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Dub: Red Hot vs Ice Cold
Dub is a virus. It infects the body and warps the mind.
From its reggae roots in Jamaica, across to the comparatively icy climes of Bristol in the 1990s, the history of Dub music is one of physical and aural processes. ‘Dub is the science of studio pressure, when engineer becomes artist’, writes Richard Skinner, while piecing together a chronicle of Dub which is part memoir, part essay, summoning the intensely affective power of Dub and its various communities, that span across decades and continents.
Summoning the music of the legend King Tubby, Rudolph ʻRuddyʼ Redwood, to the music of Lou Ciccotelli and his proto-African beats, and the Bristol scene of the 1990s; Skinner’s history, written in startlingly rich prose, comes from the hand of a devotee of the genre who has been irreversibly contaminated by its pressure and bass.
Dub: Red Hot vs Ice Cold is the second ebook published by Noch.
www.nochpublishing.com
About the Author
Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy. His novel, The Velvet Gentleman (Faber & Faber, 2014), is a fictional biography of the life of Erik Satie, a translation of which was shortlisted in France for the Prix Livres & Musiques. Some poems from his collection, the light user scheme (Smokestack, 2013) were chosen by the international collective of musicians, Pablo’s Eye, as lyrics for their album, all she wants grows blue (Swim~, 1998). http://richardskinner.weebly.com/
From its reggae roots in Jamaica, across to the comparatively icy climes of Bristol in the 1990s, the history of Dub music is one of physical and aural processes. ‘Dub is the science of studio pressure, when engineer becomes artist’, writes Richard Skinner, while piecing together a chronicle of Dub which is part memoir, part essay, summoning the intensely affective power of Dub and its various communities, that span across decades and continents.
Summoning the music of the legend King Tubby, Rudolph ʻRuddyʼ Redwood, to the music of Lou Ciccotelli and his proto-African beats, and the Bristol scene of the 1990s; Skinner’s history, written in startlingly rich prose, comes from the hand of a devotee of the genre who has been irreversibly contaminated by its pressure and bass.
Dub: Red Hot vs Ice Cold is the second ebook published by Noch.
www.nochpublishing.com
About the Author
Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy. His novel, The Velvet Gentleman (Faber & Faber, 2014), is a fictional biography of the life of Erik Satie, a translation of which was shortlisted in France for the Prix Livres & Musiques. Some poems from his collection, the light user scheme (Smokestack, 2013) were chosen by the international collective of musicians, Pablo’s Eye, as lyrics for their album, all she wants grows blue (Swim~, 1998). http://richardskinner.weebly.com/
21 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 15, 2013
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