Name: @ Repulse Reggae Classics
Brand: Dennis Bovell meets Dubblestandart

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

EB160

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

4015698621624

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

EB160LP

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Black

2021-10-29

4015698283136

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Dennis Bovell meets Dubblestandart

Genre GB

Reggae / Dub

Label GB

Echo Beach

Echo Beach is a music label that was founded in 1996 by Nicolai Beverungen. Before starting Echo Beach, Beverungen worked as an employee at EFA Medien GmbH and also served as the label manager for renowned labels like On-U Sound and Crammed Discs from 1991 to 1995.
At Echo Beach, all releases can be categorized under Dub, encompassing its widest form. With a focus on this genre, the label has established itself as a prominent player in the music industry.
The label's releases can be easily identified with their Labelcode: LC 2188 / LC 02188. Browse through our collection of unique and diverse dub releases from Echo Beach!

Dennis Bovell, from Barbados, based in London, England, is a legend - a bass player legend (band leader of the legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson Band) - a producer legend (The Slits, Fela Kuti, Bananarama, Madness, Joss Stone, a.o.). He produced the soundtrack for the critically highly acclaimed movie Babylon and the hit song "Silly Games" by Janet Kay. In recent years his works regained interest, also due to the recent rerelease of the '80s movie Babylon and his participation in Steve McQueen's drama series Small Axe about the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community, set btw 1969-82. 

In 2019, Vienna's Dubblestandart produced a limited selection of reworks of reggae classics of Dennis Bovell's 1980's band Matumbi, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, Twinkle Brothers, Culture a.o., focusing on works that have been pivotal for the inspiration of Dubblestandart's bandleader Paul Zasky. Nicolai Beverungen, dub reggae label headman of Echo Beach outta Hamburg / Germany, invited Dennis Bovell to "repulse" the album at Robbie Ost's GoEAST Studio. Dennis felt inspired, loved the idea, re-voiced the songs, added a couple of guitar lines and also re-dubbed the album. Repulse "Reggae Classics" features Dennis Bovell on vocals and as a dub producer in co-operation with Robbie Ost from Dubblestandart, mixing on a legendary E - 6000 solid state mixing board (taken over from Tears For Fears studio in London), using selected vintage outboard analog equipment, developing a distinctive dub reggae sound for this release. What do songs like "I'm No Robot", "Babylon The Bandit", or Matumbi's "Hypocrite" have in common? All of them were written during the 1980s of the last century, but never lost their contemporary accuracy, still perfectly criticizing and analyzing the "pulse" todays political leaderships and societies controversial points of view, have, while entering the digital age. Re- Pulse 21!

@ Repulse Reggae Classics

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