DENNIS BOVELL MEETS DUBBLESTANDART - @ Repulse Reggae Classics - LP - Vinyl

In 2019, Vienna’s Dubblestandart produced a limited selection of reworks of reggae classics of Dennis Bovell’s 1980’s band Matumbi, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, Twinkle Brothers, Culture a.o., focusing on works that have been pivotal for the inspiration of Dubblestandart’s bandleader Paul Zasky. Nicolai Beverungen, dub reggae label headman of Echo Beach outta Hamburg / Germany, invited Dennis Bovell to “repulse” the album at Robbie Ost’s GoEAST Studio. Dennis felt inspired, loved the idea, re-voiced the songs, added a couple of guitar lines and also re-dubbed the album.

Repulse Reggae Classics features Dennis Bovell on vocals and as a dub producer in co-operation with Robbie Ost from Dubblestandart, mixing on a legendary E – 6000 solid state mixing board (taken over from Tears For Fears studio in London), using selected vintage outboard analog equipment, developing a distinctive dub reggae sound for this release. What do songs like “I’m No Robot“, “Babylon The Bandit“, or Matumbi’s “Hypocrite” have in common? All of them were written during the 1980s of the last century, but never lost their contemporary accuracy, still perfectly criticizing and analyzing the “pulse” todays political leaderships and societies controversial points of view, have, while entering the digital age. Re- Pulse 21!

See below for tracklisting…