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EB 175CD
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Dub Spencer & Trance Hill have been in the music business for about 20 years and are still as hungry as a caterpillar in the leaf forest. Supposedly, the dub component always dominated, no matter if it was humorously-intelligently mixed with Christmas songs, spoken words or Italo Western. But the electronic, the psychedelic, the "trance" always played an important role in the work of the Europe-wide known Swiss band. Now, finally, this facet gets its due place on the new, 12th long-player of the quartet: Imago Cells is the name of the album and marks a metamorphosis. So out of the old arises the new, and so the dub merges with electronic dance music or better: "trance music". The tracks are clearly in the sign of the up-tempo and invite a rave. Furthermore, the sound has become even more bassy and psychedelic, but without losing the organic touch. So bubbling, echoing and grooving then the eight songs beastly good, sound unmistakably like Dub Spencer & Trance Hill and at the same time you understand that the only way is the new. A truly magical moment, like the birth of the butterfly.
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LP version. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill have been in the music business for about 20 years and are still as hungry as a caterpillar in the leaf forest. Supposedly, the dub component always dominated, no matter if it was humorously-intelligently mixed with Christmas songs, spoken words or Italo Western. But the electronic, the psychedelic, the "trance" always played an important role in the work of the Europe-wide known Swiss band. Now, finally, this facet gets its due place on the new, 12th long-player of the quartet: Imago Cells is the name of the album and marks a metamorphosis. So out of the old arises the new, and so the dub merges with electronic dance music or better: "trance music". The tracks are clearly in the sign of the up-tempo and invite a rave. Furthermore, the sound has become even more bassy and psychedelic, but without losing the organic touch. So bubbling, echoing and grooving then the eight songs beastly good, sound unmistakably like Dub Spencer & Trance Hill and at the same time you understand that the only way is the new. A truly magical moment, like the birth of the butterfly.
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EB 131CD
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The first Christmas album of the year, Christmas In Dub, has landed, and it sounds a lot like dub. Last Christmas seems only moments away, but that hasn't stopped these four doughty Swiss musicians from decking the halls in their studio, getting the bass speakers to rumble and the loops to trill. In dulci dub jubilo! In their low-slung reindeer racing sleigh, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill glide through the night of nights with twelve box-fresh cover versions pumping through their speakers, utterly unafraid of overworking a cliché. Statistically, "love" is probably the most common subject in song lyrics, and many trite lines have been dedicated to it, closely followed by "Christmas". Now, this Zurich/Lucerne collective have lavished their charming, futuristic sound elements on the topic, pounding through this winter wonderland, hovering somewhere between pop, dub and surreal electronics, liberally spiced with retro roots rocker attitude with a lavish scattering of warm analog delay and reverb effects. This album sits skillfully right at the intersection of elevator muzak and elegant dub, and it has a very simple, unpretentious message: Without a groove there's no dub, and no Christmas either. For some of the tracks, it's only the second time round that you realize which Christmas song is being covered. The bass line is crucial, as it is usually the instrument that plays the Christmassy themes. "Never change a winning song", thought Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, instead opting to give these themes a much slacker treatment. The scent of fir branches, incense, the Northern Lights and interesting biscuits comes together with a warm Hammond organ, funky guitars, rich drum grooves and a bass that is practically subsonic to create an intelligent, mischievous and leftfield masterpiece. Following their impressive encounters with artists such as William S. Burroughs, Lee Perry, Dieter Meier, and Ken Boothe, the internationally-lauded Swiss band have now added their idiosyncratic spin on Christmas, treating Santa to a dub makeover with neo-folk collages in reindeer jumpers and minimal dub with space for recorders. Christmas simply couldn't sound any better or more flamboyant!
