| Groundation / Dub Wars |
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| Album: | Dub Wars | Collection: | Reggae | |
| Artist: | Groundation | Added: | 01/2006 | |
| Label: | Young Tree Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-02-12 | Pull Date: | 2006-04-16 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | 16 Apr | 2 Apr | 26 Mar | 19 Mar | 12 Mar | 5 Mar | 26 Feb | 19 Feb |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 07, 2017: | Happy Hour Elders Dub | 4. | Aug 25, 2008: | Happy Hour Elders Dub | |
| 2. | Oct 16, 2010: | New World Disorder Don's Intro | 5. | Jun 21, 2006: | DUBDUBDUB Feel Jah's Dub | |
| 3. | Apr 27, 2010: | Waves Flow - Victory Farmer Feature Ruling Dub | 6. | Apr 15, 2006: | New World Disorder Elders Dub |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie McFarlane Reviewed 2006-02-08 | ||
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Groundation – Dub Wars (Young Tree Records) Reviewed by Sadie O., 2/8/06 First dub record by this established Bay Area reggae band – features very impressive guest vocalists (see below track list), although many vocals are buried in dub. Most songs are well over 5 minutes long, so it’s a good thing to keep handy for bathroom breaks. By and large the instrumentation is very spare and the general feel quite “relaxed” even if the beat is somewhat uptempo. After a while it does kinda all sound the same, but a single cut, if you’re feeling kinda mellow, is really nice. No FCCs (barely any comprehensible vocals.) I liked 2, 3, 10 but the cuts sound a lot alike, and nothing is bad, so just pick one and go… 1. 7:04 starts out slow and rather “smooth jazz-y”, slowly builds dub effects and gets a beat rolling. Odd vocals & horn solo. 2. **5:51 (DC, CM) very cool midtempo beat, fun interplay of vocals. 3. **5:32 (DC, CM) another cool beat, but slower, lots of vibrato and effects. Cuica and other fun noises, not much of what you’d call singing. 4. 6:42 mid-to-uptempo, odd vocals and female chorus in distance, completely crazed keyboards, 5. 5:27 downtempo with some preaching and street noises. 6. 7:11 jungle beat turns into nyahbinghi drumming, very mellow but still with odd noises disturbing the peace. Drumming builds in intensity. A somewhat abstract piece. 7. 5:51 (DC) downtempo, vocals dubbed to death. 8. 6:03 (AG) downtempo with a bit of swing in the keyboards 9. 4:47 (AG) SLOW, mysterious, builds considerably in tempo and intensity. 10. **6:05 (DC, AG) starts with unrecognizable talking, then slow nyabinghi drumming and keyboard chords, weird noises. (DC: Don Carlos of Black Uhuru; CM: Cedric Myton of the Congos; AG: Apple Gabriel of Israel Vibration) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Ruling Dub | 6. | Dub Rise | |||
| 2. | Don's Intro | 7. | Dub Them Well | |||
| 3. | Elders Dub | 8. | The Mountain | |||
| 4. | The Dragon | 9. | Feel Jah's Dub | |||
| 5. | Elements | 10. | The Seventh Dub |