Attention! Attention! Dub music is taking over. Nation to nation, station to station, the revolutionary rhythm is ruling the sound and wrecking the system. Heavyweight drum and bass to shake the foundation- no prisoners will be taken. We are assuming total control!

WordSound leads the charge of the bass brigade with Crooklyn Dub Consortium, Certified Dope, Vol. 1., a compilation featuring sounds you've never ever even conceived of. Yes, this is dub straight from the nether reaches of the underground. Creep with us, as we take you on a mission to Crooklyn, New York, where there is some heavy earth-shaking activity going on. Here, you will encounter strange and powerful forces like Sub Dub, whose Babylon Unite EP has already created quite a buzz in the hazy ganja dens around town, as well as Automaton (Dub Terror Exhaust and Jihad), anchored by the precise drum and bass duo of Sly Dunbar and Bill Laswell. And don't even sleep on shifty characters like Spectre or the phenomenal Qaballah Steppers, whose Dub In Fusion EP is set to drop like a depth charge imminently. If you do you might not know what hit you.

Crooklyn Dub Consortium also claims within its ranks rising stars like Roots Control, We, HIM, Corporal Blossom, Loop, Dr. Israel, and Megabyte, who will, no doubt, be taking dub into the next century. You can either join us down below, or be crushed when the wretched walls of Babylon come tumbling down.

Caught somewhere...Dark...A haze of paranoia is the shroud through which I see. Born in a vision of silt and murk... A burn feeds my mind. The fire numbs. I sink deeper. Beyond...Beyond...To the Other Side... where the Illness resides...

Yeah, there is no where to run once the damage has been done. So for all those that took the dive on Volume One, here is your next fix of blunt bass and end of the millenium vertigo. 12 doses. Dubwize. Crooklyn Dub Consortium Vol. 2 is beaming out of the borough of Brooklyn. The troops have assembled once again. Spectre and Scotty Hard "Joust" with the steel armour of Babylon. Their gothic dubplate of metallic beats starts your slow descent into dub oblivion. Unitone Hi-Fi drop by with "Racehorse" to nice up the session before Dr. Israel hits you - "Jacob's Ladder (version)" - inna junglist fashion. Mind you don't drop off 'cause The Mystic has a little story to tell via a crooked drum and bass swim through the old times. Yeah, "Those were the Days". The mighty Bill Laswell mus' come as well. Fret not Dread. "Skulls of Broken Hill" - yet another little something from the Bass Command himself.

Checking in to kick off the second half of Crooklyn Dub Consortium Vol.2 is Nu Seeka with a little trip he calls "No Apparition". Scarab, always delivering that Eastern version in a new sense come again wit "Telesp". Hold tight for their next oasis of sound coming in March '97. Boom. Likewize, our man Torture is set to blast off with his debut round 'bout sometime. Until then take a bath in some dirty water. "Soaking Bodies of Dub" is the Illest baptism of sound around. O.H.M. cuts it just right on dose number 9 - "Put Me On". WordSound's resident hard drive, Megabyte, returns from victory on Vol. 1 to "Tear the Roof Off". Switching over to our French Connection, the Count of Monte Cristo soundz off with "Wolf Dub." WordSound is Outernational. No doubt. And in case your ears can handle it rhythm brethren, HIM, closes out Vol.2. Cool neo-Nyabingi style. Jus' tight...Ya mus' check it.

...Prepare For Freedom...The Time Is Nigh...For Another Dose Of That.... ...Crooklyn Sound...

Five years ago, a motley band of subterranean bass terrorists from all over the realm of Crooklyn joined forces to smuggle in the certified dope from the Other Side and drop bombs in the belly of the beast. No sooner had the smoke cleared, than the Crooklyn Dub Consortium were hailed as freedom fighters and glorious subversives, who shook the town with the hardest sound around. But informants from within and without soon told the Vultures of Culture who passed the word onto the Style-Stealers, Perpetrators and False Profits, who tried to make a mockery of the sound. Divisions resulted, and the Bloodsuckers of the Poor laughed because they loved to see the rebels fight amongst themselves and allow their kind to be bought and sold. This, after all, was how they derived their power. But there is a greater of source of power, as the CDC soon discovered when they joined forces with their cousins across the ocean to become the Crooklyn Dub Syndicate. From few came many and out of many there is One. The syndicate expanded from England to Ireland to Italy to Germany to Holland to New Zealand to Japan to Jamaica and so on to become a truly universal force still dedicated to constant elevation through low frequency manipulation. Through yet another transmutation, Crooklyn Dub Outernational emerges triumphant, once again, to expose the truth and to show and prove that Crooklyn is not a trendy zip code, it's a state of mind. And dub is not simply music. It is the gateway to The Other Side, where all things are possible.

Nine years ago, a loose collective of rebel souljahs calling themselves the Crooklyn Dub Consortium launched a new movement in sound with the seminal Certified Dope, Volume 1 (WSCD003), a compilation which defined a burgeoning style from the underground dubbed "Illbient" by the press. Once again, one-upping the downtempo dummies, the crooked knights--including Spectre, Scotty Hard, HIM, and Bill Laswell-- return to prove that good music will always outlive the hype. Certified Dope, Volume 4 (WSCD048) stands as a testament to the awesome power of the Sound. Count on the expanded Crooklyn Dub Outernational to define these crucial times with this latest slate of dubwise illtronica. Babylon's Burning, ya heard? Or do the powers that be want you to party and bullshit till oblivion? Crooklyn Dub has the sonic cure to get you through the commercial blues. And as always, all styles and flavors represented here ripple with originality. French dub powers Brain Damage and Lab lead the charge with the haunting collabo, "Ph neutre," sounds from the Other Side. From the deviant dub-hop of Philosophy Major's "The Soundless Hum of Prayer" to the digital roots of Zion Train's "Modimo," the kaleidoscopic mix is seamless yet unpredictable. Twilight Circus suprises us with the world class dub-funk of "Twlight Circus Meets WordSound Inna Crooklyn 2003 Style," while Bill Laswell takes it back to the old school with Sly & Robbie riding shotgun on "Finite State Machine Dub." Roots Control rides the crushing backbeat of "Boombastic" to dubwise glory. And Doug Scharin's HIM outfit has grown in leaps and bounds as they display adept musicality on "Disco Lips." Meanwhile, left coast assassin King Fader treats a Systemwide beat like Adrian Sherwood on "Eyupsultan" as bonny Prince Charming treats us to his delightful dub rendition of "A Touch of Romance." For the hard stuff, look no further than Scotty Hard, who's coughing up chunks of suspicious dub matter on "Smoke Damage." Teledubgnosis, too, lends some earth-shaking dub-rock to the set with "Ladies &Gentlemen.... Always." World famous DJ/Rupture represents with the tweaked out madness of "Pleasure Ruin Dub," and bass terrorist Spectre never disappoints with the all out low-end assault of "Al Quaida." Always light years ahead of the pack, the genre-bending, boundary-breaking WordSound proves, once again, that Crooklyn keeps on making it HOT. Much more than music, this is a sonic tonic for survival as Babylon burns.