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  Mark Stewart - As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade [STUMM 24 UK 1985 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Are you sitting comfortably? You won't be comfortable for long. it is time for an intense audio experience. Lovingly ripped from an original vinyl album in 24 bits of FLAC. Once more text is as adapted from the excellent In The Area website (with additions & amendments by Blogmeister): By the time 1985's second album,  As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade was released, Mark Stewart's Maffia had mutated out of dub reggae into dub electronica. Though Stewart had been aware of Doug Wimbish, Keith LeBlanc and Skip McDonald and their work as The Sugarhill Gang, it was Adrian Sherwood who first brought them to the UK and started working with them on a largely experimental but ground-breaking project called Fats Comet. Stewart heard them play at the Language Lab in the mid-eighties, It was this tape they'd done with like rockets going off and drums that sounded like st...

  Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Learning To Cope With Cowardice [ON-U LP24 UK 1983 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] I promised a new rip of this classic On-U Sound album back in April following Mark Stewart's sad passing. Back in 2012, this record was one of my first attempts at a 24/96 rip, now here it is in glorious 24/176.4kHz, ripped on much better hardware and cleaned up with much improved processes. I now feel that I've been able to do justice with one of the most important albums of its era. Performed by the former Pop Group frontman, backed by various members of the On-U Sound house band, including Eskimo Fox, George Oban and Sly Scott, Learning To Cope With Cowardice is a dub heavy poke at life in Britain in the early eighties. The album was preceded in 1982 by Stewart's unpatriotic interpretation of William Blake's Jerusalem . As with all On-U Sound releases, label head Adrian Sherwood deals with production duties, adding sampled cut-ups & overdubs, distortion an...

Mark Stewart ‎- Hysteria [12 MUTE 92 UK 1990 24-Bit FLAC] More classic Mark Stewart back by Sherwood, Wimbish, LeBlanc and McDonald ...what could be better to shatter the calm of your weekend? From an original twelve inch ripped from penguinflight 's archive. A1 Hysteria B1 My Possession B2 Hysteria Dub

Mark Stewart + Maffia - This Is Stranger Than Love [12 MUTE 59 UK 1987 24-Bit FLAC] With more than just a little bit of help from Tackhead, Smith & Mighty and Adrian Sherwood, Mark Stewart gets all sentimental in this twisted dedication to Erik Satie's Trois Gymnopédies in two mixes, backed with what sounds like a cover of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's Survival ! Truly excellent stuff! A1 Stranger Than Love B1 Stranger Than Love (Dub) B2 Survival