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Budadub Sound - Roots and Culture Vol.1

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Killaswitch took a deeper look into Budadubs first Roots and Culture Mix. And wh00t - dis one is packed not only with good music but dubplates galore!
Summer is coming. Time to hang out in the sun, do a bbq, cruise with open car windows, go to the beach... Without coming up with the old summer reggae cliché, one can surely state that a good mixtape is essential especially for this time of the year. So, in the last months promo mixtapes from several soundsystems just kept flowing into the Cla.at HQ, and the most recent one is coming from Budadub Soundsystem from Munich, Germany. This heavyweight sound, founded in 1996, is known for their unusual foundation dubplates (like the great Bongo Herman they played at Kill Or Be Killed 2001), and I was really looking forward for that tape, entitled Roots & Culture 01.

...and I surely wasn't disappointed. This mixtape features such an amount of roots&culture dubplates as I've rarely heard on a German mixtape. All dubplates are of good quality, and it's obvious that the Budadub guys put much efford in getting really proper voiced tunes and no standart stuff. Most of the plates feature really intelligent lyric modifications and not just the standart 2-3 soundname big-ups in a tune. A nice thing is also the choice of the tunes turned into dubplates. Many soundmen, lacking tune knowledge and imagination, just pick the recent or all-time top hit of an artist and let him voice it, but on this tape you hear some exclusives from tunes not that known, but still big. Of course, some obligatory hype tunes like Warior King's Virtuous Woman are still on there, but it's one of the best-voiced Warrior King dubs I've heard till now.

When it comes to featured artists' dubplates, the spectre is very wide, going from veterans like the Abyssinians, Junior Reid and Everton Blender to the nu-roots generation of Luciano, Capleton or Warrior King. Just check the tracklist above to convince yourself that Budadub drops a heavy load of specials pon this tape. There are also quite some regular 45s featured as well, going from all-time big tunes like Tenor Saw's Golden Hen to rediscoveries like Junior Reid's Shak A Lack or Norma Frazer's First Cut. The tune choice, dubplate- as well as 45-wise is all in all very lucky, the Junior Reid and Abyssinians dubs being my personal favourites.

Besides the overwhelming conscious vibes, the tape seems to carry a second message. 'We are ready for soundwar, come on and challenge us!', the load of foundation specials seem to implicate. At one of the first big German soundclash, Kill Or Be Killed 2001, Budadub already showed their ability to play big inna soundwar, missing the finals only through a controversial decision. Now they seem to have filled up their foundation stock even more, and one can only hope that they'll show their power in a clash in the next future.

The tape is mastered and recorded very well and comes in a solid sleeve and on a printed cassette. Get it at the Budadub Website or at www.dancehall-tapes.de.

Tracklist

Side A

1. NORMA FRAZER ? FIRST CUT
2. KASHIEF LINDO ? DEEPEST CUT
3. LUCIANO ? ULTERIOR MOTIVE*
4. DETERMINE ? BEST FRIEND*
5. CULTURE ? ZION GATE
6. GEORGE NOOKS ? STAND ALONE*
7. WARRIOR KING ? VIRTOUS WOMAN*
8. VC ? BY HIS DEEDS*
9. WARRIOR KING ? PAGAN*
10. BUJU BANTON ? NAH LIVE TO RIGHT
11. SHABBA RANKS ? POOR PEOPLE
12. LOUIE CULTURE ? SCANDALINA*
13. GEORGE NOOKS ? RUMOURS*
14. BUSHMAN - WEAK HEART*
15. HALF PINT ? MR LANDLORD*
16. ANTHONY B ? GOOD COP, BAD COP*
17. WARRIOR ? BUN DI CHALICE*
18. LUCIANO ? MESSENJAH*
19. DONIKI ? DEAD IN THE ARENA*
20. DONIKI - WAR
21. JUNIOR KELLY ? PUSH DI FIRE
22. JUNIOR KELLY ? EXILE
23. CAPLETON ? WHAT YOU GONNA
24. NATURAL BLACK ? HEALING*
25. JAH MASON ? FORGIVE & NOT FORGET*
26. TENOR SAW ? GOLDEN HEN
27. CHRONICLE ? REAL*
28. TAFFARI ? AGONY*
29. JUNIOR REID ? FIT*

Side B

1. ABYSSINIANS ? SATTA*
2. MORGAN HERITAGE ? LIVE UP*
3. JUNIOR REID ? SHACK A LACK
4. FRANKIE PAUL ? KUSHUNGPENG*
5. ANTHONY REDROSE ? GIMMI DI WEED
6. LMS ? NEVER*
7. MILITARY MAN ? GIVE THANKS
8. CAPLETON ? JAH JAH CITY*
9. MORGAN HERITAGE ? BLACKMAN PARADISE
10. ANTHONY CRUZ ? BE STRONG
11. JAH MALI ? LONG LONG TIME
12. HORACE ANDY ? MR BASSIE
13. GARNETT SILK ? THE ROD
14. RICHIE SPICE ? MONDAY TO SUNDAY*
15. BARRINGTON LEVY ? TEACH THE YOUTH*
16. ADMIRAL TIBETT ? BLAME*
17. LUCIANO ? CARRY JAH LOVE*
18. TOY REBEL ? KNOW JAH*
19. BUJU BANTON ? GANJA PERSECUTION
20. BUJU BANTON ? WON?T FLY
21. TONY REBEL ? FOREVER LOVING JAH
22. JAH MALI ? CRY*
23. RAS SHILOH ? ARE YOUB SATISFIED
24. TONY REBEL ? WHY BE AFRAID*
25. EVERTON BLENDER ? BOOM SOUND*

* DUBPLATE SPECIAL !!

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