Qaballah Steppers - Dub in Fusion

The debut album from this Brooklyn-based dub-and-downtempo collective helped define the architecture of a sound that would come to be uniquely identified with the Brooklyn scene: a dark, slow and almost mystical fusion of dub reggae rhythms, Middle Eastern textures and sophisticated jungle elements, all of it leavened with a sometimes explicit religiosity that teeters between Islam and Rastafarianism. The approprately-titled Dub in Fusion blends all of those different styles and elements quite nicely, though not always completely successfully. Read More