enuui.org - ambient & dub excursions into the upper plateau

This might just be contender for podcast of the year, even though its still January. Greg Hunter's nailed a sound that he puts it best , a soundtrack for a 'taxi ride to Cairo via Hyderabad'. So clean the Saharan dust out yer ears, and tune in to some exquisite Persian electronica.

Tracklisting:

oum kalsoum
rayo el 7abib
bahauddin dagar
egyptian folk beladi
cheb khaled
nusrat fateh ali khan – mustt mustt
assala
ethiopian vox + tipper
naa jeney bhool bujhona
persian clouds
shereen
divine thread
jannat_Menn
dubsahara – zentropy
wild marmalade – air (featuring avishai)

made in ableton live

for Abd Sattar

Now if I could only get the Soundcloud player to embed I'd have it here. But it doesn't work, so you're going to have to get your trigger finger to click either:

http://soundcloud.com/dubsahara/luxor-8 To Stream

or visit Greg's website - dubsahara.com where you can stream and download if you register.

I'll see if I can get permission to rehost.

Enjoy!

Have a gander at this. Another found gem from the world of Soundcloud. Let me introduce Dubtrak, a producer from Toronto, Canada.
As it usually goes around these parts, we have some dub (well quite a lot), ethnic & world flavours, big meaty beats, trancey synths, and some inner/outerspacial vibrations.

Big sounds indeed.

Check the mix on his Soundcloud, here. As far as I know, this guy is unsigned. So if ya wanna show some support, hit up www.dubtrak.com or his Myspace.

I came across this earlier on Soundcloud. Some familiar names to me in the tracklist but quite a few I don't know of, and it's quite mindblowing stuff. Really laidback vibes, with meaty basslines and ambient skanks. It's got loads of Indian instrumentation, which coupled with rootsy dub, spacial quirks, and blissful pads makes this mix a perfect journey for any time of day. So a big thanks to Indra for mixing this fine selection.. and here's some words & tracklist taken from her myspace.

::TRACKLIST::

INTRO:

I. Ross Daly – Hatif (played by Linsey Pollak) In Arabic, the word hatif refers to the spirits of dead poets who inhabit the desert and entice travellers with their song, causing them to lose their way. This piece was composed by Ross Daly and the haunting wind instrument heard in the beginning of the piece is none other than a small plastic watering pot converted into a musical instrument and played by Linsey Pollak.

II. Leon Danezos (Alcalica) on santoor

A very old instrument, the santoor is possibly the ancient Psalterion or Epigonio. Its name is possibly from the Persian santour or santir. Its shape is trapezoid, with a sound box of 4-5cm in length and measures 50-65cm in width or 100cm in length. On the top of the sound box, the strings are located in 2, 3 or 4th, tuned in tafto phonia. The bass strings are single. There are also two kavalli that divide the instrument into two parts. On the first part, the strings are tuned according to the diatonic scale; while on the other, the strings are tuned according to the chromatic scale.It has 100-140 strings and produces 30-32 notes. The high strings are made of bronze or steel, and the bass strings are made of copper. It has 7 contrabass strings with a range of 3 octaves. It starts from f-contrabass and ends in b. It is played by using two mallets that have thread or cotton at the end so they can produce a soft sound. It is an instrument of accompaniment. It is made of pine or walnut wood. In Greece, Tasos Diakogiorgis is a famous teacher and the best player of the santouri.

1. Manasseh presents Spectre - The Missing Dub
2. Secret Archives of Vatican - Caleb Dub (Uncle Riotous remix)
3. Secret Vibes - Don't Sleep (Dub)
4. Lunagroove - Salvation Dub
5. Vlastur – Cycladic Dub (unreleased)
6. Digital Smoke – Doudouk Dub (unreleased)
7. Guitoud - Get Up Fight (unreleased)
8. Naturelement - Duble Trouble (unreleased)
9. Deadbeat - Rock Of Ages (+ vocals: Butchaa MessenJah)
10. Sardinia Bass Legalize – Leaves
11. Digitalic Park - Ali La Pointe
12. Illumination – Brain Ball Noise (unreleased)
13. Pitch Black - Transient Transmission
14. Adham Shaikh - Micro Dreams
15. Gaudi - Night Watch
16. Pete Namlook & Gaudi - The Sun Won't Set

OUTRO:

I. Kristi Stassinopoulou – Waves

II. Leon Danezos (Alcalica) on santoor

This is a resident mix for Fluid Radio (www.fluid-radio.co.uk) dedicated to the mystic island Samothraki, Greece.

Special thanks for support and taking part to Nitty Dubby, Leon Danezos (alcalica.org), Butchaa MessenJah, Naturelement, Aiora, Vlastur, Sotokkan, Dj Looney...and to my friends Sotiris, Vassilis, Dimitrio, Froso, Kyriakos, Panos, Angeliki, Andrea, Katerina, Oso, Babina, Adonis, Panos, Athena Etana, Ihor, Mani, Nikos, Monia, Andrea... for divine moments on Samothraki.

