Dubtribe Soundsystem-Do It Now

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Is this one of the greatest deep house records ever or what?

That vocal!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 18:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

a favorite of mine...
does anything else they do compare?

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 January 2005 18:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not that I've heard, though some dudes at the deep house club here are playing some new one called "Nothing Is Impossible". The name makes it sound good, especially if you've heard "Do It Now".

Those kids have such a positive attitude!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

Ha ha Ronan I knew this would be you. I love it too.

Are you coming to Berlin?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

No I can't Do It Now, I'm afraid.

I want to buy decks (for several years now) and I've decided to Do That Now, so can't afford Berlin sadly! Wish I could do both.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

:-( And I don't even have "Do It Now" with me to put me back in a good mood.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

There will be other DJ T shows, I hope.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

That Tom Middleton mix is so deep and lovely

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

There will be other DJ T shows, I hope.

Fabric in April no?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

for sure.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

yep one of the best records ever. god i first heard this on a SOCIAL bar mix cd. that's a killer that, whoever it was by.

― piscesboy, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

Alex Patterson ??

― danny boy (danny boy), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

Eskimo III begins thusly

1. Frankie Knuckles-Your Love
2. Luomo-Tessio
3. Dubtribe Soundsystem-Do It Now

Is that the greatest opening sequence to a mix ever or what? LOVE!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

Classic classic classic. Gets me... THERE.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

I saw Eskimo III today but it was just far too expensive for me to justify eating into my Europe money to buy it. The whole experience upset me.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Tim they're deleted, buy it (now) or you'll never get the chance again!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

Please don't say that Ronan. I have run out of time to Try Glasgow More in order to do this.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

Actually, personally I love loads of Dubtribe's stuff. They are also AMAZING live.

They're actually a really interesting act, as they got to deep house through a strange circuitous route.

I first came across 'em in '94 at a San Francisco rave and they were playing kind of acidic breaks music. They always had this over-the-top hippy PLUR schtick, but in a really really sincere way. Their names are actually Sunshine and Moonbeam, believe it or not.

Anyway Sunshine would kind of ad-lib lyrics over the top of their stuff which were always basically their philosophy which is a kind of back-to-nature positivity thing.

Then late 90s they started putting out loads of amazingly deep, latin-y percussive tracks, and the ad-libbed lyrics had morphed into really strong singing. There's this one incredible track whose name I can't recall off the top of my head where Sunshine sings in spanish and just launches into it in an incredibly raw fashion.

This will sound really hokey, but they genuinely do create that kind of 'spiritual' vibe live. I last saw 'em in Cargo, about 2 years ago, which is like the worst venue ever, but they blew the roof off the place. Loads of live percussion and keys, real 'band' feel (but not in the lame Groove Armada way) and loads of improvisation and shit.

Amazing, and underappreciated, dance music. The taint of hippie keeps the critics away!

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

Tracks I like:

"Equitoreal" (that's the one I was on about above)
"Sunshine's theme"
"If you're not coming back to me"
"No Puedo Estar Despierto"

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

xpost: funny about the hippie tag, cause "Do It Now" has more of a suave, cosmopolitan indie-house feel to it, a la St. Etienne.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Equitoreal" is ace yeah!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thirded re "Equitorial" - amazing on the Body & Soul III mix.

Someone told me the Body & Soul IV mix is the best of the lot - can anyone confirm/deny?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

all time

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

for sure

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

one for this thread

deep house saved my life

― the late great, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:48 (8 months ago) Permalink

this was robbed in that 00s poll, top 3 of the decade lock for me.

― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:11 (8 months ago) Permalink

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