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LP version; includes CD. The first Christmas album of the year, Christmas In Dub, has landed, and it sounds a lot like dub. Last Christmas seems only moments away, but that hasn't stopped these four doughty Swiss musicians from decking the halls in their studio, getting the bass speakers to rumble and the loops to trill. In dulci dub jubilo! In their low-slung reindeer racing sleigh, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill glide through the night of nights with twelve box-fresh cover versions pumping through their speakers, utterly unafraid of overworking a cliché. Statistically, "love" is probably the most common subject in song lyrics, and many trite lines have been dedicated to it, closely followed by "Christmas". Now, this Zurich/Lucerne collective have lavished their charming, futuristic sound elements on the topic, pounding through this winter wonderland, hovering somewhere between pop, dub and surreal electronics, liberally spiced with retro roots rocker attitude with a lavish scattering of warm analog delay and reverb effects. This album sits skillfully right at the intersection of elevator muzak and elegant dub, and it has a very simple, unpretentious message: Without a groove there's no dub, and no Christmas either. For some of the tracks, it's only the second time round that you realize which Christmas song is being covered. The bass line is crucial, as it is usually the instrument that plays the Christmassy themes. "Never change a winning song", thought Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, instead opting to give these themes a much slacker treatment. The scent of fir branches, incense, the Northern Lights and interesting biscuits comes together with a warm Hammond organ, funky guitars, rich drum grooves and a bass that is practically subsonic to create an intelligent, mischievous and leftfield masterpiece. Following their impressive encounters with artists such as William S. Burroughs, Lee Perry, Dieter Meier, and Ken Boothe, the internationally-lauded Swiss band have now added their idiosyncratic spin on Christmas, treating Santa to a dub makeover with neo-folk collages in reindeer jumpers and minimal dub with space for recorders. Christmas simply couldn't sound any better or more flamboyant!
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Return Of The Supervinyl is a very selected release with Dub Spencer & Trance Hill tracks that have never appeared on vinyl. Side A presents the most attractive tunes from the legendary album Riding Strange Horses (EB 071CD), a concept album with a cover version. Side B presents tunes from Return of the Supercops (EB 063CD, 2007) and Too Big to Fail (EB 088CD, 2012). The download code included with the vinyl is the cream topping.
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EB 119CD
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The Swiss musicians, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, bow down low before space rock, but without bypassing pure dub. Deep Dive Dub shines with a precision that demands they be named in the same breath as the famous Swiss watches. Swiss timepieces are renowned for their precision, and they tick along nicely even under water - The mechanics, the cogs, the striking mechanism, the chronograph movements, the repeaters, the speed-up. Thank Dub Spencer & Trance Hill for the fact that the cantons of this maximum-precision country should produce ultra-chilled slo-mo dub like this, a style that has avid fans all over the world. The band are known for the formidable interior dynamism of their composition skills, their classic riddim craftsmanship, the psychedelic sound of their guitars, the pounding bass lines that approach infrasound levels, the space sounds and their grandiose sound dimensions. Like few other electronically influenced styles, over the years dub has shown itself impervious and resistant to all manner of short-lived trends. There are probably few people who - regardless of which music ghetto they inhabit - have not encountered dub at some point. On Deep Dive Dub, the band dives deeper than Jaques Piccard's team during their record-breaking dive in Trieste in the sixties. The focus of this repetition is the fusion of reggae, even though, instead of the lightness that is usually inherent in reggae, the album focuses on heavy grooves, grooves that drift off into fat, dark, mature places. With a hypnotic power, the musicians - all of whom are trained jazz instrumentalists - dive into a world of space-rock-dub-electro. On a couple of the tracks the band invited the Lucerne-based experimental vocalist Bruno Amstad (who has previously worked with John Zorn and Phil Minton) to contribute. Neither a slave to the great Jamaican heroes of the seventies nor lost in the great wide world of electronic dub, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill tread their own path, reducing and abstracting as they dive deeper and deeper.
