#Aba Shanti

[seshaudio]

Omnidirectional build Mk0

I got hold of a cheap little driver in London for £15. It's rated for 200W peak power, 40Hz-10kHz (so sadly not much high frequency once the lamellae are attached!) I removed the rubber sleever and the dust-cap

Next I used some grocery-store plastic sheeting (what they put up promotion signs/prices with) that can be moulded using hot water. I used a metal grille bent into a curve to make curves out of the plastic, then cut them into roughly the right shape. I made the paper shape guide by just rotation a ruler held at one end - this was totally eyeballed and could've been done much better, more precisely etc.

Then I attached some sticky-backed weather stripping to each of the lamellae (aka petals), and used double-sided tape to stick them onto the speaker cone. I used a log with a notch cut into it, attached through the speaker magnet's central hole with a long screw, to hold the tops of the lamellae.

Then with a bit of wiggling and more double-sidede tape I attached all the lamellae together at the top. I used some washing up gloves cut into strips as (very makeshift) gaskets to mostly seal the gaps between the lamellae. Again, I used double sided tape to do this. To be honest that was the most fiddly part. Washing up gloves cut with scissors are not an ideal Radialstrahler gasket material!

And there it is! It doesn't sound terrible on its own, but as the driver is only rated up to 10kHz (and who knows what impact the radialstrahler build has on the theoretical frequency response!) I had to wire it in to an old bookshelf speaker's tweeter to get a bit more high-end.

I'll make another post with a few more videos of it playing, along with some discussion of what I've learned so far to take forward to the next prototype!

#sound system #reggae #dub #preamp #amplifier #jah shaka #Steppas #UK dub #UK Steppas #omnidirectional #omnidirectional speakers #Experimental audio #DIY audio #DIY speakers #MBL Radialstrahlers #Duevel #Hifi #Stereo #Audio engineering #acoustics #Totem Pole #Speaker Design #DIY Speaker #MBL Xtreme #MBL 101 #MBL #Channel one Sound System #Jah Shaka Sound System #Aba Shanti #Aba Shanti Sound System

[jkflesh]

TECHNO ANIMAL "BROTHERHOOD OF THE BOMB" remastered reissue

1521x forest green & blood red vinyl

100x clear vinyl (Friends of band and label only)

CD

T-shirt

www.relapse.com exclusives:

352x milky clear with custom splatter vinyl

242x forest green, mint green, swamp green tri color merge with forest green, mint green, white splatter vinyl

Release date: February 16, 2024

Bandcamp: LINK Relapse store: LINK

Relapse Records is proud to announce the reissue of the highly influential TECHNO ANIMAL album, The Brotherhood of the Bomb. The album, fully remastered by Broadrick, is available on LP for the first time ever! Prior to The Brotherhood of the Bomb having even been conceived, TECHNO ANIMAL had already been championed/released by The Beastie Boys, collaborated with Alec Empire and the then-fledgeling Dälek, but still remained in almost total obscurity. TECHNO ANIMAL had barely found an audience, yet on The Brotherhood of the Bomb, the duo had definitely found their sound. "The Brotherhood of the Bomb had a lot to do with myself and Justin's obsession with Dillinja's bass sound, and the love of playing No-U-Turn drum & bass records at the wrong, slower speed." Kevin Martin comments. "It was also nourished by our addiction to the new breed of independent rap that had emerged, as we were paid up junkies for the likes of Company Flow, Anti Pop and Cannibal Ox's consecutive classics. Hence why we had approached them all to guest on our album, and flatteringly. all of whom thankfully agreed to appear." The album was made by punishing studio speakers with overdriven synths through analogue hardware, and dub mixing the lot through Justin's desk, which the two fought over who could get to the parametrics fastest, to do the bassline filter sweeps. "We were both just loving tweaking the fck out of the tunes and going mad on the aux sends/returns" Martin comments. "It was fueled on the atonality of mutating electro acoustic found sounds, and fcking with the stereo field as much as possible, whenever possible." Inspired by Public Enemy's Bomb Squad to bring the noise, Jah Shaka/Aba-Shanti, to brutalise rigs, and filtered those indelible influences through their musical past notoriety. Whether they were known for pioneering industrial metal with Godflesh, or peddling grinding noise rock with GOD, the different aspects of TECHNO ANIMAL are palpable throughout The Brotherhood of the Bomb. The seeds for this album had been sown by making the transition from playing back rooms of pubs, and other dubious squalor venues into playing in sub heavy clubs with their monolithic, low end friendly sound systems. Considered too noisy for hip hop heads and too hip hop for noise heads/metal fiends at that time, TECHNO ANIMAL were truly ahead of their time. Once dubbed "the future of Rock 'n' Roll!" by Alan Mcgee from Creation Records, TECHNO ANIMAL helped pave the way for contemporary, explosive, cutting edge groups like Death Grips, Backxwash, and Clipping, all of whom were inspired by the U.K. duo's furious take on beats, bass and sonic weaponry, and all whom have cited The Brotherhood of the Bomb as an influence and a personal favorite.

#techno animal #justin broadrick #kevin martin #the bug #jk flesh

[thequietestnoiseonearth]

Jah Shaka in Parklands Brum.Sat 21st Aug 2004. / Aba-Shanti-i @ Leiceste...

