http://roots-archives.com/artist/86
Scientist was unbeatable at the beginning of the 80s.
I love Meets Space Invaders, Heavyweight Dub Champion, Big Showdown V. Prince Jammy, Scientist and Jammy Strike Back, Sugar Minott's Meet The People In A Lovers Dubbers Style is also a great showcase for Scientists' work. Dub Landing 1 and 2 (cd reissue has both). Dub In The Roots Tradition, In Dub Volume 1, Heavy Metal Dub, King Tubbys meets Scientist In A Midnight Rock Dub Vol. 1, King Tubby Meets Scientist at Dub Station, Prince Far I - In the Vocal House of Dub (w/ Tubby), Albums by Barrington Levy, Eek A Mouse and Johnny Osbourne from the early 80s with Roots Radics and Scientist at the controls are pretty spectacular. Toyan - How The West Was Won is also great, produced by Scientist w/ Roots Radics at King Tubby's studio.
That's a start but there are others...just go down the line in that Roots Archives page and listen to them all until about 83/84.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Scientist and Jammy Strike Back
this is one of the best
― eman, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
this is good too http://roots-archives.com/release/4142
― eman, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i've got it but i haven't given it much time other than Babylon Don't Touch My Sensy...guess i'll put that on today.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
you'd probably like anything featuring the Roots Radics, dub or not. But for dub, in addition to the ones already mentioned, I like Roots Radics Meet Scientist in a Dub Explosion.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"Roots Radics"
need to check them out.
thanks for the other tips btw.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
"you'd probably like anything featuring the Roots Radics"
Which is basically anything produced in Jamaica between 1979 and 1985 haha.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.roots-archives.com/release/702
^I remember this being great, but I somehow forgot to put it on my ipod so I can't confirm.
xp haha pretty much yeah
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
their guitarist played a machine gun
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/payakaa/bingy_bunny.jpg
― eman, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
all i know about RR really is that they did a lot of sessions for eekamouse (whose newish greensleeves best of i want to get... badly... but is a bit pricey).
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit, that Most Wanted from Eeek A Mouse is fantastic!
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
this is awesome: http://www.roots-archives.com/release/598
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ it is!
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate how every greensleeves cd has their company design on the cover....
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Hate it, but love the records. Every album they've reissued lately has been awesome.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
true, they're on a streak right now and the discs sound great.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk/covers/large/SESHDCD211.jpg
As with all the recent Sessions/Union Square Music 2CDs, the cover art is way too much like Atari 2600 cartridge art, but less awesome. And there are tendencies to overlap certain tracks between 2-3 comps in this series..
but the comps themselves are really good for budget priced genre comps. Dub Sessions is no exception.
The website has tons of spelling errors. :( The comps far less so, even though they exist.
1 Tubby’s Vengeance – Yabby U & King Tubby 2 Emmanuel Version – Dennis Brown 3 Fugitive Dub – Skatalites Meet King Tubby 4 Love Thy Neighbour Version – Yabby U & King Tubby 5 Rockers Rock (version) – Augustus Pablo & King Tubby 6 I’m All Right – Keith Hudson, Family Man & Horace Andy 7 Congo Man Chant – The Upsetters 8 Wicked Tumbling Version – Glen Brown & King Tubby 9 A Heavy Dub – King Tubbys 10 No, No, No – Gussie Clarke & King Tubby 11 Superfly – I Roy 12 House Is Not A Home – Augustus Pablo 13 Ital Ites Dubwise – Horace Andy 14 Time Is Cold – Roots Radics & Tubbys 15 Dancing Roots – Cornel Campbell & King Tubby 16 Burial Dub – Augustus Pablo 17 Too Bad Cow – Upsetters CD2 1 Riverside Rock – Upsetters 2 Kutchi Dub – Niney 3 Lightning & Thunder – Morwell Unlimited Meet King Tubbys 4 A Little Version -- The Love Grocer featuring Cheshire Cat 5 Herb Vendor – Horse Mouth 6 The Long Way – Junior Byles 7 Tenament Yard Dub – Niney 8 Dub Investigation – Bunny Lee & Prince Jammy 9 Satta 3 – Augustus Pablo 10 Dub-Ology – A Class Crew 11 No Apology – Glen Brown & A-Class Crew 12 Brothers Of The Blade – Prince Jammy 13 Takes A Magic Dub – Dean Fraser 14 Corn Man – King Tubby & The Observers 15 More Warning – King Tubby & The Aggrovators 16 Goldmaster Allstars – Push Harder 17 Sunshine Dub – Hydrophonics 18 A Friend In Need – Roots Radicals & King Tubby
― Ashee Bolanalli (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Never mind. Dub Sessions (as well as others in the series) are now COLLECTORS ITEMS. WTFuckingF?
― Ashee Bolanalli (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
really ! the mind boggles. thought these were/are bargina basement filler compilations.
― mark e, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
bargina!
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ragga Sessions and uh another one I have is great.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
haha i always avoided those. i think it was the font :/
― eman, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I avoided the dub version cuz I had 90% of it and I suspected the other 10% I might have with a slightly different name. THANKS A LOT TROJAN.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
the 'chilled out' part of the title doesnt make me want to run to amazon lol.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, the packaging and marketing of these Sessions comps are extremely embarrassing, but they are mostly great comps. Dub Sessions is good.
