Harold Budd and Anthony Moore.

Definitely hit up the liner notes on this one. Talks of droughts and splinter militias. Good Lord.

Dub Syndicate 'Obscured By Version' LP from On-U Sound arrived today. Reworked versions of DS tracks by Adrian Sherwood.
A 5 CD set of the 90s Dub Syndicate albums (plus Obscured By Version) is also out. I've had all of those on CD and/or wax for years so I didn't order the set. Resisted the reissue FOMO (this time)

The Creation Rebel CD box from last year is worth picking up if you dig On-U and don't have it. Most of the bonus material was previously released on the Beat Records (Japan) reissues from the early 00s.

    Al Dorado Dub Syndicate 'Obscured By Version' LP from On-U Sound arrived today. Reworked versions of DS tracks by Adrian Sherwood.

    Just got all these reissues in the mail as well the other day.

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      Another release that is awesome on it's own, but gets about three times more awesome once you read the liner notes.

      Piano Boogie Master, recorded in 1960-1962. The cover tells the story.

      Getting gifted a ticket to see Wu-Tang this summer, so I've been listening to them for the first time in a long while. This one Certifiably Slaps. RIP ODB.

      If anyone can school me on Wu-Tang and their side projects, that would be cool.

        Nathan Loud
        Big fan of the Wu over here. Best stuff besides the first album for me would be GZA “Liquid Swords”, Raekwan “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx”, Gravediggaz “Six Feet Deep”, Ghostface Killah “Supreme Clientele”. For me the only one who had much longevity outside the first run of solo albums is Ghostface. Second Wu album has some great stuff, but for sure could be trimmed drastically.

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            Agree with Mystery Ship here. Pretty much all the first solo albums are certified classics and so is that first Gravediggaz album. All up there with 36 chambers.

            My favs being

            1. GZA - Liquid Swords
            2. Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
            3. Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx

              Absolutely a punk spirit in the gritty execution of the first album and the following solo LPs. It’s truly a shame that there was supposed to be a Inspectah Deck LP among those but the tapes were lost in a flood of RZA’s basement studio. Kinda the lowkey best member of the group.

              Nathan Loud

              For sure. Danny Brown may be the most punk rapper still doing new shit on the reg though. Everything he’s done on his own starting with The Atrocity Exhibition has been straight fire. That record with JPEG Mafia didn’t hit right though.

                  There's no need to quibble amongst patrons of the finer arts, but I was more of an Ab-Soul bruv than Danny Brown man when they both sort of kicked off, but DB's verse at the end of their collab is good.

                  Not far from the tree I always want to push Happy Mondays

                  First song on the first album. Jesus is a cunt and never helped you, is a great lyric