After posting the Scientist album a few days back, I've decided to go back to my pot-smoking Rasta roots and post more dub. So here's some back-to-back Augustus Pablo, with more Rasta to surely follow in its wake. Enjoy!
Augustus Pablo- King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
From El Rocker's:
If you had to pick just one album to represent dub "King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown" is the disc. The title really says it all: the collaboration between the premier engineer and the top roots producer of the mid-’70s resulted in definitive King Tubby interpretations of some of Pablo’s deepest rhythms. It also demonstrated conclusively that a studio engineer could be considered as creative as the singers, musicians and visionary producer who made the music. A dub is essentially a remix In the hands of an engineer as good as King Tubby (1941 – 1989) it became an artform, and an incredibly popular one.
For this ground-breaking disc, Pablo assembled a brilliant cast: the Upsetters/Wailers drum and bass duo of Aston "Family Man" Barrett and brother Carlton, guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith, horns-men Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall, Bobby Ellis, Vin Gordon and bassist Robbie Shakespeare. All sessions were recorded by the engineer Errol "ET" Thompson at Randy’s Studio on North Parade. Pablo then took the tapes to King Tubby for mixing. He initially released instrumental, deejay and vocal cuts as 7-inch 45s on his Hot Stuff, Rockers and Pablo International labels, between 1972 and 75, but as the vogue for dub albums exploded in 1976, Pablo compiled twelve of his b-side dubs to make this set.
The centrepiece of the album is "King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown", a killer dub version of Jacob Miller’s vocal "Baby I Love You So" which almost single-handedly defined dub for a non-Jamaican audience when it was released as a single by Island Records (UK) in 1975; it also appeared on the company’s massive-selling "This Is Reggae Music" sampler.
Using his custom sliders, Tubby eases Miller’s voice in and out of the mix, adding stabs of guitar and melodica. Carlton Barrett’s explosive snare fills further serve to punctuate the elastic rhythm, which was first cut for producer Herman Chin Loy’s 1973 album Aquarius Dub. Similarly, "Frozen Dub" propelled the Heptones on a recut of their Studio One classic "Love Won’t Come Easy". Hopefully someone, some day, will undertake to present this crucial set in all its glory, with alternate mixes.
Technical Information:
Artist: Augustus Pablo
Album: King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (Deluxe Edition)
Year: 1976/2004
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 846 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 295 MB
Length: 0:48:54
Personnel:
Augustus Pablo: melodica, piano, clavinet, organ, producer
Robbie Shakespear: bass guitar
Aston Barrett: bass guitar
Leroy Sibbles: bass
Carlton Barrett: drums
Earl "Chinna" Smith: guitar
Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall: saxophone
Bobby Ellis: trumpet
Vincent "Don D Junior" Gordon: trombone
mixed by King Tubby and Errol Thompson at King Tubby's Studio
Tracklisting:
01. Keep On Dubbing (3:11)
02. Stop Them Jah (2:52)
03. Young Generation Dub (2:35)
04. Each One Dub (2:55)
05. 555 Dub St. (2:44)
06. Brace's Tower Dub (2:53)
07. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (2:34)
08. Brace's Tower Dub No.2 (2:58)
09. Corner Crew Dub (3:07)
10. Skanking Dub (2:44)
11. Frozen Dub (2:54)
12. Satta Dub (4:22)
13. Black Gunn (Bonus Track) (3:19)
14. Ruthland Close (Bonus Track) (2:38)
15. 1-2-3 Version (Bonus Track) (3:02)
16. Silent Satta (Bonus Track) (4:06)
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