Augustus Pablo
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
Label:  Shanachie 
Date:  2003
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Reggae; Dub
  Category:  reggae
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Keep On Dubbing    
      2.  
      Stop Them Jah    
      3.  
      Young Generation Dub    
      4.  
      Each One Dub    
      5.  
      555 Dub Street    
      6.  
      Brace's Tower Dub    
      7.  
      Brace's Tower Dub No 2    
      8.  
      King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown    
      9.  
      Corner Crew Dub    
      10.  
      Skanking Dub    
      11.  
      Frozen Dub    
      12.  
      Satta Dub    
      13.  
      Black Gunn    
      14.  
      Ruthland Close    
      15.  
      1-2-3 Version    
      16.  
      Silent Satta    
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      During the early 1970s, a maverick Jamaican producer known as King Tubby (aka Osbourne Ruddock--he was born in Kingston in 1941) embarked upon a series of pivotal recordings, ultimately creating a reggae offshoot called dub. First, he pared his forces down to a drum kit and bass and slowed the tempo until a bottom-heavy, primal heartbeat emerged. Over this framework, spare vocal and instrumental riffs emerged from layers of echoing reverb and artful distortion, erecting atmospheric soundscapes bound for infinity. This classic album is a primer for how Tubby could harness raw rhythmic power through his subtle, imaginative grasp of texture and dynamics. A potent rhythm team, including Robbie Shakespeare (one half of the famed Sly & Robbie combo) on bass, Earl "Chinna" Smith on guitar, and a rough-and-ready brass section, surrounds the organ-piano and clavinet (mouth-blown keyboard clarinet) of Augustus Pablo with hip, stylish Kingstonian street-bred attitude. --Christina Roden