1\/ King Tubby Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub (Fay Music)<\/span><\/p>\n2\/ King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown (Clocktower)<\/p>\n
3\/ King Tubby Meets The Agrovators At Dub Station (Live & Love)<\/p>\n
4\/ Pick A Dub (Atra)<\/p>\n
5\/ King Of The Dub Rock (Safari)<\/p>\n
6\/ Dub From The Roots (Total Sounds)<\/p>\n
7\/ Blackboard Jungle (Upsetter)<\/p>\n
8\/ Satisfaction In Dub (Earthquake)<\/p>\n
9\/ Vital Dub (Virgin)<\/p>\n
10\/ Revolution Dub (Cactus)<\/p>\n
11\/ Dub Festival (Third World)<\/p>\n
12\/ Ras Claat Dub (Grounation)<\/p>\n
13\/ King Tubby\u2019s Vengeance (Prophets)<\/p>\n
14\/ More Scrubbing The Dub (Crystal)<\/p>\n
15\/ Out Of One Man Comes Many Dubs (Ethnic Fight)<\/p>\n
16\/ King Tubby\u2019s Prophecy Of Dub (Prestige)<\/p>\n
17\/ Randy\u2019s Dub (Impact)<\/p>\n
18\/ Treasure Dub (Treasure Isle)<\/p>\n
19\/ Dub Serial (Joe Gibbs)<\/p>\n
20\/ Dub In Blood (Sunshot)<\/p>\n
Research for this section of the articles was the most difficult. The amount of Dub albums (despite the lengthy research) is still virtually impossible to assess since mostly the large proportion of recorded work is only available in Jamaica. But through various reliable resources, the remote collection gradually increased and the result is a fairly comprehensive list of albums. Some vocal albums, which also contain dub tracks, have been included in the list as many of these albums often contain dreader dread sounds. It was decided that it would be best to list the albums in some order of merit; hence less esoteric Dub freaks would be able to consult the compilation for purchase reference.<\/p>\n
The task of selecting the 20 best Dub albums was a long, carefully co-ordinated, complicated and often tedious job, but after some eight months of arranging, re-arranging, re-mixing and shuffling the end result is there for you to see. The choices are somewhat inevitable, with King Tubby featuring quite a bit in the list. And whilst capturing the essence of Dub music, and spotlighting its appeal, the Top 20 also includes a grand variety of good Reggae music, including such varied types as Pablodic Rockers, Rocksteady, Channel One, Instrudub, Agrovators Muzik, Mighty Two Soundwarps, Strictly Rockers Dub, and maniac Super Ape soundz. All are highly recommended as essential additions to your Reggae collection \u2014 the Top 10 at least \u2014 and will indisputably delight and please you. So for your edification\u2026<\/p>\n
Lee Perry \u2014 the sneaky Super Ape \u2014 has two of his many Dub albums in the Top 20. His use of mixing desk is positively unique in many aspects \u2014 he is certainly an original innovator of Dub music. His \u201cBlackboard Jungle\u201d LP was among the first Dub albums and although very hard to come by (buy) is well worth seeking. \u201cRevolution Dub\u201d is an enigmatic album, focusing upon the Upsetter\u2019s masterful way with rhythm, and also highlighting his zany, inventive ideas and skilful mixing techniques. Play \u201cDoctor On The Go\u201d or \u201cWoman\u2019s Dub\u201d at full blast when you\u2019re feeling irie and it hit you like ah clappers!<\/p>\n
Bunny Lee is another producer prominent in the chart. He has three of his better albums in the 20 \u2014 \u201cKing Tubby Meets The Agrovators At Dub Station\u201d remaining his classic best. The whole album is an amalgamation of Tommy McCook\u2019s jazzy horns, well wicked Agrovators rhythms, venomously transformed and interpreted by King Tubby\u2019s console. Try \u201cThe Dub Station\u201d (Goldfinger has a lot to answer for\u2026) or the climactic \u201cHeight Of Dub\u201d for dubwize size, and you\u2019ll understand why it stands at No. 3 in the chart. Station to station dub \u2014 forward on the track. \u201cDub from The Roots \u2014 the infamous \u201cDubmaster\u201d LP \u2014 ranks at No. 6 because it was a giant step for Tubby in experimentation dubwize, incorporating all manner of electronic sound effects and more, wild spontaneous mixing. \u201cAfrican Roots\u201d is the most astonishing track which I heard Prince Melody play seven times on the trot at the 1976 Ladbroke Grove carnival \/ riot, if that\u2019s anything to go by.<\/p>\n
