Tune of the Week: Wordsound

Wordsound was a record label run by Skiz Fernando out of Brooklyn, NY in the mid 90s to early 00s. in very New York form, they specialized in producing an underground hybrid of dub reggae and hiphop. Musical shape shifter Bill Laswell served as mentor and his Orange Music Sound Studios served as a meeting ground of the minds. Fernando’s Roots Control alias sets the tone for the whole scene extremely well: heavy bass lines, melodica and dusty hiphop beats. It creates perfect soundtrack for brushing off the dust and sidling up to the bar to roll and light one up. Dread out.