Mix It Up

Feel I needed to mix things up a bit; and having not posted any dub for a while, I felt the best way to stir things up is to post a slice of one of the great mixers of all time: Mr.Blakamix himself: Dennis 'Mixman' Bedeau.

In fact this is a double dose of Mixman; as he generously provided Volume One of his 'Dub Series' New Dimension Dub (1989), with this the second in the series: Dub Like Wild Fire (1992).

All in all very nearly eighty minutes of eardrum bending, torso folding, 'Essential' dub.

Like The Mad Professor, Scientist, King Tubby, Adrian Sherwood, et al. Bedeau's mastery of the studio places his music right up there alongside those other more well-known dub-masters.

There is a slight leaning on Dub Like Wild Fire towards drum and bass patterns and hints at other similar club styleees; but really the heart of Bedeau's dub lay in roots music, the African continent and Jamaica - despite the fact that he was based in Bedford, England - and New Dimension Dub is far more traditionally flavoured.

So if you dig heavy heavy dub sounds, made from a blend of instruments, elecronica, the odd voice and some serious knob twiddling, it may be well worth checking this out.

Much of Mixman's recent music is still available; so if you like this seek some out.
Betcha can't get this one though!
(Except here of course...)
Rastafari!
MixMan - Dub Like Wild Fire & New Dimension Dub (1992)

Imperial Dub
Trodding Creation
Zulu Warrior
Dub Tribe
Kill Nebuchadnezzer
Rivers Dub
African Princess
Crash Like Thunder
African Boat Row
Dub Like Wild Fire
Malachi the Messenger
Try Run Nuh
Steppers Delight
Dub to Zion
Dangerous Fusion
Warrior Dance
Mixman's 5th Symphony
Who is the Hooligan
Ark of the Covenant
New Dimension Dub

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