Calamalka - Shredders Dub flac album

Michael Campitelli (Calamalka) mostly captures dub's factory life in Shredders Dub. The Vancouverian's debut album has a rich atmosphere that inhabits a rehearsal space tucked underneath a junk-shop's trapdoor. Blistered hands master the music's craftsmanship. The raw beats are usually thwacked on a live trapkit like a sledgehammer- quite a relief from the bald-shaven drum machines heard in so much digital-dub. The live basslines maintain a steady groove without either deafening the room or falling flat

Shredders Dub drops you in the middle of space, occasionally the heart of the jungle. The plodding bassline of "Chassi" sounds especially cranky and the jolts and jerks are jarring, but high-quality freakouts like the ones here aren't to be found on smooth dub albums

All tracks produced by Calamalka. Bass on 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 and keys on 3, 7, 12 by Chris Carlson. Guitar on 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12 and keys on 10 by Brian McKendry. Mixed by Calamalka & Sho at Profile Studios.

Not to be confused with Black Dub (stream), a watercourse in Cumbria, United Kingdom. Black Dub is the debut album by the Daniel Lanois-instigated collaboration Black Dub, an amalgam of dub, blues, soul and rock. All songs are written by Lanois, save for two, the group effort "Last Time. and the song "Ring the Alarm" written by Tenor Saw.

Album: Shredders Dub, 2006. Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises. Lighting Rigg · Calamalka. Released on: 2006-01-10.

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The most significant aspect of Shredder's Dub is that its seduction is not relegated only to the dub enthusiast. As a whole, Calamalka's efforts pry into more than one genre. The album's flaws are in the area of innovation. Campitelli needs to do more in the way of developing ideas with these beats.