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New Ark Subatomic Energy [Length: 0:33 Tempo: N/A Key: N/A ] This short introduction is a portal for the listener to enter the consciouness of Lee Perry and the concept for the album, opening the gate to sounds from live shows, from nature, and his mission statement to combine his mystical Black Ark studio vibes with New York city Subatomic energy to create a new sound for the 21st century based on the dub Perry invented in Jamaica in the 1970s. Ambient noise from Perry & Subatomic live shows in Jamaica and the USA give way to the ocean in Negril, Jamaica as Perry announces, “I’m walking in water right now” a stones’ throw from his birthplace 81 years before. A Pisces who claims his father is King Neptune, Perry says that every night while he sleeps, he turns back into a fish. In the day, his boots are his boats, transporting him over the earth. Climbing out of the ocean and into a tree in front of his home, his New Ark, Perry bangs stones together and swings from a branch shouting “Super Ape!” three times loudly. He then announces that reggae was his ransom which he gave away to Bob Marley in exchange for the freedom to develop his next great idea: Dub! Master percussionist Larry McDonald lays down the trance inducing African pulse to summon the ancestors and Emch dubs the sound into the ether. Without the crossover promotional financing that catapulted Bob Marley and reggae to the forefront of global consciousness in the 70s, dub has had a slower grassroots development that eschewed commercial success, but instead germinated in the hearts and minds of musicians and producers across nearly every genre from hip hop to electronic music to punk rock and is carried on by sound system operators throughout the world.

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from Super Ape Returns To Conquer, released September 22, 2017

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Subatomic Sound System New York, New York

NYC based bass music, dub, and dancehall. Touring worldwide with Lee Scratch Perry for over a decade. Founders of Dub Champions Festival. On Brooklyn Radio 24-7.

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