Scientist Dubs KONG to Free the Yellow King and Save the Swamp (Holiday Maker) [Dub]

The Slow Music Movement
2 days ago
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*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's November 26th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***

The cover for Scientist Dubs KONGS to Free the Yellow King and Save the Swamp album, showing a yellow-robed figure with tentacles dominating an urban scene. Red text above reads "Scientist Dubs King." Text below says "To free the Yellow King."

The optimistically named Hopetown Brown aka Scientist made the newsletter and blog back in April. He’s one of the original dub deities from Jamaica, got his start at Tubby’s studio no less and is still cutting it today. He’s also regularly on the look out for fellow dub warriors to collaborate with and for this outing he’s taken on Jack KONG’s (not to be confused with experimental rockers KONG as Tidal did) The Yellow Kings Revenge album, which is an inventive, well crafted, if slightly clunky drum powered outing from a couple of years back.

With the amount of well crafted, nicely stoned sonic detailing on the original it was always destined to work out well. Scientist has stripped things back a bit, added his secret sauce to the original stems and produced, perhaps with the exception of the slightly dreader, “Ambush at High Noon (YK’s Last Stand)“ opener, a lovely laid back, pleasantly baked, easy skanking dub listen.