Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

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.)

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.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gLqj3VhA77M/S9MFSwv16KI/AAAAAAAAEmk/h1Ro4siIRg8/s400/Cool+Down+Your+Temper.jpg

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?