{"id":4598,"date":"2015-08-13T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/songs-we-love-sinkane-yacha-peaking-lights-dub-mix\/4598\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:20:00","slug":"songs-we-love-sinkane-yacha-peaking-lights-dub-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/songs-we-love-sinkane-yacha-peaking-lights-dub-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Love: Sinkane, “Yacha (Peaking Lights Dub Mix)”"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Piotr Orlov<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Ahmed Gallab of Sinkane Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While the dub album has long been en vogue in Jamaican reggae \u2014 and in the disco \u2014 it’s seemingly disappeared from the modern music industry model. Not so in the mid-Nineties and the early Aughts, when a string of genre-unbound outliers \u2014 full-lengths such as Mad Professor v. Massive Attack’s No Protection<\/em>, Godflesh’s Love and Hate In Dub<\/em>, Easy Star All-Stars’ Dub Side of the Moon<\/em>, and Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz’s Laika Come Home<\/em>, to name a few \u2014 featured studio sessions that paired mixing-board maestros with great song-cycles. But nowadays, who’s got the time to think big and weird, while letting the echo and the reverb fly? (Besides some techno weirdos in Berlin, that is.)<\/p>\n

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Sinkane vs. Peaking Lights, Mean Dub<\/em> EP on DFA Records. Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One answer is Peaking Lights (the West Coast, psyche-pop ‘n’ dub husband-and-wife team of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis) and Sinkane (London-born, New York-based global-musical omnivore Ahmed Gallab). Their collaborative four-song EP \u2014 Sinkane x Peaking Lights, Mean Dub<\/em> \u2014 is a wonderful conversation on the topic of dubwise groove, based on Sinkane’s 2014 LP Mean Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For my money, the stand-out here is a 10+ minute work-out of “Yacha,” powered by a fierce bassline, a clavinet straight out of a Bob Marley & the Wailers session, and a disco skank that resembles the beloved step-child of Compass Point, the Bahamas studio responsible for a myriad of wonderful polyglot musics in the late-’70s\/early-’80s. (It could also be another long lost William Onyeabor song.) It’s a funky club track, head full of downbeat, driving ceaselessly from beginning to end, with Ahmed’s words about opening oneself to love and possibility in order to live a fuller life adding a layer of consciousness to the proceedings, reinforcing the notion of a rhythmic life. In short, a great little anthem for the right dance-floor and disposition.<\/p>\n

The Mean Dub<\/em> EP is out Aug. 20 on DFA Records<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Ahmed<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/strong> 10:42<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n
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Ahmed Gallab of Sinkane Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

While the dub album has long been en vogue in Jamaican reggae \u2014 and in the disco \u2014 it’s seemingly disappeared from the modern music industry model. Not so in the mid-Nineties and the early Aughts, when a string of genre-unbound outliers \u2014 full-lengths such as Mad Professor v. Massive Attack’s No Protection<\/em>, Godflesh’s Love and Hate In Dub<\/em>, Easy Star All-Stars’ Dub Side of the Moon<\/em>, and Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz’s Laika Come Home<\/em>, to name a few \u2014 featured studio sessions that paired mixing-board maestros with great song-cycles. But nowadays, who’s got the time to think big and weird, while letting the echo and the reverb fly? (Besides some techno weirdos in Berlin, that is.)<\/p>\n

\n
\"Sinkane<\/div>\n
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Sinkane vs. Peaking Lights, Mean Dub<\/em> EP on DFA Records. Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

One answer is Peaking Lights (the West Coast, psyche-pop ‘n’ dub husband-and-wife team of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis) and Sinkane (London-born, New York-based global-musical omnivore Ahmed Gallab). Their collaborative four-song EP \u2014 Sinkane x Peaking Lights, Mean Dub<\/em> \u2014 is a wonderful conversation on the topic of dubwise groove, based on Sinkane’s 2014 LP Mean Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For my money, the stand-out here is a 10+ minute work-out of “Yacha,” powered by a fierce bassline, a clavinet straight out of a Bob Marley & the Wailers session, and a disco skank that resembles the beloved step-child of Compass Point, the Bahamas studio responsible for a myriad of wonderful polyglot musics in the late-’70s\/early-’80s. (It could also be another long lost William Onyeabor song.) It’s a funky club track, head full of downbeat, driving ceaselessly from beginning to end, with Ahmed’s words about opening oneself to love and possibility in order to live a fuller life adding a layer of consciousness to the proceedings, reinforcing the notion of a rhythmic life. In short, a great little anthem for the right dance-floor and disposition.<\/p>\n

The Mean Dub<\/em> EP is out Aug. 20 on DFA Records<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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