Echo Chamber - April 30, 2014

Another big night of new dubwise releases, new world music releases, and even a track from Janelle Monae & Erykah Badu.  First up was the excellent double-CD which is raising money for a good cause: "Help in Dub for Phillippines" (from Spirit of Umoja/Virlanie).  I found out about this new dub compilation (compiled by Mighty Clem and mastered by Russ Disciple) on the Culture Dub site and bought it through ulule.com.  Next up was the lovely new release just in time for summer - Hollie Cook's album "Twice" (on Mr. Bongo). This one I bought through the pre-order at PledgeMusic - and my "pledge" got me the new album digitally, plus her first 2 albums sent via snail-mail. Another fresh release making its debut was the rootical "Suburban Roots" release from Dublaw (on Svaha Sound). More choice new releases tonight from Ricky Chaplin, Version Big-Fi, Thomas Blondet, Tribal Realities, Empress Ayeola, Daleth Karl ft. Joe Peng, Susheela Raman (the excellent "Queen Between" album), El Remolon, Violons Barbares, Dubsynaticx, and Teebs.  And rounding out the show were grooves from Katchafire (who were just in town), LKJ, Dubcall, T.U.G.G., Kalya Scintilla, DJ Tricky Cris, Mickey Hart, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Ranking Ann, King Tubby, Androcell, and more...