VA - Positively Reggae (1995)

Positively Reggae by Various Artists
1995 promo compilation put together by Sony subsidiary as part of some Keep Kids in School campaign. Its just a funny record to me, mostly because it features a handful of artists who don't quite strike me as role model material. Like, Bounty Killer telling kids to stay in school is funny to me b/c I imagine him like this, in front of a class of small frightened children >





Tracklist
1. Mothers and Fathers - Shabba Ranks
2. Where We Comin' From - Born Jamericans
3. Free Di Youth - Patra
4. No Way Around It - Shaggy
5. Respect - Vicious
6. Back to School - Worl-A-Girl
7. Teach the Children - Tony Rebel
8. Unity - Mad Cobra
9. Go to School - Bounty Killer
10. Peace We Want - Mega Banton/Ricky General/Shirley McLean
11. School Controversy - Damian "Junior Gong" Marley
12. Be Humble - Lieutenant Stitchie

Details
Distributor:    Sony Music Distribution
Recording type:    Studio
Recording mode:    Stereo
SPAR Code:    n/a

Album notes
Producers include: Salaam Remi, Black Scorpio, English, Donovan Thomas, Lloyd Campbell.
Audio Mixers: Black Scorpio; Jack Scorpio; Culture Lee; Salaam Remi.
Audio Remixer: Salaam Remi.
Recording information: Black Scorpio Studios, Kingston, Jamaica; Crib, New York, NY; Mixing Lab Main Street; Palm Tree Enterprises, New York, NY.

There are countless examples of the slackness seemingly inherent to Jamaican dancehall music, but there has also been a strong trend to reintroduce the conscious themes and mindsets of old roots reggae into the genre, leading to dancehall tracks that actually preach and practice good citizenship. That's the case with this sampler, which features a dozen songs touching on kids, school, and parenting, a collection that exhibits all the bluster of straight dancehall with a softer center. Highlights include "Respect" (based very, very loosely on the old Stax song) by Vicious, and Tony Rebel's "Teach the Children." ~ Steve Leggett

Linval Thompson - Phoenix Dub * Re-Up!

Linval Thompson - Phoenix Dub
Label - Motion
Recorded - 1980-1982
Style - Dancehall, Dub, Reggae, Lee Library

Tracklist:
1. Clock Face Dub
2. Back Against The Wall
3. Dub Somebody
4. Wrong Fight Version
5. Hungry Belly Dub
6. Holding On I Dub
7. Dubbing Feet
8. Guide Me In Dub Style
9. Got To Hide Dub
10. Lonely Cry
11. Own Eyes Version
12. Scatter Grain Dub
13. Dubbing To Africa
14. Doing Good Dub

(from Dusty Groove):
So the story goes on this set that Linval Thompson came across these tapes when cleaning house, tapes of previously unreleased sessions he'd cut with the Roots Radics and the Revolutionaries, then handed over to Tubby, Scientist (yes!!) and Jammy to mix. There are some nice dubs of Thompson's best rhythms here, choice cuts and unique versions that you know haven't been released, they've been in the bottom of a closet for years! Remastered with fine sound quality, there's 13 bottom heavy cuts here to keep your woofer from gathering dust: "Clock Face Dub", "Back Against The Wall", "Dub Somebody", "Wrong Fight Version", "Hungry Belly Dub", "Holding On In Dub", "Dubbing Feet", "Guide Me In Dub Style", "Got To Hide Dub", "Lonely Cry", "Own Eyes Version", 'Scatter Grain Dub" and "Dubbing To Africa".

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African Head Charge - Off The Beaten Track * (Re-up Request)

African Head Charge - Off The Beaten Track
Label - On-U Sound
Recorded - 1986
Style - Electronic, Dub, Reggae, Lee Library, World Music
Additional Musicians - Skip McDonald, Jah Wobble

(review by Steve Barker)
Off The Beaten Track

In the intervening years between the 1986 release of “Off The Beaten Track” and its immediate predecessor 1983’s “Drastic Season”, African Head Charge had been moulded into a live blood-pumping band by its main man Bonjo lyabinghi Noah, who had truly come out of the shadows where percussion usually resides, fuelled by a righteous desire to occupy that front-of-stage position. Also during that time producer Adrian Sherwood had volunteered to be fed through the funk-mangle by Messrs.

(Skip) McDonald, (Doug) Wimbish and (Keith) Le Blanc, had come out the other end more disciplined and focused on what fresh sounds might be possibly created through the blatant use and abuse of state of the art technology, where he had previously generated samples as a “captured sound” by-product of the studio hardware or bled all over the old Studer decks as a result of a thousand razored edits. The result of this “great leap forward” was the fourth actual, but first “modern”, African Head Charge album – “Off The Beaten Track” – which sounded like nothing else around at the time, and whose combination of fat beats and ethnic chants was to provide the template, which many lesser lights were to attempt to emulate over the ensuing years.

Compared to previous efforts the "new" AHC rhythms were less abstract and more direct, with continuous and flowing percussion lines and more managed tempo shifts. The application of loops and samples of increased time duration made all the difference when combined with the more fluid and confident approach of the musicians involved in the build of the tracks. Sherwood shows up once more under his by now redundant guise as "The Prisoner". Skip McDonald makes an early non-funk entry and the reappearance of Jah Wobble makes clear his creative commitment to his old friends at On-U. But most remarkably, and making his debut as a recording artist, is the twentieth centuries most radical scientist - the super-cool Albert Einstein, laying down a sweet rap with the most conscious of lyrics in "Language And Mentality". Of course, Albert was in the studio in spirit only and the exercise, to my knowledge, has never been repeated.

