DENNIS BOVELL MEETS DUBBLESTANDART – @ Repulse Reggae Classics – LP – Vinyl

LABEL: Echo Beach

CAT NO: EB160LP

BARCODE: 4015698283136

Tracklisting:

SIDE A1. Dennis Bovell Im No Robot (03:43)
2. Dennis Bovell Babylon The Bandit (03:43)
3. Dennis Bovell Fly Me To The Moon (04:42)
4. Dennis Bovell Hypocrite (04:15)
5. Dennis Bovell Malcom X (04:01)SIDE B1. Dennis Bovell Im No Robot [Dub] (04:16)
2. Dennis Bovell Fly Me To The Moon [Dub] (04:43)
3. Dennis Bovell Hypocrite [Dub] (04:19)
4. Dennis Bovell Malcom X [Dub] (04:06)

DENNIS BOVELL MEETS DUBBLESTANDART
@ Repulse Reggae Classics

LP Limited Edition 140g Black Vinyl
(*Only 300 copies pressed)

Dennis Bovell, from Barbados, based in London, England, is a legend a bass player legend (band leader of the legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson Band) a producer legend (The Slits, Fela Kuti, Bananarama, Madness, Joss Stone, a.o.). He produced the soundtrack for the critically highly acclaimed movie Babylon and the hit song Silly Games by Janet Kay. In recent years his works regained interest, also due to the recent rerelease of the 80s movie Babylon and his participation in Steve McQueens drama series Small Axe about the real-life experiences of Londons West Indian community, set btw 1969-82.

In 2019, Viennas Dubblestandart produced a limited selection of reworks of reggae classics of Dennis Bovells 1980s band Matumbi, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, Twinkle Brothers, Culture a.o., focusing on works that have been pivotal for the inspiration of Dubblestandarts bandleader Paul Zasky. Nicolai Beverungen, dub reggae label headman of Echo Beach outta Hamburg / Germany, invited Dennis Bovell to repulse the album at Robbie Osts GoEAST Studio. Dennis felt inspired, loved the idea, re-voiced the songs, added a couple of guitar lines and also re-dubbed the album.

Repulse Reggae Classics features Dennis Bovell on vocals and as a dub producer in co-operation with Robbie Ost from Dubblestandart, mixing on a legendary E 6000 solid state mixing board (taken over from Tears For Fears studio in London), using selected vintage outboard analog equipment, developing a distinctive dub reggae sound for this release. What do songs like Im No Robot, Babylon The Bandit, or Matumbis Hypocrite have in common? All of them were written during the 1980s of the last century, but never lost their contemporary accuracy, still perfectly criticizing and analyzing the pulse todays political leaderships and societies controversial points of view, have, while entering the digital age. Re- Pulse 21!

See below for tracklisting