Lloydie Coxsone\u2019s \u201cKing Of The Dub Rock\u201d was initially heard by avid listeners of Capital Radio\u2019s \u201cTV on Reggae\u201d high-rank programme. Various tracks, incredibly remixed for the programme, were sandwiched between the more familiar dubwize sounds, and the effect was phenomenal. When the LP was released the following week, the primary amount pressed completely sold out in two days. Such was the appeal of the album, absolutely special \u2014 not only because Lloydie Coxsone was\/is regarded as King of the Dub Rock, but it also happened to be marvellous music. \u201cCapital Radio Rock\u201d is an astonishing example of the album\u2019s speciality. Consisting of effervescent \u00a0melodica wildly blasting over a driving rhythm, the focal point was the reserved violins hectically echoed out of all proportion. An insane and excruciating concoction. The other stand out tracks, \u201cMany Moods Of Coxsone\u201d and \u201cTribute To Mohammed Ali\u201d, were later released back to back on 45 by Shelly \u2014 straight to Safari\u2019s head.<\/p>\n
Keith Hudson \u201cPick A Dub\u201d barely scraped the Top Three. It is hailed by all Roots lovers as not only a definable heavy Dub LP, but also a classic Reggae LP. Hudson is, in my mind\u2019s eye, one of the most original and productive people in the music biz. His productions slant on the eccentric; his lyrical \/ musical creations are usually highly stylized. His few solo albums have mostly integrated dubwize tracks within their concept, and albums such as \u201cFlesh Of My Skin\u201d, \u201cEntering The Dragon\u201d and \u201cTorch Of Freedom\u201d shine as extremely listenable ones, with the additions of weighty instru-dubs acting as some heavenly mercy from Mr Hudson\u2019s forever controversial \u201csinging\u201d. The latest LP \u201cBrand\u201d \u2014 dubwize \u2014 is spectacular 21st century music (ahead of its time?), but compared with the previous \u201cPick A Dub\u201d is not as good. \u201cPick A Dub\u201d was greeted with unanimous applause from Dub lovers everywhere \u2014 the adventurous mixing the focal point of the album. Featuring such talented musicians as Augustus Pablo, Peter Tosh, and showcasing the drumming of Carly Barrett and Family Man\u2019s liquid bass, the Dubmuzik was aggressive, powerful and intensely rhythmic; and with the astonishing mix there to enhance its energy and motivate its appeal, the result was No. 1 high-rank Dub. Featured vocalists included Horace Andy, Keith Hudson (ugh\u2026) and Big Youth \u2014 the music was fierce, the mix was mighty, the album was the perfect Dub construction. Check out cuts like the rude \u201cPick A Dub\u201d, the chucky \u201cBlack Heart\u201d, the devastating \u201cBlood Brother\u201d, the eerie \u201cI\u2019m All Right\u201d or the ultimately beautiful \u201cDepth Charge\u201d, based loosely on the Four Tops\u2019 equally impressive \u201cStill Waters\u201d.<\/p>\n
Augustus Pablo is the originator of the \u201crockers\u201d sound and probably Reggae\u2019s most top-rank genius. His music is wholly unique, a sound all his own. His productions tend to be recognisable and eternally listenable efforts \u2014 and Pabs just doesn\u2019t make bad records. Whether he is recording another artist or himself, the classic \u2018genius\u2019 element never fades. A small, smart man with extreme talent in music and imagination \u2014 yes, the Higher Ranking Rocker. His \u201cKing Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown\u201d LP is only available in the United States, it\u2019s not even released in Jamaica. As far as import frequency goes, the score is virtually nil. But the album is as classic as an album can be, the near summit Dub LP \u2014 including such amazing tracks as \u201cBraces Tower Dub\u201d, the great \u201cEach One Dub\u201d, and the seductive \u201c555 Dub Street\u201d. Strictly Yard Music.<\/p>\n
