Greetings after a long absence Dubearthlings, I hope you’ve stayed Irie!

Here a mixtape i dropped on 04/20 with our friends over at http://www.akwaabamusic.com featuring two of their artists: Jahman Eselem and Eden Roots Liberation.

A number of iration stimulating nugetter on here so i’m providing a cheat sheet for you to follow along this time:

Dubian Meets Akwaaba in Dub

Tracklist:

1. Reste dans l’amour dub – Jahman Eselem
2. Grand Mother’s Song of Blessing – Jahman Eselem
3. Among The Gods – Eden Roots Liberation
4. Give A Praise – Afreekanxpress
5. Judge Not – Eden Roots Liberation
6. Blue Sea – Prince Far I
7. Nganki Dub – Jahman Eselem
8. The Death of Mr. Spock – Scientist & Prince Jammy
9. Elections – Eden Roots Liberation
10. Vivere – Mamavibe Reggae Vibration
11. Caution – The Sowell Radics
12. Remember Senegal – Afreekanxpress

Total Running Time: 43:53

1 hour set of rub a dub to provoke skankin’ and iration! Enjoy

Greetings Dubearthling’s!

I’ve prepared a 45 min long set of rub a dub for your holiday listening pleasure so feel free to set it pon di download and crank it at your new year’s eve parties and be sure to let me know if you do (I always love to get people’s reactions). To pretend I’m something I’m not I’m including this picture of Rasta Clause for you to look at lol.

Ok so upon listening to it you’ll no doubt realize that it doesn’t live up to it’s name since there is nothing in it about the Little Prince. There was supposed to be but all the bouncing around I’ve been doing between NYC and Québec lately ate into the time I had to get this together in.

So instead of doing a one hour live set around the Little Prince it turned out as a one hour slick mix of dub which in itself is not a bad thing.

This originally aired 12/03/2009 on DJ Eve-Lys’s Montmartrorama show on http://www.radio23.org.

Uhm it’s neither a live set nor a DJ set exactly…it’s both.

I guess what it is though is the first ever collaboration between Dubian and Elektrikki recorded live this summer in Turnhout, Belgium.

No rehearsal, No PFL, Tons of fun.

Turn on your speakers, turn off your mind and drop out of school or quit your job or something…

Took advantage of a dutch rainstorm to bring to you episode IV of the Letters from the Dubearth really unregular series (episode 3 was back in mid february! lol) Enjoy a fat dose of dub-reggae! (Use only as directed by a professional).

As some of our more observant visitors might have noticed there have been subtle changes to the site since the end of the now infamous Laugh! Sing! Dance! tour of Portugal by some of our collective’s members in August. Some were inside jokes (“Like a big bottle of cold water for your ears”) but one in particular is really meaningful: The swap of Fadotech to Fodastech in the site’s URL.

When we all first congregated at the airport to pick up Zoemer we decided that this tour would be different from a “normal” tour. I (Dubian) had already been in Lisbon for just over a week and had been down to Cascais to jam and hang out with LorenzFactor and Phalovich a few times. These sessions were always punctuated with Krautrock listening sessions late into the night (or more accurately: early into the morning…) and we made it our mission that our tour, this creative meeting of 6 artists from 3 different countries brought together in the spirit of making new sounds, should reflect our mutual love and respect for the german psychedelic rock esthetic.

Originally all the gigs were going to be recorded but only the initial gig we played in Porto was recorded correctly. However we now sit with many, many hours of short video excerpts of gigs, travelling, jamming, etc. which Zoemer has already begun editing, and which I will start to work with shortly, which will eventually be a nice short testament to our two weeks of tripping around portugal.

The accent for the performances was really based on live improvisation and collaboration. Although there were moments that could be seen as “sets” from the individual groups or artists these were short and it was never long before someone else would jump on and the whole thing would turn into a real trippy jam session in true psy fashion. And this is where we get to the Fodastech part…

When I got home at the end of August I started listening to the tapes and watching Zoemer’s videos of the tour and I kept thinking to myself: “Man this is so fucked up but in a magical way it works!” Out what felt like chaos and confusion and a whole lot of fun when it was happening there were true diamonds on those videos. Good memories and brilliant musical moments out of two weeks of recording just like all the old week long Krautrock sessions would always deliver brilliant 12″ records when edited.

Of course far be it from us to claim to be Krautrock…that was a moment in time that can’t be brought back to life no matter how much LSD you take! But we were onto something new, something I decided to call “fodastech”. Fodas (Portuguese expression meaning all at once “fuck it” “fuck” “fucked up”) and tech for technique (and obviously not techno). It was a blend of Yin and Yang that happened instinctively. Each of us had our own way of doing things and approaching live performances…each had their own technique. When we suddenly got onstage together (and the first show in Porto was only two days after Zoemer’s arrival in-country) we had to just go with our gut and jam. We had to say “fuck it” and follow each others vibe and let the big picture, the music, the listeners, the venue and our personal moods and, often, level of fatigue (!) take us into new ways of performing as we performed. This was no time to intellectualize…we had to do it in real time!

So there you have it…that’s what I called Fodastech. It’s our new way of living, it’s now who we are!

I think I can speak for Zoemer, LorenzFactor and Phalovich when I say that our only regret was that Connectionnist was not there to share in our insanity and fun. But the tour never ends now and the nice thing about life is that your always live with an audience and you have to ask yourself: When was the last time I had a drink of water and a piss?

What a long strange trip it’s been…saudades!

PART OF THE WEEKEND NEVER DIES…

KUKELUKUUUUUUUUUU!!!!