...I was just updating the art in my machine and stumbled upon a dub album that all lovers of the genre should have-- Augustus Pablo Presents: Rockers Story...it also folds into the Hip Hop Thursday I've already pulled MOG's coat "*on his East of the River Nile*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/18694 and here's another set from the dub maestro...its choc-a-bloc with some of Jamaica's fines...
...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 D...
...here's a little dub joint (!) to check while kicking it around the house today...it's an Augustus Pablo track called "Chant to King Selassie" which is the first cut off of his seminal dub album East of the River Nile which originally dropped back in '78 in the States...written when reggae music was reaching it's crest on the world stage, this album remains one of my all-time dub classics and...
Augustus PabloClassic Rockers (Island RRCD 52)This collection brings together a somewhat mixed bag of Augustus Pablo productions (including his own instrumental and other people's vocal tunes) from the late 70s and early 80s (with, confusingly, some late 80s/90s copyright credits, but these are obviously false from the artists and style of the tunes). It gets off to a good start with Jacob Mill...
...I was just updating the art in my machine and stumbled upon a dub album that all lovers of the genre should have-- Augustus Pablo Presents: Rockers Story...it also folds into the Hip Hop Thursday I've already pulled MOG's coat "*on his East of the River Nile*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/18694 and here's another set from the dub maestro...its choc-a-bloc with some of Jamaica's fines...
was recorded at Randys Studio in 1972, produced by his brother Clive "Santic" Chin, again using some of the hottest rhythms of the day, at a time when all the top musicians were cutting tunes there.This is one of the standout tracks, although the jump towards the end is on every single copy at exactly the same place (presumably the master tape is lost). It's a version of Horace Andy's "Children...
...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 D...
Everybody on here possessed of a functioning pair of ears attached to a working brain should be familiar with Vivian "Yabby You" Jackson's 1972 stormer "Conquering Lion", or one of its many versions - ""Fisherman Style", "Yabby Youth", "Big Youth Fights Against Capitalism", "God Is Watching You", "Beware Dub" etc.This cut is one of the least well known versions of the rhythm, and was presumably...
