Continental Drift's Vol: #1 - Cultural Export (MROX Records)1997

A fine comp of UK underground /festival/squat bands that were prominent in the mid 90's, which really captures the musical diversity of the time with mostly exclusive forays into dubfunk/skat reggae/ska punk/ folk-punk/middle eastern techno and includes tracks by many bands who only got round to releasing the odd 7''/12'' at most. I was going to post this nugget awhile back but the Rythm-ites track skips half way thru, this is the best version i could get after ripping it several times. enjoy!

Continental Drifts Vol: #1 - Cultural Export

Dubmerge	-	Sneaky step
Rhythmites	-	Marching
Tofu Love Frogs	-	Vegetable Attack
Max Pashm	-	King Of The Gypsies
Ruby Throat	-	Misbehaviour
Headmix Collective	-	Inner Creative State
P.A.I.N.	-	Oh No! It's The Pigs
Knights of the Occasional Table	-	Golganooza
Bender	-	Breaking The Law
Tragic Roundabout	-	Camel Herders
Tarantism	-	Lannigans Ball
Baghdaddies	-	Underground Chase
Mandragora	-	Abu Zulef
Bhang II Rites	-	Dreadlocks from gucci

Omnia Opera - Beyond the tenth (1986)

UK Free festival freaks Omnia Opera formed in 1985 & played numerous gigs supporting anarcho punk/hardcore bands, as well as more pysch outfits such as the Cardiacs and Pink Fairies. So far the band had mostly been active as a live unit, although they had recorded a couple of essential self released cassette albums, Beyond The Tenth(1986) and Celebrate For Change (1987). As far as official releases go, those didn't occur until the very end of the band's lifespan when they were approached by Delerium Records in the early 90's to record a couple of albums (omnia opera and red shift). Omnia Opera decided to reform in 2006, after what the band themselves describe as a brief pause lasting for about 12 years.
Omnia Opera - beyond the tenth

Side one
1. Each Day
2. Oracle of Knowledge
3. Storm World
4. Dimension Door

Side two
5. Screen Dream ( Space bastard)
6. Living in a time
7. What you see is what you are
8. Each Day reprise

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The Oroonies - Of Hoof And Horn

Pagan psychedelic punk band The Oroonies landed alongside Ozric Tentacles, Treatment, Ullulators, Wooden Baby, Here And Now, Webcore & the Magic Mushroom Band at Stonehenge in 1983. The Oroonies have had many members and line ups. Joie Hinton on synth, Russ Noden on lead guitar, lead vocals, Boris on guitar, singing and poetry, Jane Noden- Flute, Tanya on drums, and Gary "geek" on bass. Most of the bands output was released as cassette only albums on Better Days Tapes label, a 12'' ep 'The Woods Are Alive With The Smell Of His Coming' came out on Hiraeth and 'Of Hoof And Horn' which
was released on Demi Monde in 1992.

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'The Oroonies are a group of friends and their instruments who amongst other things have been playing music together for well over ten years. There were never any Oroonie rules so in the past it’s been as diverse as manic punk thrash up a peaceful mountainside to nice little tunes in a London basement, and over this time all those pairs of ears have been listening carefully to the most obscure and peculiar music from all the corners of the globe, often to find the most ethnic of it to be the most demented… So whilst most other people were busy running around in ever decreasing circles, the Oroonies spent the 80’s sitting in odd little places, reading books, humming tunes, scrambling around in fairy forts, climbing snowy mountains in the dark, milking wild goats, lurking in the corner of warehouse parties in Kings Cross, watching Crystal Palace from the terraces or whatever all this and more turned into music… Always in search of an elemental feeling: surging walls of sound, force and fire, Pan’s pipes echoing, mad laughter bubbling up, in the Grove at dawn, feel the moon in the heavens, feel the storm inside your head… endure, enjoy, forget. […] All you need is to bring your psychedelic sense of humour with you. Perhaps we are not serious! We are: Joie who plays the synthesisers and supplies the samples. Tanya the drummer who also sings and plays the double bass. Geek who is mostly bassist but also bouzouki man and saxophonist. Russ the guitarist and vocalist who also plays bouzouki and percussion. Jane flautist and conch blower. Jo the string section. Merv: percussionist at gigs and keyboard person in the studio. Between us all we write, arrange and mutilate our material! Joie and Merv also play in the Ozric Tentacles and Wooden Baby. Joie also plays with the Ullulators too'
The Oroonies - Of Hoof And Horn

Girls of Alexandria
Pump happy
The White Owl and the Silence
The Notes of Pan
Lidjawek Babka
Dust Devils
Walk out of it Hogan

