Thursday, 26 March 2020

Deep Fried Dub 'Re-Fried III' Review








Artist: Deep Fried Dub



Title: Re-Fried III



Label: Dubmission Records



Released: Friday 3rd April









The third instalment in the series from New Zealand’s Deep Fried Dub is an all Kiwi affair. With the guys re-mixing five of their contemporaries in dub. As NZ has been a hotbed for Reggae releases for some time you can probably guess some of the appearances already.


First up is their take on ‘Back to my roots’ by Issac Chambers and Dub Princess a natural choice after their multi-millon streaming success with ‘Kryptology’. Now I’m not familiar with the original but this has two major ingredients I’d hope to find with reggae ... a good vocal and speaker shaking bass. Next on the list is ‘It’s the future knocking’ by Pitch Black which begins in their electro-dub fashion, but the style is switched along route into drum and bass.


They then tackle ‘Women will rule the world’ by International Observer which carries the vocal snippets and horns along nicely with an infectious groove. While ‘Dub Cell’ by Subset gets dragged back to the 80’s with arcade style fx and robotic vocoder vocals. Then to see us out they take on one of New Zealand’s biggest bands with ‘Everybody Knows’ by the Black Seeds giving the piece a dubbed out house twist.


To summarise quite simply a job well done! I liked every track on the album, whether I knew the original or not.


Reviewed by Woodzee


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