Nowadays I listen mostly to 23 Skidoo, Miles, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry.

But in terms of Dub, these are the albums that are still doing it for me:

Lee Perry -Return of the Super Ape

Creation Rebel/New Age Steppers- Threat to Creation

Prince Fari- Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter 3

Scientist - Scientist Wins the World Cup/ Scientist Meets the Space Invaders

Mad Professor- Beyond the Realms of Dub (Dub Me Crazy, the Second Chapter)


These are good examples of what DUB always represented to me:

MILTANT MUSIC where the politics is already inherent or implied in the frequencies rather than always literally in lyrics.

EXPERIMENTAL BLACK MUSIC and yet experimental music with POPULAR APPEAL. The communal environment of the sound system will have been responsible for this. Only Acid house reached similar degrees of abstraction and mass popularity.

These albums in particular allow/acknowledge NOISE as part of the palette, whether residual or more intentional. There is DANGER,  rawness and energy and a sense of adventure, not a capitulation to what is expected.

I removed the category DUB from my profile a few months ago out of the disgust I felt for those in business who have co opted the undeniable coolness of this word DUB to mean music with MCs talking predominantly about their spliffs or referencing a god they don't actually believe in or know anything about.

Ten years ago, I wrote these lyrics for the ADF song Dub Mentality:

Dub is the place we come to argue and debate
It isn't just a backdrop for your herbal intake;

And in this time we fill the space with noise
Black noise will be a sound you can't avoid.

BTW
Much RESPECT to all those at the CROSS CLUB in Prague for inviting me in the first place and for allowing me to do my thing and to the AUDIENCE who for 90 minutes put up with a barrage of heavyweight BLACK NOISE and WHITE NOISE without leaving the dance floor. Respect for allowing yourselves to be challenged.

DUBBING OUT... DR DAS