JAH DIVISION
Dub Will Tear Us Apart EP

On a cold winter’s day in 2002 two roommates were spending their day in their rocking chairs whittling and watching the sun slowly fall behind the housing projects and skyscrappers of the Manhattan skyline. Brad Truax and Barry London were enjoying the warmth of their illegal Williamsburg loft when they thought up what at the time was just a an amusing idea. A little wordplay and they were able to merge two of their neighborhood’s trendiest new musical obsessions: early 80s British indie rock and reggae. Thus the name Jäh Division sprang too life. This personal joke didn’t just end up on the floor with all of their wood shavings and get swept up and into the trash bin. Instead it has become a band that uses their musical skills to derive a new way to look at the combining of rock and dub.
    
Brad has been taking it to the streets with his four stringed friend for quite some time in the ever-evolving group Home as well as The Broke Revue and Midnight O’Connor. Barry is a wanted man. Not just for his abilities to tickle the ivories (one of among many instruments that he has mastered) in such bands as Van Pelt/Knoxville Girls/Home/The Broke Revue and Oneida, but also for his work as a sound engineer recording bands and on film sets and television studios. Joining the dynamic duo to help them turn their drollery into a group that has people swiveling their heads to their tones are drummer Chris Millstein of Home/Dumbwaiters and on synth drum pads and delays is John Colprits AKA Kid Millions of Oneida.
    
This quartet got together at Brad and Barry’s apartment (which is legal) and lay downed the tracks to their EP Dub Will Tear Us Apart. Produced by Barry the group took their own varied influences, and with the metaphysical assistance of King Tubby and Ian Curtis, created a psychedelic white-boy dub that is able to catch one’s ear with hooks while also keeping the bouncy laid back beat that people have been grooving too since the 60s. These four pieces on the EP live up to spirit of dub while adding layers to that sound which are otherworldly and yet firmly rooted with a rock style.
    
Since debuting in the upstairs sweatbox of a now defunct club the group has been sought after to play in venues and spaces across the city and has accepted the challenge. Joining them for these live gigs are percussionist/glockenspeiler Bruno Meyrick-Jones of the Broke Revue and on congos/melodica Stoney Tony fresh off the lobster boats working the Long Island Sound.
    
Like any good dub this EP is only going to be coming on vinyl. Part of The Social Registry’s 12” series Dub Will Tear Us Apart has artwork by Bruno and will be housed in our series trademark metallic blue jackets. You better get your hands on it quick because this release is coming out in a limited edition of 800. So in the words of the group – This is some serious heavy-hard roots psychedelic shit, so sit back – have a smoke, and live out the joke cause this is as serious as a heart attack. Amen.

Catalog Number: SR012
Release Date: November, 2004
Format: LP

RELEASED IN AN EDITION OF 600

OUT OF PRINT

Tracklisting:

1. TRANSMISSION DUB
2. HEART + SOUL DUB
3. DUB DISORDER
4. DUB WILL TEAR US APART

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