Same Song Dub/Unconquered Dub (Israel Dub) - Israel Vibration

Advantages: a must have collection
Disadvantages: for clash nutters only I think

...this is a collection of their B-sides and it suprised me because most of the songs are good enough to feature on their albums. The songs at the start really rock 1977 in particular, then towards the middle they change pace prefering to mix dub versions of the singles but I found these very good aswell especially Robber Dub, a dub version of bank robber and Mustapha Dance is a very funky re-mix of Rock the Casbah. This album is very much for a hardcore clash fan who has got all the proper albums and is gagging for more since they split up. The story of the clash isnt enough but on Super Black market every track was new to my ears as the album goes on your can definatley hear the change in style from punk to ska.... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic bassline. Original sounds. Good chioce of tracks.
Disadvantages: It's music designed for sound systems. Sound quality suffers.

...are taken from the 1970s and compiled under the ‘Ocho’ label. The album is over an hour and four minutes long. Cassava Piece is the first and arguably the best track. It is from the ‘Original Rockers’ album and is the best introduction for any listener wondering what is to come. The second track ‘Baby I Love You So’ carries on from the first with the same addictive rhythm but with the voice of Jacob Miller on top singing the song from his 1992 album ‘Who Say Jah No Dread’, a great album itself. The third track ‘555 Crown Street’ is as promised, weighed down with bass and followed by an alternate dub track by King Tubby who engineered the album. If you haven’t heard any August Pablo material before, you’ll probably notice the melodica sounds before long. Its ghostly original tone could not be a better compliment to the sounds that those who... Read review

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Advantages: Original
Disadvantages: Nothing!

...Asian Dub Foundation are a band that makes you sit up take notice. They blend a mixture of Asian sounds with punk, rap, metal, dance and jungle to produce something quite unprecedented. When this album was released it won awards due to its originality and all out energy. Rolling bass lines, upbeat politcal lyrical onslaught, soaring guitars and insane drums mesh like never before. All 12 songs on this album have great meaning to the band who are all of Asian decent. They hit topics like police corruption, wrongful imprisonment and governmental issues with great anger and feeling. The album opens with Naxalite. The guitar starts us off with a great riff waiting for the rest of the band to oblige. And they certainly do. An up tempo track about an uprising of peasants in the 1960s. Next is Buzzin. Probably my favourite song from... Read review

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