Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

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.

"Roots Radics"

need to check them out.

thanks for the other tips btw.

"you'd probably like anything featuring the Roots Radics"

Which is basically anything produced in Jamaica between 1979 and 1985 haha.

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

their guitarist played a machine gun

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/payakaa/bingy_bunny.jpg

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).

oh shit, that Most Wanted from Eeek A Mouse is fantastic!

this is awesome: http://www.roots-archives.com/release/598

^^^ it is!

i hate how every greensleeves cd has their company design on the cover....

Hate it, but love the records. Every album they've reissued lately has been awesome.

true, they're on a streak right now and the discs sound great.

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

Never mind. Dub Sessions (as well as others in the series) are now COLLECTORS ITEMS. WTFuckingF?

really ! the mind boggles. thought these were/are bargina basement filler compilations.

bargina!

Ragga Sessions and uh another one I have is great.

haha i always avoided those. i think it was the font :/

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.

the 'chilled out' part of the title doesnt make me want to run to amazon lol.

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)

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)

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

Ernie B's is god.

eman, i was about to post about the Chill Out comment above and mention that same compilation which is fantastic straight through. highly recommended.

not all of the radiodread works for me, but the version of'airbag' is pretty rad

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?

i haven't listened to it thoroughly, but the Radiodread thing is very well put together.

"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.)

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.

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.

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

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.

15.40 is Joe Gibbs and the Professionals -Jubilation Dub - from African Dub Almighty Chapter 3 & 4

Bob Six, thank you FOREVER!!!! xoxoxoxoox

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.

Having never heard him before, somehow, I'm blown away by Cedric IM Brooks & Light of Saba right now.

Awesome awesome stuff on this label:

http://digikillerrecords.blogspot.com/

never heard of these labels; digging the soundscans. thanks, alex.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cg5Iv-VZeLI/Sv8zpCj7VtI/AAAAAAAAB8I/-FroRxfGWac/s400/5818.jpg

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.)