It would be Top of the Pops if it weren\u2019t for wily Winston Edwards and his legendary LP entitled \u201cKing Tubby Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub\u201d. As soon as the LP hit the streets \u2014 via the pre-release market \u2014 it was hailed as a Dub LP with that extra-special something which most other albums of the ilk tended to lack. It had style, it had original ideas, it contained real rootsy rockin\u2019 Reggae, and the mixture of these top-quality ingredients made it well-worthwhile. With the music put together by Winston Edwards with assistance from Lee Perry \u2014 and primary mixing by The Upsetter \u2014 the hard rhythms were dramatically realised in the form of dubwize mixes by the ubiquitous King Tubby. Using such superb musicians as Santa, Family Man, Bobby Ellis, Tommy McCook, etc., etc., etc., the alum was ideal for the Roots fans, with strictly Now Music. Tubby\u2019s techniques were portrayed in all their glorious splendour, the Reggae music totally transformed and interpreted in Tubby\u2019s unique fashion. He would curl, swirl, whirl, twirl, explode, corrode, erode, ignite, excite \u2014 upset and aggravate \u2014 slipping vibrant echo to shatter the instruments, and jamming reverberation to re-duplicate the melodies. Echo-delay was inserted to add to the confusion. DUB MASTER in session\u2026 creating such classics as \u201cNo Justice For The Poor\u201d, \u201cPeople From The Grass Roots\u201d, \u201cAfrican Roots\u201d, \u201cRaw Roots\u201d, \u201cLuke Lane Rock\u201d, \u201cKing Tubby & The Upsetter At Spanish Town\u201d, and \u201cWood Roots\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\nThe prime openers to each side were symbolic successes: \u201cPeople From The Grass Roots\u201d was a total Titanic tormentor. Destruction in Dub \u2014 the whirring cymbals hysterically attacked by the crippling hiss in the mix; the bass heavily bouncing with steady, gushing gusto; the saxophone and trumpet frequently demolished by nerve-nibbling reverb; the erratic rhythm guitar whipped perversely echoic; the constantly rocking drums spattered and spliced with acute accuracy as they slip through the rhythmic loops and splash against the sides \u2014 a devastating dense, deafening Dub of Tubby\u2019s creation. \u201cBlood Of Africa\u201d used roughly the same mixing magic \u2014 only with a more persistent rhythm and a lolloping, creamy trombone replacing the saxophone and trumpet. But the ultimate Dub satisfaction came with the superior \u201cCrime Wave\u201d, an ecstatic next version to \u201cA Touch Of Roots\u201d. The ocean-deep bass virtually orgasmic in its throbbing heaviness, deep and dark with freaky, low echo making it tremble, rumble and tumble. Capable of rattling your insides; seducing the most frigid whale to a frenzy of excitement; penetrating the sound-barrier; mesmerizing and hypnotizing all listeners \u2014 a bass-riff of Meditation. What a revelation! The drums rollin\u2019, rockin\u2019, tickin\u2019, tockin\u2019, snipped and tapped by the console in metronomic, calculable stops and starts. The sleazy, easy, wheezy trombone sweeping and weeping into the air in erotic, spitting slides, often hectically destructed by the wavering echo and spine-shock echo-delay and reverb. What a sensation! The punchy, chopping keyboards densely swelling and elevating as they are given the Kenwood treatment by Tubby \u2014 without anaesthetic \u2014 a furtive form of liquidation. \u201cCrime Wave\u201d: the criteria by which Tubby\u2019s demonstrates his indestructible and effortless power. Violence in Dub \u2014 all manner of music torture and termination. War in Reggae. Dubwize riot \u2014 well wicked!!<\/span><\/p>\nIf, for some absurd reason, you have yet to discover the wonders of Dub music, or have simply dismissed it as a noisy mess: investigate \u201cKing Tubby Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub\u201d and all will be revealed. Should you remain unimpressed, then I can only surmise that you are not a true Reggae fan. Not at all!<\/span><\/p>\nRubbin\u2019 The Dub by Snoopy (Black Echoes, July 1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blood Of Africa \/ African Roots \/ Raw Roots \/ Wood Roots \/ Luke Lane Dub People From The Grass Roots \/ Crime Wave \/ No Justice For The Poor \/ 300 Years At The Grass Roots \/ King Tubby And The Upsetter At Spanish Town Uploaded tonight is a 1978 repress of a record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7091,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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