Dub Syndicate

𝙊𝙣-𝙐 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙’𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣-𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙡 “𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙗𝙖” 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙨, 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙙 ‘𝟵𝟬𝙨 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙚 “𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝” 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙁𝙖𝙧 𝙄 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙗𝙚𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙙, 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙨.

By this album’s first issue, in 1993, Dub Syndicate were a decade deep in their stride as ON-U’s go-to guys, variously laying down rhythms for loads of other artists and ploughing their own run of heavily dubbed out, (mostly) instrumental albums, of which this one is widely considered a class example.

Lee “Scratch” Perry appears on a digitally spring highlight ‘Dubbing Psycho Killer’, and the voice of thunder Prince Far I menaces from beyond in the sampled voice lodged on the dread-toned ’93 Struggle’, beside The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy vocalist, Michael Franti’s bubbling bars registered on ‘No No’. It all sounds very much of its era, and most charmingly in the sampledelic cut-up collage ‘2001 Love’, and the wicked digi-dub of its titular sign off.