🚨 🚨 we’re back with our first show of 2026 on @citywallradio with a heady mix of 70’s & 80’s dub from Scientist, Augustus Pablo, Jah Shaka, The Disciples et al and modern bangers from our very own @remy.solar.music (album dropping in just over a week via @rubadub_distribution ), Shelter & Orion, N1 Sound @ Om Unit. Tune in online at 13:00 GMT for the lunch 🥪 time heavy steppin’ session.
Siren Selector 🚨 launches its mixtape series with a companion release to Remy Solar’s - ‘Heavy Terrain’ cassette.
“Jamaican music grows in rings like an old tree. From a core of early riddims, the genius of Studio One, versions of original basslines and melodies evolve over time. New releases of the same tune follow each other through the 70s, 80s, 90s, into this millennium. Generations of the same family. And then there’s the unreleased versions, the frontier dubs built strictly for sound systems, held close by those who got them and only gradually circulated into the wider audience of selectors and collectors. These are the ones where the bass is heavier, the echoes more mind-bending, the effects wilder and the drums harder. Older sound followers tell stories of how these dubs defined dances, flattened opponents in clashes, inspired a dozen rewinds. Younger followers remember these tales and pass them down. These dubs are folklore.
I started collecting these dubs in the late 90s. We were going to Shaka at the Rocket, Aba Shanti in the Arches, then Imperial Gardens. Entebbe somewhere off Mare Street. Iration Steppas in Kingsland Road, Jah Tubby’s in the Rec. We were doing our own parties at the time in East London, Bohemia Place, then Trenz, Dungeons, the old social services office by London Fields. Building up a sound, taking it on the road, crew sitting on the speaker boxes in the back of a Mercedes 508. Under the stars or in warehouses with sweat dripping from the ceiling, lugging
crates and amps across fields or up flights of stairs, stringing up boxes under bridges, in car parks or on roundabouts. Waiting for the moment to drop the dubs.
This tape is dedicated to my crew and all the music providers and anyone who also knew or wants to know these moments.“
#dub #dubwise #dancehall #reggae #ambient
Siren Selector 🚨 presents the first voyage of @remy.solar.music , as the producer takes a break from composing sound system exclusive dubs to expand his horizons with this by-turns lush, textured, menacing and plaintive album. Pre-orders up on bandcamp - 🔗 in bio ⬆️
Heavy Terrain emerges from the depths of a lifetime inside the dub fraternity: reared on a potent diet of Lee Scratch Perry and Augustus Pablo, The Disciples and Digital Mystikz, it’s an album which stuck its head in a bass bin in an abandoned bingo hall in north London before striking out on a musical road-trip to imbibe sounds and rhythms from further afield.
Remy Solar explores a deliberately constrained hardware set-up to create the primordial conditions of trance, locking down a rhythmic foundation while semi-improvised excursions form and reform above it. It’s an album that takes the listener on a journey between order and chaos, past and future, all the while underlaid by a counterpoint of cavernous basslines and echoing percussion, yang and yin, shade and light.
#dub #dubwise #ambient #reggae #dancehall
This months @citywallradio show kicks off at 13:00 gmt with @krikorparis into some heavy roots reggae before heading into some digi dub from @russdisciples@gavsborg@dubkasm@cloud_mngmnt etc etc. One Hour of bubblers and steppers to enrich the Saturday soul
#reggae #rootsreggae #dancehall #dub #dubwise #digidub
My monthly @citywallradio show is on at 1pm tomorrow London time. This month jumps from Prince Buster and Laurel Aitken jams my dad raised me with through to some Scientist Dubs, 70’s roots fire and heavy Steppas. Tune in live at lunchtime or wait for the mixcloud drop on Sunday.
#reggae #dancehall #ska #rocksteady #dub #dubwise
This months show is heavy on UK Dubwise bangers, full of Steppas for the summer sun ☀️ coming your way! Big love to the @citywallradio fam - tune in to all the shows tomorrow 🔥 🔥 🔥 Siren 🚨 Selector feat tracks from @dubkasm@ishansound@gorgonsoundz@irationsteppas@alterechoecho #thedisciples and loads more. The influence for this particular show is based around records I’ve bought or been turned onto by @rwdfwd , my favourite UK record shop that is back with a bang. Bag their latest mix tape from Bokeh Versions. New sister label to sit alongside Beat Concern but more dubwise soon come, Info to follow……..
My top 20 bandcamp purchases of 2024. The app could still be less janky but it’s the best we got - fuck Spotify and pay artists/labels. Big up to @deathisnot for their endless top quality reissues and mixtapes, no one better doing it at the moment.
Language of Love - Idol from the tape Slow & Low Vol 1 that dropped recently in snazzy VHS/Rave cassette boxes, that will never fit in your nice cassette racks so it purposefully stands out or gets filed away in a box whilst you listen to the tracks on your phone. Check all the videos out on our YouTube channel or go stream the cassette at bandcamp - Link in bio.
