Keith Hudson's Flesh of My Skin Blood of My Blood FINALLY reissued!

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So I'm pretty sure this is the last great roots reggae holy grail that never got a real re-release (I've only been looking for it for like 10 or so years--whenever I got the Blood & Fire Pick a Dub reissue). Anyway the reissue is yet again on Basic Replay (same as Playing It Cool etc). And on first listen. . . yes. . . it seems to be a pretty strange record.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yay!
Isn't Basic Replay a UK label? which means it'll be import priced?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a German label (the dub imprint of Basic Channel.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

basic replay should get the nobel prize for this shit

― duke alfred, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

so keith sings on all the tracks, right? how do you like his voice?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The sound is good too. I've heard rumors that the master tapes have long since gone missing so I am assuming that this is a vinyl transfer.

Um his voice is not the greatest, but it sounds much better on this record than Too Expensive (a good record which is kind of made slightly hard to take cuz of his voice.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't spent enough time with it yet but 'playing it cool' is unimpeachable

― duke replay, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

you should buy this immediately oops.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i keep getting excited about these things before i remember that i really don't listen to this stuff anymore.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Too good for the roots reissue market, aren't you?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

you listened to it when you were old

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i tried to be that "the wire" guy for a really long time, i swear!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh, this isn't really a The Wire thing, but I guess I can see why it would read that way. (Plus is it just me or has The Wire really started to suck lately?)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

why does the wire have a dub page? its weird.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i was just kidding about the wire thing. but i did "get into dub" when i started reading the wire and tried to "get into a lot of stuff".

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually the dub and critical beats pages are the only things worth reading at all these days. They should be the whole magazine.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

HUDSON MUY ESPECIAL

― duke kids, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to mully, but the only place I can find it online is selling it for $16 plus $6 shipping. like you I am really really broke and just bought 4 cds to ease the new music withdrawal i was suffering from.
(btw, still waiting on blank cds to be sent to me)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

strongo - 'this sort of thing' doesn't apply

the title track is like if 10cc or some sweety MOR band tried to make reggae (No, not Third World). "Treasures Of The World" (the name I think?) is one of the tenderest tracks ever... this 'stuff' is up there with Carlton & The/His Shoes

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 22 April 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Stongo did you never listen to the orb early stuff? Completely dubbed out, that is really where my interest in dub was founded.

Try some Augustus Pablo, Keith Hudson is like jumping into the pool at the deepend.

― hector (hector), Thursday, 22 April 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess has heard plenty of dub, I'm sure.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 22 April 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep thinking this thread is about Keith Harris

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

penny reel here

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 22 April 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i didnt feel like buying this either for some reason!

― prima fassy (mwah), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't know this album for some reason... oh I know why, it's never been reissued before!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

if it's anywhere near as dusted as Playing it Cool, i will be quite happy.

― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

And on first listen. . . yes. . . it seems to be a pretty strange record.

Tell me a bit more (just you know to make me want it even more ;)

might as well ask it here: has anybody heard that new Wackies reissue Creation Dub?

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Like a lot of you, I've been wanting to hear this record for years, and Playing It Cool was probably the best thing I heard last year.

But I find the album mildly disappointing.

Two listens in, I can't put my finger on it, but it isn't nearly as evil, psychedelic or strange as Playing It Cool - some of it is pretty tame / by the numbers, where I thought Playing It Cool was just a face-melting masterpiece that kept eliciting "what the FUCK??"s out of me. That "No Friend of Mine" song is pretty great, but beyond that, it's merely decent. Maybe on third listen it'll click.

― roger adultery, singer for The Who, Sunday, 12 September 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It is not as good as Playing It Cool, but it is a bit more diverse. The instrumentals are great mixes of funk and dub, and there is a great thread of sighing psychedelia throughtout the disc.

"Fight your Revolution" always sneaks in my head.

I've always wanted to hear Hudson's "Blend" - I think it is the dub version of Rasta Communication.....

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 12 September 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

horn-toot:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/h/hudson_keith/flesh-of-my-skin.shtml

― BbetaA, Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hope Torch of Freedom is next. lots of steel drums with acid guitar soloing.