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[9misoundsystem]

Aba Shanti I - Positive vibration

#aba shant i #positive vibration #reggae #dub #music #video #youtube #nine mile sound system #Youtube

[blkphxxx]

Aba Shanti-I Notting Hill Carnival 2022

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[i-mitri]

Tonight!! All roads lead: 2Funky Music Cafe & United Nations of Dub Present: A Leicester Tradition.. Boxing Day Sound Session 2022 .. Aba Shanti I .. The mighty earth rocker sound of Jah lightning & thunder.. .. Iration Steppas .. the vanguard of dub, playing dubz inna year 3000 style.. Both on their own sound systems Monday 26 December 10pm - 4am Tickets: Skiddle.com Limited Early-Bird: £15 Standard tickets: £20 On the door.. £25 2funky Music Cafe 23a New Park St Leicester LE3 5NH @2funkymusiccafe @irationsteppas @abashantiofficial @radio2funky (at 2Funky Music Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmntPU0K_Ms/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thewallfacers]

aba shanti-i

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[djhamaradio]

Pepper Pot Soup A Duppy Echoes Cassette Mixtape Side B

Version II

Aba Shanti - Cape Horn

Conroy Smith - Dancehall Posse

Bunny General - Wah Dem A Do

Skiifall - Ting Tun Up

Ninjaman - Murder Dem

Earl Cunningham - Hot Stepper

Black Uhuru & Ward 21 - Ganja Smoke

Papa Levi - Trouble In Africa

Little Kirk - Killer Sound

Barrington Levi - Vibes is right

Mr Eazi - Sekkle & Bop

Retreat Soundboy

Gregory Isaacs - Ruler

A Duppy Echoes Cassette Mixtape Side A : Version II

1. U Roy - Chalice in the palace

2. Leroy Smart - Bubble with me

3. Eek A Mouse - Assasinator

4. Gregory Isaacs - Rumours

5. Sterile & Clevie - Streetsweeper

6.Aidonia - Clock

7.Vybz Kartel - Sen On

8.Red Rat - Ghetto Red Hot

9. Ward 21 Riddim

10. Roze Don - Spain Town Badness

11. Mr Vegas - Sucky Ducky

12. King Kong - Sweetee & Tender

13. Little John & Billy Boyo - Sweet & tender

14. Hit this year

#duppy echoes #djhamaradio #cassette mixtape #Version II

[car63]

Jah Shaka in Parklands Brum.Sat 21st Aug 2004. / Aba-Shanti-i @ Leiceste...

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[deoload42]

#28

[seshaudio]

A little kitchen session with the speaker. YouTube Preamp extension to control the frequency bands/delay/dub siren. To be honest the speaker actually sounds best with dub played through the youtube pre - some other styles of music just don't suit it at all. Convenient!!

#sound system #reggae #dub #preamp #amplifier #jah shaka #Steppas #UK dub #UK Steppas #omnidirectional #omnidirectional speakers #Experimental audio #DIY audio #DIY speakers #MBL Radialstrahlers #Duevel #Hifi #Stereo #Audio engineering #acoustics #Totem Pole #Speaker Design #DIY Speaker #MBL Xtreme #MBL 101 #MBL #Channel one Sound System #Jah Shaka Sound System #Aba Shanti #Aba Shanti Sound System

[donsinclair]

Aba Shanti Sound System at #Boomtown 2022

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[culturedub]

TONIGHT 🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥 CULTURE DUB RADIO SHOW PLAYLIST #779 #playlist 📻 Tune in Tuesday, October 18th 2022 inna Culture Dub Radio Show on Radio Pulsar from 9pm to 11pm (GMT+1) to listen a strictly vinyls selection UK Dub style 90-2000 by Culture Dub Sound and a mix with 100% prod of and by Dubtrakz Sound, hosted by AlexDub : 📻 📻 Twinkle Brotherstwo, Tribulation All Stars, Conscious sounds Bush chemists, Hughie Izachaar, ABA SHANTi-I ITES, Jts Jah Tubbys, Chris Jay, Blakamix, Russ Bell-Brown aka Disciples, Iration Steppas........ ! 🔊 Playlist : https://culturedub.com/blog/culture-dub-show-779-18-octobre-2022-radio-pulsar/ Large Up, AlexDub #radio #radioshow #culturedubradioshow #alexdub #radiopulsar #culturedub #fm #web #webradio #selection #mix #vinyl #dub #roots #steppa #stepper #uk #dubuk #autoprod #sound #soundsystem #collectors #90s @culturedub @radio.pulsar.95.9 @dubtrakz_soundsystem @calu_dubtrakzsound 📻 www.radio-pulsar.org // 95.9 FM (Poitiers) (à Radio Pulsar) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj2fJgas_4H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#779 #playlist #radio #radioshow #culturedubradioshow #alexdub #radiopulsar #culturedub #fm #web #webradio #selection #mix #vinyl #dub #roots #steppa #stepper #uk #dubuk #autoprod #sound #soundsystem #collectors #90s

[reggae-vibes-com]

Ashanti Selah feat. Fred Locks & Sabolious - No To Racism (Remix)

ASHANTI SELAH FT. FRED LOCKS & SABOLIOUS - NO TO RACISM (REMIX) Tune from Aba Shanti's son with Fred Locks & Sabolious. Out on Anaves Music. #ashantiseleh #fredlocks #sabolious #notoracism #anavesmusic #outnow #newsingle #playingnow #reggae #jamaica #reggaemusic Read the full article

#AnavesMusic #ashantiselah #fredlocks #Sabolious

[blkphxxx]

Aba Shanti Leicester Carnival 2018

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[9misoundsystem]

Dubkasm and Aba Shanti - Jah Bible (feat. Ras Addis)

#dubkasm #aba shanti #ras addis #jah bible #reggae #dub #music #video #youtube