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LP version. Includes CD. Limited numbered edition of 500. The Swiss musicians, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, bow down low before space rock, but without bypassing pure dub. Deep Dive Dub shines with a precision that demands they be named in the same breath as the famous Swiss watches. Swiss timepieces are renowned for their precision, and they tick along nicely even under water - The mechanics, the cogs, the striking mechanism, the chronograph movements, the repeaters, the speed-up. Thank Dub Spencer & Trance Hill for the fact that the cantons of this maximum-precision country should produce ultra-chilled slo-mo dub like this, a style that has avid fans all over the world. The band are known for the formidable interior dynamism of their composition skills, their classic riddim craftsmanship, the psychedelic sound of their guitars, the pounding bass lines that approach infrasound levels, the space sounds and their grandiose sound dimensions. Like few other electronically influenced styles, over the years dub has shown itself impervious and resistant to all manner of short-lived trends. There are probably few people who - regardless of which music ghetto they inhabit - have not encountered dub at some point. On Deep Dive Dub, the band dives deeper than Jaques Piccard's team during their record-breaking dive in Trieste in the sixties. The focus of this repetition is the fusion of reggae, even though, instead of the lightness that is usually inherent in reggae, the album focuses on heavy grooves, grooves that drift off into fat, dark, mature places. With a hypnotic power, the musicians - all of whom are trained jazz instrumentalists - dive into a world of space-rock-dub-electro. On a couple of the tracks the band invited the Lucerne-based experimental vocalist Bruno Amstad (who has previously worked with John Zorn and Phil Minton) to contribute. Neither a slave to the great Jamaican heroes of the seventies nor lost in the great wide world of electronic dub, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill tread their own path, reducing and abstracting as they dive deeper and deeper.
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EB 112LP
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Swiss group Dub Spencer & Trance Hill have been releasing their musical visions and sound designs since 2006, approaching their numerous projects as pop soundtracks referencing the great names of the time, including The Clash, William S. Burroughs, Metallica, Genesis, Deep Purple, Falco, and others -- all remix projects that have created a massive stir on the dub scene. The band's never-ending passion for playing combined with an ultra-sharp instinct, independent spirit, and technical skill flows into sound-spheres that echo far beyond the Swiss Alps and across the globe. Their love of minimalist electronic dance music with epic endings reaches a climax on Physical Echoes. The album grabs electro, ambient, and dance and takes them for a ride on the horizontal axis, adding roots on the vertical. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill have opened themselves up to a comparison with Pink Floyd meeting King Tubby meeting LCD Soundsystem, and on Physical Echoes swing from electro sounds with infiltrated hypnosis to subversive basslines all the way through to washed-out blueprints and voids.
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LP version. Features additional Victor Rice remixes of Live in Dub not on the CD. Limited to 999 copies. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill are back with a bang and in their favorite place: on stage. This is a blast of sheer live energy that slips down as nicely as Jamaican honey. The tracks on this album were recorded at various concerts in 2012. Each track is so catchy, you'll struggle to stop humming it. It pulses in your stomach, it breathes under your skin and it glitters in your ears. The Swiss musicians have worked with the Hamburg-based dub label Echo Beach since 2006, and to date the collaboration has produced five albums. Another equally prominent protagonist on this project is the Munich sound and dub specialist Umberto Echo, who for the past two years has regularly accompanied the band on tour and who also performs on the mixing desk as a fifth instrumentalist. Umberto Echo recorded and produced the tracks on this album, magnifying Dub Spencer & Trance Hill's space. The nine live tracks are supplemented by six remixes by the acclaimed dub technician Victor Rice. The New York-born artist, who played bass for The Scofflaws Ska, has lived in São Paulo since 2002. Here, in 2004, he recorded his debut album In America, which explores and refines dub techniques. Unlike the old school pioneers King Tubby or Augustus Pablo, the influence of ska is very noticeable in his remixes. Live in Dub bears the unmistakable hallmark of Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, glowing with irresistible grooves, languorous depth, melodious beauty, and cool soundscapes. Far removed from purism, these tracks open the hatches in the dubby twilight and flood the horizon with breathtaking keyboards and silvery guitar solos. Live in Dub gets the masses moving their feet and nodding their heads, as the groove rumbles deeply on and on.
