{"id":4593,"date":"2011-06-29T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2020-10-17T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T18:23:52","slug":"mix-shake-the-foundations-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/mix-shake-the-foundations-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix: Shake The Foundations vol 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;light=1&amp;feed=%2Fjohnedenuk%2Fjohn-eden-shake-the-foundations-vol-1%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the first proper mix I ever did, back in those pre-blog times of 2002. I was interested in tracks that blurred the lines between reggae, dub, electronica and dance music. I still am, but it seems harder to find interesting angles on it these days.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Kate Bakhaus for helping me out with a copy of the mix when I found out that my CDR master had gone glitchy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sleevenotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For some of us the experience of reggae was far more unsettling than a mere alphabetised clutch of Wailers LPs. People get warped by dub and reggae, and they never recover. And there are reasons for this.&#8221;<\/em> Ian Penman<\/p>\n<p>Received wisdom has it that &#8220;real&#8221; dub was made in Jamaica in the 1970s, by engineers mutating tracks by &#8220;proper&#8221; musicians. None of the tracks on this CD meet all of these criteria. Very few meet any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Without wishing to dis the golden age of reggae (indeed &#8211; check for future mixes) there has been a wealth of music recorded more recently that tries to build on the studio sorcery of Tubby, Perry et al in a way that looks to the future rather than upholding some kind of bogus tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Arguments abound as to whether dub is a genre, or a technique, with purists favouring the former and visionaries ploughing head-first into the latter. This ism-ing and schism-ing is all too easily upset by the continual flood of gimmicky product &#8211; insipid ambient digi dub that doesn&#8217;t even qualify as nice background music, or perhaps &#8220;dub techno&#8221; in which yet another workmanlike 12&#8243; tries to rescue itself from obscurity by the addition of a bit of echo and reverb.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, the selector&#8217;s role is simply to wade through the dirt looking for the jewels. The tracks here vary from experimental electronica to techno, to the much-maligned &#8220;UK dub&#8221; steppers played by soundsystems like Jah Shaka and Abashanti. If there is anything that holds them together other than &#8220;dub&#8221; it is a certain edge &#8211; a dread intensity far removed from the image of reggae as summery beach music. It&#8217;s cold inna babylon, as a wise man once said.<\/p>\n<p>This mix was hammered out live, in two takes &#8211; and it shows. What you hear is what was played. If I was playing these tracks out, you&#8217;d get more version excursions and some selections representing the other flavours of dub and reggae.<\/p>\n<p>John Eden &#8211; June 2002<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. spectre vs scotty hard &#8211; the joust (wordsound)<br \/>\n2. pole &amp; manuela krause &#8211; mein freund der baum (monika)<br \/>\n3. luciano &#8211; final call (dub) (xterminator)<br \/>\n4. rhythm &amp; sound with shalom &#8211; we been troddin (burial mix)<br \/>\n5. (gregory isaacs &#8211; easy take it easy) (joe gibbs)<br \/>\n6. dub syndicate &#8211; ezy take it ezy (ruts dc remix) (on-u sound)<br \/>\n7. rootsman &#8211; wadada (sema mix) (virgin)<br \/>\n8. disciples &#8211; return to addis ababa (boomshakalacka)<br \/>\n9. disciples &#8211; message (version) (boomshakalacka)<br \/>\n10. iration steppas &#8211; killamanjaro (version) (universal egg)<br \/>\n11. winston fergus &#8211; can&#8217;t take no more (dubwise)<br \/>\n12. vibronics &#8211; one drop (tandoori space)<br \/>\n13. unitone hi-fi &#8211; racehorse (wordsound)<br \/>\n14. mannaseh &#8211; skenga (version) (response)<br \/>\n15. iration steppas &#8211; high rise (version) (universal egg)<br \/>\n16. chris jay &#8211; rough version (dubwise)<br \/>\n17. centry &#8211; release the chains (universal egg)<\/p>\n<p>The mix was played on ResonanceFM in London, a community radio station in Hamilton, New Zealand, and out of Iain Watson&#8217;s window, to an unsuspecting Edinburgh public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/archive-how-not-to-record-a-mix-cd\/\">A slightly tongue in cheek account of the frustrations of recording it is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first proper mix I ever did, back in those pre-blog times of 2002. I was interested in tracks that blurred the lines between reggae, dub, electronica and dance music. I still am, but it seems harder to find interesting angles on it these days. Thanks to Kate Bakhaus for helping me out &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/mix-shake-the-foundations-vol-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mix: Shake The Foundations vol 1&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,33,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dwnlads","category-illbient","category-mixes-2","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6808,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/6808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}