NYC & BOSTON: Dub Invasion, a killer week long dub festival featuring ROIR friends & family like Raz Mesinai (Badawi), Mad Professor, Lee Perry, Twilight Circus, Dr. Israel & more,  is coming to town!

Some highlights feat. ROIR friends & family:

Sat 9/10 (NYC) – Lee Perry & Subatomic Sound System at BB Kings (Facebook)
Mon 9/12 (NYC) – Francois K & Raz Mesinai aka Badawi at Cielo (Facebook)
Thurs 9/15 (NYC) – Dr. Israel at Dominion (Facebook)
Thurs 9/15 (BOS) – Mad Professor & Twilight Circus Dub at Good Life (Facebook)
Fri 9/16 (NYC) – Dub Masterclass feat. Mad Professor at Dubspot (Facebook)
Fri 9/16 (NYC) – Mad Professor & Twilight Circus Dub at Knitting Factory (Facebook)

For more info & full schedule visit dubinvasion.net

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From The Wire:

Kode9 & Spaceape’s new album Black Sun is released today, and with the artwork there’s a comic strip bundled in. The comic is drawn by composer and producer Raz Mesinai (aka Badawi), and illustrates the concept for the album. Mesinai’s drawing is included in the CD and LP version of Black Sun, but not with download, and is accompanied by a lyric sheet to decipher Spaceape’s signature drawl.

Kode9 and Raz also worked together on a track on Raz Mesinai’s Badawi’s Unit of Resistance album (available on CD & LP here).

http://www.razmesinai.com

When he’s not busy composing, arranging, DJing or combining ancient Middle Eastern rhythms with dub effects, Raz Mesinai (also known as Badawi) is writing graphic novels. He’s about to publish his very first novel, “The Heretic of Ether” on his very own Dubfiction Comics.

About Raz Mesinai (Badawi)’s “The Heretic of Ether”:

Deep underground, a war is being waged between two states of trance. Data has been transformed into liquid and flows through a massive network of pipelines connected to a main database, known as the “Main Stream”. Those who partake in the liquid lead passive lives in dark spaces, tranced out on remixed and re-edited images recorded from life before it went underground. On a routine pipeline inspection in the decrepit 4th quadrant, disgruntled maintenance worker Septa 6 discovers a mysterious hallucinogen, a fungus called the Thought Bacteria. What follows is a life-or-death conflict between the synthetic and the so -called organic, a war waged in the dimness of ancient catacombs, through the smoke filled underground clubs, the brightness of the interior spaces of your mind and the strange and deceptive neutrality of a corporate boardroom that chills like nothing you’ve seen before.

Find out more at DubFiction.com
Or follow Dub Fiction on Facebook or Twitter

The holidays are fast approaching… so we just wanted to remind you to order by 5pm EST on Tuesday 12/15 to ensure that you receive your order by December 25!

Remember, we also have FREE SHIPPING and if you BUY 1 CD, YOU GET 1 FREE!

>> Check out our entire catalog here.

As a special treat, we’ve got a podcast put together by our friend, Matt of Devil Eyes (who recently toured with our very own Bad Cop), of some ROIR dub / ska / reggae / dubstep tracks… Here you go:

Matt Lee Meets ROIR in a Spooktremont Bashment Bass Meltdown 1- Skatalites – Exodus 2- Niney the Observer – Acoustic Dub 3- 10 Ft Ganja Plant – Bush Rock 4- Dr Israel – Sensimillia 5- Ras Michael – No Hoppers 6- Badawi – Cooper’s Corner 7- Phase Selector Sound – Subpart J 8- hhyScumclash vs Badawi – Poison Dripping Cinco 9- Kode9 vs Badawi – Den of Drumz 10- Twilight Circus – Bassie Dub I 11- 10 Ft Ganja Plant – Wailin’ 12- Bad Brains – I Luv Jah 13- Ras Michael – None of Jah Jah Children No Cry 14- Skatalites – Freedom Sound Download it here

The year’s not over yet, though! We have some awesome shows coming up before 2009 draws to a close… catch Dub Trio, Badawi, Fleshtones and Wayne Kramer in action!!

