Subatomic solo dub sets by Emch on proper sound system stacks:
Saturday night 9/2 at Left Method space in Los Angeles
Sunday afternoon 9/3 in Long Beach, 1-6pm, at Bamboo Club outdoors.
August 3-5 California tour Subatomic + Screechy Dan
July 14, 2023 By
Subatomic & Screechy Dan tour dates in California, August 3, 4, & 5.
8/3 Santa Cruz CA @ The Catalyst | w/ Ancestree
8/4 Mill Valley CA @ Sweetwater Music Hall | w/ DJ Sep
8/5 Redway CA @ Mateel Community Center | w/ Blvk H3ro
Lee “Scratch” Perry memorial set
7/17-23 + 7/30 Stephen Marley “Babylon By Bus” tour with Subatomic Sound System
July 14, 2023 By
Across the USA! 7/17-23 in the midwest + 7/30 in Brooklyn and 7/20 in Chicago at the after show celebration only.
Stephen Marley “Babylon By Bus” tour” with Subatomic Sound System on these select dates
Click city name for tix! Venue names are Instagram accounts.
7/17 Wichita KS @WaveICT
7/18 Memphis TN @MinglewoodHall
7/20 Chicago IL (Subatomic after show party performance only) @WildHareMusic
7/21 St. Louis MO The Big Top @kranzbergarts
7/22 Cincinnati OH @RiverFrontLiveCincy
7/23 Kalamazoo MI @BellsEccentricCafe
7/30 Brooklyn NY @BrooklynSteel
Lee “Scratch” Perry is the Dub Organizer
April 6, 2023 By
🔥 “Fiyah! Fiyah, fiyah! Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is the dub organizer!” That’s the anthem. Click this link here to listen on all digital services: Lee “Scratch” Perry, Subatomic Sound System, & Screechy Dan 🔥
[Read more…]Jack Johnson + Lee “Scratch” Perry + Subatomic Sound System “Traffic in the Sky” single
March 9, 2023 By
New single out now! Subatomic will be on tour with Jack in Europe, June 11-16. Listen on all platforms. From Emch: “Been working on this for awhile. Single out with two dubs from Lee Scratch Perry & Subatomic Sound System and a full album that I’m mastering right now with more dub remixes from us as well as Scientist, Mad Professor, Dennis Bovell, Nightmares on Wax and more. Lookout for upcoming summer tour dates with Jack Johnson & Subatomic in support of the album!” At the 2/18/23 Cali Vibes Festival after party Subatomic met and performed for the first time with Jack Johnson and his band and joined them again during Jack’s headlining set at the festival the following night — after Subatomic performed their own Lee Scratch Perry memorial set on the main stage earlier that day featuring special guests Mykal Rose & Blakkamoore on the mic.
“No Bloodshed” Don Husky + Subatomic Sound System
January 27, 2023 By
No Bloodshed in Kingston, JA! New single song and dubstrumental out today on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp (best spot for hi-rez & wave files) and all digital platforms. Don Husky on the mic. Produced by Subatomic Sound System for Yard Birdz Records. Video shot in Tivoli Gardens and directed by Tizzy Tokyo premiers Nov 8, 2023 at 1pm!
Mykal Rose & Subatomic Sound System @ CaliVibes 2/19, Red Rocks 4/20, Cali Roots Festival 5/25
December 5, 2022 By
The mighty Mykal Rose + Subatomic Sound System debut at several massive festivals in 2023! Cali Vibes, Sunday 2/19/2023,
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Thursday 4/20/2023 with The Marley Brothers & Steel Pulse,
Cali Roots Festival , Thursday, 5/25/2023 in Monterey, California.
Performances will include Mykal’s tunes from his Grammy winning run with Sly & Robbie in Black Uhuru. Subatomic will include selections from their decade of work for dub legend Lee “Scratch” Perry. Stay tuned for announcements in the next weeks about the upcoming album and more tour dates in 2023.
Subatomic & Screechy Dan shows in Washington state
(click venue names for tickets)
Fri 4/21 Ellensburg @ Pounders,
Sat 4/22 Seattle @ Clock-Out Lounge
Lee “Scratch” Perry, the Super Ape, RIP 1936-2021
September 3, 2021 By
UPDATE: Subatomic Sound System + Screechy Dan had a tour scheduled Oct 9-15 in the USA and Nov 6 in Brooklyn. By request, these shows will be musical memorials for Scratch, in light of the demand to celebrate the life of Scratch and the restrictions in Jamaica barring large crowds at the funeral.
Several people have asked about music released by Lee “Scratch” Perry & Subatomic Sound System to play in tributes:
2017’s acclaimed “Super Ape Returns To Conquer” album captures the 40th anniversary of “Super Ape” live tour and features versions of some of Scratch’s biggest productions “Chase the Devil”, “War Ina Babylon”, “Zion’s Blood”, “Dread Lion” and more. Live video of the song “Dread Lion” from Bumbershoot festival
2016 release “Black Ark Vampires” was Scratch’s closing song on almost every show since its release and is Scratch’s explanation for burning down the Black Ark studio in 1983. Live video from KEXP studio session.