The title “Off The Beaten Track” was not just an example of a great piece of wordplay, but also incredibly apt as the music was not only a departure for On-U Sound, but also a landmark album for what was to become the whole new ethno-beat strand within the commercial category of what we now know as “World Music”. – Steve Barker

Tracklist:
1 Off The Beaten Track (5:02)
2 Some Bizarre (5:05)
3 Belinda (3:40)
4 Language & Mentality (4:22)
5 Throw It Away (3:35)
6 Conspiring (4:38)
7 Release The Doctor (3:32)
8 Down Under Again (3:05)
9 Over The Sky (3:15)

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**Pretty cool re-up request, even though the requester was 'anonymous'... usually anonymous requests are prioritized least @ ICOOYS - but interesting, unpredictable or bizarre requests trump blogger anonymity. So - hope you enjoy!**

Active Links

Sorry for the slackness, but a certian Quail.Egg has been ultraslack on posting anything new like he promised (hisssssss!) so here's a list of Dub and Afro joints still active in our RS conservatory:

http://rapidshare.com/files/76533389/Original_Living_Dub_Vol_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76517619/Scientist_-_Dub_In_The_Roots_Tradition.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76516294/Big_Showdown_At_King_Tubby_s_1980.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76515848/Scientist_Meets_The_Space_Invaders.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76515631/Scientist_Wins_The_World_Cup.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76515557/Heavyweight_Dub_Champion.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76503147/Beyond_World_War_III.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76502386/Dub_Gone_2_Crazy_1975-79.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76502326/Dub_Gone_Crazy-_The_Evolution_of_Dub_at_King_Tubby_s_1975-1979.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76501347/Augustus_Pablo_Presents_Rockers_Story.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76500331/Cry_Tuff_Dub_Encounter_Chapter_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76440048/Dubwise.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/76436531/A_Dub_Experience.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73913133/Niney___King_Tubby_-_Bring_the_Dub_Come.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73912146/Sledgehammer_Dub_in_the_Streets_of_Jamaica.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73910809/UMOJA_-_20th_Century_DEBwise_pt1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73911944/UMOJA_-_20th_Century_DEBwise_pt2.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73910307/Pick_a_Dub.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73895794/100th_Anniversary-_Marcus_Garvey___Garvey_s_Ghost.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73895114/A_Double_Helping_Of_Jah_Lloyd_And_King_Tubby.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73894653/Legendary_Skatalites_In_Dub.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73894502/Dennis_Brown_in_Dub.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73891374/Dub_It_.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73891065/I_Admire_You_In_Dub.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73890915/Morwell_Unlimited_Meet_King_Tubby_-_Dub_Me.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73243270/African_Dub_All-Mighty_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/73243442/African_Dub_All-Mighty_2.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/72764598/Gato_Negro_-_Black_Cat_Dub.ZIP
http://rapidshare.com/files/72760080/King_Tubby_-_Loving_Memory_Dub.ZIP
http://rapidshare.com/files/72757479/Scientist_-_Dub_911.ZIP
http://rapidshare.com/files/70255959/Prince_Lincoln_and_The_Rasses_-_Vortex_Dubzip.ZIP
http://rapidshare.com/files/70254693/Ranking_Joe_-_World_In_Dubzip.ZIP



AFRO:
http://rapidshare.com/files/95490293/Africafunk_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95492228/Africafunk_2.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95513756/Nigeria__70_Disc_2a.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95514517/Club_Africa_Vol_2b.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95514576/Afrodeclic_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95515917/Afrodeclic_2.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95516490/Club_Africa_Vol_2a.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95517533/Nigeria__70_Disc_2b.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95518587/Nigeria__70_Disc_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/95518825/The_Shrine_Presents_Afrobeat.zip


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Various Artists - Dancehall Stylee

RE-UP 28 May 2008

Various Artists - Dancehall Stylee
Label: Trojan
Record date: 1979-85
Album style: Dancehall, Deejay, Reggae

Tracklist:
1. Barry Brown - Dancehall Stylee
2. Barrington Levy - Sweet Reggae Music
3. Poppa Tollo - Get Ready And Reggae
4. Earl Sixteen - Some Gone Astray
5. Leroy Smart - Too Much Pressure
6. Purpleman - Trod Along
7. Don Carlos - Booming Ball
8. Sammy Dread - Labour Ward
9. Anthony Johnson - Dread Locks
10. Junior Keating - African Queen
11. Earl Cunningham - What A Day
12. Earl Sixteen - Play Play
13. Wayne Jarrett - Satta Dread
14. Jah Thomas - Dancehall Connection
15. Charlie Chaplin - Stur-Gav Special
16. Anthony Johnson - Natty Dread Come In A Dance
17. Don Carlos - Ababa John I
18. John Wayne - You Too Greedy
19. Earl Sixteen - Bad Company
20. Earl Cunningham - Violence And Crime
21. Don Carlos - Lazer Beam
22. Poppa Tollo - Nuff Stylee

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Various Artists - Strictly Rub-A-Dub

RE-UP 28 May 2008

Various Artists - Strictly Rub-A-Dub
Label: Trojan
Record date: 1979-85
Album style: Dancehall, Deejay, Reggae

Tracklist:
1. Yellowman & Fathead - Donkey Want Water
2. Poppa Tollo - Ride The Rhythm
3. Charlie Chaplin - Foreign Man Skank
4. Trinity - Psalms
5. Simple Simon - War All Over
6. John Wayne - Heavy Rhythm
7. Clint Eastwood - Fight Inflation
8. John Wayne - Boogie Down
9. U Brown - Me Chat You Rock
10. Ranking Joe - Choice Of Colour
11. Clint Eastwood - It Wasn't Rasta
12. Simple Simon - Revolution Fighters
13. Clint Eastwood - Dance Kork
14. Charlie Chaplin - Don't Leave Your Baby mother
15. Poppa Tollo - Special Request To David Rodigan & Tony Williams
16. Ranking Joe - Cold Blood
17. Purpleman - Sandra Dee Buy Big House For Me
18. General Lucky & Peter Ranking - Ram-A-Jam
19. Simple Simon - Obey Your Mother And Father
20. Jah Thomas & Sister Jackie - Cockee & Pussy