Download either from here (Right click and save as) or Indra's soundcloud.

Picture from here. Click to go big.

I came across these EP's today by Leo Cavallo. Some real nice minimal dubtechno à la Rhythm & Sound. Very deep rhythmic basses intertwined with static and spacious bleeps and bloops drenched in reverb.

Click here to check them out

Convergence is my favourite I think. 12 minutes of beautiful micro dub.

Also the site his tunes are on is pretty neat. You can download the EP's in 128kbps MP3 for free, and then if you want higher quality you can name your own price on how much you want to pay. I might try this out with some of my own stuff, which is progressing slowly but surely. The Pitch Black rework has come to a halt though : (

Since Leo is offering sample packs then I'm gonna have to try my hand at a remix. Let me know what you think!

Anyone hitting this up?! Gonna be weighty to say the least... and only 6 quid!!!

If you wanna see a better quality version of that, visit
www.culturalwarriors.ch and hit up the Media page.

This time is more slower, and more of an Indian vibe to it. Features a few tunes off the Butterfly Dawn compilation. Guaranteed chill.

Right Click and Save Target As It's 49mins long, 67mb big, and is a 192kbps mp3.

01. Nada - Earthgarden
02. Entheogenic - Pagan Dream Machine (Vibrasphere Remix)
03. I:Cube - Le Dub
04. Jam'n - Ghayange, Nachenge
05. Nada - Raja Mati
06. Kuba - Mura
07. Don Peyote - Song For Andre
08. Subkha - Equinox
09. The Kumba Mela Experiment - Interstellar Hiss - Sky Is On Fire Dub
10. Shpongle - Exhalation
11. Shpongle - Around The World In A Tea Daze (Ott Remix)

Picture by Biggins

Drop some words, let me know what you think.

Peace & Love.

Dub Echoes, the movie

Looking good!! Looks like a solid documentary between the OG & the present soldiers of dub. Can't wait for the DVD.

Yes more Youtube videos, but if you want your daily dosage of dub, highly concentrated into 3 extremely sick videos, then have a look.

With a surprisingly 'alright' sound quality for Youtube, here is Pitch Black doing live dub inna New Zealand stylee!!

Quality dub / breaks / techno / & dnb crossover. No wonder they've had a load of releases on Liquid Sound, and have been remixed a plenty by Youth.

Check their site out http://www.pitchblack.co.nz

And if you like this, then there's a Pitch Black tune in my January '09 mix at the bottom of this page, and hopefully soon I'll post a free 320 of my remix of their tune Harmonia, when its 100% done. I'll put up a clip in a sec.

Peace & Love,

the enuui outernational space system.

I came across this interview with Brother Culture today. Really good read.

How did you get involved in being a musician and what were your early influences?

I started to MC in about 1982, and primarily it was because I loved music, I loved sound systems from when I was in school. My older sister who was nearest in age to me, her name was Sister Culture and she was an MC, and she used to chat on a sound called Jah Revelation Muzik which was the sound of the Twelve Tribes of Israel—a Rastafarian organization—it was international and this was the like London branch. So when I left school and I started to go to a lot of dances where my sister was MCing, people would naturally say “special request to Sister Culture’s brother.” Now, I sort of got the name from people because I’m Sister Culture’s brother not because I’m an MC. And then halfway into 82, you know, I started to rehearse a lot, and get interested in moving with the sound system. The manager of the sound at the time was a guy called Cecil Reuben; he said to me, “can you MC like your sister? Cause you look like an MC.” And so I was glad for this and I took it from there, that’s what I’ve been doing ever since. I was working with Twelve Tribes initially for about ten years, all over the world, between Jamaica, America, Canada, Trinidad, England, I worked with all twelve Tribes sounds—worked with artists like Brigadier Jerry, Sister Carol, etcetera. And then, about 92, after I’d been MCing for about ten years, I cam back from America, and the whole Twelve Tribes scene had kinda changed in London, and I wasn’t part of the Twelve Tribes sound system anymore. That’s when I stated checking out the UK dub scene which was kind of having an upsurge at that time in the early nineties. You had sound systems like Aba Shanti, Iration Steppas, obviously Jah Shaka, many others, too many to even mention. I started to MC a lot on that circuit because at the time—in the beginning of the nineties—the actual kinda dancehall Jamaican roots which is where I was coming from had become very kind of, uh—the raga movement had kinda taken over. There was not many spots with spontaneous like MCs, in such dances, but yet there was on the UK dub steppers scene, and I could sort of still go and chat the mic, and as an MC you tend to go where you can do your stuff. So all in all its about twenty, twenty five years, that I’ve been doing this.

Click here to read the rest of the interview on myninjaplease.com

In 2008 Liquid Sound released his debut album, called Isis, which was produced with Manasseh. It comes recommended from me.... of course!