DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. PEPPERY: One By One (2016)

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FORT KNOX FIVE feat. SLEEPY WONDER: 24 Hours To Set It Off (2016)

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DIRTY DUBSTERS: Special Request (2015)

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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. RI RA & BLACKOUT JA: Back To Boom City (2015)

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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. CHIP FU & SCREECHY DAN: Big Sound (2015)

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THE BIONIC RATS: Dear John Remix EP (2015)

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STEPPA STYLE: No Sound EP (2014)

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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. DARK ANGEL: Ol Bongo Cart (2014)

The latest from Dirty Dubsters features dancehall voice Dark Angel and goes by the title of Ol Bongo Cart. Ol’ what? Surely this track isn’t celebrating a horse-drawn means of transporting afro-cuban percussion instruments? Time for an email to the Dubsters. Except they don’t know what it means either. But they know a man who does. It transpires that ‘bongo cart’ (if I’ve understood Mr Angel correctly) is what you say in front of your mum instead of a ‘bambaclaat’ even …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SUBTIFUGE feat. MR WILLIAMZ: Ganja Dadda (2013) (Dirty Dubsters remix)

Who’s your ganja dadda? I’m betting Mr Williamz thinks he is on the evidence of these lyrics – clearly generated by a staunch proponent of the ‘erb. Quite apart from the fact that he knows lots of names for it and seems to have smoked it in multifarious places in multifarious ways he appears to make the controversial claim that if you “Smoke ganja, you know ya live longer…an’ if ya tink I lie, go ask ya doctor.” Having said that, my patois is …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNYPLUSE & MO MATIC: Spread Out EP (2013)

On which Johnnypluse and Mo Matic heroically rein in their respective impulses to commit untold breaks mayhem proffering instead minimal spacey dub instro Spread Out. It’s a new direction that lasts all of one track after which restraint spreads out and scatters to the four winds as they deliver two steaming great dnb assaults in the shape of different mixes of the misleadingly titled Dubby Dub before finally encouraging Dirty Dubsters to …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CUT LA VIS feat. MYSTRO & MR MELODY: Little Way Different (2013)

Cut La Vis covers Erroll Dunkley’s reggae classic Little Way Different on the latest Irish Moss drop and like all good covers he changes it a bit because – well – every man do his thing a little way different right? Out goes Dunkley’s skipping reggae drums and any sense of the track being a stoned late night swayer and in comes a punchy 88 bpm break and rapper Mystro with a rhyme extolling the virtues of individuality. And the icing on the cake? The fact that there’s still room for the…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GARDNA feat. PARLY B (prod. DR MEAKER): Big Bad Sound (2013)

The latest release on Dirty Dubsters‘ Irish Moss label is the big bad sound of southwestern bass-city, Bristol, UK, teaming up with…er – Doncaster. While Bristol has a globally recognised association with bass music, Doncaster has brought the world a bit of horse-racing and Jeremy fucking Clarkson. Not that Bristol MC Gardna is holding that against Donny MC Parly B – clearly, since he invited him to provide the hook (which makes this track) on …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. BASS NACHO & BLACKOUT JA: Real Bad Boys (2013)

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? – asked Inner Circle back in ’87. It’s been a long time coming but the answer is obviously to rework the track in a digi-dancehall, nasty-ass bass stylee, call it Real Bad Boys and send it out the front to deal with ‘them’ while you scarper out the back. Which is basically what Dirty Dubsters have done – as well as replacing Calton Coffie’s irie vocals with the rather more ominous Bass Nacho and Blackout JA. While all that’s going on, Run Tingz‘ junglist remix …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SISTER QUANNA: Ital (2013)

Dirty Dubsters have joined forces with Jamaican I&I Productions to create new roots reggae label AYA Productions and their first release is Sister Quanna‘s Ital – a sweet rootsy celebration of rasta food. And I’m not talking Reggae Reggae Sauce – though as far as I can make out that does avoid artificial additives. Sister Quanna specifically “nah wan” Babylon food like, “nah KFC, nah Burger King,” and frankly, I’m with her there, though …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DANNY RED: Riddimwiser (Dirty Dubsters remix) (2013) Free download

Have an epiphany whilst having a blaze? You’re bud wise. Like having a blaze and called your early 90s reggae-hip-hop track Riddim Wize? You’re Danny Red. Wise in no-compromise low end production theory, specialise in hip-hop reggae and you like Danny Red as well as having a blaze? You’re the Dirty Dubsters. And you’ve just released your …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS: ‘Fire It Up’ album (2013)

Please don’t adjust your seismographs – all that intense activity is just the Dirty Dubsters‘ debut album. Fire It Up finds the boys who put the ‘dub’ into Dublin lighting up the bottom end bong to finally make (split infinitive intentional) their first full-length journey into outer bass. Production crew are the Dubsters themselves of course while vocal crew are guests: Mystro, Leiko Tola, YT, Clinton Sly, Turbulence, Danny Red, Burro Banton, Sista Quanna and the mighty Blackout JA and Bass Nacho. I don’t know about you but I think it’s time for a ‘Byron Crawford’ track by track analysis – haven’t done one of them in a while. Here goes:…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLUNTSKULL feat. BLACKOUT JA: Bus It In 2 (2012)

In which Bluntskull drops some heavyweight dancehall action. In order to properly facilitate maximum bass vibes on Bus It In 2 he enlists the help of Bristolian dancehall vocalist Blackout JA. Blackout obliges with a vocal that sounds like half a ton of gravel sliding off tip-up truck which, for all I know is an extended and well-deserved tirade against Bristol’s notoriously overpriced and unreliable public transport network. He and I both know what I’m talking about though in case he ever reads this and then identifies me in town (i.e. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. MYSTRO: Fire It Up (2012) Video

In Fire It Up Mystro (that’s ‘maestro’ not ‘mist-ro’) a.k.a. Mysdiggi (doesn’t rhyme with Miss Piggy) proposes a radical solution to violence on broken Britain’s streets. Legalise weed! Yep – let everyone smoke a bit of green. Even the pigs. Chilled vibes all round, and giggly queues for munchies at your local community-business-undermining Tesco which would give a much needed boost to a tanking economy. Well…maybe if everyone smoked natural...READ FULL POST@MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. TOP CAT: Girls Pon Mi Mind (2012) + video

Dirty Dubsters deliver another booty-grinding slice of dancehall action with Girls Pon Mi Mind which skanks along at 95 bpm and is dripping with vintage reggae horns and the lusty vocal stylings of Top Cat. When I say ‘Top Cat’ I don’t, of course, mean a yellow cartoon feline but the legendary UK MC who, one has to assume, neither lives in a dustbin nor continually scams Officer Dibble. Having said that, there’s no doubt he’s the indisputable leader of…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. AFU RA: Real Shit (2012) 5/5

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. AFU RA: Real Shit (2012)
In which the prolific Dirty Dubsters drop yet another monstrous reggae/ hip-hop hybrid by working their bass magic on the evergreen Stalag Riddim, inviting DJ Mek to pull out his best cuts and getting Gang Starr/ Jeru Tha Damaja homie Afu Ra to spit some ‘real shit’ on top. Which he does. Then, over on the flip, Pimpsoul…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM