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...
More >
...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...
More >
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...
More >
...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...
More >
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...
More >
this is "Jah in the Hills", recorded in the late Seventies, mixed by King Tubby, and unreleased until 1995
More >
blowing his melodica in the "Far East" style from around 1976 - Both sides of his Rockers label 45 "Up Wareika Hill"
More >
...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...
More >
A couple of dub racks that I am extra feeling today.... King Tubby - A Murdurous DubAugustus Pablo - Pablo Meets Mr. BasieMad Professor - Kunta Kinte DubLee "Scratch" Perry - Upsetting DubSly & Robbie - Heart Made of Stone Dub Not sure what is comming next... Tune in fi more.
More >
was a prolific artist for well over twenty years, until the myasthenia gravis that was to end his life in 1999, aged only 45, took over. Most reviewers say that his work after 1977-78 was far inferior to his early stuff. Mibbes aye, but he was still capable of recording great tracks into the Nineties
More >
IN the Mood for a little of the melodica man himselfThe One ,The Only Mr Augustus Pablo.What a tragic loss to music when he diedEnjoy
More >
The first I'd heard of Augustus Pablo was that he'd brought a Melodica into the studio and was laughed out of Trojan Records by Lee Perry. I mean the guy showed up playing a kids toy.......funny thing is he's really good at it like another Jackie Mittoo or something. I Rasta...Bombaclot...you know whats said rasta. We plant a seed of I, water I to a plant...In do seem survive..even if just to w...
More >
A dub reggae legend and one of my favorite artists Horace Swaby better known as Augustus Pablo. Pablo is known for his influence in roots reggae and as a dub record producer and keyboardist doing is best stuff in the 1970s. Many credit him as being the first popular artist to rock the melodica on a regular basis. East of the River Nile released in 1978 is probably my favorite dub record. Pab...
More >
© 2006-2009 Mog Inc. All Rights Reserved
