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

                  Boyracer covering the Primitives. Making a gd Psychocandy-esque racket on Crash (Noisey Mix)

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                  This is, as the kids say, a total vibe. French language Ugandan act, half traditional, half futuristic.

                  Didn't know that Mr. Reed's MMM got the classical treatment. Incredible.

                  Am I wrong for wanting Young Steve's take on this?

                  The Czarface (that's Inspectah Deck plus 7L & Esoteric) stuff fills a very specific niche, kinda MF DOOM-y (they did two albums together) superhero related albums. REALLY consistent run if you like that kind of thing, which in the instance I do.

                    Allez Al Hard agree, especially the first couple LP’s. Lots of killer guest verses, and Inspectah Deck in great form.

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                      "Songs & Dances From Free & Enslaved Epirus: early 1960's"

                      the liner notes:
                      "Philippos Rountas was born ca. 1916 in Doniana, one of 164 villages in the Pogoni region of the Ioannina prefecture of Epirus in northwestern Greece. During the 1930s he played in Takis Kapsalis’s band. The celebrated virtuoso Petro-Loukas Halkias (b. 1934), son of the great clarinetist Pericles Halkias (b. 1913; d. 2005), has credited Rountas as his primary teacher. Rountas performed in Athens in 1960 including performances and recordings accompanying the singer Domna Samiou. In September 1962, he came to perform in New York City. This LP was apparently released in a very small edition by a tiny label at 511 W. 181st St. in New York around that time. Research by Christopher King published in his book Lament from Epirus (Norton, 2018) tells us that Rountas died of cancer ca. 1978."