Hamburg group DubXanne's 2008 album Police in Dub now available on 180-gram vinyl for the first time, with two bonus CDs containing the complete original album (EB 067CD) and Rob Smith aka RSD's 2014 re-synchronized remixes (EB 104CD). DubXanne are devoted to bringing out the original dub roots from the biggest band in '70s-'80s Britain, The Police. At the apex of their career, The Police were a massive, bleached-blond juggernaut, surfing a new wave sound that valued intellectual cool and lightly sprinkled ethnic influences over the discredited rock 'n' roll bluster of old. The first post-punk supergroup. At the end of 1977, over the Christmas period, Stewart Copeland played Sting some of his reggae records. When Summers returned to Britain from his vacation in the United States, he found his bandmates newly inspired by Jamaican sounds. "There is this terrible wrong-headed cliché that The Police were a white reggae band," protests Summers. "We weren't at all. A white reggae band would be UB40. The Police was The Police. We took elements out of reggae, principally the bassline and tempo, and used them creatively... and that was the point of departure." Indeed it was. Reggae rhythms finally shook The Police free from post-punk rock convention and the rest has become history -- to date, 40 million people all over the world have bought a Police record! The first recordings for Police In Dub started in September 2006. After exhaustive scrutiny of The Police's back catalog at EMI Music Publishing (which controls and manages the rights for Sting's songs) and lengthy negotiations with Sting's management team, final consent for the project was granted in March 2008. Now the world can enjoy dub versions of the biggest tunes by The Police. The musicians behind DubXanne are members of the group Okada (backing band for Zoe, Maxim, Don Abi to name a few): Mykal (drums), Marcus (bass), Manougazou (guitar), and Guido Craveiro (guitar/keyboards; produced Moloko, Zoe and Bootsy Collins). Police in Dub also features such well-known vocalists as Big Youth, Ranking Roger from The Beat, Earl 16, Benjamin Zephaniah, Eased From Seeed, Jazz'min, and Joe Peng. DubXanne's album is a unique masterpiece, paying respect to an influential super-group. This is massive roots reggae. Limited edition of 500 paginated and numbered copies. Vinyl: Police In Dub A1 Walking On The Moon (Walking On The Dub) 5:55 A2 Roxanne (Dubxanne 5:43 A3 The Bed's Too Big Without You (The Bed's Too Big Without Dub) 5:03 A4 Message In The Bottle (Message In A Dub) 5:48 B1 Spirits In A Material World (Spirits In A Dubworld) 5:26 B2 So Lonely (So Dub) 5:02 B3 Wrapped Around Your Finger (Wrapped Around Your Dub) 6:26 B4 Bring On The Night (Dub On The Night) 5:17 CD 1: Police In Dub 1 Walking On The Moon (Walking On The Dub) 5:55 2 Roxanne - (Dubxanne) - Dub Version 5:43 3 Can't Stand Losing You (Can't Stand Losing Dub) 5:02 4 The Bed's Too Big Without You (The Bed's Too Big Without Dub) 5:03 5 Driven To Tears (Driven To Dub) 5:05 6 Message In A Bottle (Message In A Dub) 5:48 7 Once Upon A Daydream (Once Upon A Dubdream) 5:30 8 Spirits In A Material World (Spirits In A Dubworld) 5:25 9 Someone To Talk To (Someone To Dub To) 4:27 10 So Lonely (So Dub) 5:02 11 Reggatta De Blanc (Regatta De Dub) 6:04 12 Wrapped Around Your Finger (Wrapped Around Your Dub) 6:25 13 Bring On The Night (Dub On The Night) 5:15 CD 2: Police In Dub (Re-Synchronised By Rob Smith Aka RSD) 1 Walking On The Moon (RSD One Drop) 2 Roxanne (RSD Vocal Edit 3 The Bed's Too Big Without You (RSD Vocal Edit) 4 Message In A Bottle (RSD Short Edit) 5 Spirits In A Material World (RSD Vocal Edit) 6 So Lonely (RSD Vocal Edit) 7 Wrapprd Around Your Finger (RSD Vocal Edit) 8 Bring On The Night (RSD Mellow Edit) 9 Spirits In A Material World (RSD Short Deep Dub) 10 Roxanne (RSD Dub) 11 Bring On The Night (RSD Mellow Dub)
