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Review: Emotional Rescue continues its quest to bring obscure, left of centre dance to a wider audience with a reissue of Adu's reggae-pop cut Burkina Faso, starting the next series of releases where the label teams up with DJ / producer for a series of reissues featuring their edit / mixes that add to and update the original for today's dancefloor. South Saharan / West African emigre to Brixton long-term, musical and politically active resident, Rauf Adu would go on to a minor European wide hit in his supremely catchy Human To Human - checked You Tube for numerous 80s Euro-pop show appearances - the label goes back to the start, with his debut 7" release in 1982 for Copasetic Records and the reggae-pop inspired Burkina Faso. A laidback Compass Point drum and bass underpins with rock guitar and Adu's exaltations of youth and home, backed with flowing, layered harmonies across a call and response chorus. Simply a fun song to shuffle and ting, of its time but like an 80s pop-steppa. This is expanded further in the simple, but effective Dub mix, stripping everything back to highlight Adu's guitar slays and backing vox. For remix duties, the label welcomes fellow head of Isle Of Jura to get behind the desk and create some extended disco dub fun. The last 5 years have seen the Isle Of Jura label go from strength to strength and has just been topped with the arrival of in-house project, Jura Soundsystem's debut LP. The Adelaide best Brit, Kevin Griffith's has been providing additional production, mixes and dubs for his label since inception and here he presents a soundsystem remix that cuts, edits, extends and dubs Burkina Faso, teasing the instrumental intro before riding the songs groove to offer the version for today's DJ heads.
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Played by: Juno Recommends Reggae
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Played by: Marcus Visionary
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Played by: Ted Ganung
Review: Ever-prolific Croatian producer Vladimir Sivc AKA Funky Destination, a regular on the likes of Timewarp Music, Kraak Records and Cold Busted, returns with what (if we're counting correctly) is at least his eighth album in 10 years. His music's spanned a range of styles including funk, breaks and Balearica over the years, but 'Bless Da Planet' finds him firmly in reggae and dub mode - and pulling it all off with surprising aplomb. Sivc may be no Bob Marley, Lee Scratch or Toots Hibbert, but this album's every bit as convincing as those "regional heroes"-type reggae bands you tend to stumble across by accident on Sunday afternoons at festivals, and that's no mean feat. Worth investigating for sure.
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Played by: Juno Recommends Dub
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Played by: Juno Recommends Reggae
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Played by: 6Blocc, Mentha, DJS: MOST CHARTED - DUBSTEP/UK FUNK, Spacedrome, VGB, Lojik, Otz, Piezo, Mack Moonshine
Review: After something dub-fresh and deeply gorgeous? Numa Crew have rolled together some serious phat ones for your delectation, created to rumble subs throughout the feel good lands. With enough oldschool vibes to satisfy the purest of dubstep puritans while adding enough sunshine-soaked melody to create the perfect summer playlist, the whole EP screams instant classic from start to finish.
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Review: What a link up we have here as Mungo's HiFi return to Scotch Bonnet for a wicked collaborative set of creations alongside the legendary vocal lines of Kiko Bun. This is a team we have seen before but are yet to be disappointed by as we open up with the classic-sounding grooves and catchy vocal riffs of 'Riddim General', which sets the tone for the project perfectly, with those basslines below giving us some seriously cool vibes. Next, the slightly slower tempo and more stripped back arrangements of 'Miss Burnett' give us an early 2000's skank-feel, doused with dubbed out chord delays and more wicked bassline action. Both tracks are accompanied by the smoothened riddim versions, rounding off another wicked two-single drop in style.
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Played by: The Allergies, Juno Recommends Breakbeat, STRICTLY RAGGA JUNGLE, Brian Brainstorm, Shamans Of Sound
Review: Barry Ashworth and his band of merrymakers return with their ninth studio album. Shooting from the hip with swaggering ill behaviour, with a strong presence from fellow breaks OGs Freestylers and renowned and decorated singers Natty Campbell, Cheshire Cat, Top Cat (plus many other collaborators) their big party sounds remains consistent with everything they've delivered over the last 25 years... Intoxicated, high energy and refusal to sit still. Highlights include the big D&B swing of 'Soundboy Killa' (which tips its hat heavily at their original Cyclone sound) the easy-vibe reggae buzz of 'If You Ever Get A Draw', the heated jungle flavours of 'Spitfire' and the super toasty spirit of 'Nah Give It Up'. These are just the tip of the bullet... Dub Pistols remain fully loaded.
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