Dennis Bovell - @ Repulse "Reggae Classics" '2021

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       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!

1.01 - Dennis Bovell - I Am No Robot (3:44)
1.02 - Dennis Bovell - I Am No Robot (Dub) (4:17)
1.03 - Dennis Bovell - Babylon the Bandit (3:43)
1.04 - Dennis Bovell - Babylon the Bandit (Dub) (3:49)
1.05 - Dubblestandart - Fly Me to the Moon (4:42)
1.06 - Dubblestandart - Fly Me to the Moon (Dub) (4:44)
1.07 - Dubblestandart - Jah Jah See Dem a Come (3:56)
1.08 - Dubblestandart - Jah Jah See Dem a Come (Dub) (3:59)
1.09 - Dubblestandart - Hypocrite (4:15)
1.10 - Dubblestandart - Hypocrite (Dub) (4:19)
1.11 - Dubblestandart - Malcom X (4:01)
1.12 - Dubblestandart - Malcom X (Dub) (4:06)
1.13 - Dubblestandart - Hypocrite (Dub Two) (4:18)
1.14 - Dubblestandart - I Am No Robot (Vocal Down Mix) (3:44) 

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