Horace Andy – The Voice In Sound

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Jun 1, 2026 - 20:36

Horace Andy – The Voice In Sound

Release Info

Label
Echo Beach
Format
DR / LP / CD
Street date
May 2026
Contact
Echo Beach

Tracklist

CD/Digital

1. Wicked Babylon Must Go Down (Dubmones)
2. Money Money (aDUBta)
3. Skylarking (Captain Yossarian)
4. She Say (Der Transformer)
5. It´s A Clash (Dubmatix)
6. Ital Vital (Different Drummer Soundsystem)
7. Cuss Cuss (Rob Smith aka RSD – Dub )
8. Money Money (Lee Groves )
9. Skylarking (Trance Vision Steppers)
10. Bad Man feat. Million Teeth (Fenin)
11. Youth Of Today (Kaleidoscope)
12. Skylarking (Noiseshaper)
13. Do You Love My Music (Black Star Liner)
14. Wicked Babylond Must Go Down (Dub Spencer & Trance Hill)
15. Money Money (Dreadzone)
16. Skylarking (Oliver Frost – Eva Be`s Dub)
17. Money (can´t buy love) (BBXO feat. Musa Okwonga)

Since the days of Massive Attack in the 90s, Horace has always been open to venturing away from roots reggae – think also On-U Sound – and this seventeen track set certainly does that in places. The Voice In Sound is a collection of dubs and remixes, with that glorious, distinctive voice out front and plenty of recognised international producers behind the mixing board.

It’s a varied set of new-ish material, and so whilst the Dubmones reworking of Wicked Babylon Must Go Down, aDUBta’s rendition of Money Money, Der Transformer’s She Say and Dubmatix’s Cuss Cuss all stick fairly close to a rootsy sound, certain aspects of the rhythm of Captain Yossarian’s Skylarking made me recall Macarena (or maybe that’s just me!) Once past that, there’s no problem – and that’s actually not a problem in itself; it works – as long as you appreciate the breadth and variety of today’s dub.

Others represented here include Rob Smith a.k.a. RSD (recalling the Bristol connection of Massive Attack again) whose Cuss Cuss mixes old and new very successfully, pushing dub’s boundaries a little further out. Then there are Birmingham’s adventurous Different Drummer Soundsystem, Hanover’s Trance Vision Steppers (TVS) with a mellow modern reimagining of Skylarking, the Berlin-based Fenin, Noiseshaper (also Berlin-based) with a very effective, rock-inflected version of Skylarking (it’s a popular track) and also from Germany’s capital, Oliver Frost. London’s Lee Groves offers a very different reworking of Money Money, the famed Dreadzone touch on electronic dance music, Kaleidoscope present the dark dub of Youths Of Today, and Black Star Liner has the famed, expansive, Asian- and psychedelia-inflected Do You Love My Music.

These songs were fine in their original versions – but these add something different. All in all, this is an intriguing release. If you have followed Horace Andy’s journey so far, you’ll certainly go for it. Note too that the LP version has fewer tracks and splits (very roughly) into a rootsy side and a more contemporary side.

Horace Andy

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