10/3/2007 Echo Chamber

Tonight Dr. StrangeDub and DJ Baby Swiss embarked on a Magic Dub Carpet Ride from Cairo to Casablanca...from New Delhi to Morocco and Tunisia. A definite departure for the doctors of dub as we left Jamaica behind for a week (for the most part) and put together a Middle Eastern musical journey. The artists that accompanied us on our magic carpet ride included Natacha Atlas, Sussan Deyhim Richard Horowitz, Ali Akbar Khan, Jai Uttal, Sultans of String, Vox, Azam Ali, Atlas Soul, Steve Shehan Youssef el Idrissi, Bill Laswell, Hamza el Din, Ravi Shankar, Autorickshaw, Cheb i Sabbah, Peter Gabriel friends, MPath, Zohar, Musafir, Fedayi Pacha, Abed Azrie, Thievery Corp./Nickodemus, Dust Galaxy, Ali Omar, Bud Alzir, Hassan Erraji, Anoushka Shankar Karsh Kale, Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain Eric Harland, and Bombay Dub Orchestra. Oh yeah, Swiss also played Sinead O'Connor (as the album was a pledge premium), Toots the Maytals (as they were coming to town), and the Nutty Boys track Magic Carpet. It was a very fun, dubby magic carpet ride indeed.