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Unit of Resistance, the latest album by Raz Mesinai (aka Badawi) is finally available on vinyl! Feat. mixes by Kode 9, DJ Spooky, DJ Rupture, Filastine, Juakali & more… check it out here. “To call Raz Mesinai a dub musician is like calling Salvador Dali a guy who paints.”- SF Weekly

To celebrate this release on vinyl all Badawi CDs & LPs are on sale:

- RAZ MESINAI’S BADAWI Unit of Resistance CD $8 / LP $10 (reg. $13)
- BADAWI Bedouin Sound Clash CD $8 (reg. $13)
- BADAWI Jerusalem Under Fire CD $8 / LP $10 (reg. $13)
- BADAWI Soldier of Midian CD $8(reg. $13)
- BADAWI Clones & False Prophets CD $8 / LP $10 (reg. $13)

Badawi (otherwise known as Raz Mesinai) will be performing in a workshop for Ableton Live against the legendary Scientist! SCIENTIST VS. BADAWI Dub Battle Supreme Sunday June 28th, 6-7pm @ Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker St

If you can’t go to the Ableton Live workshop, Badawi & Scientist (AND Dub is a Weapon AND DJ Kiva AND Matt Shadetek AND DJ Rupture) will be doing another show at Le Poisson Rouge from 9-2!

Raz performing at KlaraFestival Photo from Flickr By Virginie Schreyen http://www.razmesinai.com myspace.com/razmesinai

Friday, December 5 7:30 pm Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall KRONOS QUARTET David Harrington, Violin John Sherba, Violin Hank Dutt, Viola Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello with special guest: Glenn Kotche, Percussion plays: RAZ MESINAI Crossfader (World Premiere) About Crossfader, Mesinai writes: Written for the Kronos Quartet, Crossfader incorporates the rhythms, pulses and full-throttle energy of electronic dance music into the string quartet medium. Although it was initially written for string quartet and electronics, I realized that all of the sounds I wanted could be derived straight from the instruments alone. By using the many splendid extended techniques that a stringed instrument can deliver, the players simulate such effects as delays, phasers, and flanging used in modern electronic dance music. Raz Mesinai’s Crossfader was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by Deborah and Creig Hoyt. http://www.carnegiehall.org

In other ROIR show news: Dub Trio is playing w/ Bad Brains this Sunday at the House of Blues in San Diego!

DUB WAR LADYKILLIN STYLE

flyer by ashes57

The legendary NYC soundboy BADAWI aka LADYMAN aka Raz Mesinai (ROIR, Skull Disco, Agriculture) also returns to Dub War in advance of his forthcoming deeper than deep Shackleton remix for Skull Disco. He plays a live set of original material which flirts with classic acid house, Middle Eastern rhythms, avant-classical music, and the heavyweight dub which has left his mark on albums like Bedouin Soundclash going back to the mid 90s. Did we mention his work is being performed at Carnegie Hall next month by the Kronos Quartet? No joke.

Check out Badawi’s latest album, Unit of Resistance and his 12″ UK single featuring Kode9 & Juakali.

LINEUP:
MARTYN (3024, amsterdam)
BADAWI vs LADYMAN (ROIR, skull disco, agriculture, nyc)
BEN NEILL (verve, sixdegrees, nyc)

Joe Nice, Dave Q, Alex Incyde
(no Juakali this month, but we’re glad Incyde is back!)

INFO:
Friday, November 21st
10pm til late
21+ (bring ID)
cost: $10 advance/DOS before midnight
$15 door after midnight
advance tix at www.musicislove.net

LOCATION:
LOVE
179 MacDougal St @ 8th St, New York City
by subway: A,C,E,B,D,F,V to West 4th St.

Raz Mesinai (aka Badawi) will be doing a guest DJ spot on WNYU’s Math & Science Show this Thursday 6/19 at 11pm EST!

If you’re in Tri-State area you can tune in to WNYU at 81.9FM.

WNYU is also available online at www.wnyu.org and on iTunes Radio (public section).