King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown

Pablo, Augustus

Genre: music4me > World > Reggae

Format: CD Album

Released: Thu 23 Feb 1995

Catalogue Number: 44019

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Description:
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.

Details:

Distributor: Proper
Producer: Horace "Augustus Pablo" Swaby
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2002

Track Listing:

1.	Keep On Dubbing
2.	Stop Them Jah
3.	Young Generation Dub
4.	Each One Dub
5.	Branwin's Secret
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

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