Dave "Boris" Jones (guitar, vocals)
Tanya Horn (bass, drums)
Russ "Ron" Stanley (guitar, vocals, bass, harmonica, drums)
Gary "Geek" Wagstaff (bass, saxophone)
Joie Hinton (keyboards)
Jane "Breda" Harwood (flute, whistle)
Jo Harvey (violin, viola)
Merv Pepler (percussion,keyboards)

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The Ullulators - Monads of Mangonia (Better Days Tapes)1989

The Ullulators... Gavin Griffiths, Joie Hinton, Generator John, Nick Van Gelder, Jane Bradfield, Kay Springer, Chambers & Andy Ull. Formed in 1985, The Ullulators statyed together as a band up until 1991, members also played in the Oroonies, Ozric Tentacles & The Thunderdogs. Jane later went on to become the legendary Nana Obscuri, and fronted the Cheapsuit Oroonies & the band was then put on hold when some of the members left to join up with Circus Archaos.
Their music was more diverse, including festival reggae, squat funk and lysergic dub.. . the early tapes released on Better Days (‘Beyond The Gates Of Ull’, ‘Share A Clam with the Ullulators ’ and ‘Monads of Mangonia’) were heavily influenced by dub reggae & eastern melodies but still had a strong spacerock flavor to them. Their debut album, "Flaming Chaos" was released by Demi Monde in 1989 which increased an already growing cult following. Contrary to other accounts, The Ullulators played for many years after their surpposed demise, playing at free festivals in the southwest every summer.Happy Summer Solstice everyone.
The Ullulators - Monads of Mangoniaside 1
01 Pooja dub
02 Special Brew
03 EE-A Whoppa amu hé
04 Jammu-Tawi Express
05 S M I L E
06 In a space
07 In plaited hair you hid the flow of Ganges foam!
08 We all love the same girl
09 Things moving about outside
10 Mangonian pop musik
11 Ajos amour
side 2
01 Duck Nipples
02 Buttering the Guttering
03 Agape dub
04 It's a beautiful thing
05 Honey, the milk
06 Hinayn
07 Golden Soldier
08 Quiche Alaha
09 Harmal Radiomyspace

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Litmus— You Are Here

This is what Hawkwind circa 76 would have sounded like if Lemmy had still been part of the band. Litmus mash up 21st century juddering astro punk, head swirling psychedelia and breathless kraut chops on their debut 'You Are Here' (2004) album . A collection of throbbing bass, pounding drums, searing guitar, swirling keyboards and screeching electronics, they are here to open heads and recalibrate minds, taking the audience on a journey to the far reaches of both outer and inner space.
With an albums worth of sublime material already consumed I felt my mind had been spun inwards and cast beyond the rational. Then arrives the final track Stone Oscillator [Static Ritual], a 20 minute mega ride that steers out of the warm nebular atmosphere and plunges the album into a virtual Black Sabbath Doom fest. This song alone would sit un-challenged on an mcd, let alone strapped to the previous material.
Litmus— You Are Here

1. Infinity Drive

2. Dreams of Space

3. You Are Here

4. Sonic Light

5. Rays of Sonic Light

6. (Theta Wave) Inductor

7. There

8. I Can't be Sane

9. Chime

10. Stone Oscillator (Static Ritual)

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Yabby You - Dub It To The Top: 1976-1979

Of all the dub albums I have, this one is a real stand out & gets played often, originally released in 1977 under the title Yabby You Meets Michael Prophet: vocal & dub. On this reissue the original tracks are expanded by another eight, most of them B-side dub versions of singles produced under Yabby You's direction. The dub mixes were all overseen by the legendary King Tubby, and as usual, the combination of Yabby You's dark, dread musical vision and Tubby's otherworldly approach to remixing results in many moments of absolute brilliance; in this case, those include a deeply twisted dub of the Yabby You composition "Blood a Go Run Down King Street" ("Heads a Roll Dub") and "Achieving in Dub," on which Tony Tuff chats over a cut of his own vocal performance on "I Must Achieve What Is Mine." But really, there are no weak spots to speak of anywhere on this album. This is a unique and beautiful document of two of roots reggae's greatest talents working together at the height of their powers
Yabby You - Dub It To The Top: 1976-1979

