Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom: Duppy Writer | CD review

(Big Dada)Roots Manuva has already released a dub version of one of his records – 2002's Dub Come Save Me – and, in 2008, commissioned DJ/producer Wrongtom to produce a bonus disc of dub reworkings of tracks from his fourth LP, Slime and Reason. It was so well-liked, the result is this: a "new" album reimagining some of Rodders's key tracks as entirely new dub/reggae numbers with fresh vocals. So the dubstep crank of Awfully Deep's Chin High becomes laidback, cocksure anthem Chin Up, and the...

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