Don Letts – Late Night Tales pres. Version Excursion (Late Night Tales)
Don Letts, legendärer britischer DJ, Musiker, Journalist und Filmemacher jamaikanischer Abstammung, macht ‘Version Excursion’ ausschließlich mit Dub-Reggae-Coverversionen zu einem herausstechenden Meilenstein der Late Night Tales-Serie! Don Letts brachte Mitte der 1970er als erster Resident-DJ des Londoner Punk-Clubs Roxy jungen Punk/New Wave-Musikern wie Sex Pistols, The Clash und Chrissie Hynde den Reggae nahe, drehte unzählige Videos und Filmdokus (u.a. die Grammy-prämierte The Clash-Doku ‘Westway To The World’), war neben Mick Jones Mitglied bei Big Audio Dynamite und betreut bis heute eine wöchentliche Radioshow auf BBC 6 Music. Mit “Version Excursion” gräbt er tief in die Plattenkiste und präsentiert einen Sampler mit Dub-Reggae-Coverversionen, die stets ein integraler Bestandteil des Genres waren. Ihr Ursprung überwindet Zeit, Raum und Genre und reicht von The Beach Boys und The Beatles, Nina Simone und Marvin Gaye, The Bee Gees und Kool & The Gang, bis zu The Clash und Joy Division. 13 von insgesamt 21 Versionen sind exklusiv, darunter von John Holt, Matumbi, Cornell Campbell, 15 16 17, Khruangbin, Ghetto Priest und natürlich Don Letts aka The Rebel Dread’s Neubearbeitung des B.A.D. Kulthits ‘E=MC2’. Weitere Highlights kommen von Prince Fatty & Shniece McMenamin, Easy Star All-Stars und Black Box Recorder.
Tracklisting
01. Ghetto Priest – Hercules (North Street West ‘Late Night Tales’ Dub) EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Aaron Neville
02. Prince Fatty & Shniece McMenamin – Black Rabbit – Originally recorded by Jefferson Airplane
03. Wrongtom Meets The Rockers – Dub In The Supermarket EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by The Clash
04. Gaudi Meets The Rebel Dread ft. Emily Capell – E = MC2 EXCLUSIVE TRACK – Originally recorded by Big Audio Dynamite
05. Rude Boy – Superstylin’ EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Groove Armada
06. Capitol 1212 ft. Earl 16 – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Full Vocal Dub) EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Joy Division
07. Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno – All I Do Is Think About You (Far East Dub) EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Tammi Terrell
08. Zoe Devlin Love ft. Tim Hutton – Caroline No – Originally recorded by The Beach Boys
09. John Holt – You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (Mad Professor 2021 Dub) EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Lou Rawls
10. Cornell Campbell – Ital City Dub EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Marvin Gaye
11. Matumbi – (I Can’t Get Enough Of) That Reggae Stuff (Dennis Bovell Remix) EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Kool & The Gang
12. Gentleman’s Dub Club ft. Kiko Bun – Use Me (Ben McKone Dub) – Originally recorded by Bill Withers
13. Black Box Recorder – Uptown Top Ranking – Originally recorded by Althea & Donna
14. OBF – Sixteen Tons Of Dub – Originally recorded by Merle Travis
15. Yasushi Ide – Ain’t No Sunshine (Space Dub Mix) EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Bill Withers
16. The Tamlins – Baltimore – Originally recorded by Randy Newman
17. 15 16 17 – Emotion (Dennis Bovell Remix) EXCLUSIVE REMIX – Originally recorded by Samantha Sang
18. Ash Walker – There’s Nothing Like This EXCLUSIVE TRACK – Originally recorded by Omar
19. The Senior Allstars – Slipping Into Darkness – Originally recorded by WAR
20. Easy Star All-Stars – Within You Without You – Originally recorded by The Beatles
21. Khruangbin – Dern Kala (Khruangbin Dub Mix) EXCLUSIVE REMIX
Die Mix-CD Don Letts “Late Night Tales pres. Version Excursion” (Late Night Tales) erscheint am 24.09.2021.