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Who loves dub? Raise your hands. Keep them up, let me get a good count.

This music makes me feel like a vinyl freak again and suddenly I miss my turntables. Damn you Rock and Roll! Damn you for swaying my path from more dulcid electronic tones!

For the longest time I’ve wanted to start an electronic dub band. No real reason behind that, I just have this thing for dub and there aren’t any dub bands around here - and that needs to change. Thankfully, my appreciation for dub is not lost on others and when they decide to make some dub music it actually gets done.

Jack Dangers, AKA Meat Beat Manifesto among a zillion other aliases, teamed up with Dubloner, AKA Kenneth James Dobson, AKA Eight Frozen Modules AKA just Google it so I don’t have to keep going, to release dubplate perfection with the single Hiss & Buzz.

Hiss & Buzz is disappointingly short and contains only one song, which is then reinterpreted three more times. But as far as electronic dub singles go, this is top-notch stuff and it finds Jack Dangers back at the top of his game. Here’s hoping they decide to put out a full-length album, although, listening to this only serves to remind me that I will never fulfill my dream of starting a dub band, which is ultimately contributing to me dying slowly inside, just a little bit, every waking hour of my dubless life.

Also, if you haven’t already, check out the ridiculously hard eLarceny Name That Tune contest. I’m thinking about scrapping it in favor of a ridiculously hard I Spy contest. Any objections?

Sample: Jack Dangers and Dubloner from Hiss & Buzz “Rebiana Sand Sea” and “You Have Limbs & Backsheesh”