"Dubbin' is a MUST: Augustus Pablo's East of the River Nile":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_the_River

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CrashPryor

"Dubbin' is a MUST: Augustus Pablo's East of the River Nile":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_the_River_Nile

Posted almost 5 years ago

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Augustus Pablo

...You probably know what dub music is even if you dont think you do...essentially it's just instrumental reggae (or a "version as they say down in Jah-mek-ya) with effects (echo; reverb; found sounds) thrown in to heighten the hypnotic keyboard bubbling and guitar skanks...at any rate, there's a lot of good albums out there to check-- like Mikey Dread's African Anthem and Black Uhuru's Love Dub(which both may be out of print, sadly) but there's-- always got to be a proverbial best of the best and in my book, to be succinct, that would be the dub maestro "Augustus Pablo (Horace Swaby)":http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:ynd9keztjq7b

Comments (10)

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Jess Horrible says ok, i am sold. now where do i send my money.

Permalink posted 10/12/2006
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joshuaseth says Seen, aya. Lots of Pablo on the Mog past couple of days. His melodies are hypnotizing.

Permalink posted 10/12/2006
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joshuaseth says Oh, and You can still find African Anthem on CD... and Let's not forget Aswad's meditative "A New Chapter Of Dub" and Black Uhuru's Magnum Opus of dub "The Dub Factor"- that one to me is the ultimate night time dub-your-brains-to-the-edge-of-the-universe spin...

Permalink posted 10/12/2006
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mullytron says Nice writeup. One to look for, CD AND vinyl!

Permalink posted 10/12/2006
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CrashPryor says ...yeah I like "New Chapter of Dub" and Black Uhuru's "Love Dub" rocks but cut for cut and I only had the choice of one LP to take with me on a desert island..."East of the River Nile" would be that joint...Pablo's "Eastman Dub LP":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/SearchResults.aspx?sec=album&SEARCH=eastman+dub&si=rhino runs a close second on that basis...I guess he put a special place in my heart for the melodica, yo...

Permalink posted 10/12/2006
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etcvisitor says good dub makes me feel stoned as shit and i dont even smoke herb. once i listened to the entire trojan dub box set volume one all three discs back to back to back, i think i had it on rotation two or three times all the way through and i was a little disorriented the next day. it was like a dub hang over... it was fucking sweet.

Permalink posted 10/12/2006
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ivylander says "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" is almost as good.....

Permalink posted 10/12/2006
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etcvisitor says "king tubby meets the rockers uptown" is one of my all time favorites. i dont know if there is any almost as good about it. both albums offer some of the greatest music i have ever heard and i would say it is a tie for first place.

Permalink posted 10/13/2006
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ivylander says When you get to that point, it's kind of like grading orgasms....

Permalink posted 10/13/2006
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lilBlack says One of the greatest!!! ....you could walk the east nile and not get lost with this album. Keep it on your left. This is reggae's right of the north star

Permalink posted 10/24/2006