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Various Artists - Dancehall Explosion

RE-UP 28 May 2008

Various Artists - Dancehall Explosion
Label: Trojan
Record date: 1979-85
Album style: Dancehall, Deejay, Reggae

Tracklist:
1. Charlie Chaplin - Entertainer
2. Earl Sixteen - Jah Is The Master
3. Barry Brown - Please Officer
4. Delroy Smith - Round The World
5. Dennis Brown - Unite Brother Man
6. Charlie Chaplin - One Of A Kind
7. Earl Sixteen - Crisis
8. Carlton Livingston - Class Of 69
9. Barry Brown - Chucky Boo
10. Neville Brown - The Right Time
11. Purpleman - King On The Way
12. George Mckay - Money Money
13. Don Carlos - My Baby Just Love I Man
14. Barrington Levy - Collie Weed
15. Anthony Johnson - Sitting Everyday
16. Derrick Pitter - The World And It's People
17. Earl Sixteen - Hey Girl
18. Phillip Fraser - Holding On
19. Cornell Campbell - The Drifter
20. Sister Candy - Connection Connection
21. Don Carlos - Johnnie Big Mouth
22. Triston Palmer - For Health And Strength

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Various Artists - The Biggest Dancehall Anthems 1979-82

Various Artists - The Biggest Dancehall Anthems 1979-82
Label: Greensleeves
Record date: 1979-82
Album style: Dancehall, Deejay, Reggae

Tracklist:
Disk 1
1. Johnny Osbourne - Fally Ranking
2. Barrington Levy - Shine Eye Gal
3. The Wailing Souls - Firehouse Rock
4. General Echo - Bathroom Sex
5. Johnny Osbourne - Ice Cream Love
6. Yellowman - Morning Ride
7. Barrington Levy - Look Youthman
8. Clint Eastwood & General Saint - Another One Bites The Dust
9. Ranking Dread - Fattie Boom Boom
10. Michael Prophet - Gunman
11. Ranking Toyan - How The West Was Won
12. Linval Thompson - Look How Me Sexy
13. Ranking Toyan - Spar Wid Me
14. John Holt - Ghetto Queen
15. Junior Delgado - Love Tickles Like Magic
16. Barrington Levy - Bounty Hunter
17. Johnny Clarke - Jah Love Is With I
18. Wayne Jarrett - Chip In
19. Wayne Wade - Poor And Humble
20. The Wailing Souls - Who No Waan Come

Disk 2:
1. Eek A Mouse - Wa-Do-Dem
2. Yellowman - Yellowman Getting Married
3. Papa Michigan & General Smiley - Diseases
4. Nicodemus - Bone Connection
5. Dennis Brown - To The Foundation
6. Barrington Levy - Mary Long Tongue
7. John Holt - Sweetie Come Brush Me
8. Tony Tuff - Come Fe Mash It
9. The Wailing Souls - Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall
10. Barrington Levy - River Jordan (Crucifixion)
11. Ranking Joe - River Jordan
12. Triston Palmer & Jah Thomas & Ranking Toyan - Entertainment
13. Don Carlos - I'm Not Crazy
14. Hugh Mundell - Can't Pop No Style
15. The Wailing Souls - Up Front
16. Ranking Dread - Love A Dub
17. Yellowman - Mr Chin
18. Johnny Osbourne - Trying To Turn Me On
19. General Echo Featuring Barrington Levy - Eventide Fire A Disaster
20. Clint Eastwood & General Saint - Tribute To General Echo

Producer : Chris Cracknell & Henry Junjo Lawes

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Burning Spear - Garvey's Ghost

We posted the Burning Spear 100th Anniversary Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost album back in December, but my homeboy R.D. hooked me up with just the Garvey's Ghost album - so if you don't want both the vocal AND the Dub, Garvey's Ghost is just the Dub. Thanks, R.D.!

Burning Spear - Garvey's Ghost
Label - Island
Released - 1976
Style - Dub, Reggae, Roots, Group Vocal

Tracklist:
1. The Ghost
2. I And I Survive
3. Black Wa-Da-Da
4. John Burns Skank
5. Brain Food
6. Farther East Of Jack
7. 2000 Years
8. Dread River
9. Workshop
10. Reggaelation

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Mute Beat - 14 Echoes + 1 (20th Anniversary Edition)

2 More MUTE BEATs (By Request)!

Mute Beat - 14 Echoes + 1 (20th Anniversary Edition)
Released - 2002 (JP)
Label - Pony Canyon Inc.
Style - Ska, Reggae, Dub, Jazz

Tracklist:
1) Still Echo
2) Hat Dance
3) Metro
4) Michishirube
5) Blue Beat Melody
6) From Russia With Love
7) Whisky Bar
8) Harmony in Martinigue
9) Lullaby for Frances
10) March
11) Everyday
12) Super Woofer Dub
13) Down Train
14) Deep Drift Dub
15) Jenka



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Mute Beat - Lover's Rock

Mute Beat - Lover's Rock
Label - Pony Canyon, Inc.
Released - 2002
Style - Ska, Reggae, Dub, Jazz

Tracklist:
1. EVERYDAY
2. JAZZ MAN
3. OLD AIR
4. DUB IN THE FOG
5. RHYTHM TRAX
6. DOWN TRAIN
7. BLUE BEAT MELODY
8. KIYEN NO SORA
9. LULLABY FOR FRANCES

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The Revolutionaries / Tappa Zukie - Escape From Hell

The Revolutionaries / Tappa Zukie - Escape From Hell
Label - Tappa / Trojan
Recorded - 1977
Style - Reggae, Dub, Lee Library, Roots

(from Reggae-Vibes.com)
One of Jamaica's most talented artists, Tappa Zukie has had an equal impact on both sides of the recording deck, as both a hitmaking toaster and as a producer who has worked with the cream of Jamaica's vocalists. In addition, his early ties to the punk community in both London and New York was instrumental in the crossover of roots reggae into the mainstream. Born David Sinclair, Tappa was a diminutive of a nickname his grandmother gave him, while Zukie was derived from the gang he ran with as a child, the Zukies. In his teens, he began working for the sound systems, first with I-Oses Discotech, then for the Maccabees. It was through the latter that he came to the attention of producer Bunny Lee; unfortunately, his off-hours delinquency ensured that he was also coming to the attention of the police.

