The Society Of Rockets

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Music and the humanities Listen on Harmonic: https://app.harmonic.fm/users/the-society-of-rockets Listen on Qobuz: https://open.qobuz.com/artist/1959750 Bandcamp: https://societyofrockets.bandcamp.com/album/tough-trip-through-paradise

“In those nine months, Fela and some of us were exposed to things that were being kept from us in Africa. I’m talking about history books not available in Nigeria. When we got back home from that tour, Fela said he couldn’t be a great man when people in his country were poor.”

“They threw tear-gas and beat the sh*t outta us.”

Teargas, murder, and an Afrobeat insurrection: How a middle class medical student became Nigeria’s public enemy number one - and its most revolutionary star.

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"Utilising an obsolete MCI console with a built-in high-pass filter and a homemade tape delay, Tubby’s sonic alchemy yielded a distinctive sound that was totally unlike that of his peers, making his micro-studio the prime site of dub innovation during the 1970s, with far-reaching effects."

The Strange World Of… King Tubby | The Quietus

Ahead of a new book on the history of dub, David Katz offers us ten entry points into the back catalogue of King Tubby

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