Cheeba’s Reggae Sound Boys continue their mission to splice sixties and seventies reggae sources with fat drum breaks on their second 45 Voice Of The Voodoo/ Say It Loud and this time things get a little more far out. B-side Say It Loud is the uptempo one on which the unlikely sound of a dub/northern soul sound system gets committed to vinyl, saying it loud with crashing drums while Hammond and a pulsing mid-sixties bassline vie with echo and toaster vocals weaving in and out of the mix. A-side Voice Of The Voodoo meanwhile is a slower kind of dancefloor juggernaut. It’s an expansive slab of dubby, psychedelic breakbeat which finds funky reggae rhythm guitar skanking at the centre of a prodigiously druggy bass haze while a ghostly male toaster mutters away in the background and occasionally a female voice hollers, “You should do some voodoo!” Probably best not to follow that advice but tricky to resist since you’ll be listening to the record a lot. Only 300 copies so get on it!
(Pre-order now/ Out 22 May on Echo Chamber Recordings)