In 1973 he moved to London where he was immediately swept into the studio to record his debut single, "Jump & Twist". Returning to Kingston at the end of the year, the young DJ now began recording singles for a variety of producers such as Yabby You, Bunny Lee, Ossie Hibbert en JoJo Hookim. Out of those sessions came the famous 'MPLA' album. He also set up his own 'Stars' label. Financial problems forced him to hold back the album release, but he did put out some singles. It was at this point that he began producing other artists, initially working with the likes of Errol Dunkley and former Itals vocalist Ronnie Davis.

Back to London he found out that a recording session he'd done during his previous stay, with producer Clem Bushay, had since been released as the 'Man A Warrior' album, and was selling like hotcakes through the Klik label. He then released the 'MPLA' album and found himself with the best-selling reggae record in the U.K. that Christmas.

A period of astonishing productivity followed, releasing the 'Man From Bosrah', 'Earth Running', 'Escape From Hell', 'In Dub', 'Peace In The Ghetto', and 'Black Man' albums between 1977 and 1979. At the beginning of the 80s he definitely was an international presence to be reckoned with. He worked with Horace Andy, Militant Barry and put out some interesting albums himself. Later in the decade he was responsible for productions with the Mighty Diamonds, Max Romeo, Ken Boothe, Sugar Minott, and U-Roy. As the digital era took over he solely concentrated on production work, releasing tunes with Beres Hammond, The Heptones, Simpleton and June Lodge.

The album 'Escape From Hell' saw its initial release in 1977 as a ten track album. It has been somewhat overlooked due to the small numbers of its original pressings. Tappa was at the height of his peak period as a roots producer with Sly & Robbie and the Revolutionaries house band and then up-and-coming engineer Prince Jammy, who would replace Philip Smart as right hand man at King Tubby's legendary Waterhouse facility.

The opening cut, Sidewalk Dub, sets the tone as a totally dubwise reading of Tappa's devotional 'My God Is Real', followed by the instantly recognizable Massacra Dub, an enthralling cut of Prince Allah's wonderful anthem, 'Burial'. Population Dub takes the 'Take Five' riddim, itself being an adaption of Dave Brubeck's jazz favourite. Then there is Weather Umbrella a well known riddim originally made popular by Ray-I as 'Weatherman Skank', who used the Treasure Isle classic 'It's Raining'. Next up comes King Alpha In School, a spirited re-cut of the Ebony Sisters' 'Let Me Tell You Boy' that Tappa used earlier for Horace Andy's 'Stop Your Brutality', followed by the outstanding Experience Dub, a subtle counterpart to Horace's 'Natty Dread Weh She Want' (which borrowed lyrics and structure from an earlier Soul Syndicate hit whilst also making use of the melody of Alton Ellis' Studio One classic, 'Hurting Me').

The album comprises bonus dubs, all drawn from the same key period of 1976-79. Noteworthy are the super rare Double Struggle, across Gregory Isaac's great 'Love Light' rhythm, which Tappa picked up from Ossie Hibbert at Channel One. More niceness on Natty Princess Version where you'll hear an excellent re-cut of Delroy Wilson's classic 'Conquer Me'. She Want A Version is a fantastic dub cut of the popular 'Phensic', while the album closes with Rub A Dub A Weh Them Want, of course based on the everlasting 'Natty Dread A Weh She Want'.

Tracklist:
1. Sidewalk Dub
2. Massacra Dub
3. Dub Driver
4. Population Dub
5. Weather Umbrella
6. King Alpha In School
7. Experience Dub
8. Marching To Zion
9. Escape From Hell
10. Squatters Dub
11. Straight To Him Chest
12. Revolution Version
13. Double Struggle
14. Natty Princess Version
15. Real Version
16. Sensimelia Version
17. She Want A Version
18. Mariguana Version
19. Broad Back Skank
20. Rub A Dub A Weh Them Want

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VA - Heavyweight Sound

Various - Heavyweight Sound - A Blood And Fire Sampler
Label - Blood & Fire
Released - 1995
Style - Roots, Reggae, Dub, Lee Library

Beginning with the release of If Deejay Was Your Trade in 1994, Blood & Fire continually set and maintained the highest standards around in the reggae reissue market. Here was a label concerned first and foremost with creating a product of such quality that future revisions would be entirely unnecessary; a label that insisted on paying both artists and producers of the music. From Intro 's exquisite design work, and Steve Barrow 's liner notes, to the music itself, these titles screamed essential. Drawing on the first seven titles, the '70s roots , dub , and DJ cuts gathered on Heavyweight Sound are the aural proof. If Deejay Was Your Trade captured a group of the era's finest mic men riding producer Bunny Lee 's rhythms (as dubbed by King Tubby ). The collaboration is represented here by I-Roy 's eye-opening plea 'War and Friction' and Tappa Zukie 's pained 'Jah Is I Guiding Star.' Tubby also gets his hands on vocal and instrumental cuts from Lee 's catalog ( 'Real Gone Crazy Dub,' 'Dub Fi Gwan' ) as well as the work of producer Yabby You . Examples of the latter include the flying cymbals of Michael Rose 's 'Born Free' ( 'Rock Vibration' ) and the Tommy McCook sax cut 'Death Trap' ( 'Living Style' ). Further dubs come courtesy of Keith Hudson (including the dizzying 'Black Right' ) and Prince Phillip (the Tubby apprentice who handled Tappa Zukie 's dubs), while inimitable vocalists include the superb stylist Horace Andy and impassioned roots singer Burning Spear . Though samplers can often be a mixed bag, Heavyweight Sound is satisfyingly consistent. It's highly recommended, but so are all the full-length albums. If you need an introduction, buy this and then begin chipping away at this label's exceptional catalog. ~ Nathan Bush, All Music Guide