A quick sprint to Amazon shows a copy selling used for $11.
Considering these were going $10-12US *new*, that's still crazy (although not as crazy as 14 pounds used on amazon UK)
― Ashee Bolanalli (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
just wanted to say thanks for the ernie b's tip upthread, i got a bunch of cool stuff as a christmas present for my wife. really cheap too, it was something like 6 discs for $22 and one of those discs was $11 on its own (the radiodread - ok computer dub thing)
― 6335, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
lol how is that radiodread
i should disclaimer my comment about the sessions comps by saying that this comp.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518VXW4FTTL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
is really good despite awful cover, awful title and that its label is Music Club
― eman, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Ernie B's is god.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
eman, i was about to post about the Chill Out comment above and mention that same compilation which is fantastic straight through. highly recommended.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
not all of the radiodread works for me, but the version of'airbag' is pretty rad
― 6335, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing this thread pop back up on New Answers inspired me to listen to Tougher Than Tough again. Pretty amazing stuff. If I tell you guys what tracks I really love, can you give further listening tips?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i haven't listened to it thoroughly, but the Radiodread thing is very well put together.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"If I tell you guys what tracks I really love, can you give further listening tips?"
Unless you want mento recommendations, probably (hell someone here can most likely even provide those, just not me.)
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone heard Cornell Cambell's disc, The Gorgon? It just appeared on eMusic. I can't find more than a single review of it anywhere (tho there's been a lot written about the title track and I Shall Not Remove, both of which were on the Blood & Fire Cornell Campbell compilation). Anyway, all the samples sound intriguing.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 March 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
According to the entry at Roots Archives it was produced in 76 by Bunny Lee and mixed by King Tubby. I'd get it based on that. Haven't heard this full album but his other albums during this era are split ~50/50 on lovers tunes and rasta lyrics/rockers style.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 15 March 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i've heard a few of those tracks on comps, i'm sure its decent. pretty much any of these are going to be good
1973
* Cornell Campbell
1975
* Dance In A Greenwich Farm * Natty Dread In A Greenwich Farm
1976
* Stalowatt * The Gorgon
― eman, Sunday, 15 March 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Calling all dub experts!!!
What is the dub that appears at 15:40 into Don Letts' The Punk Rock Movie? The movie is here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4101813390428941237#
You can skip to 11:35 underneath the image. That "eeeefah eeeefah eeeefah eeeefah" has been haunting me for decades.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 4 April 2010 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
15.40 is Joe Gibbs and the Professionals -Jubilation Dub - from African Dub Almighty Chapter 3 & 4
― Bob Six, Sunday, 4 April 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Bob Six, thank you FOREVER!!!! xoxoxoxoox
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
in response to the original question - ok you know bob marley, but do you have his original albums or just that damn legend compilation? don't get me wrong, it's a good comp - almost *too* good, leading to it being played to death - but not everyone actually goes out and buys his albums, which are generally pretty awesome (concrete jungle leaps to mind for instance) and full of tracks you've probably never heard before...
seconding the congos, augustus pablo , king tubby and jimmy cliff, i'm gonna hunt down the rest on jess' list myself.
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Having never heard him before, somehow, I'm blown away by Cedric IM Brooks & Light of Saba right now.
― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome awesome stuff on this label:
http://digikillerrecords.blogspot.com/
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard of these labels; digging the soundscans. thanks, alex.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 6 April 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cg5Iv-VZeLI/Sv8zpCj7VtI/AAAAAAAAB8I/-FroRxfGWac/s400/5818.jpg
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
New Jonny5 mix:
The Upsetter – Foundation DubBaba Brooks – Distant DrumsAugustus Pablo – Vibrate OnKeith Hudson – Jean You Change EverythingKeith Hudson – Jonah VersionThe Techniques – Traveling ManWinston Sax – Victory At AdawaU-Roy & Ken Parker – True True True VersionCount Ossie & The Wareikas – One Bright MorningWinston Wright & The Supersonics – Black PowerDennis Alcapone – Funky TangNora Dean – Angie La LaBob Marley – Keep On SkankingU-Roy – Tom DrunkPhyllis Dillon – Woman Of The GhettoJohnny Moore – Red Is DangerKeith Hudson & The Mafia All Stars – Melody MakerChuckles – Melody Maker Version 2Jah Woosh – I’m AlrightThe Abbyssinians – MabrakTrinity – PsalmsJah Woosh – SattalandThe Upsetter – Disco DevilThe Black Notes – African StyleThe Upsetters – African DubLittle Clive – African BreadKen Boothe – The Train Is ComingThe Ethiopians – This TrainJohnny Moore – South China SeaJohnny Clarke – Golden SnakeMyrna Townsend All Stars – Golden SkankDillinger – Flat Foot HustlingNiney The Observer – Lotion Here I Come AgainJunior Delgado – Famine / VersionBig Youth – Honesty / VersionFreddie McGregor – Rasta Man CampBob Marley – Soul Rebel / VersionEarl Flute & Keith Hudson – True True To My HeartJohn Holt – Ali BabaToots & The Maytals – 54-46
― sam500, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link. It's helping me get through a particularly annoying working day.
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bob Six, Saturday, 17 April 2010 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ2lOBMrcGw
loving this
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
has that 1981 Junjo/Radics/Scientist vibe.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
wah-wah voicebox flown in from Sly & the Family Stone or something
― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link