Earthquake Studio – The Legacy Of Dub
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All dubheads know what's up - it's underground soundsystem dubplate don TNT Roots alongside King Earthquake sparring partner Winston Dread at the controls here, delivering mighty, mystical steppers music from the heart, delivered raw and heavyweight, soundsystem style.
If you didn't get 'Dub Harder Than Steel' yet - then now is your chance to bag that (their first album, also reissued and available from us - and then add this continuation album to your shelf - The Legacy Of Dub - for more dubwise uplfitment. Then, go for the third cut, so to speak, with 'Revelation In Dub' which also just got reissued by Real Rock, and is available from us at the time of writing too... honestly, this is some of the highest order uk steppers you can find - right up there with the tuffest Aba, Iration, blakamix, disciples and shaka creations, but coming with a certain explosive rawness that makes it unique and sit alongside the 'soundsystem continuum' that followed for years to come - from rave music, to grime and techno... right here you can hear the roots of all that, expressed with the same need for big speaker pressure and upliftment from gritty city life, for the soul, and mind.
“The Legacy Of Dub” is the second album by the Northampton duo Earthquake, released in 1993. It follows up the album “Dub Harder Than Steel”, which captured the interest of the UK dub music community and became an instant classic of the revived dub scene. This scene was kept alive during the late 1980s by the legendary Jah Shaka through his work with his sound system and with dub album releases like the “Commandments Of Dub” series. The Jah Shaka legacy started to flourish in the early '90s with sound systems and music producers like Aba Shanti I, Iration Steppas, The Disciples, and Manasseh, to name a few. All of them used the new electronic dub sound in their productions, and Earthquake Studio proceeded along that path.
The setup of the studio was the same as for “Dub Harder Than Steel”: a Siel DK-80 synth, a Yamaha home keyboard, a Casio RZ-1 drum machine, and an Atari 1040 computer running Cubase V2.0. The tracks were shaped through an old Dynamix 8-channel mixer and captured on a Casio portable DAT machine. TNT Roots provided the drum, bass, and chord patterns, while Winston Dread added the lead lines and performed the mixing duties.
"Originally pressed in a very limited run, the album has become a holy grail for sound system music collectors, marking a fundamental chapter in the UK electronic dub scene and paving the way for Earthquake's later Revelation In Dub series, whose first chapter is re-released in this new batch of Real Rock Records releases. "
Common sense (if you ask us, honestly) - get yourself a copy of each Earthquake Studio LP you can find, and seek out all the TNT Roots music you can find, before they fall back into the shark-riddled waters of discogs obscurity ... This is important music.