{"product_id":"vibronics-meets-brain-damage_empire-soldiers-dubplate-vol1-maxi-vinyle-10_2013_lad","title":"EMPIRE SOLDIERS Dubplate Vol.1 (maxi vinyle 10')","description":"True to the tradition of sound systems and dubplates, Steve Vibronics delivers his version of the album Empire Soldiers with this series of exclusive vinyls: 3 collector's 4-track maxis, each including 2 \"English-style\" revisited tracks and their dub versions. With a significant number of albums, collaborations, and live sessions worldwide, one might have thought that Brain Damage and Vibronics would rest a little on their laurels. But that would be underestimating their insatiability and respective hyperactivity, and the sense of challenge and musical conceptualization they share. The exercise in question here goes beyond a simple encounter, as the artists have known each other for a long time through remixes and live sessions. It is rather the ephemeral collision of two universes, for the duration of a tour and an album, leading to the birth of a third unlisted entity. Vibronics and Brain Damage indeed came together around a concept, a surprising narrative inspiration: the experience of Anglo-Caribbean and Franco-African soldiers during the First World War. Academic historian, poet, and songwriter Madu Messenger uses the fruit of years of research to present a series of texts dealing with key subjects linking displacement, friendship, war, and death. Pedagogical, as Brain Damage's albums often are, 'Empire Soldiers' sheds light on a still often little-known period of our history, drawing disturbing parallels with contemporary observations of cultural clashes, immigration, and imperial powers. Based on a reflection on this sensitive subject, the musicians of the project – from diverse Anglo-French, Jamaican, or Asian backgrounds – allow themselves here to operate a cultural rapprochement opposed to certain models of subjugation and communitarianism. Brain Damage and Vibronics' digital reggae\/dub is thus tinged with varied influences, combining the best of know-how with the spontaneity of encounter and human experience.","brand":"VIBRONICS meets BRAIN DAMAGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310355464536,"sku":null,"price":23778353.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381527605.jpg?v=1778526783","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/vibronics-meets-brain-damage_empire-soldiers-dubplate-vol1-maxi-vinyle-10_2013_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}