Dub Oven

Skin 'N' Bones

Music From Memory
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Music From Memory’s final 12" for 2017 is a reissue of Dub Oven's self released, and sadly one-off, 1983 EP 'Skin N Bones’. . Pioneers in the Post Punk Industrial and New Wave scene in 1980’s San Francisco, Gary Miles (Voice Farm) and Blaise Smith (Minimal Man), met at San Francisco’s notorious 181 Club in December of 1982. This straight/same sex/swing-both-ways late night dive bar was tucked away in one of the city's most risky, drug riddled neighbourhoods. Stationed near the SF Museum of modern Art it attracted a wild audience of local patrons, aspiring young artists and music heads. In the thick of all this the duo felt impartial to a lot what was going on musically and set out to produce electronic music that could break through the "somewhat exhausted post disco sound that was then competing in the local San Francisco clubs". Enlisting soul vocalist Celeste Miller, the duo were also inspired by Lee 'Scratch' Perry / Upsetters dub tracks being produced in Jamaica and created a unique breed of avant guard hybrid New Wave/Electronic Funk. With it's influences seemingly as much rooted in the past and the present as it was focused on the future; Dub Oven formed a distinct, mystical approach to music intended for the dance floor. All three tracks on this 12" embody a signature groove and an inventive synthesized abstraction to express a languishing urban unsettledness and spiritual awareness. Recorded at L7 Studios in San Francisco with the assistance of the the studio’s in house producer Marco Perry (who currently now works with Bjork) the record was unfortunately overlooked by A&R at several major and even local labels and was finally self-released in very limited quantities. Utilising analog electronics and instrumentation, the record draws on elements of dub, new wave, soul and funk to create a sound that is uncategorizable and one that was perhaps simply too forward thinking for it’s time.

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Release Date

09.11.2017

Cat No

MFM026

Tracklist

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Track 3
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Cosmic
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Dead Sound (John Moods & Young Marco)
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Into The Void Music From Memory
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Disco
LP
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Dead Sound (John Moods & Young Marco)
27.95 €
Into The Void Music From Memory
Ambient
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2-LP
Various / Virtual Dreams II
29.95 €
Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999 Music From Memory
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Electronica
2-LP
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Various / Virtual Dreams II
29.95 €
Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999 Music From Memory
Fusion
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Total Blue
25.95 €
Total Blue Music From Memory
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Jazz
LP
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Total Blue
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Total Blue Music From Memory
Ambient
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12“
Tim Koh & Sun An
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‘Salt And Sugar Look The Same Music From Memory
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Electronica
12“
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Tim Koh & Sun An
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‘Salt And Sugar Look The Same Music From Memory
Ambient
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12“
Gaussian Curve
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Winter Sun / Fever Dream Music From Memory
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Electronica
12“
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Gaussian Curve
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Winter Sun / Fever Dream Music From Memory
Ambient
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Contours
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Elevations Music From Memory
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Electronica
LP
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Contours
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Elevations Music From Memory
Disco
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2-LP
Various
27.95 €
Surinam Funk Force Rush Hour
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Disco
2-LP
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Various
27.95 €
Surinam Funk Force Rush Hour
Reggae / Dub
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12“
Aisha // Jah Shaka / Norman Twinkle / Mad Prof.
18.95 €
Give A Little Love // African Message Dub Ariwa
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Reggae / Dub
12“
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Aisha // Jah Shaka / Norman Twinkle / Mad Prof.
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Give A Little Love // African Message Dub Ariwa
Contemporary Jazz
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2-LP
Abase
36.95 €
Awakening Analogue Attic
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Jazz
2-LP
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Abase
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Awakening Analogue Attic
80ies Funk
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12“
Various
24.95 €
Soul Of Haringey Backatcha
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Funk/Soul
12“
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Various
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Soul Of Haringey Backatcha
Jazzy Style
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12“
Bread & Souls
15.95 €
A Family Gathering: Chapter 4 Minipan
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House
12“
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Bread & Souls
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A Family Gathering: Chapter 4 Minipan
Soul-Jazz
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Sade
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Stronger Than Pride Epic
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Jazz
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Sade
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Stronger Than Pride Epic