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Artist:	VA
Title:	Select Cuts From Nation
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SELEC 2014CD

"Select Cuts proudly presents this collection of excellent selected stuff from the Nation Records label. Welcome to a world where the breakbeat sits happily with the dharabuka and the tabla; where Middle Eastern vocals weave themselves around Middle Western dance grooves; where the sweat from the ceiling of a packed London club drips onto the concentrated face of a Sufi Qawwali master. The idea of sounds and instruments, normally thousands of miles apart, existing harmoniously in the grooves of the same track is not the novelty it was ten years ago and Nation were some way responsible for this. The artists featured on this album are a few of the many that have passed through Nation's bowels: Fun-Da-Mental, Transglobal Underground, Joi and Loop Guru, who were all there right from the beginning and early work by Talvin Singh, Jah Wobble and Natacha Atlas. As the 90s progressed, Nation were exploring further ideas of fusion via a variety of names: Asian Dub Foundation, Lunar Drive, Urban South, TJ Rehmi, Xangbetos and Swami. Today the sounds Nation had released a decade ago still carry a healthy spoonful of groundbreaking innovation and creativity. The music can gain without conforming to someone else's rules, with integrity uncompromised and intact."

Artist:	YABBY YOU
Title:	Upsetter Mix + Apollo 440 Mix
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	10"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	SELEC 6005

"Features the original Lee Perry 'Upsetter Mix' entitled Rally Dub (taken from Yabby You's Jesus Dread album) and a great version of the 'Run Come Rally' anthem by rave rockers Apollo 440 -- Howard Grey the old dub 'n' punk mastermind in the house with mix programming from Simon Crom. The original was cut at the Black Ark circa 1974 and is to be found on the double CD compilation of the artist/producer's finest moments compiled by Dub Vendor's Noel Hawkes (BAFCD021). Apollo 440 quotes their mix as follows: 'Central to working method is the idea of the recording studio as an instrument. Everyday for spiritual uplift and sonic inspiration we turn to the Old Testament prophets of dub -- Lee Perry, King Tubby, Scientist and the other innovators at the controls, alchemists of magnetic iron oxide who prepared the way for all those of us who make electronic music. The opportunity to have Yabby You's righteous words and Lee 'Scratch' Perry's dubbery pulsing through the console at our Apollo control was to good to miss, it was a pleasure and a privilege. Dedicated to Adrian Sherwood, Mikey Dread, The Ruts, Jackie Mittoo and the UB's who taught me how to skank.'"

Artist:	MORWELL UNLIMITED MEETS KING TUBBY
Title:	Kid Loco Remix EP
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	SELEC 6006

"Kid Loco is the French equivalent of UK's Mr. Scruff and the US's Peanut Butter Wolf, total beat mayhem with absolutely no scruples as to where the samples are sourced from -- it could be some ultra cool seventies jazz thing or on the other hand a cheesy listening piece of vinyl ignored in the junk shop for years. Morwell Unlimited was the band of guitar player Bingy Bunny, a pre Roots Radics outfit -- this band got a full portrait on the original Blood & Fire album BAF018 in conjunction with King Tubby. This Select Cuts version of the track 'Morpheus Special' relocates the action from Channel One in Kingston to a gymnasium somewhere in Brooklyn, or is it the Hi Studios in Memphis, for a piece of sassy cool funk. Version by version inna various version style by Kid Loco."

Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	100% Of Dub - Select Cuts
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	SELEC 2005CD

Awaiting repress. This is a mid-line priced repress of the classic collection 100% Of Dub - Select Cuts, originally issued in 2003 on Select Cuts. Jamaican sound engineer and musical aesthete Osbourne Ruddock (aka King Tubby) is widely credited with being the original dub creator. The results of his experiments in the early and mid-1970s pervade all areas of contemporary dance music. King Tubby's instrument was the mixing desk, and like jazz musicians before him, his passion was finding ways to make it do things that hadn't been done before. King Tubby was an electronics genius, the self-taught master of circuitry and sound, skills learned during his time as a repairman in a culture where poverty dictated that you didn't throw things away if they could be fixed -- you improvised instead. It began during a stint with Ruddy Redwood's Treasure Isle Sound System. Tubby single-handedly innovated the primitive echo and reverb units to his Home Town Hi-Fi system, adding the extra spatial dimension that became the hallmark of dub. He played an instrumental right after the original version ("version" became the original term for what later became known as a "dub cut," or simply a "dub") and the crowd went crazy. Back home in his primitive studio (his mother's house in the Waterhouse district), he went further, creating a sort of DIY graphic equalizer that allowed him to take out various elements, accentuate others and end up with the signature, beautiful bass-heavy echoing sound. It was a sensation -- a full, warm, mind-bending groove -- and soon enough, King Tubby was the most sought-after engineer in Jamaica. Listen to the twenty groundbreaking tracks of shimmering bass-heavy magic. All of the production is under Fatman and Bunny Lee control with mixing beauties by King Tubby in the King Tubby studio. Dizzy rhythms by Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare and more significant perfection by the creme of Jamaican studio artists like Earl "Chinna" Smith, Jackie Mittoo, Aston Barrett, Augustus Pablo, just to name a few. 100% of Dub - Select Cuts is an exercise in innovation and perfection, it is a story about sound manipulations in a style of music that possessed its own innate spirituality -- the spacious echo and vast reverb emitting a profound vibe.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Echo Beach Discollection Volume 02 (Lounge)
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SELEC 2026CD

For over 15 years, the Echo Beach label group has stood for the best in reggae-flavored sounds. At Echo Beach, dub has always been a philosophy, a way of life, with the term "dub" accorded very fluid boundaries. Good examples of how brilliantly Echo Beach covers the musical bandwidth of the genre are the excellent King Size Dub series and the Sound of Dub. The latest series, Echo Beach Discollection, opens up the next chapter, venturing into the field hitherto referred to as "lounge," now possibly threatened by extinction. On EBD Vol. 2, the Select Cuts label -- specialists for the best of best -- present the ultimate soundtrack for Echo Beach's dream beach. Wherever that virtual piece of paradise happens to be, this comp ensures that it flowers with the finest tunes. Echo Beach life is floating wonderfully and lounging softly -- ranging from electro lounge to jazzy downbeat, dope muzak to worldtrade dub clash. The emphasis is on good listening, with Select Cuts effortlessly living up to its name. Hand-selected classic tunes that are sure to be the soundtrack to your imaginary summer. Artists include: Simon Slow, Super Pulse, Veli & Stromer, Lap Dub, DJ Elbe, Bajcar, Monosolar, Redlounge Orchestra, String'N'Bass, Dubblestandart, Dreadzone, Wet Cookies, M&M and Seven Dub.

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Artist:	ROOTSMAN, THE
Title:	Presents New Testament
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SELEC 1006LP

Artist:	MANASSEH MEETS THE EQUALIZER
Title:	Step Like Pepper
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SELEC 1010