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The leg(s) of Sylvan Morris (Dissemination II)
Edward George is a writer, researcher, and presenter of Black Audio Film Collective’s ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History. Edward is a founder of Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), the multimedia duo Flow Motion (1996-present), and the electronic music group Hallucinator (1998-present).
Dub is strange. A musical process and a sub-genre formed in the early 1970s and pioneered by Clement Dodd, Sylvan Morris, Lee Perry, King Tubby, Scientist, Jah Shaka and The Mad Professor, dub takes place through a kind of violence, an act of reducing archival audio documents to fragments and traces, yet is associated, in its sound system context, with communal reverie and meditative states.
A marginal music and a music of margins, first and most enduringly located on the ‘b side’, the underside, of phonographic recordings, dub is a sub genre of reggae music, subordinate and secondary to song-writing, musical performance and recording. And yet more so than reggae song writing, vocal or musical performance, dub’s influence reverberates across other genres of electronic music, even while never quite comprising a genre of its own.
Dub is also a sonic process, a way of making new music from existing music that is always present in all forms of electronically recorded music, as that which is waiting to be excavated and discovered for the first time. You can hear dub process in late 20th century and 21st popular electronic dance music, in the 80’s hip hop productions of Marley Marl and the Bomb Squad, in the techno of Basic Channel and Mika Vaino, in dubstep and drum and bass, and you can hear its conceptual pre-figurations in jazz and the avant garde music of Cage and Stockhausen.
And yet, in spite or perhaps because of its broad cultural resonance, dub has at its heart a concern with ideas of emptiness and silence, being and presence, space and repetition, and these ideas intersect with themes, especially in reggae, of Diaspora, and ‘race’, history and memory, longing and loss.
Join Edward George, on a journey into reggae, dub, versions and versioning that draws on critical theory, social history, a deep and wide cross-genre musical selection, and live dub mixing.
Tracklist:
The Jamaicans with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics – Ba Ba Boom
Lord Flea & His Swinging Calypsonians – The Naughty Little Flea
Lascelles Perkins with Cluet J Johnson & His Blues Blasters – Lonely Robin
Roland Alphonso with Cluet J Johnson & His Blues Blasters – Puzzle
Roy Shirley with Lynn Taitt – Hold Them
Ken Boothe – Feel Good
Winston & Robin – Wailing Time
Sound Dimension – Real Rock
Sond Dimension – Real Rock Version
Michigan & Smilie & Sound Dimension – Nice Up The Dance Pt.2
Wille & The Sound Dimension – Armagideon Version (Courtney Dodd Remix)
Joe Gibbs and The Professionals – Ugly Man
Aeon: Vincent Morgan on Syvan Morris & Jackie Mittoo – Soul Defenders
Lennie Hibbert – More Creation
Burning Speak – He Prayed
Burning Spear, Morris Tuffest – Joe Frazier
Sound Dimension – Mo Joe Rocksteady
Prince Buster & His All Stars – Doctor Rodney (Black Power)
Larry Marshall – I’ve Got To Make It
Trevor Clarke – Sufferation
The Heptones – I Shall Be Released
S McGreggor & Brentford All Stars – I Shall Be Released
Augustus Pablo – Original Scientist
Advocates Aggregation – Stereo Style
Sister Nancy – Boom Shaka Laka
Johnny & The Attractions – Let’s Get Together
Tie-Track – Let’s Get Together
King Tubby – Black Ants Lane
Culture – Tell Me Where You Got It
The Sky Nation – Tell Me Where You Get This Dub
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Roots Rock Reggae
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Rebel Music (Three O’Clock Roadblock)
Produced by Edward George and Camilo Salazar for Morley Radio
Edited by Paul Skinner