small Piece from Springlines Founder Sir Dread Gibsy!!

…."Reggae’s answer to psychedelia ,well that’s how I’ve always thought of it ,discovering dub music for the first time back in ’81/’82 was a joy ,collecting all those ‘dub me crazy’ LPs
Buying everything by Scientist and Jammy, then belatedly discovering the king of them all; King Tubby, every Friday after work going to the record shop and buying everything in sight that was dub and it continued up to ’87. I found the dub sound via my interest in instrumentals or versions as they’re called, normally B sides of vinyl singles, the first being “Double Barrel” and “Liquidator” (both A sides) then via B sides of 2 tone singles such as The Selecter and ‘The Buisness’ by Madness..all these grabbed my ears and I embarked on a search for more, I wanted more from an instrumental, more excitement…which led to dub.
Now not all dub is great, no sah, not all music is great, I would say that it’s very rare to come across an LP where every single song is a stomper, doesn’t exist imo, everyone’s ears are different, but when you came across a stomper of a dub, then, that got played, and played..
And they still do nearly 30 years on….I remember during my teens listening time and time again through headphones at every little tweak and effect that was going on, trying to suss out how they managed it all, completely turning a well known tune upside down and in some
cases changing the vibe so much that it was difficult to actually imagine how the original sounded, they became these dubs original in their own right, they amazed and still do.
Today the dub sound continues in various forms, genres and fusions with underground artist’s such as JAHNO – EL BIB – JACIN – YABASS – The MANOR – EARLYWORM and a host of Others who have taken a slice of their favourite dub era or producer and now themselves create and recreate those sounds using their own unique way of mixing to identify their inspirations and by and large they get it spot on.
It’s now though that a mention must be made of the late great Mikey Dread, Jamaican radio pioneer and dub controller who alongside Lee ‘scratch’ Perry and King Tubby made some truly exciting and commercially viable dub entertainment and by also operating his DATC radio show for a few years gave many of these dub pioneers a wider audience via radio play.
The list of dub pioneers and second wave dub controllers is immense but for me I grew up with the sounds of Scientist, Prince Jammy, King Tubby, Mad Professor, and Lee Perry. It’s these Guys that I owe a gratitude to for giving me hundreds of musical hours of wonderment back in the early eighties..it’s still my favourite reggae genre , cheers".

TOP 5 dub albums of Springline’s label operator Gibsy

1 Uhuru in dub - Prince Jammy
2 Dub me crazy pt 4 - Mad Professor
3 New chapter in dub - Aswad
4 Scientist rids the world of evil curse of the vampires
5 King Tubby’s Special

TOP 5 DUB ALBUMS OF HUGO WOLF (Flow Prod)

1 Joe Gibbs - African Dub chapter1
2 Joe Gibbs - chapter2
3 Joe Gibbs - chapter3
4 Joe Gibbs - chapter4
5 Augustus Pablo - Original Rockers

TOP 1 dub album from The Manor… !!

King Tubby meets the Rockers uptown

TOP 5 dub albums of artist and dub technician STEVE STEPPA

1. ASWAD - New Chapter in Dub, 'Candles'
2. THE AGGROVATORS - Instrumental Reggae
3. AUGUSTUS PABLO - East of the River Nile, 'Chant to King Sellasie I'
4. IN THE RED ZONE (compilation) - Augustus Pablo Meets the Upsetter, 'Vibrate On'
5. TROJAN DUB BOX SET VOL.2 - Niney & the Soul Syndicate, 'Smile Dub'

Marc from Walkup Records top 5

1.Barrington Levy - In Dub: The Lost Mixes From King Tubby's Studio
2.Black Uhuru - The Dub Factor
3.If Deejay Was Your Trade: The Dreads at King Tubby's 1974-1977
4.Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
5.Linton Kwesi Johnson - LKJ In Dub

TOP 5 DUB ALBUMS OF CREATION ROCKERS’ YABASS

1 KING TUBBY – DUB FROM THE ROOTS
2 HERMAN CHIN LOY – AQUARIUS DUB
3 KEITH HUDSON – PICK A DUB
4 AUGUSTUS PABLO – ORIGINAL ROCKERS
5 BB SEATON – GUN COURT DUB

Top 5 dub albums of Dub Artist and Producer ‘EL BIB’

1.King Tubby and Soul Syndicate - freedom sounds in dub
2.Fatman Riddim Section - heavyweight dub/killer dub
3.Scientist rids the world of the curse of the evil vampires
4.Aswad - new chapter of dub
5.Prince Far I - cry tuff dub chapter 2