Dub Syndicate

𝘿𝙪𝙗 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚’𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟭 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 - 𝙬𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙮𝙯𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚; 𝙚𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙚-𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙛𝙡𝙪𝙤𝙧𝙤 𝙝𝙮𝙙𝙧𝙤 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣.

Almost a cliche, but one that lives on its truth; ‘Stoned Immaculate’ is a definitive slice of late night ‘90s pressure. More bifters have been built and dispatched to this album than practically any other from that era, and you’ll have to take our word for it cos, to be fair, statistics are hard to come by. It’s simply a masterclass in hypnotic low key chronics, primed for the gouch out with its OG examples here augmented with a pair of bonus dubs for an ideally baked baker’s dozen.

Follow-up to an also brilliant ’Strike the Balance’ salvo of a few years earlier, ‘Stoned Immaculate’ hailed Style Scott, Adrian Sherwood and co’s in-house On-U Sound band and main vehicle pulling up in the early ‘90s with stacks of heavy hitters in tow, from Tackhead’s Skip McDonald to post punk pioneer Keith Levene (PiL, New Age Steppers) and Style Scott’s Roots Radics bandmate Bingy Bunny all up in it along with the voice of Prince Far I sampled from beyond.

If memory serves right, this keyboard tapper’s copy was cadged from a pal's dad, and served us well for years with the likes of baggy, skanking title tune, and baga tunes liberally referencing pop cultural and soundtrack licks in a classic, playful UK x JA style, and with psychoacoustic effect that would prompt many others to delve much deeper along those lines into dub history (or zooted bedsit oblivion).