{"id":4597,"date":"2022-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2022-10-02T00:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T07:21:56","slug":"soundwave-131-ambient-dub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-131-ambient-dub\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 131 : AMBIENT DUB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s show features a retrospective mix of the Ambient Dub<\/a><\/em> compilation albums from the \u201990s.<\/p>\n\n

A couple of months ago, I realized I had an open slot in the Soundwave schedule. I could have quickly filled that slot, but since I rarely get to deejay on my own show, I save those available slots for myself. As it happens, I had just finished a mix featuring music from the Ambient Dub compilation albums.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019re unfamiliar with Ambient Dub<\/em>, they were a series of compilation albums released through the Beyond<\/a> label. Electronic music was mutating at a furious pace, and it was only a matter of time before ambient and dub would intertwine and become its own genre.<\/p>\n\n

As I recall, I first came across the Ambient Dub Volume 3: Aqua<\/a><\/em> album while digging through the racks at Newbury Comics<\/a> in Harvard Square. The album cover caught my imagination. It was a minimalist take on the techno\/rave flyer album covers at the time.<\/p>\n\n

I was already a devotee of dub since the \u201880s when I discovered ROIR<\/a>\u2019s 21st Century Dub<\/a><\/em>, a release of Pecker Power<\/a>\u2019s cosmic dubs. Beyond captured that alchemical synthesis of ambient and dub, turning me on to musicians like Banco De Gaia<\/a>, Higher Intelligence Agency<\/a> and Space Time Continuum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

For the next few years, I worked my way backward through the series, finding Ambient Dub Volume 2: Earthjuice<\/a><\/em> and Ambient Dub Volume 1: The Big Chill<\/a><\/em> and finally catching up with Ambient Dub Volume 4: Jellyfish<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

I\u2019ve had these albums on rotation for decades. I\u2019ve included songs from these cherished albums when I was a deejay at WMFO<\/a>, often winding down 5 am set with Insanity Sect\u2019s \u201cChoctaw Ridge.\u201d This mix came together from muscle memory. It was effortless. It was so much fun that whenever a slot opens up in the next few months, I\u2019ll showcase retrospective mixes featuring music from the Excursions in Ambience<\/a><\/em> and From Here to Tranquility<\/a><\/em> compilation series.<\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be returning guest deejay Pierre Laplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

See you then.<\/p>\n\n