The 19th of February was yet another night of great live music at Camden’s The Forge, which is fast becoming a standard affair for this venue. Dub Colossus Sound System were pretty much on the button from the get go providing a really up and rocking show. With a solid back line of the ‘boss’ Nick Dublah on guitar alongside percussion, electronics and bass plus intermittent live vocals and horns they certainly captured the audience and took them on a dubbed out mystic journey.
With a broad range of influences from the likes of The Specials, Nile Rodgers, Average White Band and Madness and a mix of styles such as reggae, Ethiopian, ska, funk and even drum and bass Dub Colossus makes for a pretty tight outfit with a unique sound. As soundsystem set-ups go (backing tracks with live performance superimposed) Dub Colossus has it nailed. It’s a shame that in this day and age promoters can’t always afford the full line-up of large-scale acts such as this, and it would be great to see them again soon with the full live ensemble.
For International Women’s Rights Day, we play tribute to all women in music with this Strictly Female mix going from afrobeat, Lusophone sounds & ethiogrooves over Arab, reggae & dub to Latin, hip-hop & global bass. Power to the Women! Tracklist: Organic Soul – Frap Frap The Afrorockerz feat. Ruth Tafébé –…
This week Radio Mukambo is fully dedicated to British multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Page aka “Dubulah”, founding member of Transglobal Underground, Temple of Sound and Dub Colossus, and producer of the project Syriana. After a long battle with illness in which he was victorious many times, he set flight for…
Our Daily Discovery section is usually meant for sharing new music and video clips with you. While this morning, we would like to “use” it in another way, to say goodbye to a good friend and supporter of Rhythm Passport as well as imaginative musician (from Trans-Global Underground to…
A full hour of dub on Radio Mukambo, starting with our album of the week Mandinga Dub by André Sampaio meets Victor Rice. Brazilian music inspired by West-Africa getting the dub treatment. The rest of the podcast is full of dub crossovers with ethiojazz, afrobeat, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, Indian sounds & Balkan…
We don’t always play reggae on Radio Mukambo, but the truth is we really dig reggae and dub, so this week it’s going to be only reggae music! Starting somewhere between Martinique, Congo and France with our cd of the week, Iration by the female duo Mystically bringing soulful reggae…
This week the Toronto-based outfit Battle of Santiago takes us to Cuba for a soundclash between the spirits of the indigenous Afro-American Santería religion and rock grooves. Native percussion and call-and-response vocals encounter with modern production on Queen & Judgement, our cd of the week. We listen to new singles…
Dr Strangedub (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dub the Bomb) is possibly one of the most inventive albums to date. Each track is an enthusiastic cacophony of global traditions and contemporary fusions without being reduced by genre boundaries or five-minute clichés. Dr Strangedub was a long time…
These are busy days for Nick Page (also known by his monikers Count Dubulah, Tax D and Kid Ouzo): an ongoing tour with Transglobal Underground, various remixes and a brand new album with his creature Dub Colossus in the making have filled his recent months. The “writer, producer, guitar and…
IRL’s double album, Terraforming In Analogue Space – IRL Remixes 2000 – 2015 celebrates 15 years (2000-2015) of the unique, Aztec, spiritual sound for which they are so well known. With a tunnel-like soundscape for the listener to pass through, all the while marvelling at the journey. The very best…
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