{"id":13241,"date":"2025-06-11T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=13241"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:09:20","slug":"jah-wobble-shares-tyson-dub-mix-an-ode-to-a-fine-furry-friend-announcing-new-dub-volume-1-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=13241","title":{"rendered":"JAH WOBBLE shares ‘Tyson Dub Mix’ – an ode to a fine furry friend, announcing new ‘Dub Volume 1’ album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary bass player and vocalist Jah Wobble<\/strong><\/a> presents ‘Tyson Dub Remix’<\/strong><\/a>, a song dedicated to his dear departed Staffordshire bull terrier. This heralds his new exclusive dub album \u2018Dub Volume 1′<\/strong><\/a>, a solo effort that sees him write, play and arrange everything. The album features full-colour outer and inner sleeves based on paintings by Wobble himself, with the Limited Edition vinyl edition being clear with yellow and red colours dropped in to reflect the artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Dub Volume 1′<\/strong> marks Wobble’s first solo release via Peckham-based label Dimple Discs<\/strong><\/a>, although he had earlier participated in other collaborative releases put out by the label with <\/strong>Telef\u00eds<\/strong><\/a> (Cathal Coughlan and Jacknife Lee)<\/strong>, and also The Ukrainians<\/strong><\/a>, along with former Siouxsie & The Banshees<\/strong> and Specimen<\/strong> member Jon Klein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expertly mastered by Anthony Chapman<\/strong><\/a> (Collapsed Lung)<\/strong> and cut to achieve maximum clarity and volume, this record boasts astounding top layer sonics, This solo deep dive into dub is guided by the influence of sonic pioneers like Lee \u2018Scratch\u2019 Perry and King Tubby, the result being a rich, immersive listen, full of low-end weight and intricately layered textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Tyson was a very stalwart, typical staffy and very, very resolute. Yeah, he was, the governor, but full of love, full of fun. And he was a rescue dog. We got him from Battersea Dogs Home, and we knew who we wanted. We’d seen him online. I said, “He’s\u2014” and they said, “Well, nice. He’s not dangerous or anything, but he’s just absolutely sort of delinquent, you know, like you have to be. You have to be a very experienced dog handler.” But we held out and held out. We were there all day. I had an Uber waiting, we were coming back up north\u2014me, the missus, and me boys. And in the end we got him. My missus and her dad used to just get strays off the street in Liverpool. You don’t really have stray dogs now, but he used to love strays \u2014and he loved Tyson, you know. So that swung it,” says Jah Wobble<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’d walk 10\u201312 miles some days up the hills, and he’d come with me. He’s the family dog, but he was just with me all the time, you know. When I went on tour he couldn’t wait for me to get back. He was lovely. So he had a serious kidney thing. And then a year later, he got sick again. Staffies are so tough. So it turned out he was riddled with cancer. Within a week or two, he had to get put down. And when he had to go, he just went to sleep in my lap. So that was it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known for an original rock \/ reggae hybrid of his own, forged through a deep embrace with reggae, punk, world music and a DIY ethos, Jah Wobble’s heavy, hypnotic bass lines have defined a whole musical era and influenced many musicians for over forty years. Born John Wardle, his career has encapsulated genres from post-punk, dub and world music to experimental rock and electronic music. An original member of Public Image Ltd (PiL)<\/strong> from 1978-80, he made two groundbreaking albums with the band, which included the iconic \u2018Metal Box\u2019<\/strong> (1979). He continues to tour with ‘Metal Box in Dub’<\/strong>, presented as a two-hour show with Jon Klein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wobble launched his solo career even before leaving PiL, forming Invaders of the Heart<\/strong> in 1982 and collaborating with Can’s Holger Czukay<\/strong> and Jaki Liebezeit<\/strong>, U2’s The Edge <\/strong>and producer Fran\u00e7ois Kevorkian <\/strong>soon after. By the 1990s, he had achieved public notoriety, including chart success and a Mercury Music Prize nomination for his \u2018Rising Above Bedlam\u2019<\/strong> album. After releasing the top-40 album \u2018Take Me To God\u2019 <\/strong>and \u2018Heaven and Earth’ <\/strong>via Island Records, Wardle fled record company constraints, returning to more experimental and non-commercial sounding records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was part of the industrial supergroup The Damage Manual<\/strong>, worked with Julie Campbell aka LoneLady<\/strong> on \u2018Psychic Life\u2019<\/strong>, and worked with his wife Zi Lan Liao<\/strong> (guzheng player and harpist) on the award-winning album \u2018Chinese Dub\u2019,<\/strong> for which they won the Songlines Magazine World Music Award and toured with a large group of Chinese performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, he has been playing and recording with Tian Qiyi<\/strong><\/a>, formed by his sons Charlie and John Wardle. Debuting in 2023 with the album ‘Red Mist’<\/strong><\/a>, he once again joins them for their stunning sophomore effort ‘Songs For Workers’<\/strong><\/a>, out on June 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, Jah Wobble and Horace Andy released the <\/strong>‘Timeless Roots’ album<\/strong><\/a>, and is looking forward to the release of the ‘Old Fashioned Ways’ album<\/strong><\/a> with legendary Jamaican crooner Ken Boothe <\/strong>later this year. He also played on Richard Russell<\/strong>\u2019s latest album \u2018Everything is Recorded’<\/strong><\/a>, including the single \u2018Losing You\u2019<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>featuring London rapper\/singer Sampha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among collaborators, Wobble has worked with Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor, Massive Attack, Ginger Baker, Bj\u00f6rk, Brian Eno, Baaba Maal, Pharoah Sanders and many others. Wobble published his well-received autobiography \u2018Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem\u2019<\/strong> via Serpent\u2019s Tail in 2009, as well as a 2008 radio documentary on his old friend Sid Vicious for BBC Radio 3. 30 Hertz Records<\/strong><\/a>, the independent label Wobble launched in 1997, is still active, releasing music in collaboration with Cherry Red<\/strong>, including ‘Dark Luminosity \u2013 The 21st Century Collection’<\/strong><\/a> and ‘In Dub II: Deluxe’<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available on Bandcamp<\/a>,<\/strong> ‘Tyson Dub Remix’ will be available from fine online music platforms on June 13. The \u2018Dub Volume 1′ album, out on vinyl and CD on July 18, can be pre-ordered via Bandcamp<\/strong><\/a>. Jah Wobble continues to tour extensively with I<\/strong>nvaders<\/strong> of the Heart,<\/strong> with UK and European dates planned for October and November. Tickets can be obtained at https:\/\/jahwobble.com\/#live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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