Dubcamp Friday

Reggae and dub are frequently reserved for relaxed Sunday sessions in these parts but as it's Bandcamp Friday today, I wanted to highlight a selection of top tunes, albums and compilations available as name your price / free downloads.

Today's 10-track selection kicks off with Marshall Neeko, whose dizzying rate of productivity sees a new collection of versions pretty much every week. I have a fair few and I can't keep up, but the quality levels are consistently and incredibly high.

A couple of labels feature prominently here, and on my shopping list: Dubphonic Records, coming straight out of Cyprus, and Culture Dub Records based in Poitiers, France.

There's a healthy selection of Jamaican artists here too, as might be expected, as well as acts from Barcelona, London, Kremenki (Russia), Athens, Gdynia (Poland), Paris and well, I'll leave you to guess where The Dubwegians hail from.

All worth some of your time and money, methinks.

 

1) Soundclash Fi Di Win: Marshall Neeko & KSB Crew (Soundclash Showdown Volume 1) (2024)
2) Tuff Gong: Creation Rockers (Lets Make Waves) (2012/2022)
3) NoVo Sub: Switchy Dub (Re-Birth) (2024)
4) Assassin Dub: The Dubwegians (King Of Dub) (2020)
5) Dubplate Style: Culture Horn & Sammy Gold (Jah Creator) (2023)
6) Dub Dels Prototips: The City Jungle (Són Corruptes/Tips Dels Prototips EP) (2015)
7) Sandra (Indamouse Remix): iGL & Alecho (Revolution EP) (2023)
8) Chicken Hawk: Prince Junior (Dub Store Records Sampler Volume Two) (2016)
9) True Dub: Culture Horn Sound System (Dublaboratory Vol. 1) (2022)
10) Wojna Dub: Muflon Dub Soundsystem (King Love Dub Sessions) (2022)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Random Bag

As the title suggests, a dip into my bag of Bandcamp Friday purchases and a selection that's not quite as eclectic as a glance at the line-up might indicate. 

 

1) Obsolescence Programmée: schroothoop (2020)

2) Space Drohne (Duncan Gray Remix): Matt Gunn (2023)

3) Old Hands: The Scientist (2015)

4) Maria De Barro: Disco For The People (2019)

5) You're All In Disguise (Marshall Neeko Remix): Jimmy Riley (2024)

6) End Of Times (Ono-Sendai Sound Version): David Harrow + Little Annie (2024)

7) Eye Co (Cover of 'Jock-A-Mo' by James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford & His Cane Cutters): Marshall Watson (2024)

8) Inspiration (Instrumental) 2: Kerri 'Kaoz' Chandler Presents Arnold Jarvis (2021)

9) Like A Bird: Dan Wainwright (2024)

 

2015: Old Hands EP: 3 

2019: Chapter One Edits EP: 4

2020: Global Riddims Volume 2: 1

2023: Mostly Fiction: 2 

2024: Dad Giveaway: 8

2024: Dan Wainwright: 9

2024: End Of Times EP: 6

2024: Eye Co EP: 7

2024: Solidarity Riddim: 5

 

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