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RE​-​201 # PALMER IN DUB (DEADBEAT​`​s Drugchug DUBs by Scott Monteith)

by ECHO BEACH Lifefidelity

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RE-201 – a new project from Echo Beach’s closest circle of producers, is a tribute to the legendary Roland Space Echo (The Roland RE-201 Space Echo set a new standard for tape echo in the 1970s. Reggae legend Bob Marley is one of the famous Space Echo users, as are the US hard rock band KISS and Nirvana’s frontman Kurt Cobain) – and, much like this iconic device, it is a time machine that invites listeners to take a trip back to the mythical Eighties and forward to 2021 !

The new edition in the series will be PALMER In Dub – DEADBEAT`S DRUGCHUG DUBs by Scott Monteith.

Before DEADBEAT could lend a hand, however, to the PALMER IN DUB album
a team comprised of drummer Achim Färber (AUTOMAT, Ben Lucas Boysen), sound artist Max Loderbauer (Ambiq, Moritz von Oswald Trio) bassist Zeitblom (AUTOMAT, Pole) and Ingo Krauss (engineer, mix, formerly Conny Plank Studio) commissioned by Echo Beach – celebrated the PALMER IN DUB idea and recorded from scratch.

The voice on almost all takes comes is Berlin-based vocalist Mika Bajinsky. This also serves to turn Palmer’s ‘male’ humour completely on its head: in addition to the lyrical reinterpretation, now a woman takes centre stage in the sound space.
Peter Heppner (Vocals on Johnny And Mary)

The team mainly picked compositions that were already deeply shaped by reggae and formed a wonderfull album to come out in 2022.
A very beautiful and ultimately worse a time to wait for it – is the remixed version by DEADBEAT. Echo Beach wanted to have a club-oriantated feeling for it and DEADBEAT made it work in a very perfect way.


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Robert Palmer is widely remembered for his appearance in a slick suit accessorised with a knowing smile, backed by a band of photo models with no cables in their instruments. But the singer, who died in 2003, was much more than the MTV-generation dandy portrayed by video director Terence Donovan. By the time Palmer charted in Germany with “Addicted to Love” and “Simply Irresistible”, the cosmopolitan Brit already looked back on a highly respectable discography that went far beyond the steam hammer pop of the eighties that seemed to be tailor-made for him.

As a teenager, Robert Palmer, who grew up in the north of England, discovered his passion for black music from the USA and played in a number of soul and R&B-inspired bands before being signed by Chris Blackwell for his new label Island. After the debut “Sneaking Sally Through The Alley”, recorded in New Orleans with the Meters as backing band, for which Allen Touissant, among others, contributed a song, Palmer moved to New York and discovered reggae: he named his album “Pressure Drop” (1975) after the song by Toots & The Maytals which he covered. After another move to the Bahamas, the album “Double Fun” was produced in Compass Studio in Nassau, set up by Blackwell, including the classic “Every Kinda People”, which was later fittingly covered by Chaka Demus & Pliers. In those days, Palmer also visited Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Black Ark Studio in Jamaica, hoping to absorb a bit of the resident reggae genius’s spirit. However, the session did not go as hoped: the local rastas had fun annoying the white singer, the Perry-produced mix “Best of Both Worlds” remained unreleased (including the dub), and in the end only the single B-side “Love Can Run Faster” appeared as a testimony to this encounter. After this episode, Palmer set the course for the eighties and the chart highlights of his career with the albums “Secrets” and “Clues” and the disco funk “Looking For Clues” on them: rock guitars, Prince-inspired funk and finally The Power Station, with Chic musicians Tony Thompson and Bernard Edwards plus John and Andy Taylor from Duran Duran.

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released December 1, 2021

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