V/A - Don Letts: LateNightTales (Version Excursion)

2LP Vinyl - ALNLP64

The song choices are diverse, from French dubsters’ OBF’s renditions of ‘Sixteen Tons’, the miners’ paean popularised by Tennessee Ernie Ford in the 1950s, to Ash Walker’s refix of Omar’s ‘There’s Nothing Like This’ and ‘All I Do Is Think About You’, immortalised by the ill-fated Tammi Terrell and preserved here by Quantic (the latter two both exclusives). Being a Rebel Dread compilation, there’s a cover (by Wrongtom Meets The Rockers) of The Clash’s ‘Lost In The Supermarket’ while Don’s exclusive, naturally, is a rendition of Big Audio Dynamite’s debut hit, ‘E = MC2’, produced by Gaudi.

“Truth be told I’ve wanted to work with the Late Night Tales crew from the get go. We’re talking nearly two decades such was the allure of their musical aesthetic typified by curators like Nightmares on Wax, The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Trentemoller, Khruangbin and countless others. Now being as old as rock n’ roll (born in ‘56) and having nearly 20 years of Culture Clash Radio under my belt I figured I was tooled up to musically juggle with the best of ‘em. But I wanted to carve out a space that was distinctly my own - something that reflected my musical journey and the culture clash that’s made me the man I am today.”

Condition:

Media: Mint (M)

Sleeve: Mint (M)

Track List: 

A1. Ghetto Priest - Hercules (North Street West 'Late Night Tales' Dub) 4:12
A2. Prince Fatty, Shniece McMenamin - Black Rabbit 3:50
A3. Wrongtom, The Stoneleigh Mountain Rockers - Dub In The Supermarket 3:39
A4. Gaudi, The Rebel Dread, Emily Capell - E = MC² 5:08
A5. Rude Boy (27) - Superstylin' 4:39
B1. Capitol 1212, Earl Sixteen - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Full Vocal Dub) 3:46
B2. Quantic, Flowering Inferno - All I Do Is Think About You (Far East Dub) 3:21
B3. Zoe Devlin, Tim Hutton - Caroline No 2:41
B4. John Holt - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (Mad Professor 2021 Dub) 3:53
B5. Cornell Campbell - Ital City Dub 3:07
B6. Matumbi - (I Can't Get Enough Of) That Reggae Stuff (Dennis Bovell Remix) 5:00
C1. Gentleman's Dub Club, Kiko Bun - Use Me (Ben McKone Dub) 4:35
C2. Black Box Recorder - Uptown Top Ranking 4:06
C3. O.B.F. - Sixteen Tons Of Dub 3:24
C4. Yasushi Ide - Ain't No Sunshine (Space Dub Mix) 3:01
C5. The Tamlins - Baltimore 4:38
D1. 15 16 17 - Emotion (Dennis Bovell Remix) 4:31
D2. Ash Walker - There's Nothing Like This 3:47
D3. The Senior Allstars - Slipping Into Darkness 5:52
D4. Easy Star All-Stars - Within You Without You 5:14
D5. Khruangbin - Dern Kala (Khruangbin Dub Mix) 4:03