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Dennis Bovell returns with his 1980 release, 'I Wah Dub'. Killer dub tunes right up there with King Tubby.
""Blackbeard" is the recording and production moniker of Brixton's .  was instrumental in the flourishing of reggae in Brixton in the late '70s, and in England at large. Working with , , , , , and , he helped to create a fertile, multicultural scene where not only reggae, but post-punk exploded and interpolated.  is his second full-length recording as a leader. Originally released on the More Cut label in 1980, it was 's attempt to give his deep  and  obsessions serious vent in a studio.  plays guitar on all but one track, bass, and keyboards of all stripes. The band includes  and , among others. The music was recorded in London at the Gooseberry Studio and sound effects were added at Abbey Road. This is a brief record even by the standards of the day, a scant 27-minutes in length over eight cuts -- it is all but completely instrumental -- the track "'Nough" contains tape manipulation s of indecipherable voices that are either slowed to "screwed & chopped" proportions or inflated by helium high-pitches. But it's the rhythms that make the tracks, and  understands the deep dread dub-like nobody's business -- one wonders what 's  might have sounded like with him instead of  at the controls. The sounds are threaded through a deep, basic, nocturnal mix, where bass and drums slur and swirl instead of pop. Guitars chug and then drop out, keyboards underscore a line here and there or get played backwards, echoing into the cavernous abyss. Along with the  by  and 's , only 's  albums could hold a candle to this piece of dark, twisting, utterly melodic dread reggae. A masterpiece." - Thom Jurek, Allmusic