Aggrovators - Performer
Black Disciples - Performer
Burning Spear - Performer
Horace Andy - Performer
I-Roy - Performer
Keith Hudson - Performer
King Tubby - Performer
Prince Jammy - Performer
Soul Syndicate - Performer
Tapper Zukie - Performer
Yabby You - Performer

Tracklist:
1 King Tubby & The Aggrovators - Real Gone Crazy Dub (3:31)
2 Tappa Zukie & The Aggrovators - Jah Is I Guiding Star (3:25)
3 Prince Philip & The Musical Intimidators - Falling Dub (3:01)
4 Burning Spear & The Black Disciples - Marcus Children Suffer (4:38)
5 Keith Hudson & The Soul Syndicate - Black Heart (2:40)
6 Horace Andy - Problems (4:09)
7 Horace Andy & Prince Jammy - Problems Dub (3:10)
8 Yabby You & King Tubby - Rock Vibration (4:24)
9 I-Roy & The Aggrovators - War & Friction (3:18)
10 Yabby You & King Tubby - Living Style (3:31)
11 Keith Hudson & The Soul Syndicate - Black Right (3:11)
12 Prince Philip & The Musical Intimidators - Judgement Dub (3:16)
13 Burning Spear & The Black Disciples - Marcus Say Jah No Dread (3:51)
14 King Tubby & The Aggrovators - Dub Fi Gwan (3:59

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Mute Beat in Dub

Mute Beat in Dub
Label - ROIR
Released - 1986
Style - Jazz, Dub, Crystal Light, Reggae, Japanese, Lee Libary, Brammer Library

(From Reggae-Reviews.com):
Reggae has long been an underground favorite in Japan, but not only are there a significant amount of fans there listening to reggae, there has been some quality reggae music coming out of Japan since the early '80s. Dub seems to be the sound of choice of the best-known of these Japanese performers, with acts like Dry & Heavy, Pecker's 21st Century Dub, and Mute Beat honing a unique and engaging style. Like the 21st Century Dub album, Mute Beat in Dub is a distinct, seamless mix of dub, roots reggae, and jazz. Led by trumpeter Kazufumi "Echo" Kodama, the music is horn-dominated, often incorporating both trumpet and trombone intertwining in a harmonic ballet, as on "Landscape." While you might think that strictly horn-led dub may have its limitations, it never gets stale, from "Metro" to the distant, vintage sound of "Still Echo" to vocal track "Mixed Up" to the Spaghetti Western-style music of "Fiolina". There's certainly a sense of avant-garde experimentalism on Mute Beat in Dub (again, like 21st Century Dub), as evidenced by the sounds-like-it-was-recorded-in-a-well percussion-fest "Dee Jay Style." If you're a dub fan, you definitely owe it to yourself to know this album. Crystal Light!

Tracklist:
1. Metro
2. Fiolina
3. Dee Jay Style
4. Beat Away
5. Landscape
6. Downtown
7. Mixed Up
8. Dub No. 5 (Take 5)
9. Schoolyard Dub (Jenka)
10. Still Echo
11. Break a Road

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Dennis Brown Presents Prince Jammy - Umoja / 20th Century DEBwise

Dennis Brown Presents Prince Jammy - Umoja / 20th Century DEBwise
Label: Blood And Fire
Record date: 1978
Album style: Dub, Lee Library, Reggae, Roots

Since the release of the first album "If Deejay Was Your Trade" in 1994 UK-based Blood & Fire Records have established themselves a name as one of the best re-issue labels around. The Blood and Fire Crew rightfully deserves its fame as it pleases reggae fans all over the world with releases of mainly hard-to-get gems from the past presented with the best sound quality possible, excellent artwork and great sleeve notes. This release, based on the two overlooked dub albums "Umoja Love & Unity" and "20th Century DEB-wise" celebrate the meeting at King Tubby's studio of the late Dennis Brown - in his role as producer as well as vocalist - and legendary mixing engineer Prince Jammy.

Jammy shows his touch first on the Lennox Brown recut of the Soul Vendors' 1968 Studio One classic "Frozen Soul", here entitled "Cool Runnings", the beautiful "Sounds Almighty" with hardly audible vocalsnatches in the background, over the cowbells ornamenting the horns blowing over the heavy bass riddim. "Umoja" once again very heavily features the horn section Dennis Brown used as a producer for these two 1978 albums of Cedric 'Im' Brooks, Lennox Brown and Delroy Hines over a stripped down version of another Soul Vendor's Studio One gem, the 'Swing Easy'-riddim. "Guidance" is a dub with an almost Augustus Pablo-like grace, and is followed by a dub of Dennis' own immensely popular "The Half", here called "The Truth". "Cry Of The Destitute", the version of Dennis' own "Troubled World": "Mercy For The Needy", "Something Special" and the version of the three years before this dub album recorded "Children Of Israel", now called "Sons Of Dust" all keep you in this aural trip provided by the combination of Dennis Brown's tight produced riddims and Jammy's subtle dubbing of them, preceding my favorite dub of the album "Structure" with its superb bassline, and an even more shining role for the horns than in the other tracks.