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Dub Spencer & Trance Hill are back with a bang and in their favorite place: on stage. This is a blast of sheer live energy that slips down as nicely as Jamaican honey. The tracks on this album were recorded at various concerts in 2012. Each track is so catchy, you'll struggle to stop humming it. It pulses in your stomach, it breathes under your skin and it glitters in your ears. The Swiss musicians have worked with the Hamburg-based dub label Echo Beach since 2006, and to date the collaboration has produced five albums. Another equally prominent protagonist on this project is the Munich sound and dub specialist Umberto Echo, who for the past two years has regularly accompanied the band on tour and who also performs on the mixing desk as a fifth instrumentalist. Umberto Echo recorded and produced the tracks on this album, magnifying Dub Spencer & Trance Hill's space. The nine live tracks are supplemented by six remixes by the acclaimed dub technician Victor Rice. The New York-born artist, who played bass for The Scofflaws Ska, has lived in São Paulo since 2002. Here, in 2004, he recorded his debut album In America, which explores and refines dub techniques. Unlike the old school pioneers King Tubby or Augustus Pablo, the influence of ska is very noticeable in his remixes. Live in Dub bears the unmistakable hallmark of Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, glowing with irresistible grooves, languorous depth, melodious beauty, and cool soundscapes. Far removed from purism, these tracks open the hatches in the dubby twilight and flood the horizon with breathtaking keyboards and silvery guitar solos. Live in Dub gets the masses moving their feet and nodding their heads, as the groove rumbles deeply on and on.
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EB 088CD
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Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, Switzerland's dub heroes have teamed up on this new project with Umberto Echo, one of the most sought-after dub remixers this side of the English Channel. In 2006, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill released their Echo Beach debut Nitro (EB 057CD), a sort of Spaghetti Western in dub with plenty of dynamite. Since then, the Swiss musicians have added three further notches to their list of releases -- Return Of The Supercops (EB 063CD), Riding Strange Horses (EB 071CD) and, most recently, The Clashification Of Dub (EB 081CD/LP) -- as well as several echo-laden cover versions of classic party hits such as "Jeanny" or "Enter Sandman" and canonized songs like "London Calling," earning them kudos all over the country and setting feet tapping. On their last European tour, the dubsters cooperated with the Munich-based mix master Umberto Echo, whose illustrious profile spans several pages. For his debut album Dubtrain, the jazz label Enja (Chet Baker, Abdullah Ibrahim, Rabih Abu-Khalil) set up a special sub-label, Enja19. Last year, Echo Beach released the album Dub The World (EB 074CD), which featured his distinctive, ultra-precise dub take on tunes by Sly & Robbie, Seeed, Damian Marley, Stereo MCs and Gentleman. At their joint club and festival performances, the combination of live band and live mixer turned out to be the proverbial "marriage made in heaven." On the decks, Umberto Echo transformed Dub Spencer & Trance Hill's riddims and melodies into thrilling, transcendental sound collages. The vibe was so good that they decided to hit the studio for a joint session after the tour: founding member Marcel Stalder (bass) and his bandmates Julian Dillier (drums), Philipp Greter (keyboards) and Markus Meier (guitar) met up with Umberto Echo at his studio, plugged in and let rip. And here are the results. It is no exaggeration to say that this meeting of minds is for continental Europe what Scientist Meets Roots Radics was for Jamaica and Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor was for England: an alliance too big to fail.
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The Swiss space-cowboys, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill bring their fourth album of superlative dub inna sci-fi control. Last time they chose a strange combination of cheap '80s songs and monumental rock standards for student parties. This time, The Clashification Of Dub is wrapped by the most influential band of revolution, pop, rock, punk, politics and dancing over the last 30 years: The Clash. Meet The Clash hits (almost all of them?) like "Guns Of Brixton," "London Calling," etc. -- the compact crossover of sweet and lovely reggae vibes matched with sci-fi tech power, partly orchestrated with innovative production and mixing skills. An album of incredible beauty and power featuring smart and contemporary dubness. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill's vision of cult is unique -- it is alchemy, prophecy and acoustic ecology encased in a magical, timeless atmosphere.
