I keep forgetting to ask, @JackLiquorice did you ever get round to checking out some of the Dub playlists upthread? I remember you enjoyed some of the stuff played in ML12, and @riverwise pointing you in this direction.
Just curious as to whether anything caught your ear.
The playlists were hugely welcome. I had the enormous Anthology of Dub one on for a few nights on shuffle. That was great and enough to lead me to some King Tubby and Augustus Pablo, which Iāve got lined up for a 1974 listening project, which bizarrely I kicked off today (had Winston Edwardsā Natty Locks Dub on earlier).
Also went to a dub night in Kings Heath, Birmingham, last November with a couple of mates (one is a big dub fan). Great night.
And because of ML tipping the scales, I started looking out for new dub releases. Paul St. Hilaire was decent and the Froid Dub EPs were a bit more techy/Sabres of Paradise-style, right up my street.
So all good, cheers for asking, and dubās here to stay.
Woah, that is fantastic to hear! Glad your enjoying yourself, the pure volume of material can be a bit overwhelming at first but it sounds like youāve already developed some specific tastes - good for you 
PS if you havenāt already heard it, try to check out Winston Edwardās fantastic 1980 Dennis Bovell collab Dub Conference, one of the best dub albums out there IMO.
I had absolutely no idea that Jonny Greenwood was into his dub and reggae, to the extent he put together a compilation for Trojan a few years back. Good collection, this.
The Big Ship Show is back! Forty five minutes of dubby delight via Dissonance Radio
Sort of overwhelmed at how much good music there is rn
this is good
picked up this grail a few years back. cost silly money, but there we go. plays with a few pops and light crackle, but definitely still a good listen
Fire House and Ital Dub are two of my faves, will have to check the others
Nick Hornby - quite randomly - was recommending this dub albums list on Substack recently: 10 dub albums that changed my world (Pt 1) - by Ben Cardew
Has anyone found a reliable way to find out about new dub releases? If Iām lucky to find anything itās usually really slick, clean and over produced but most of the time I canāt find any new releases. Surely someoneās still making good, old fashioned dub?
@riverwise how was the book?
Could do an rym charts search on dub - not sure how comprehensive but better than nothing.
A lot more there than Iāve managed to find before. Good shout!
Find that a lot of modern dub leaves me cold tbh, but Alpha & Omega tend to be pretty reliable (they have been around since the late 80s tho). Definitely on the more traditional side than modern side
Not sure how up to date the Bandcamp is but theyāre still going (had a single out earlier this year). Havenāt heard much of their recent stuff but the 90s and 00s albums that Iāve heard are top notch
I only bought it in mid-July you canāt possibly expect me to read it for another few months!
Seconded, one of very few decent musical acts to emerge from my hometown!
If I had to pick one album it would be this one
You may already know that their son, Alpha Steppa, also makes dub records, and that the three of them have recorded together as Dub Dynasty, all worth a listen
Unrelated to the newish dub people have been posting, which sound cool and I will check out, Iāve been enjoying a recent reissue of Ghetto Dub by Bim Sherman, first of a load of Sherman reissues apparently. Itās really good. I wasnāt familiar with him until now but turns out he was in or connected to New Age Steppers who I do know a bit. Also checked out his album Across the Red Sea LP and itās also great. Think Iām a fan.
Heās fantastic. Pressure Sounds put out a really nice compilation of tracks from his 70s Jamaican 7"s a little while back (itās called Tribulation) and would totally recommend it - everything on it is gold.
He did lots of stuff with Adrian Sherwood and On-U-Sound during the 80s (including New Age Steppers, Creation Rebel and Dub Syndicate) and itās all good too.
His 90s album Miracle is worth checking too - Adrian Sherwood produces and few of the On-U- Sound guys are on it, but itās not like anything else heās done. Super mellow and unique. Not really reggae / dub but his voice still carries it, Canāt think of much else like it
