Bass is a universal language.
If permeates everything from avant garde electronic music to the pop world, underground dance culture to the Top 40.
At heart, though, bass revolves around reggae and its myriad splinters. Radioactive Man and Lukey Roots are renowned for their selections, which veer from that classic roots sound all the way up the rave explosion.
A soundsystem institution, the pair have just launched a brand new label. Focussing on dubwise to digital, Una Sound is billed as a hub for forward thinking bass production.
Radioactive Man and Lukey Roots have pieced together a new mix to introduce the label. Looking back over the influences which dominate their work, the pair introduce the mix thus:
"A mixture to mark the launch of new label UNA Sound, dedicated to the dub side.. This mix is 1st in a series of favourite Dubwise tunes that has been a part of our musical diet over the years.. From Roots to Rave, we wanted this mix to reflect how much this music has left a footprint in our souls.. This is scratching the surface of a mahoosive musical mountain.. which has always amazed, cos you think you got loads of it and a fairly good knowledge but there's always more..and more and more… Versions and excursions… Forward the Bass button."
Check it out now.
Tracklisting:
1. Radioactive Man – 'Ram' (UNA Sound)
2. Ini Kamoze – 'Wings With Me' – (Island)
3. Dub Syndicate – 'Ravi Shankar' (On U Sound)
4. Sizzla – 'It Cost Nothing / Washpan' (Cylton Records)
5. King Tubby ft. Cornell Campbell – Press Along (Striker Lee)
6. Vivien Goldman – 'Private Armies' (99 Records)
7. Tapper Zukie – 'Rush I Some Dub' (Stars)
8. Depth Charge – 'Dead By Dawn' (Vinyl Solution)
9. Ragga Twins – '18" Speaker' (Shut Up And Dance)
10. Calibre – 'Steptoe' (Signature Records)
11. Fade 2 – 'Dub Spiller'
12. Capleton /Gentleman – 'Scorpio's Justice' (Black Scorpio)
13. Dub Syndicate – '2001 Love' (On U Sound)
14. Nehemiah Sounds ft. Julian Fairshare – 'Judgment Times'
15. Glen Brown/King Tubby ft. Sylford Walker – 'Deuteronomy' (South East Music)
16. Jah Shaka ft. Max Romeo – 'Kumbia Dub (Jah Shaka Music)
17. Radioactive Man – 'Tuf' (UNA Sound)
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