Unbelievable that the "Umoja" album on initial release sold so poorly that it was never repressed. The second album included on this CD "20th Century DEB-wise" did much better commercially, although released only a couple of months later. The dubs on these second set of 10 tunes seemed to be even further stripped down, with a less prominent role for the horn section that was also featured on the original recordings of these mainly for Junior Delgado and Tamlins tunes used riddims. In my opinion tunes like "Cop's Spy", "Ting A Ling Style" and especially "Great Man Called Kenyatta" are the closest Jammy's ever stayed to this teacher King Tubby's style. And while "Thunder" stays in that same vein, "Dancing In The Streets" is approached much more to maintain a dancegroove both in Dennis' riddim production and Jammy's in-sync mixing, while "Riot In The Streets" with its bluesy guitar on top is another gem. "Open The Gate Of Rhodesia" is a superb melodic dub of Junior Delgado's 1978 "I've Got A Feeling" with full length vocal snatches in the mix, and although the vocals disappear for "Robbery In The City", "Murder" and "Ragga Muffin Style", the same mixing and dubbing approach is used by Prince Jammy for these tracks. Another classic finishes this release, the "General Version" of Dennis' own great "(Don't) Want To Be General" as it appeared on the DEB 45RPM in 1979. A brilliant tune in a brilliant Jammy's DEB-wise version to finish this must have dub collection. ~reggae-vibes.com

Tracklist:
1. Cool Runnings
2. Sounds Almighty
3. Umoja
4. Guidance
5. The Truth
6. Cry Of The Destitute
7. Mercy For The Needy
8. Something Special
9. Sons Of Dust
10. Structure
11. Cop's Spy
12. Ting A Ling Style
13. Great Man Called Kenyatta
14. Thunder
15. Dancing In The Streets
16. Riot In The Streets
17. Open The Gate Of Rhodesia
18. Robbery In The City
19. Murder
20. Raggamuffin Style
21. General Version

Producer: Dennis Brown
Mixing Engineer: Prince Jammy
Drums: Norman Grant, Sly Dunbar
Bass: Lloyd Parks, Robbie Shakespeare
Guitar: Bo Peep, Bingy Bunny, Chinna, Dennis Brown
Keyboards: Ansel Collins, Franklyn Bubbler Waul, Winston Wright
Piano: Tarzan, Winston Wright, Ernest Wilson
Organ: Ansel Collins
Horns: Cedric Im Brooks, Lennox Brown, Delroy Hines
Percussions: Sticky, Flick Wilson, Junior Delgado

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Niney The Observer Presents King Tubby - Bring The Dub Come

Niney The Observer Presents King Tubby - Bring The Dub Come
Label: Heartbeat
Record date: 197X
Album style: Dub, Lee Library, Reggae, Roots, Tubby

Around 1969 Kingston-based producers started to issue singles with instrumental "versions" on the flipside of vocal releases, which were actually the basic riddim tracks. To these "versions" one could add further instrumentation or deejay accompaniment. Within a year the inclusion of instrumental versions on the flipside was common practice among the majority of Jamaica's producers. In 1971 the first real Dub recordings began to appear, with The Hippy Boys' "Voo Doo" - the version to Little Roy's "Hard Fighter", which was mixed by Lynford Anderson a.k.a. Andy Capp - now widely acknowledged to be the first recording in the genre. But it was pioneering sound engineer and sound system operator Osbourne Ruddock aka King Tubby who did more than any other to popularize and develop the sound. He explored the possibilities of sound from his small studio, located at the back of his home, at 18 Drumilly Avenue, Kingston 11 and became the leading figure in the history of dub.

On the February 6, 1989, King Tubby returned home from a night out and was shot dead in cold blood. The senseless slaying of this mild, shy and widely loved man sent the reggae community into shock. As the news filtered out from Jamaica, communities across the whole world mourned his passing. In the UK, renowned dj David Rodigan immediately put together a tribute to Tubby. During the show he talked to King Jammy via a live link. Jammy, choking back tears at the death of his friend, sent out the following message to the killer : "You can run, but you can't hide". It was one of the most poignant moments in UK broadcasting history.

Winston Holness, a man known throughout the reggae world as Niney The Observer who has made his mark as a performer of some note is perhaps more widely acknowledged for his skills as an engineer and producer. He started his career in the sixties when he studied the art of engineering under the expert tuteledge of Lee Perry and Lynford Anderson (aka Andy Capp). He later supervised numerous sessions for illustrious producers such as Bunny Lee and Joe Gibbs prior to launching his career as an independent producer at the end of the decade. The single 'Blood And Fire' was his first major breakthrough issued on his Observer label. The single sold over 30,000 copies on the island alone and was later named 'Jamaican record of the Year' for 1971.

Over the next years Niney regularly supervised recording sessions at Dynamic, Randy's, Channel One and Joe Gibbs studios, releasing excellent sides by artists such as Max Romeo, Delroy Wilson and Ken Boothe. However, his most enduring productions during that period were those he did with Dennis Brown. During the seventies and early eighties, Niney was one of the top producers on the island.

From the vaults of his Observer label come these 22 (!) top ranking dubs, mixed by the dubmaster King Tubby, with most tracks previously unreleased. Tracks 3 to 12 were the bulk of a lost album's worth of dubs that were found at King Tubby's and are here released for the first time. The other tracks are taken from various tapes of album tracks, rare B-sides and unreleased dub mixes from the vaults of the label. Included are dub mixes of Observer label hits by Dennis Brown, Michael Rose, Horace Andy, Delroy Wilson and Big Youth.

