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Dub Club: Signs & Wonders in Dub

Dub Club

We all love that Dub-Sound of the 70s and early 80s, right? We've all spent hours, days, weeks, even months doing that Dubs the Fatman Riddim Section, the Revolutionaries, the Roots Radics, and all the other Jamaican studio heroes. It was the perfect sound for its time. The era of the classical Dub - a closed, historical event. In the current age of eclecticism, it is this epoch that is preferably quoted, sampled and, yes, plundered. But what postmodernists like Prince Fatty, DubTo build matix or Alborosie from the stones of that era today is an interpretation of that time, a reflection on it, perhaps also an homage, but it is something new, contemporary, independent. What is the point of just copying the music of the golden era? The copy cannot be better than the original. So what is her raison d'etre? Tom Chasteen probably wasn't asking himself that question. He has been running the in Los Angeles since 2000 Dub Clubwhich is entirely based on the Rub-A-Dub-Sound prescribed. At some point Chasteen realized that the Foundation artists, whose 45s he put on the turntable every week, were unemployed in Jamaica and would be all too willing to buy songs for them for a few dollars Dub Club. So Chasteen organized sessions in LA and Jamaica to record rhythms for the project. The result was the album "Foundation Come Again" (see last riddim). In the old custom, the rhythms became two Dub-Albums generated: "Signs & Wonders in Dub" and "Bubble Dub", which are now both together - somewhat confusing - under the title “Signs & Wonders in Dub“(Stones Throw Records) are available as a digital download. You can hear a lot of classic riddims, exactly reproduced in the authentic sound. I don't think the world needed these two albums, but on the other hand I have to admit that it is fun to let them play in the background. Well, spiritual demands and the lust of the flesh are not always of the same opinion - so to speak.

My verdict: The album is an exact reincarnation of the Rub-A-Dub-Style. Nothing more. But who want's a mere copy, when the original is still available?
my rating: 5 (out of 10)
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