{"id":4609,"date":"2011-07-16T20:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:35:27","slug":"invasion-of-the-mysteron-killer-sounds-radio-play-and-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/invasion-of-the-mysteron-killer-sounds-radio-play-and-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of the Mysteron Killer Sounds radio play and interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I dub from inner to outer space. The sound I get out of Black Ark studio, I don’t really get it out of no other studio.<\/em>
\nIt was like a space craft. You could hear the space in the tracks.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lee Perry<\/p>\n

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Kevin Martin<\/strong> (The Bug, King Midas Sound) and Stuart Baker<\/strong> (Soul Jazz, 100% Dynamite, Sounds of the Universe) have compiled this ace double CD and quadruple vinyl set of electronic dancehall riddims. A bad-ass selection with some undoubted classics like Street Sweeper<\/em> and Peanie Peanie<\/em> alongside more outre examples of JA music at its eeriest. Also some more modern and UK produced fare like Kevin’s own Aktion Pak riddim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve had mixed feelings about the concept. On the one had I was championing the reggae\/ragga afronaut connection a decade ago as part of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts<\/a> and one of my first ever reggae DJ sets was at the Garage in Highbury during an AAA night as part of the 10 day Space 1999 festival<\/a>. I even did an AAA presentation on dub as the basis for a new intergalactic architecture at a conference organised by Kodwo Eshun in Austria. More recently Wayne and Wax has produced an incredible critical survey of rasta imagery in science fiction in issue 4 of Woofah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I’ve previously been forthright in my condemnation of people who only seem to like their dancehall with the sounds of black voices erased<\/a>. I think, on reflection, this criticism is hugely unfair on the curators of the current comp (and indeed Basic Replay who I previously tore into) who have done more than most to promote reggae music in its ancient and modern forms over many many years. But I have always come across a few techno fans who seem to hate ragga vocals and that seems a bit… odd.<\/p>\n

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The conclusion I’ve come to is that a bass-driven sci-fi is a great alternate window to look at dancehall productions through, and this compilation seems like an excellent launchpad into that world, featuring a mad comic about aliens and bashment beats.<\/p>\n

The comic was originally planned to be a radio play, but apparently time and budget didn’t allow this. But the street finds its uses for everything, as the old cyberpunk saying goes, so I was chuffed to hear that Dino Lali\u010d and the Sensi Smile crew at Radio Student Ljubljana<\/a> were going to remix the source material from the comp and its comic back into a radio play last weekend. I think they’ve done a terrific job – the accented narration adds to the spookiness and conjurs up cosmonauts of yesteryear to my ears. I love the blending of ragga with more Joe Meek-esque sixties futurism and dubwise material as well.<\/p>\n

The Invasion of the Mysteron Killer Sounds Radio Play<\/strong> was part of a whole evening’s entertainment on the station, which also included interviews with Stuart Baker, Paolo Parisi (the comic’s creator) and my good self. Mine was a live telephone interview, and listening to it again I am amused to find myself being an old fart talking about that yearning for the sonic future…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/invasion-of-the-mysteron-killer-sounds-radio-play\/Invasion_of_the_Mysteron_Killer_Sounds_radio_play.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a><\/p>

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Much of the commentary is in Slovenian, so may not be decipherable to many of my readers, although the tunes are obviously universal – not to say outernational! Here are some time marks for you for the English language stuff:<\/p>\n

1:23:00 Stuart Baker<\/p>\n

1:51:30 Paolo Parisi<\/p>\n

2:03:32 The Radio Play<\/p>\n

3:08:22 John Eden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I dub from inner to outer space. The sound I get out of Black Ark studio, I don’t really get it out of no other studio. It was like a space craft. You could hear the space in the tracks.” Lee Perry Kevin Martin (The Bug, King Midas Sound) and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz, 100% …<\/p>\n

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