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I love This Heat's first album, then they got a bit too normal with the second album for me. What I like about that that time was the cross over of influences, it was hard to pin down a lot of the music. There is still a lot of good music out there if you dig and it can be argued that a lot of quite experimental techniques from the 70's have entered main stream pop in various ways. But there is just something about post punk and dub I love that can't be replicated.

Yes, I love the era too.

Another good band with some dub influence is The Homosexuals.
Have a listen to Hearts In Exile.

@ chromium1

Bizarrely enough , I dug out the very same 7" single after reading your post ! How many other wacky RA members have a copy , too ? Has your copy still got the Polaroid photo ?

Back to topic .....

I would have to recommend early Cabaret Voltaire, in particular the track Silent Command from 1980. Also, there's Perry's Roast Fish, Collie Weed, and Cornbread album as well as one offs the Amstel 7" by Dutch group Bugs and another Dutch group called Another's Paris Tribe 7".

Some really cool and obscure recommendations here, will have to start digging. Cabaret Voltaire is a good one, influenced by dub techniques but turning them into something completely different. The Homosexuals are next on my list to investigate.

AnorakTrev wrote:@ chromium1

Bizarrely enough , I dug out the very same 7" single after reading your post ! How many other wacky RA members have a copy , too ? Has your copy still got the Polaroid photo ?

In Hearts In Exile? No - I didn't get a polaroid in mine. There is a computer print-out with the lyrics in my copy.

All The Homosexuals stuff is very inventive... post-punk with dub flourishes.
Strange group - they were almost completely ignored by the music press in the UK at the time. Now they sound better than ever imo.

Other unusual dubby things:

Wobble/Leibezeit/ Czukay - How Much Are They? (you must know this one already).

Mad Professor - Dub Me Crazy pt 10 - Psychedelic Dub

I really liked the Soul Jazz 'Invasion of the Mysteron Killer Sounds' comps. They are just versions of dancehall/ digital 7"s but some weird stuff on there. A bridge too far for some ppl though admittedly.

Keith Hudon's Nuh Skin Up Dub album is good. Not that 'weird' as such but a very good record.

Finally for the minute .... The Twinkle Brothers 'Jahovia' 12" mix which is on the new Virgin Front Line Presents Roots 2 cd set is an absolute must. A 10 minute wild ride into the heart of dubness... one of the greatest dub mixes of the 70s imho with tons of freaky effects running right through it.

babaluma1 wrote:Thanks for the ideas, been checking out Playgroup and Creation Rebel, really cool!

Pleased you like the "Threat To Creation". If you haven't checked it out already try "Starship Africa"
I vaguely remember reading they were playing the tapes backwards!

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I also really like Primal Scream's "Echo Dek" (Adrian Sherwood at the controls if I remember rightly) - been dissed on these boards, but, hey ho, each to his own.
Sounds amazing on sonic level at the very least.

chromium1 wrote: Finally for the minute .... The Twinkle Brothers 'Jahovia' 12" mix which is on the new Virgin Front Line Presents Roots 2 cd set is an absolute must. A 10 minute wild ride into the heart of dubness... one of the greatest dub mixes of the 70s imho with tons of freaky effects running right through it.

Ditto that! Absolutely a-mazing!!

Any mad professor album really.

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Tradition - Captain Ganja & The Space Patrol

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