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Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown 1987

Posted By: micaus11
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown  1987

Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown 1987
MP3 @ 256 | 68 MB | Covers included
Genre:Reggae / Dub

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.


Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown  1987


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. ~elrockers.org

1 Keep On Dubbing
2 Stop Them Jah
3 Young Generation Dub
4 Each One Dub
5 555 Dub Street
6 Braces Tower Dub
7 King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown
8 Corner Crew Dub
9 Say So
10 Skanking Dub
11 Frozen Dub
12 Satta

Bass - Robert ` robby' shakespear
aston `family man' barret
leroy (sibbles)

Guitar - earl `chinna' smith

Drums - carlton `carlie' barret

Organ-piano & clavinet - augustus pablo

Tenor sax - richard `dirty harry' hall

Trumpet - bobby ellis

Trombone - vincent `don d junior' gordon

Mixing engineer - errol thompson. King Tubby's

Mixed at King Tubby's studio

Produced by horace swaby (augustus pablo)
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