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I've gotten back on the dub kick and I was looking for recommendation. What are some of your all time favorite dub tunes?

― Frank Booth (Frank Booth), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Keith Hudson - "I'm Alright"

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

King Tubby - "Bag A Wire Dub"

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Nitro Deluxe - "Let's Get Brutal" / "The Brutal House"

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Chapter One - "Unleash The Groove (15th & Lenox mix)"

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

As soon as gygax! sees this thread he's gonna say "Cassanova Dub".

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

mad professor - dub power

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

my favorite is a six way tie

"city too hot" / "nicodemus" / "bionic rats" - lee perry
"know love" - twin roots (maybe a version??)
"version 78 style" - king tubby
"babylon six" - linval thompson

there's a mix of "ali baba" by tubby, too, but i don't know exactly what it's called ... it's a bit trippier than "i shave the barber"

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops that linval thompson tune is actually called "six babylon"

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm so predictable:

"Casanova Dub" - Observer All-Stars

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yabby You - Conquering Lion / Praise You Jah Jah (dub)
The Congos - Ark Of The Covenant
The Terrors - Assemble Not Thyself
Prince Alla - Judgment Time
Cornell Campbell - Bandulu / Hard Time
Max Romeo - Warning Warning
Horace Andy - Music Dub / Ital Ites Dubwise
Abyssynians - Know Jah Dub

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

AUGUSTUS PABLO - EAST OF THE RIVER NILE

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, i overreacted

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

hey it's worth getting excited about

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

tappa zukie - in dub
scientist - scientist meets the space invaders

(albums, not tunes. sorry.)

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

jah title tracks

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Harry Mudie/King Tubby -- "Heavy Duty Dub"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"This is the Greatest Version" - Soul Syndicate (from the Trojan Dub Box #2)

"Shake the Nation" - Prince Far I (from Cry Tuff Dub Encounter, Chapter 3)

It's hard to pick single songs.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Satan Dub-Lee Perry

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

good call on shake the nation.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Scientist - "Blood On His Lips"
Ruts DC - "Push Yourself - Make It Work"

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Augustus Pablo - "King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There is an unnamed track on "Scientist Wins The World Cup" That does it for me every time, without fail.

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Laswell - Beyond the Zero (Dub Chamber Volume 3)

I know its not roots but lord, what a blissed out 9 minutes of dub.

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

augustus pablo - "555 dub street" is some pretty sinister sounding dub (with the lights off and the brain affected).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Rhythm & Sound - We Been Troddin (With the Artists Burial Mix)

wicked wicked wicked

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"side walk doctor" by sly and robbie -bumpin'

― Conor (Conor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

King Tubby - "I Trim the Barber"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

black uhuru - shine eye dub
upsetters - kentucky skank

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about all time best, but here are my artist recommendations:

Pato Banton, Prison Oval Rock, Ernest Ranglin - "Below the Bassline", and anything by Tussle.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Current favourite : the Studio One dub of Delroy Wilson's 'Run Run' (Running Dub), slashing horns, a super-tuff riddim, fragments of voice and then 20 secs before the end Delroy's vocal cuts loose.....'Girl, I'm gonna hold you tight'. Fantastic Stuff.

All time top tunes :

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee "Scratch" Perry - King Tubby Dub
The Tamlins - Baltimore
Seven Dub - Rock it Tonight
Jah Lloyd and King Tubby - Tipper Dub

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

hang on I haven't finished - fuXOR!

Freedom Dub - Upsetters (Eric Donaldson's 'Freedom Street')
Moses Dub - Jo Jo Hookim ('Send Another Moses' by ????)
Lamb's Bread - Sly and The Revolutionaries
Waterhouse Rock - King Tubby
Leaving Babylon Dub - King Tubby & The Soul Syndicate
Tubby Get Smart - King Tubby/Philip Smart
Dub Ites Green & Gold - King Tubby/Burning Spear
Guidance Dub - King Tubby (Horace Andy's 'Guiding Star')
[The last three all on King Tubby - Dub Like Dirt]
Dubbing The Chariot - Crystallites
Rockers Dub - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals (Glenn Washington's 'Rockers'
East Man Sound - Augustus Pablo ('Far East')
Zambian Style - Rockers All Stars
Black IPA - Upsetters

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Crystallites, "Dubbing the Chariot"

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr C I don't know that Hookim dub but I have a "Send Another Moses" on vinyl, on the 12" of "Five Man Army" by Dillinger, Trinity, Wayne Wayde, AL Campbell and Junior Tamlin. Is the rhythm "Five Man Army" (as used by Massive Attack on the track of the same name?

