YES DARLING, BUT IS IT MAGICK?: Dub The Babylon System.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Dub The Babylon System.

Finally got our new set-up all figured out. We have been practicing the old songs and some new ones with this set-up and are very happy with how it all turned out. We are not against technology, it is merely just a tool. Music is our main instrument. Come and check out our upcoming shows to hear how we sound now! We will soon have some new recordings too!

MAGICK SHOWS and PERFORMANCES

“Dub offered the perfect score to the world’s deepening post-colonial dusk. Started, so legend goes, by Kingston's King Tubby in his studio on 18 Drumille Avenue, dub is basically this: a song sunk into the cavernous depths of a mixing board, stripped of its secure pop substances, and returned to the world as an electrified monster or vampire. (It's no accident that vampires appear on the covers of numerous dub LPs.) With dub, what was once flesh and bone is transformed into vague melodies that suddenly appear and vanish, moans that rise and recede, and bass lines that move through the echo-haze like phantoms in a haunted house. Dub is the "ghost dimension" of the real pop song; there is no body in dub, just a flickering afterimage of what was once a body.” (Charles Mudede)