― BbetaA, Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Trojan/Sanctuary have released a two-cd set entitled Keith Hudson and Friends. Forty-five tracks!

― paul c (paul c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

In my rush through the title of this thread, I immediately thought "Damn, there's an album where Kate Hudson covers early DMX?"

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it's more than 45 tracks, and they are killer. "satan's side" and "place called africa" are just the start.

― imbidimts, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

AAAARRGH I NEED IT

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that Trojan comp is f'ing rad. Better even than Studio Kinda Cloudy, which I guess it's meant to replace.

― Dark Horse, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

my closest comparison would be to the similarly arranged Lee Perry one, The Wonderman Years. but over two discs, 55 TRACKS!!, i don't get tired of Keith's rhythms as much, as they fall apart a bit more each time go-round, and they're pretty precarious, dishevelled, and mad to begin with. and since Big Youth, Alton Ellis, U Roy, Johnny Clarke, and Augustus Pablo on it, it makes for a really woozy sort of overview of the time.

― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Is "Place Called Africa" that song by um can't remember set to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun"? Oh it must be, why did I bother asking, what else could it be? Anyway my fav thing off "Studio Kinda Cloudy" is "In the Burning Sun Joh-oh" by (hmm?) Bunny Gale, a heartbreakingly gorgeous song about pirates.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Has Torch of Freedom been reissued anywhere yet?

I still play Playing it Cool constantly. It has stood the test of time the way few records do - definitely one of my favorite albums of all time at this point.

More info on that 2XCD thing would rule, too, fellas...is that UK only?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, it's Trojan so you should be able to find it at good record shops. It's basically an expanded version of Studio Kinda Cloudy with a bunch of Keith solo on the second disc. If you don't have that I would definitely buy. I haven't heard anything about Torch of Freedom or Entering the Dragon coming out, but I suppose it is only a matter of time.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

whoever runs trojan these days gets a big salute from me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i finally did hear this eventually, and yeah, it's good

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 13 May 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i still think i prefer my dub in other genres though, sad as it may be

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 13 May 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

whaddya mean 'other genres?'

Keith Hudson = God

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean you love dub touches in other genres, but dub itself is kinda meh? nothing sad about that.
i really wish dub was around during the rocksteady era.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm wondering why somebody hasn't thought to 'screw and chop' any old dub records yet. PATENT PENDING motherfuckers!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean make them even slower??

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah dude!!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i really wish dub was around during the rocksteady era.

well they were still using some rocksteady rhythms into the dub era.... and some of the DJ 'versions' are almost dub....

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm fairly sure I saw a "Torch of Freedom" CD reissue doing the rounds a couple of years back but I didn't buy it because I have one of the various issues of the vinyl.

Just a boring point of information: FOMSBOMB did have a vinyl reissue on Atra in the late-ish 80s but disappeared pretty swiftly. I didn't buy it because I had no money at the time.

"Nuh Skin Up Dub" is the one I'm waiting for a reissue of. It's very good indeed. I have a tolerable CDR of it. I saw a copy once! Like PICPIR, plain white cover with a stamp. I didn't buy it because I am an idiot.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember 'pick a dub' being decent, is 'playing it cool' considered to be better than that one?

I'm wondering why somebody hasn't thought to 'screw and chop' any old dub records yet. PATENT PENDING motherfuckers!

-- Roger Fidelity (blindjimdeat...), May 13th, 2005 10:52 PM

and dub versions of s&c tracks!

― Amon (eman), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the only way i found "torch of freedom" was on slsk, and with no crackle, maybe it was ripped from a disc. would love to hear "nuh skin up dub" though.

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy, I tried to contact you a while back about Swamp Dogg. Is that a functioning e-mail address? If not, drop me a line.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I really, really, really, really want that Lloyd Lidberg 45.

Is that track ("Jonah Come out Now") On that Hudson Affair 2XCd thing?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. as well as a version of it. last two tracks of the comp.

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

and tim, i just wrote you.

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

awwwwwwww shit i gotta get that now. I usually resist these things you people call 'compact discs' but in this case I'll be happy just to hear this. The 45 is still on my want list though, four years and counting!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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