Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

got some pretty silkscreened dub that will probably end up in france. for now i can gaze lovingly at them. and play them.

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!!! Bloody hell. Have only ever seen one of these, and even that one not in that cover. Guess these are really very rare, huh? What label design, Scott?

so pretty.

sick, i bet those go for lots of $$$

forgot how good this guy is

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/01a37a732db45d9c51582adcee9a25f1/611699.jpg

Granny Scratch Scratch is 100%

no idea re the sounds but i love the cover art on these ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFDzv7_84SU

put another dub up that i like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJwT-RVtrR0

the sibley is v nice, ty - some of the same gospelised feel as george faith stuff like 'to be a lover' tho' considerably rawer

one more fave i put up today. digi madness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_hi98GLePE

picked this up yesterday

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-3548153-1334814657.jpeg

ordered this today
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W7GgQI-3cEw/S61jLQ1DYFI/AAAAAAAAAIk/dd7cJj-8Z28/s1600/horace+andy+-+dub+box+(rare+dubs+73-76)+front.jpg

my collection severely lacking in the Horace Andy dept for some reason

Oh, that looks good.

watched "Rockers" over the weekend, weird that I had never even heard of this movie until like a year ago

can't go wrong with this (if u don't have it yet)

http://www.ebreggae.com/reggae-images/front/CD/147631/USED-ITEM-Horace-Andy-Feel-Good-All-Over-Anthology-2-CD.jpg

argh have spent the whole day trying to find this goddamn horn break that I KNOW I have and can't remember the song arrrrghhh. It's an ascending line, 3 sets of 4 sixteenth notes followed by two quarter notes gah where the fuck is this thing

Can you hum it to me? What type of rhythm? Vocal or dub? What era?

dub, mid-70s
it goes

da da da da (root note)
da da da da (third)
da da da da (fifth)
dah dah (root one octave up)

I think

Rocking this:
http://assets.boomkat.com/images/264259/333.jpg

Haunting Dub sounds like something from the 90s (or even the present), weird how out-of-time some of this stuff can seem

http://assets.boomkat.com/images/264259/333.jpg

Niney is nearly always a win. Gonna get that as soon as I see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y651C7aNXRc&feature=youtu.be

this album is killin me right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Ia9yan5mA

v tempted by this recent reissue of Keith Hudson's Torch of Freedom, anyone heard it?

Yes, I bought both the CD and the Vinyl. Sounds great. One of his best albums. Absolutely essential purchase. The vinyl is green and comes with the great liner notes that the CD has. Buy it now.

As far as song quality goes, I think it's better than both Ibidments and Enter the Dragon, two others that have recently been repressed.

cool yeah I ordered the vinyl (Ibidments is the other Hudson I have on LP)

Furnace is pretty great too! but Hudson is all-time for me.

he is! this new reissue's not available on itunes, unfortunately.

also ordered Jah Lloyd's "Herb Dub", about which I can find next to no reliable info. sleeve is awesome tho

the Ernie B's listing says it was recorded and mixed at Tubby's with a slew of good players (Chinna, Lloyd Parks, Carlton Barrett) in 1975. Sleeve looked great!

i know rite?

http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/7128064//bmmg/ent/JAH-LLOYD-HERB-DUB-L667209404628.JPG

lol hueg sorry

it's okay because it's amazing.

looks a bit like one of the Mudie's Dub Conferences though in color

What would people say is the most apocalyptic religio-political rasta album? Thinking of stuff like Linval Thompson's Blood Gonna Run or Jr. Murvin's Police and Thieves

War In A Babylon maybe.

Two Sevens Clash.

ohh. maybe marcus garvey? or maybe the one by sugar minott, ghetto-ology?

Maybe something by Prince Far I. That guy would sound apocalyptic reading "Goodnight Moon".

Oh yeah Burning Spear good choice. Also Yabby You or Dadawah.

Hm don't have marcus garvey or ghettoology. Dont have any proper sugar minnott lps actually

Wait you don't have Marcus Garvey?!?!?!

Plenty of good Sugar Minott but because he recorded for so many different labels the quality of the reissues has been variable.

Both Wackies albums I have and the Studio One stuff is very strong.

It's a compilation but Johnny Clarke - A Rougher Version fits the bill pretty well and you get some of King Tubby's best mixes. http://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Clarke-A-Ruffer-Version-Johnny-Clarke-At-King-Tubbys-1974-78/release/3334942

oooh .. i've got that, but not added it to the digital archive.
ta for the nudge.
picked up an unmarked jackie mitto recently.
no label detail, nothing.
clearly a vinyl rip, but still, its rather good.

http://www.discogs.com/Jackie-Mitto-Show-Case-Volume-3/release/4204078

other discoveries that no-one really mentions that i have enjoyed recently :
compilations by the gladiators, a band i had never heard of, zap pow.

some of its 70s radio reggae (zap pow were supposedly known for their horn section)
.. but there are some gorgeous deeper sounds.

I forget the name of the original album, but the blood & fire reissue of Max Romeo's "Open the Iron Gate" also has a blood running down the streets vibe.
Sugar Minott's/Wackie's "A Wicked Ago Feel It" was super cheap on Ernie B's the other day.

the Gladiators' Studio One Singles set on Heartbeat is a personal favorite. Zap Pow's Lee Perry-produced "River" would be on my shortlist of favorite reggae songs, though I've not heard much else by them.