1. Zambia

2. Revolution Conference

3. Zambia Dub (feat. Jah Walton)

4. Steppin' High (feat. Tommy McCook)

5. Vengeance in Dub (Mount Zion Version)

6. Heads A Roll Dub

7. Achieving in Dub (No Tarry Yah Version)

8. Dub It To The Top

9. Rock With Me Dub

10. Turn Me Loose Dub

11. Conscious Man Dub

12. Mash Down Rome Dub

13. Warn Them Jah Dub

14. Humanity Dub

15. Praise You Jah Jah Dub

16. Tribal War Dub

Harry J - DUBBING AT HARRY J's 1972-1975

A collection of rare and unreleased dubs from Harry J's studio at 10 Roosevelt Avenue, Uptown Kingston, Jamaica, was a legendary place for cutting tracks back in the 1970's, especially dub cuts.Keith Hudson recorded his classic 1974 'Pick A Dub' album here with the Barrett brothers, Aston 'Family Man' and Carlton, from Bob Marley's Wailers band providing the de-constructed backbone of bass and drums respectfully.Many people passed through it's doors, Burning Spear ,The Heptones, The Kingstonians,Johnny Clarke, The Twinkle Brothers and Augustus Pablo to name but a few, and it was no accident that Bob Marley chose to record his first four albums here, The timeless 'Catch a Fire' ,'Burnin' , 'Natty Dread' and 'Rastaman Vibration', all came under it's spell.
Harry J - DUBBING AT HARRY J's 1972-1975
Every Dub Is A Star (Ronnie Davis)
Dub Is Yet To Come (The Twinkle Brothers)
From Man To Dub (The Kingstonians)
Dub Scriptures (The Kingstonians)
Harmonica Dub (Nora Dean)
Dub In The Streets (John Holt)
Let Dub Down (Joe Morgan)
Bag-Full-A-Dub (John Holt)
Dub To Babylonians Head (Zeddie Bailey)
Dub You Only (Monty Morrison)
No Mail No Dub (Monty Morrison)
None Shall Escape The Dubment (Johnny Clarke)
Dub Me Smoothly (The Wailers Band)
Man Needs A Dub (John Holt)

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Dawning of a New Era: The Roots of Skinhead Reggae

Dawning of a New Era gathers together tracks from the classic early reggae of 1968/69, and like the equally-essential "Dancehall '69" ( focusing on rare records, many tracks on this set never before issued on cd) is an aural snapshot of the music listened to in the early days of the skinhead movement,before this youth movement was widely demonized in the media for fights and riots. The music largely comes from a short period of time when this movement was still a loosely organized underground phenomena,and the music, sometimes referred to as "Blue Beat" or ''Boss Reggae''. And while its from a particular time and place ,the music still retains that initial excitement from all those years ago, when both music and the youth movements were exciting.

Dawning of a New Era: The Roots of Skinhead Reggae

Disc one | Disc two

ONE

1. John Jones - Rudy Mills

2. Gimme Back - Derrick Morgan

3. In Like Flint - Good Guys

4. Tommy's Dream - Tommy McCook

5. Son of Reggae - Sylvia Kuumba Williams

6. Quaker City - Eric Barnett, , Theophilus Beckford

7. Reggae Beat - The Pioneers

8. Groovin' at the Cue - Dandy & His Group

9. (What A) Revenge - Desmond Dekker, Derrick Morgan

10. Fat Man - Derrick Morgan

11. South Parkway Rock - Val Bennett

12. Rescue Me - Ebony Sisters,

13. What You Gonna Do - Reggae Boys

14. Night of Love - Ansel Collins

15. Wala Wala - The Pioneers

16. Mix It Up - The Kingstonians

17. Forest Gate Rock - Lester Sterling

18. Soul Scorcher - Karl Bryan, Harry J All-Stars,

19. She's So Fine - Glen Adams

20. Magic Touch - Junior Murvin

21. Reggie on Broadway - Lester Sterling

TWO

1. Another Scorcher - The Tennors

2. Avengers - Tommy McCook

3. 5 to 5 - Lloyd Charmers

4. Rock Steady Gone - Dandy

5. Reggae Hit the Town - The Ethiopians

6. Su Su Su - The Pioneers

7. Dip It Up - The Sparkers

8. Splash Down - The Crystalites

9. Peanut Vendor - Tommy McCook

10. Wooh Oh Oh - Keith Blake

11. My Argument - Lloyd Charmers

12. Wise Message - Rico & The All Stars

13. Cool Hand Luke - The All Stars, , Brother Dan All-Stars

14. Drop Pon - The Crystalites

15. Eastern Organ - The All Stars, Brother Dan All-Stars

16. Baby Baby - Val Bennett

17. Cat Woman - Glen Adams

18. Parapinto - Karl Bryan, , Johnny "Dizzy" Moore

19. Last Laugh - Lloyd Charmers

20. Reggae Girl - The Tennors

21. Spoogy - Lester Sterling