Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

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New Jonny5 mix:

The Upsetter – Foundation Dub
Baba Brooks – Distant Drums
Augustus Pablo – Vibrate On
Keith Hudson – Jean You Change Everything
Keith Hudson – Jonah Version
The Techniques – Traveling Man
Winston Sax – Victory At Adawa
U-Roy & Ken Parker – True True True Version
Count Ossie & The Wareikas – One Bright Morning
Winston Wright & The Supersonics – Black Power
Dennis Alcapone – Funky Tang
Nora Dean – Angie La La
Bob Marley – Keep On Skanking
U-Roy – Tom Drunk
Phyllis Dillon – Woman Of The Ghetto
Johnny Moore – Red Is Danger
Keith Hudson & The Mafia All Stars – Melody Maker
Chuckles – Melody Maker Version 2
Jah Woosh – I’m Alright
The Abbyssinians – Mabrak
Trinity – Psalms
Jah Woosh – Sattaland
The Upsetter – Disco Devil
The Black Notes – African Style
The Upsetters – African Dub
Little Clive – African Bread
Ken Boothe – The Train Is Coming
The Ethiopians – This Train
Johnny Moore – South China Sea
Johnny Clarke – Golden Snake
Myrna Townsend All Stars – Golden Skank
Dillinger – Flat Foot Hustling
Niney The Observer – Lotion Here I Come Again
Junior Delgado – Famine / Version
Big Youth – Honesty / Version
Freddie McGregor – Rasta Man Camp
Bob Marley – Soul Rebel / Version
Earl Flute & Keith Hudson – True True To My Heart
John Holt – Ali Baba
Toots & The Maytals – 54-46

Thanks for the link. It's helping me get through a particularly annoying working day.

Recently rediscovered The Revolutionaries - Earthquake Dub. For some reason this doesn't particularly wow me when I first heard it 4 years ago, but I've completely fallen in love with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ2lOBMrcGw

loving this

has that 1981 Junjo/Radics/Scientist vibe.

wah-wah voicebox flown in from Sly & the Family Stone or something

just got:

The Boris Gardiner Experience "Sledgehammer" (1975)
Joe Gibbs "Majestic Dub" (1979)<----this is amazing

er Boris Gardiner HAPPENING I mean

A few more roots classics: The Wailing Souls 'Wild Suspense'

Yeah, this is a v. good album

Gibbs dub albums from the late 70s are really incredible (even though I guess they are Gibbs in name only or something and other people mixed them, but whatevs.)

yeah am thinking I want the rest of the series now

at the store I had to choose between Majestic Dub and Linval Thompson Meets King Tubby's "Ina Reggae Dub Style" "Dis A Yard Dub"

I've not heard that particular Linval/Tubby record, but it's hard to imagine that record being bad (although it is on Clocktower which is pretty hit or miss as reggae labels go.)

the Boris Gariner is pretty good too, altho the last track on side 1 of the copy I got is fucked up due to a poor pressing. Gardiner's an odd one, looks like he also did some straight up disco and funk cuts too...?

I mostly think of Gardiner as a bassist, but yeah he was kind of all over the place.

Do you have the Linval 'Negrea Love Dub' album? Essential, imo.

only Linval stuff I have is on comps. yes I know I need to rectify this.

Start with Rocking Vibration and Negrea Love Dub.

Thanks for recommending "Majestic Dub". Think this might be my favourite dub album since "Super Ape". "Edward the Eight" is particularly stellar.

yeah the synths on it are kind of bonkers, right? I put it on yesterday and my wife thought the first song was Moroder for a second

For such a minimal sound as dub, it's incredibly complex - constantly shifting and changing with loads of synths and other instruments fading in and out, but never sounding messy.

Being me, I was also intrigued by Bionic Dub, which is essentially a disco track. Did he do much disco stuff?

Gibbs? not that I know of, but I'll defer to others on that point

yeah there's some disco-y stuff on the Joe Gibbs Reggae Discomix 12" series

I'm listening to a lovely Gibbs production of 'I want your love'. Things like this are what I live for, basically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvumrVgjlTw

Just such a good tune

picked this up over the weekend. it is awesome.
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Is that the correct spelling, never seen it that way before. Just yesterday I got his Greensleeves "12" Rulers" comp in the mail. Also awesome, though so far the pick of that litter (I ordered like 6 cds) is Michael Prophet's Gunman album. Don't have the cd in front of me but I'm assuming Scientist mixed it? The bass sound on it (as in bass guitar, not bass as in frequency) is so sick.

yeah I've never seen it spelled that way before either

my wife asked me what kind of name "lindval" was anyway and I had to admit I had no idea, obviously it must be some colonialized Jamaican name but I don't think I've ever heard of any non-Jamaicans named Lindval. Is it British?

was gonna put this out in the store the other day and made the mistake of playing it. now its going home with me. so good.

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lol misspelled artists' names on reggae albums are pretty common. all of those 12" Rulers comps are great. if you don't already have it, the Junjo one has a great extended version of Prophet's "Gunman" on it.

xp haha, see, they spelled it two ways on the same cover!

haha, see, they spelled it two ways on the same cover!

lol yeah classic

hahaha wtf
before i cleaned it up i had like 5 different artist entries in my itunes for cornell campbell (cornell, there's another great jamaican name, also british right?). cornel campbel, cornell campbell, cornell campbel, etc

i highly recommend this album. played it so many times over the last couple of months:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_fTXE7oIQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-84XR6XhU4&feature=related

Linval Thompson is so rad

xp
have felt genuinely torn trying to decide between Yabby You and Yabby U

never heard of that scott, but I see on discogs that he's in the Tamlins, very interested...

this album was killing me the other day. every song on it is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHk6RjvCXU

yabby you! i mean his record label is yabby you too. so that's good enough for me. probably just easier to call him vivian jackson.

oh Junior Byles is great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjUbPUsPzo

vivian jackson is a great name. maybe I'll file him under Jesus Dread.

file under fuck yeah

XD

okay, one killer early 80's album before i go. roots radics band. scientist mix. junjo lawes production. very very cool.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIWrWpxVRUo

damn that's huge sorry...

you know I'm thinking "Ungreatful" is probably inentional. hard to tell with patois sometimes, so much of it is founded on a mix of literalism and a love of puns (downpressor, for example)

<3 Wayne Jarrett! especially his Showcase on Wackies. there's a sax skronk on there that's one of my favorite moments in all music

btw, that's "intentional" not some obscure patois term like i-nentional