“These Albums feature ryhthm tracks from the Channel One (Uk) vaults, produced by Martin Campbell” is written on the back of the album series “Alien Dread In Dub With Martin Campbell & The Hi-Tech Roots Dynamics Vol. 1-3 “(Reggae retro). A short sentence that left me confused. "Channel One UK"? And who is Martin Campbell anyway? Researching the internet later, I can now rhyme that Mr. Campbell, born in Germany in 1955 and raised in Jamaica, is friends with JoJjo Hookim and has received permission from JoJjo Hookim to set up a studio in England called “Channel One UK “(Which is also equipped with the same equipment as the Channel One studio in Jamaica). Campbell has been producing roots rhythms in this studio for a number of years, which occasionally see the light of day. Who brings in the Rhtyhms? No idea. Could he use recordings that Hookim gave him? No idea. Anyway, Campbell's sound is very similar to that of the original Channel One studio. The restriction to the style of the early 80s also fits perfectly, because like the rhythms of the Roots Radics, Campbell's tracks are played almost in slow motion, minimalistly arranged and inspired by a dominant bass. Andrew Passey, aka Alien Dread, in his southern English Phat has now become these rhtyhms Dubz-Studio pre-buttoned and chased through the echo chamber. The result is “too conventional” - as a colleague told me. I can't contradict him on the matter, but I can in the judgment of taste. Because I really like the conventional sound. It is simply more ideal Dub. The whole genre could be best explained in a textbook on him. You don't need any crazy ideas. Here a sound has found its perfect realization. It's like a good Margherita pizza: boring but delicious.
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