That 12" is a particularly proud posession, best 10p I ever spent (OSD 002, as seen here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tapirs/osd12.htm)

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the Congos did a song with a line that said "send another moses" but I doubt that's what you're looking for.

Dubbing the Chariot is ace.

"Pop A Top" - Andy Capp is good too and one of the earliest dub tunes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That was "Children Crying", wasn't it?

DL, what's that Tamlins track like (and what record's it on?) I know nowt about the Tamlins.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

**Dr C I don't know that Hookim dub but I have a "Send Another Moses" on vinyl, on the 12" of "Five Man Army" by Dillinger, Trinity, Wayne Wayde, AL Campbell and Junior Tamlin. Is the rhythm "Five Man Army" (as used by Massive Attack on the track of the same name?**

I have Five Man Army by Dillinger et al with me here at work on a CD that YOU burned for me, Tim! (It's called 'I Will Cool You' and is fantastic). Will give it a listen and see.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the tubs dub of sufferation by tyrone taylor. preferably on the discomix.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

extraordinary dub - errol thompson

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim, it's one of my favourite all time reggae tracks. Cover of Randy Newman. I got some other stuff by the Tamlins but they were piss poor by comparison.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Scientist-Beaming
King Tubby-Sir Niney's Rock

― ddb, Friday, 14 May 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

King Tubby: "Dark Destroyer Dub"

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Feeling a *bit* hesitant here to name this for an 'all time best' but ...damn, it's a great tune, and there's more than ten minutes of it :)

"Tarab Dub [Wasteland Mix]"- Nicky Skopelitis

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i needs to get me some more dub.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the dub of the Tamlin's Baltimore is called Demolition City btw. Sly & Robbie.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 15 May 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks mullygrubber! :-)

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

**have Five Man Army by Dillinger et al with me here at work on a CD that YOU burned for me, Tim! (It's called 'I Will Cool You' and is fantastic). Will give it a listen and see.**

Ha - in fact 'Send Another Moses' is ON IT, but it's credited to Dillinger alone, and is not the same rhythm as the 'Send Another Moses' that I was talking about. In fact it's not the same thing at all - from the fragments of the Hookim dub you can hear a mighty organ intro and the vocal and rhythm is smooth-ish trad roots circa 75-78, not steppers. This is really bugging me!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Saturday, 15 May 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Personal favorite probably 'Black Vest' by The Upsetters or 'Frozen Dub' by Augustus Pablo. Maybe 'Michael Talbot Affair' by Keith Hudson.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 15 May 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"King Tubby's Meets the Rockers Uptown" agustus pablo
LPs: Garvey's Ghost/Burning Spear and LKJ in Dub/Linton Kwesi Johnson
obvious picks, but great ones IMHO

― lovebug starski, Saturday, 15 May 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

LEE PERRY
MAX ROMEO
"DISCO DEVIL" 12-INCH
GOOD LORD

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Sunday, 16 May 2004 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

good lord nate!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 16 May 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

King Tubby - Parade Dub

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, my copy of King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown has the wrong sides printed, so er...Braces Tower Dub it is.

as for albums: Scientists' Heavyweight Dub Champion and I Wah Dub by Blackbeard

― Braces Tower, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Lee Perry - Woman's Dub

― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

some serious dubs being mentioned,but what about the revolutionaries
album =reaction in dub ..which features the hardcore dub of ernest wilsons i know myself re:atom bomb

― patrick dujon, Monday, 6 February 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

What's a good place to start getting in to dub?

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Lee Scratch Perry's "Arkology" is a great place to start

― bendy (bendy), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

HELLO MIKEY DREAD AFRICAN ANTHEM DELUXXXXE!

― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

(all of the album songs... just best dub ever)

― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Arkology is a good place to start with L Perry, but he was never very good at making full-on dubs. Get King Tubby's Special or a Scientist Meets.... album.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

re: Arkology, Congos' "Don't Blame It on I" is an all-time fave. Dub with falsetto, can't get better than that.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

anyone else check out Scientist's latest, 911?

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

picked it up a couple of months ago. the first three tracks are killer, but the vocal numbers that follow seem weaker and a little less inspiring musically as well. then a fine segue of "Run Saddam, Bush Coming", "Find Him In A Hole" and "Punk Motherf**er" (there's a missing asterisk) but things become sort of diluted again afterwards. there's an unexpected dancehall riddim tucked at the end too.

― blunt, Friday, 1 August 2008 07:57 (seventeen years ago)

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