LATE NIGHT TALES PRESENTS VINYL EXCURSION SELECTED BY DON LETTS 2 x black vinyl

Description: LATE NIGHT TALES PRESENTS VINYL EXCURSION SELECTED BY DON LETTSArtist: Don LettsTitle: Late Night Tales presents Version Excursionselected by Don Letts Label: Late Night TalesCatalogue No: ALN64 Genre: Dub ReggaeFormats: 2LP black Unmixed Vinyl VersionCAT # ALNLP64UPC: 5060391093741Pressed on double 180 gram virgin vinyl. Includes 30cm art print.Including download codes for the Don Letts mix and full unmixedtracks as MP3 / FLAC / WAV.A1 Ghetto Priest - Hercules (North Street West 'Late Night Tales' Dub)EXCLUSIVE REMIXA2 Prince Fatty & Shniece McMenamin - Black RabbitA3 Wrongtom Meets The Rockers - Dub In The SupermarketEXCLUSIVE REMIXA4 Gaudi Meets The Rebel Dread ft. Emily Capell - E = MC2EXCLUSIVE TRACKA5 Rude Boy - Superstylin' EXCLUSIVE REMIXB6 Capitol 1212 ft. Earl 16 - Love Will Tear Us Apart(Full Vocal Dub) EXCLUSIVE REMIXB7 Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - All I Do Is Think About You(Far East Dub) EXCLUSIVE REMIXB8 Zoe Devlin Love ft. Tim Hutton - Caroline NoB9 John Holt - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine(Mad Professor 2021 Dub) EXCLUSIVE REMIXB10 Cornell Campbell - Ital City Dub EXCLUSIVE REMIXB11 Matumbi - (I Can't Get Enough Of) That Reggae Stuff(Dennis Bovell Remix) EXCLUSIVE REMIXC12 Gentleman's Dub Club ft. Kiko Bun - Use Me (Ben McKone Dub)C13 Black Box Recorder - Uptown Top RankingC14 OBF - Sixteen Tons Of DubC15 Yasushi Ide - Ain't No Sunshine (Space Dub Mix) EXCLUSIVE REMIXD16 The Tamlins - BaltimoreD17 15 16 17 - Emotion (Dennis Bovell Remix) EXCLUSIVE REMIXD18 Ash Walker - There's Nothing Like This EXCLUSIVE TRACKD19 The Senior Allstars - Slipping Into DarknessD20 Easy Star All-Stars - Within You Without YouD21 Khruangbin - Dern Kala (Khruangbin Dub Mix) EXCLUSIVE REMIX Cultural polymath - pop star, filmmaker, radio broadcaster,commentator, Grammy winner. Oh and DJ, too. Take yourpick from the many coats worn by our selector, Don Lettsaka The Rebel Dread.Born in Brixton, a child of the Windrush Generation, Letts’slippery and unorthodox career is somewhat hard to define,without taking a few detours around London, New York andJamaica. He began his working life managing the dauntinglyhip Acme Attractions on Chelsea’s Kings Road, where hemade a mark with his attitude, dress and, especially, thepounding dub reggae that vibrated the shop’s walls. His firstgig as a DJ at the short-lived Roxy in Neal Street, becamemythical for turning a generation of punks on to reggae.They in turn hipped him to their DIY ethos resulting in hisreinvention as a filmmaker. This led to a shed-load of musicvideos (Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Clash, Bob Marley) notto mention documentaries on the likes of Gil Scott-Heron,George Clinton and Sun Ra.In the ’80s, he was part of Mick Jones’ new venture, Big Audio Dynamite and his innovative use of samples were a corepart of their sound. Listeners of his weekly 6 Music radioshow are taken on a musical safari that moves seamlesslybetween time, space and genre. It’s not called Culture ClashRadio for nothing. So this latest bulletin from Letts HQ ismerely one angle of a multifaceted personality, his take onthe JA tradition of the cover version.The history of Caribbean music owes a debt to R&B as manyof the early island releases were cover versions of US 45s.Ska’s breakthrough commercially, Millie Small’s ‘My BoyLollipop’, was originally recorded by Barbie Gaye in ’50s NewYork. Cover versions became quite a thing in Jamaica andDon, following in that tradition, has dug deep with a selection of interesting dubbed out covers including thirteenexclusives.“A disciple of sound system, raised on reggae n’ bass culturemy go to sound was dub. Besides being spacious and sonically adventurous at the same time, its most appealing aspectwas the space it left to put yourself ‘in the mix’ underpinnedby Jamaica’s gift to the world - bass. But that’s only half thestory as the duality of my existence meant I was also checking what the Caucasian crew were up to not to mention theexplosion of black music coming in from the States. That’swhy this version excursion crosses time space and genre,from The Beach Boys to The Beatles, Nina Simone to MarvinGaye, The Bee Gees to Kool & The Gang, The Clash to JoyDivision and beyond. You’d think it impossible to draw a linebetween ‘em but not in my world. Fortunately, the ‘coverversion’ has played an integral part in the evolution of Jamaican music and dub covers were just a natural extension.”There’s a diverse mix of classic and new, with legendary figures like John Holt, The Tamlins and Cornell Campbell, mixedin with British veterans Mad Professor and the irrepressibleDennis Bovell, while (relatively) young striplings Kiko Bun,Emily Capell and Prince Fatty deliver the goods, with laidback Texan groovers Khruangbin also offering an exclusivebass heavy-delight.The song choices are diverse, from French dubsters’ OBF’srenditions of ‘Sixteen Tons’, the miners’ paean popularisedby Tennessee Ernie Ford in the 1950s, to Ash Walker’s refixof Omar’s ‘There’s Nothing Like This’ and ‘All I Do Is ThinkAbout You’, immortalised by the ill-fated Tammi Terrell andpreserved here by Quantic (the latter two both exclusives).Being a Rebel Dread compilation, there’s a cover (by Wrongtom Meets The Rockers) of The Clash’s ‘Lost In The Supermarket’ while Don’s exclusive, naturally, is a rendition of BigAudio Dynamite’s debut hit, ‘E = MC2’.“Truth be told I’ve wanted to work with the Late Night Talescrew from the get go. We’re talking nearly two decades suchwas the allure of their musical aesthetic typified by curatorslike Nightmares on Wax, The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Trentemoller,Khruangbin and countless others. Now being as old as rock n’roll (born in ‘56) and having nearly 20 years of Culture ClashRadio under my belt I figured I was tooled up to musically jugglewith the best of ‘em. But I wanted to carve out a space that wasdistinctly my own - something that reflected my musical journeyand the culture clash that’s made me the man I am today.”

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