Free ChipTune Dub/Ska Album – Dubmood – ATARI-SKA L’ATAKK
Jahtari are a great label I’ve only just recently discovered releasing “Digital Laptop Reggae”. I don’t care what they call it, they are releasing some superb music from some interesting artists using new technology to create a modern twist on the dub sound.
Dubmood’s latest release “Atari-Ska L’Atakk” is a chiptune album of Ska covers and remixes, it is both nuts and brilliant in equal amounts. Just loving that Monkey Island tune.
UPDATE: Whilst most of the tracks are covers, the last is an original/collaboration and another is based on some folk music rather than a direct cover. It’s also an EP rather than an album but it is still rather brilliant!
A smashing ChipDub-Ska-EP coming here from the ATARI tracker legend Dubmood.
Six tracks full of love for the rough Ska classics of old, bursting with sheer
virtousity and an obession for funky details. A sure winner full of hits, this
grooving beauty is bound to make you dance while grinning from ear to ear.The EP starts off with a great version of the Skatalites-classic “Exodus” (who in turn took the theme from E. Gold’s oscar winning movie score), followed up by a fine Liberators-cover. A top “Monkey Island” dub, featuring the legendary title theme by Michael Z. Land, is around too. The Maytals’ “Pressure Drop”, later covered by punk-rocker icons The Clash (among others), is followed by the highly addictive “VodSka-Dance”, featuring some popular Russian folk lore.
Most notably THIS alltime classic. A tune you’ll whistle along for days – so beware! The final track is a collab with chiptunes roots rocker GOTO 80, a remix of it can be found on his “_2_4×4″-EP over HERE. See all details below.For the technically interested: all songs were tracked by Dubmood on the
Atari 1040 STfm in maxYMizer, made by gwEm, using the YM2149 soundchip. That is, 4bit sound on 3 channels, one squarewave generator and one noisegenerator on a 16bit 8mhz machine with 1mb of RAM and no samples used!
