Dub Setter: new album from Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Adrian Sherwood

Batshit dub legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry will release a new album this year with slightly less insane dub legend Adrian Sherwood. Sort of.

Titled Dub Setter, the record is born from the same sessions as Perry’s Mighty Upsetter LP, featuring “radical reworkings†of tracks from that album, plus new material.

It’s also the first “full-on dub†album with Sherwood at the controls since his own Never Trust a Hippie, from 2003, though he is working on a dub project with the Bug. The press release promises “Sherwood operating at the peak of his rootical production powers, playing the studio to full soundbwoy effect as he draws on a vast range righteous musics from around the globe to create a conquering lion of earth-shaking psychedelic rhythm and sound that will delight any fan of the trademarked On-U style.â€

Dub Setter was initially available as a Japan-only CD in early 2009, but this new version is available worldwide both CD and limited vinyl.

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  • Drawters

    HIS BOOK IS A MUST!!! It not only features Lee Scratch Perry but Augustus Pablo and Junior Delgado.

    A book of photographs by Pogus Caesar celebrating Britain’s iconic black musicians is to be published next month.

    The book features evocative, nostalgic and largely unpublished images of musical legends like Stevie Wonder, Grace Jones and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.

    “These images record a unique period in what would come to be called black British life,†remarks author and historian Paul Gilroy.

    “Pogus Caesar’s emphatically analog art is rough and full of insight. He conveys the transition between generations, mentalities and economies.â€

    Legendary reggae artists figures prominently, and appropriately, in the Caesar image canon – Burning Spear, The Wailers, Augustus Pablo, Rita Marley, Mighty Diamonds, Black Uhuru, Sly Dunbar, Steel Pulse etc. The photographer cites reggae itself is a significant influence, reflecting his own St Kitts background in the Eastern Caribbean.

    The launch of Muzika Kinda Sweet follows an exhibition of the work at the Oom Gallery in Birmingham earlier this year.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/pogus-caesars-muzika-kinda-sweet-2080071.html?action=Gallery&ino=3

  • ValveAmp

    Love the pics = main man Scratch in his finest garb.

  • Pedro
  • Souljahman

    I have copy of book, it’s limited edition so copies will dwindle. Fantastic photos of some of black music’s finest!

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