King Tubby S/D

I like the first chapter of Dub Me Crazy better than the second one. Second one has weirder effects but the "songs" somehow are a bit weaker.

Oh yeah a recent find: Harry Muddie meets King Tubby's - In Dub Conference Vol.3 . Very relaxed.

'real gone crazy dub,' 'jah love rockers dub,' 'zion gate dub,' 'money dub,' 'marcus dub,' 'garage music dub,' 'east avenue skank,' 'close to jah,' 'dub the right way.' i'm trying to find the song with the cool horns. oh. 'close to jah' is the horn song. i love that one.

king tubby meets roots radics - dangerous dub is a good one. it's easy to find. 'rice grain rock' from that. and 'banana and yam skank.'

if dj was your trade.

king tubby is pretty consistent, i guess. a bad king tubby song would be one that sounded like all the rest, i guess. and if it did, like, it would- like, even if it sucked it would still be great. like, the worst he could do is making a great song that sounds like a dozen other great songs. but, uh. you know?

search also: dub like dirt, a few others i have at home that i'll dig up the titles for later.

destroy: nothing really...although more and more lee perry-stylee dodgy cheapo collections are appearing, although hopefully that has petered out along with the dub fad of the late 90s.

*Not that I can tell the difference, mind.

KT Meets Rockers Uptown is indeed good and is basically an Augustus Pablo record but in reggae its much more confused as to who's record it actually is between the roles of producer, engineer and musician.

Also, the Music Club budget Augustus Pablo sampler 'The Great Pablo' includes virtually every track from 'Ital Dub', the first alb that Pablo made w/Tubby.

But yes, '...Meets Rockers Uptown' would also be my number one choice.

Other than that I can only echo everyone else, the Trojan 1973-76 album is essential. The filtering of sound on that album predates its recent use in French house music by decades. "King Tubby Meets the Rockers..." on JetStar is an essential purchase, but an alternative to that could be Augustus Pablo's "El Rockers" on Pressure Sounds which has almost all the tracks of the aforementioned album on it plus more. Also you can get it on vinyl.

Destroy, absolutely nothing, I've yet to buy a bad Tubby record, the guy is one of the few producers in music truly deserving of the title genius.

In addition to all the above, check out:
Freedom Sounds in Dub on Blood & Fire
100% of Dub--some overlap with others mentioned here, but you can find it for cheap
Dangerous Dub

i'd always seen King Tubby's Special 1973-1976 in the local record store and gosh, it seems sort of overpriced (idon't know how it's priced in your town). so i would maybe recommend buying trojan box set: dub and trojan box set: dub, vol. 2 because they're easy to find and economical. then, if you line up the cds in a disc changer w/ box set #1 as 1-3 and box set #2 as 4-6, you can assemble the following 1 hr. precis of tubby's special:

1. (disc 1, 7) rebel dance
2. (disc 4, 2) casanova dub
3. (disc 5, 13) silver bullet
4. (disc 2, 7) rasta locks
5. (disc 2, 16) dubbing With the observer
6. (disc 3, 12) sir niney's rock
7. (disc 1, 9) king tubby's conversation dub
8. (disc 2, 1) king tubby's explosion! dub
9. (disc 2, 10) king tubby's patient dub
10. (disc 3, 5) turntable dub
11. (disc 3, 15) king tubby's badness dub
12. (disc 1, 15) rema dub
13. (disc 3, 13) big boss of dubs
14. (disc 5, 9) straight to channel one head
15. (disc 4, 13) dancing version
16. (disc 2, 9) the gorgon of dubs & horns
17. (disc 5, 1) i trim the barber
18. (disc 6, 4) another version

i'll second oops recommendation of Freedom Sounds in dub.

now the thing about dub gone crazy is that it has the utterly transcendent "dub fi gwan"

Someone mentioned the Harry Mudie/King Tubby In Dub Conference, vol 3 upthread. I'm guessing he only had volume 3, because vols 1 and 2 are just as good, ie really fucking good. Hard to find, but definitely worth a search. STRINGS in dub, mang, and it doesn't sound cheesy.

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gaz, you mean Scientist: Dub in the Roots Tradition? I love that cd. My favorite Scientist LP is probably Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires, followed by Meets Space Invaders and Heavyweight Dub Champion. Been looking for Meets Pac-Man but can't find it ANYwhere.

the thing about those blood and fire recordings of scientist - he was like 16-20 when he made those?

yeah, he was really young. Supposedly Tubby just let him loose in the studio: "oh you think you could do this, kid?", and those tracks are some of the first he ever mixed by himself.