Musicians include the Soul Syndicate band and The Cimarons on Tribulation Dub. All songs were recorded at Randy's Studio and remixed by the dubmaster King Tubby. As all Heartbeat releases, the CD comes with comprehensive linernotes including explanations for the original versions and artists. ~reggae-vibes.com

Tracklist:
1. The Bold Dub
2. Niney Skank
3. Kutchie Dub
4. 91 Orange Street
5. Kingston 11
6. Idlers Rest
7. Dub Seven
8. I Need A Dub
9. Dub A Word
10. Dromilly Skank
11. Freedom Dub
12. King Tubbys Dub
13. Rebel Dance
14. Cassanova Dub
15. Rasta Locks
16. Turntable Dub
17. Rema Dub
18. Nice Dub
19. Nice Version
20. Dub 68
21. Tribulation Dub
22. Burn A Challawa

Producer: Niney
Mixing Engineer: King Tubby
Backing Bands: The Cimarons, The Soul Syndicate
Studios: Randy's (Kingston, JA)

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Niney The Observer - Sledgehammer Dub (in the Streets of Jamaica)

Niney The Observer - Sledgehammer Dub (in the Streets of Jamaica)
Label: Motion
Record date: 1977
Album style: Dub, Lee Library, Reggae, Roots

This classic dub album was originally released (only in Jamaica) in 77 in very limited numbers (300) on the Observer label and has up to now been one of the holy grails for collectors of dub reggae. It compiled alternative mixes of Dennis Brown single B sides (from 75/76) that King Tubby had made as exclusive dubplates for his Home Town Hi-Fi sound system. Heavier than the original single B sides they combine to make up an awesome dub album. The bonus tracks all maintain the Dennis Brown link, three of them being B side dubs of Dennis Brown songs, the fourth (CD only) is an exclusive, taken from dubplate. David Katz extensive sleevenotes (12 page booklet) include an exclusive interview with Niney and detail his life and times in more depth than any previous Niney release.

NINEY QUOTES (from interview for sleevenotes 2002):
'Tubbys is the one that mix Sledgehammer,' says Niney, 'hear how Sledgehammer mix: when we make the tracks, and Dennis voice them, King Tubbys mix off a set for his sound system; he skim the tape, do some things and reverb up, so that it don't sound like what you have on your tape, and he play that for the sound, but he don't throw away the tape. Gradually, when you tell him "Hey Tubbs, me want something," he go back and mix something similar to what he have on the sound for you; when me and him 'round there, he will mix two cut, one for the sound and one for you, so that is really how I get Sledgehammer.' Niney notes that King Tubby was responsible for breaking most of this hit material. 'When we make a song, we take it to him, and when he mix off the song, he keep that cut for his sound system, and then he make different cuts, and sell dubs to other sounds; he promoted the song so that when the song come to street, it hit. Tubbys was Jamaica's dancehall radio station: wherever he play the sound, people talk about what Tubbys play the next morning, so that be a demand on the street; we would give Tubby a song, and he play it like two or three months, and whenever the song reach demands, we release it. We go to him and he says "Don't release it yet, release it two weeks time," and then he makes U Roy boost that song, and then people come to the shop, asking "Do you have this song?" The word go 'round, so when it release, it's a hit.' ~motionrecords.com

Tracklist:
1. Dub Long Rastafari
2. Travelling Version
3. You're No Dub Baby
4. Burning Dub
5. Kingsgate Version
6. Dub Now
7. God Bless My Dub
8. Everyones Dubbing
9. Rich And Poor Dub
10. Tribulation Version
11. Head Line
12. New Style
13. Dub 51
14. Tenement Yard Version

Producer: Niney
Engineers: Sid Bucknor, King Tubby, Errol Thompson, Phillip Smart
Backing Band: The Soul Syndicate
Studios: Chalk Farm (London, UK) & Randy's (Kingston, JA)


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Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (Deluxe Edition)

Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (Deluxe Edition)
Label: Shanachie
Record date: 1972-75
Album style: Dub, Lee Library, Reggae, Rockers, Roots, Tubby
Notes: A true classic. Bonus tracks 13-16.

If you had to pick just one album to represent dub "King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown" is the disc. The title really says it all: the collaboration between the premier engineer and the top roots producer of the mid-’70s resulted in definitive King Tubby interpretations of some of Pablo’s deepest rhythms. It also demonstrated conclusively that a studio engineer could be considered as creative as the singers, musicians and visionary producer who made the music. A dub is essentially a remix In the hands of an engineer as good as King Tubby (1941 – 1989) it became an artform, and an incredibly popular one.

For this ground-breaking disc, Pablo assembled a brilliant cast: the Upsetters/Wailers drum and bass duo of Aston "Family Man" Barrett and brother Carlton, guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith, horns-men Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall, Bobby Ellis, Vin Gordon and bassist Robbie Shakespeare. All sessions were recorded by the engineer Errol "ET" Thompson at Randy’s Studio on North Parade. Pablo then took the tapes to King Tubby for mixing. He initially released instrumental, deejay and vocal cuts as 7-inch 45s on his Hot Stuff, Rockers and Pablo International labels, between 1972 and 75, but as the vogue for dub albums exploded in 1976, Pablo compiled twelve of his b-side dubs to make this set.

The centrepiece of the album is "King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown", a killer dub version of Jacob Miller’s vocal "Baby I Love You So" which almost single-handedly defined dub for a non-Jamaican audience when it was released as a single by Island Records (UK) in 1975; it also appeared on the company’s massive-selling "This Is Reggae Music" sampler.

