James Allison / Blindness (James’ North Dub / Ransom Note James Allison delivers an EP for Ransom Note’s Friends & Family Recommends under the title Make Dance Rock Again. My pick of the bunch is a radical dub of the 2006 Fall track, Blindness. Stark, stripped back and slowed down, the end result sorta recalls Dennis Bovell reshaping The Slits. Sharp, serrated shards of broken buzzsaw riffs and Mark E. Smith’s stuttered, staccato bellowing are punched in and out of a heavy bass (Rowche) rumble, as Allison does a great job of recreating a very authentic, early 80s post-punk vibe. Alpha & Omega / Warrior Dub / Partial Christine Woodbridge and John Sprosen have been making heavy roots music as Alpha & Omega since the late 1980s. I think the track Warrior dates back to the 1993 album Everyday Life. Full of the duo’s signature phasing, EQ-ing, brass and synth “Far East” fanfares, this is the first time the track’s appeared on a 45. With squelchy lows and twinkling, tinkling, starlight-like…
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