2018 “A Me (The Dub Organizer)” was released on Bandcamp exclusively as a promo for the 45th anniversary of “Blackboard Jungle Dub” allbum tour.
Playlist of Releases: Below is a Spotify playlist of Scratch & Subatomic that includes all the above releases plus additional remixes we did in 2007 (some vinyl & some digital as described in this documentary) and second playlist of some of Scratch’s personal favorite productions.
Live videos are compiled in this YouTube playlist of Scratch & Subatomic shows from 2009-2020 primarily in the USA, Canada, & Europe, but the last tours included Mexico and the final band show 2019 was in Dubai and final US festival show was Feb 2020 with Scratch & Emch.
Statement from Emch of Subatomic Sound System: Lee “Scratch” Perry. Boundless creativity and inspiration, the curiosity of a child and the soul of a prophet, unleashed on the earth for the past 85 years 
The spirit, the magic, and the soul fire 
Super Ape will live on forever. Inspiration is the greatest gift, one which you gave us so freely, unlocking pathways to self-discovery in us and the people you interacted with on a daily basis throughout your life, a creative miracle worker. You changed our lives, our perspective, our way of doing things, our understanding of what was possible. In shock to hear today that this earthly presence has come to an end, closing this decade long chapter of working, traveling, & laughing together. To anyone reading this who has crossed paths on this journey, please share a comment on our IG or Facebook of some time you remember and what it meant to you. It would mean a lot to us in this time. Scratch always said “I conquer death” and those memories and that energy is how death is conquered
Conga player Larry McDonald does an extensive interview about Scratch here.
Live in Brooklyn at Elsewhere for the 45th anniversary of “Blackboard Jungle Dub” tour, the world’s first dub album performed live for the first time. The video was also shot in 3D VR here if you have a headset.
Scratch & Subatomic at Coachella 2013
Zion’s Blood was the opening song for nearly every live show until the late 2017. This is a 360 VR recording from a show in North Carolina. According to Emch “the vibes were great that night but sadly the first row was clogged with press photographers at the start of the show which initially blunted the otherwise vibrant energy of the sold out sweaty room.”
After hearing the rough mix, Scratch requested that the new opening song for shows be changed to the updated version of Dub Organizer titled “A Me” which Emch recorded with Scratch in Jamaica during the sessions for the “Super Ape Returns to Conquer” album in 2017. This led to a discussion about doing 45th anniversary of “Blackboard Jungle Dub” which began in 2018.
Spotify playlist of digital releases from Lee “Scratch” Perry & Subatomic Sound System
Police in Helicopter – Yaadcore, Jah9, & Subatomic Sound System
April 7, 2021 By
Out now! Get both the vocal single and dubstrumental mix on Bandcamp , iTunes or Juno. Stream it on Apple Music, Spotify, or Deezer. Don’t forget to give it a heart and drop it in a playlist! Tag Subatomic, Yaadcore, and Jah9 on social media to let us know you are rocking to the sound. On all digital services everywhere April 9.
Yaadcore & Jah9 together on the mic for the first time on this heavyweight Subatomic Sound System re-lick of the incendiary 1982 John Holt anthem “Police in Helicopter”. Big bass for your speakers in the style of our “Super Ape Returns to Conquer” release with Scratch.
[Read more…]“Babylon Soon Fall” Subatomic Sound System + Screechy Dan
October 30, 2020 By
Full “Babylon Soon Fall” 5 song EP drops everywhere on Black Friday 11/27/20. Stream it now on repeat at Spotify & Apple Music or DL from Bandcamp, ReggaeRecordDL, Beatport, Juno and so on. Following the 10/30/20 single, this release features new dub tracks with reckless amounts of conga and horns from Larry McDonald & Troy Shaka Simms plus blistering vocal cuts with Screechy Dan. Musical victory to make oppression crumble and spirits rise. ”Babylon, Your whole entire system soon fall down!” A message from Brooklyn to the world, echoing a long tradition started in Screechy Dan’s birthplace Trenchtown, Jamaica, of chanting down corruption through song. In this case, incantation is done by voice, by the banging of the drums, by earthquaking bass vibrations, and by howling saxophones. Brought to you by the same Subatomic Sound System lineup as on Lee “Scratch” Perry’s acclaimed “Super Ape Returns To Conquer” album and the 2020 boomshot single “Champion Sound”, this has been a big tune live for years on Subatomic tours that many selectors have been asking to get in their record box. Jamaican percussion legend Larry McDonald is on the congas & shakers. Follow our “Revolutionary Reggae” playlist on Spotify for more of this energy.
Produced, mixed, & mastered by Emch at Subatomic Sound in NYC & LA. Singing, chatting, & yodeling: Screechy Dan | Congas & percussion: Larry McDonald | Saxophone: Troy Simms | Bass, Keys, Guitars, Samplers, Melodica, & Dub Effects: Emch | Art by Irie Design, France. Recording engineered in Brooklyn at The Bridge Studio by Amon and at Subatomic Sound by Emch.