(yes relisten to arkology! I kinda dismissed it for about 2-3 years, underwhelmed by it after the huge hype it got. disc 3 is awesome. "Make Up Your Mind"= aural perfection)

more volume needed maybe! (on my part)

are any of the dubs on dub gone crazy scientist?

yeah that glen brown set is great. arkology is essential.

(not being picky, really. just a bit anal)

i is idiot...sorry.

Which made me think of Augustus Pablo's East of the River Nile which I think I like better than Rockers Uptown. Who's with me? Anyone?

um, what about dj albums? i must have been under the impression that the congos were singing over lee perry treatments of existing rhythms, mainly because i can hardly believe that anybody could put together an original production as dubbed-out as "fisherman"

as for my stupidity over super ape i dug it out to try and think why i thought it wasn't what it is. and there is a full vocal (Prince Jazzbo) on Croaking Lizard which has gotta be unusual for a dub album. i still wonder if some of the other vocals aren't recorded for the record rather than snatched from earlier versions.

plus does anyone else love the tubby dub on the discomix of the Niney produced Sufferation by Tyrone Taylor?

and a further recommendation for tubby dub is Johnny in the Echo Chamber by the Aggrovators.

I think a lot of the vocals on Super Ape were in fact recorded specifically for it. The backing tracks had been used before though, albeit in slightly different forms, ie he put overdubs on them, merged two tracks together: you know, the standard Perry techniques for getting the most use out of the stuff musicians in his studio layed down.

oh, I do like "Meets Rockers Uptown" too :0)-~~

xpost mully knows about the greatness of the Mudie albums! (btw, I haven't forgotten about sending you those cds)

I'm no dub connoisseur, but I like In a Firehouse more, but I've only recently heard either album, and haven't tried to formulate why (though I think In a Firehouse has better effects or something).

yeah those mudie discs are headfucks. strings!

off emusic. Seems pretty great.

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On a non-Tubby tack, Studio One Dub is much, much better than I expected it to be : http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/release.php?ReleaseId=120&NavId=2_1&Section=1

It's really simple stuff in the main - few tricks and few really wild effects, yet it's quite unique. Worth having for the terrific Running Dub, a version of Delroy Wilson's 'Run Run'.

Has Blood and Fire finished?

Reason I asked was I read somewhere that Barrow Boy was working for someone else, or at least compiling and annotating for someone else.

Meanwhile, other people have been compiling and annotating for B&F.

I suppose all this could be cleared up by visiting their menko message board, but...

I hope lots of Mick Hucknall fans snap that comp up.

speaking of king tubby, have heard a couple of tracks from that new Black & White compilation by him and Carlton Patterson and both sounded great coming out of the radio.

('oops' mentioned it 3 years ago but i think it's newly readily available)

which is the best rockers uptown version to get? mine is on jetstar and has a better sleeve to the other one (official one?) but i thnk the tracklisting is a bit different. the low end on this one isnt as impressive as i might like either although i think that might just be normal.

(xpost) Yeah I want that Hot Pot compilation. Sounds great.

I have the older Shanachie version. It sounds quite good. I think the newer version has bonus tracks which probably make it the best.

I'm listening to the Carlton Patterson / King Tubby Black & White CD now - maybe it's the sunshine but it does sound very very good indeed.

Should be noted that Spotify is ace for this stuff. My Tubby playlist here:

http://open.spotify.com/user/124420673/playlist/6MvzKDgECGZBNUEuIEGRxB

King Tubby FOREVER!

http://www.roots-archives.com/artwork/albums/2208.jpg

Got this recently, £3

Not on Spotify! But seriously, it's awesome to take everyone's suggestions and roll them into one mondo playlist. I tried to stick to songs and albums that were deemed to be Tubby himself (ie, not Jammy, etc.) aside from the Dub Gone Crazy series (which I think most people associate w Tubby so much that it's fine). The Special 1973-76 comp wasn't on Spotify so I took the advice upthread to use the Trojan Dub series instead. There was only Vol. 1 -- but I was able to find most of the Vol. 2 songs on other comps.

Also, I made the playlist collaborative if anyone wants to add stuff I missed -- or correct things I may have gotten wrong -- be my guest!

I bought "Crucial Dub" for about £3 years ago from a crappy CD shop in Colchester and it's still one of my favourite King Tubby comps. I wonder how many actual tracks he ended up producing. Must be in the 1000s, right?