The Dead 60s (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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Dinked : 2LP - disc 1 red, disc 2 white vinyl / Bonus “Space Invader Dub” album / Bonus 2 song 7” / New insert with liner notes by Don Letts / Dinked Archive obi strip & gold foil sticker / Numbered pressing of 750 SOLD OUT

2LP : Standard Black Vinyl

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The Dead 60s seminal self-titled album gets a timely Deluxe edition reissue on Vinyl for its 20th Anniversary, on Deltasonic Records

“Back in the day, punk and dub weren’t just sharing space—they were smashing into each other headfirst.

Late '70s Britain was a pressure cooker, and for kids like me, growing up between Brixton’s bass bins and the chaos of King’s Road, that collision was everything. Jamaican sound system culture met punk’s raw spirit in a haze of smoke, sweat, and feedback. It wasn’t about genre—it was about energy. Identity. Defiance. So when The Dead 60s came along, post-Britpop and post-bullshit, it felt like someone had dusted off the blueprint and run it through a battered old tape echo. These weren’t just lads with good taste—they understood the assignment. They took the DNA of two rebel cultures and mutated it into something that could stand tall in the 21st century. Dub-soaked, punk-fuelled, dripping with that Liverpool attitude. I remember first hearing them and thinking—yeah, here we go again. Not in a retro way, but in a real way. Guitars that cut like sirens in the night. Basslines fat and warm, straight out the Channel One playbook. Lyrics that painted the grey corners of Britain like CCTV poetry. It was the sound of youth under pressure. The sound of not fitting in—and not wanting to. Their debut album dropped in 2005, and it hit like a flare in the dark. “Riot Radio” was a pirate broadcast from the concrete frontlines. “Control This” swaggered with menace and reverb. It was like someone opened a time capsule from the punky-reggae party and rewired it for a new generation.

Now, with this 20th anniversary vinyl reissue—complete with the full dub companion produced by Central Nervous System—we get to hear the bones and blood of it all. The dub versions pull the tracks apart and let the ghosts speak. Reverb, delay, space—it’s not just production, it’s meditation. Revolution slowed down to a heartbeat. It’s music that makes you move and think. What they’ve done here is more than remix a record—they’ve revealed its soul. That’s what dub does when it’s done right. And The Dead 60s, they got that. They weren’t tourists in the culture—they were students of it, shaped by it, and ultimately, contributors to the legacy.

Liverpool’s long had a love affair with Jamaican music—you can hear it in the streets if you’re really listening. The Dead 60s tapped into that lineage, but brought their own thing to the table. Punk's fire. Dub’s depth. Ska’s bounce. All filtered through a Northern lens and blasted out like protest graffiti. This 20th anniversary reissue ain’t about nostalgia. It’s a reminder. A celebration. A call to arms. Music like this doesn’t belong in a museum—it belongs on a system, shaking walls and waking minds. Crate diggers, completists, young punks, old heads—this one's for all of you.

So put it on and turn it up. Let the punk edge sharpen your thoughts, and the dub shake your bones ‘cause this isn’t just a reissue - it’s resistance on wax.....”

Don Letts The Rebel Dread 2025

Tracklist

Side A – THE DEAD 60S
A1 Riot Radio             
A2 A Different Age     
A3 Train to Nowhere               
A4 Red Light               
A5 We Get Low          
A6 Ghostfaced Killer

Side B – THE DEAD 60S
B1 Loaded Gun          
B2 Control This          
B3 Soul Survivor        
B4 Nationwide           
B5 Horizontal             
B6 The Last Resort   
B7 You're Not the Law  

Side C – SPACE INVADER DUB
C1 Too Much TV Dub
C2 Invader Dub 
C3 D-60 Fights the Evil Force 
C4 No Control Dub 
C5 Tower Block Dub

Side D – SPACE INVADER DUB
D1 CNS Lazer Attack D-60 
D2 Police Radio Dub 
D3 Flight Mission Dub  
D4 No Good Town Dub
D5 Game Over 

BONUS 7” (Dinked Edition Only)
A. Train To Nowhere
B. Riot Radio (Live In New York City)