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2022 repress. 180 gram LP version. Features eight of the twelve tracks from the CD version. The Swiss space-cowboys, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill bring their fourth album of superlative dub inna sci-fi control. Last time they chose a strange combination of cheap '80s songs and monumental rock standards for student parties. This time, The Clashification Of Dub is wrapped by the most influential band of revolution, pop, rock, punk, politics and dancing over the last 30 years: The Clash. Meet The Clash hits (almost all of them?) like "Guns Of Brixton," "London Calling," etc. -- the compact crossover of sweet and lovely reggae vibes matched with sci-fi tech power, partly orchestrated with innovative production and mixing skills. An album of incredible beauty and power featuring smart and contemporary dubness. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill's vision of cult is unique -- it is alchemy, prophecy and acoustic ecology encased in a magical, timeless atmosphere.
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EB 071CD
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This is the third album by space cowboys Dub Spencer & Trance Hill for the Echo Beach label and it sees the four Swiss musicians herding together a pack of very strange steeds indeed. The strange horses come from famous stables (Falco, The Clash, Genesis, Deep Purple, The Catch, M, Tullio De Piscopo, Grauzone, etc.) and have notched up umpteen top-ten hits over the past three decades, albeit in disciplines that have about as much in common with dub as the forlorn pink rocking horse has with the dust-dry desert. Humor dominates the choice of tracks: monumental pop classics, schmaltzy rock-ballads and grimy hits -- the stuff that teenage dreams were made of. The tracklist is heavy on school-party classics and cult hits, all lathered-up and shaved in the best dub style! The aim was to keep the vocals as authentic as possible, and so the band did the obvious thing and contacted the copyright holders: their version of the 1984 British chart hit "25 Years" by The Catch features the original vocals by John Savannah. The soul reggae classic "When I Fall In Love" brings in the master and composer himself, Ken Boothe, and for the new wave hits "Echo Beach" and "Pop Muzik," Martha Johnson from Toronto and Robin Scott from London re-recorded their vocals. Naturally, it wouldn't be the same without dub-master Lee "Scratch" Perry, whose inimitable voice crowns a version of his own manifest "Blackboard Jungle." More local vocal power comes courtesy of William White, one of the most soulful voices in Switzerland; he sings the classic Deep Purple track "Smoke On The Water." The album also contains their version of Falco's scandalous "Jeanny." Fueled by the same fighting spirit of the duo they named themselves after, the Swiss band have transformed each track into an Italo karaoke version with a heavy dub feel. Familiar old hits are distilled down to their very essence and are reborn in truly great new versions. Also includes versions of songs by Ennio Morricone, Martha And The Muffins, The Ruts, Metallica, and W.S. Burroughs.
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This is the second full-length release from Swiss trio Dub Spencer & Trance Hill (Adrian Pflugshaupt, Marcel Stalder and Christian Niederer) on Echo Beach. Monster dub spaghetti Western enters the second round: on Return Of The Supercops, these asphalt cowboys delve even deeper into the essence of dub, but at the same time manage to amp up the rock element. Psychedelic, instrumental reggae tunes are interrupted by poisonously piercing guitars, country sections are transformed into darkly limping grooves, sleepy dubby beats morph into pounding trance. And everything is driven relentlessly forward by a pumping bass line that almost hypnotically clears the path to the center and gently caresses the stomach. In 2006, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill unleashed their debut on to the prairies of the German and European music press and caused quite a dust storm. Nitro got top marks from countless magazines and was voted "Dub Album of the Month" by the German reggae Bible, Riddim. Cowboy up!
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