Using his custom sliders, Tubby eases Miller’s voice in and out of the mix, adding stabs of guitar and melodica. Carlton Barrett’s explosive snare fills further serve to punctuate the elastic rhythm, which was first cut for producer Herman Chin Loy’s 1973 album Aquarius Dub. Similarly, "Frozen Dub" propelled the Heptones on a recut of their Studio One classic "Love Won’t Come Easy". Hopefully someone, some day, will undertake to present this crucial set in all its glory, with alternate mixes. ~elrockers.org

Tracklist:
1. Keep On Dubbing
2. Stop Them Jah
3. Young Generation Dub
4. Each One Dub
5. 555 Dub St.
6. Brace's Tower Dub
7. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
8. Brace's Tower Dub No. 2
9. Corner Crew Dub
10. Skanking Dub
11. Frozen Dub
12. Satta Dub
13. Black Gunn*
14. I Ruthland Close*
15. 1-2-3 Version*
16. Silent Satta*

Producer: Augustus Pablo
Mixing Engineer: King Tubby & Errol Thompson
Drums: Carlton Barrett
Bass: Robbie Shakespeare & Aston Barrett
Guitar: Chinna
Organ: Augustus Pablo
Piano: Augustus Pablo
Tenor Saxophone: Dirty Harry
Trumpet: Bobby Ellis
Trombone: Vin Gordon
Clavinet: Augustus Pablo
Mixing studio: King Tubby's (Kingston, JA)
Recording studio: Randy's (Kingston, JA)

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Augustus Pablo - Rockers Story

Augustus Pablo - Rockers Story
Label: RAS
Record date: 1974-87
Album style: Dub, Lee Library, Reggae, Rockers, Roots

Rockers Story is the fifth collection of Pablo's extended family of recordings and artists. Like many successful Jamaican Reggae stars, his talent, production skills and certainly finances have provided opportunities for a whole new generation of young singers and musicians. This record showcases some unknowns, lesser­-knowns and recently established stars in their own right. The late Hugh Mundell, who was bearly into his teens when he penned the chillingly prophetic (in terms of his own short stay on the planet) hymn is included herein.

DJ's who toast in a style closer to U Roy than to the dance hall trend of the 80's such as Dillenger, Ras Bull and the mysterious Prince lrey (sounding almost too much like Mundell) complement the singers Delroy Williams and Barry Reid. Tetrack, whose principal writer, Carlton Hines, has become one of the most prolific song writers in reggae today, began under Pablo's tutelage. Two of the trio's songs which do not appear on previous albums are included here. The Lennon/McCartney chestnut World Without Love is given the Rockers treatment here as well. It is very common for pop tunes to be redone with a reggae beat in Jamaica just as all aver the world. However this ditty bears the patented murky bass, slashing riddim guitar and crisp drumming that raises it out of the piano bar repertoire.

The Rockers label was named far Pablo's late brother Douglas Swaby's sound system which mashed up the island in the early 70's. It had became a training ground far musicians, a source of new and innovative rhythms and a vehicle for praises for the Most High. Together with his brother Garth, Pablo also kept a record store going an Orange Street in Kingston - Rockers International - and ran his own publishing company. ~elrockers.org

Tracklist:
1. Augustus Pablo - 555 Crown Street
2. Dillinger - Take It Easy
3. Ras Bull - Guide I Jah
4. The Rockers All Stars - Zambian Step
5. Delroy Williams - Think Twice
6. Tetrack - I'm Not Satisfied
7. Augustus Pablo - Power Of The Trinity
8. The Immortals - World Without Love
9. Prince Irey - Freedom Of Speech
10. Barry Reid - The System
11. Augustus Pablo - Struggle In Soweto
12. Tetrack - Pure Worries
13. Hugh Mundell - Africa Must Be Free

Producer: Augustus Pablo
Organ, Clavinet, Piano: Augustus Pablo
Bass: Aston "Family Man" Barrett
Drums: Carlton "Carlie" Barrett
Guitar: Earl "Chinna" Smith
Saxophone: Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall
Trumpet: Bobby Ellis

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Augustus Pablo - East Of The River Nile (25th Anniversary Edition) (re-post)

Augustus Pablo - East Of The River Nile (25th Anniversary Edition)
Label: Shanachie
Record date: 1977
Album style: Dub, Instrumentals, Lee Library, Reggae, Rockers, Roots
Notes: This is a re-post (click to view PMX's excellent original write-up), except that this is actually the special 25th anniversary edition of East Of The River Nile which includes 6 rare bonus tracks, including the never-before-on-CD original version of the title track, dubs of key album tracks and two other rare singles.

East Of The River Nile... I consider this to be the perfect introduction to Augustus Pablo. I first heard this album in 1979 and had to keep playing it over and over again. It's moody, it's tense, it's smooth and heavy. Just like its creator. The last time I worked with Pablo was in 1998. My last memory of Pablo was being in Ariwa studios with smoke so thick that we could not see the desk! This is not an instrumental album. this is not a dub album. This is something else, I am not sure what it was ahead of Its time In '79 and still sounds brilliant in 2002. Totally hypnotic! ~Neil Fraser [aka The Mad Professor]

Tracklist:
1. Chant to King Selassie I
2. Natural Way
3. Nature Dub
4. Upfull Living
5. Unfinished Melody
6. Jah Light
7. Memories of the Ghetto
8. Africa (1983)
9. East of the River Nile
10. Sounds from Levi
11. Chapter 2
12. Addis-A-Baba
13. East Africa*
14. East of the River Nile (original)*
15. Memories of the Ghetto Dub*
16. Jah Light Version*
17. Islington Rock*
18. Meditation Dub*

Producer: Augustus Pablo
Engineers: Ernest Hookim , Errol Thompson , Lee Perry , Prince Jammy , Sylvan Morris
Bass: Aston "Family Man" Barrett , Bagga , Clayton Downie , Robbie Shakespeare
Drums: Carlton Barrett , Max Edwards , Noel "Alfonso" Benbow
Guitar: Earl "Chinna" Smith
Melodica, Clavinet, Piano, Organ, Strings: Augustus Pablo
Percussion: Everton DaSilva
Studios: Harry J's, Channel One, King Tubby's, Black Ark
Give thanks to Jah-Malla band for playing on "Chant To King Selassie I" and "Natural Way"

Rastafari Iration: Give Thanks to King Selassie I for His Inspiration.

Psalm 150:
1. Praise ye, the Lord, Praise God in his Sanctuary, praise him in the firmament
2. Praise him for his mighty acts; praise him according to his excellent greatness
3. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with the psaltery and harp
4. Praise him with the timbrel and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and organs
5. Praise him upon the loud cymbals; praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals
6. Let every thing that breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

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