King Tubby top 5 albums

[gbougard]

If you had to recommend 5 King Tubby dub albums, which ones would you list?

[Congo Bunny]

Given it can be a little difficult to know for sure who mixed something out of Tubby's, but I think the below are Tubby (with the possible exception of Balmagie?) After 15 odd years of listening to reggae I can only just begin to tell Prince Jammy from Tubby, I'll be damned if I can spot Pat Kelly or Philip Smart from each other or Tubby, and who knows about early Scientist? Obviously later Scientist became easy to spot. but Early Scientist could easily be Tubby to my ears...

Balmagie Jam Rock

Sound System International Dub LP

Surrounded By The Dreads At The National Arena

Termination Dub

Dub From The Roots

[Ivo]

Termination dub

Heroes of reggae in dub (The Skatalites)

King Tubby's Prophecy of Dub (Blood & Fire)

Dub Like Dirt

Freedom Sounds in Dub


Regards
Ivo

[babaluma1]

There are some many albums I love by Tubby, these are my favourites

Rockers Meet King Tubby's In A Fire House
Great collaboration with Augustus Pablo, I like it more than the more famous "Meets Rockers Uptown".

Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby In Dub Conference Vol. 1
Tubby majestically remixes a shimmering mix of strings and electric piano from Harry Mudie.

Dub from the Roots (or Roots of Dub equally good)
Early Tubby, raw, heavy and effects filled.

The Legendary Skatalites in Dub
Tubby mixes up a horn heavy brew of classic Skatalites grooves

King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators at Dub Station
Again great horn lines, very melodic dub like the above pic.

Shalom Dub
Earlier sparser sound but great rhythms from The Aggrovators. CD sounds like a vinyl rip and sounds better on vinyl anyway!


Bonus picks:

Meets Jacob Miller In A Tenement Yard
Not for everyone but I really enjoy this mix of Tubby magic and crazy synth work, but listen to before buying!

King Tubby's Prophecy of Dub
Great Yabby You source material dubbed to oblivion, great Blood and Fire sound quality.

[Congo Bunny]

Heroes of reggae in dub (The Skatalites)

King Tubby's Prophecy of Dub (Blood & Fire)

Good choices, agree with all of those

Yea I was thinking those two too, although possibly heroes is Scientist rather than Tubby? please correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the Herb Dub Collie Dub mixes of the skatalites Tubby?

Freedom Sounds in Dub
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I also thought that was mixed by Scientist despite saying Tubby on the cover.... but then as I said in my post I can't tell them all apart anyway

[babaluma1]

@Congo Bunny

I have a cd called The Legendary Skatalites in Dub which I think is the same as the album Heroes of Reggae in Dub but with the songs from the Herb Dub Collie Dub album as bonus tracks. Can't say for sure though?

Think it is Tubby on these but not sure about Freedom Sounds in Dub, if anyone has the CD Blood and Fire are usually good with the sleeve note info of who did what on their reissues.

[babaluma1]

@ gbougard

Also worth checking the Father of Dub 3 cd collection. It has no sleeves notes, very bargain basement and about £5. But actually a really good mix, although very random, of Tubby tracks. From all eras but great to just chuck on. If you want a taste of his work and are not too bothered about getting anything chronological worth a punt for a fiver. I don't know what other people think about it but I have about ten of his albums and this is a nice listen for a starter.

[Return of Jesco]

Father of Dub - definitely worth a punt, some tracks duplicated if I remember right, some bogus "Lee Perry" tracks and some dodgy mastering (sounds horrible on iPod) but pretty good selection for the money I would say.

[NINJA]

YUH NEED KING TUBBYS STUFF FROM WHEN HE STILL RAN HIS REPAIR SHOP DRUMALIE AV JA !!! BECAUSE DEM TIME HE WAS TRYING A TING AND WAS RAW LIKE SEH PRINCE FAR I DUB SHAKE YUH UP RUDE BWAY !!! BUT YUH MUST GO BACK YEARS WHEN DUKE REID AH RUN SOUND SYSTEM !!! AND JAZBOO WAS LEARNING IN DUKE REIDS !!! YES THERE IS MUCH YUH CAN SEH ABOUT WHO STARTED DIS AND DAT !! BUT KNOW DIS THEY ALL STARTED SOME WHERE !!! BUT JAMMYS AND SCIENTIST ARE A DIFFERENT MATTER !!! REMEMBER KING TUBBY SCIENTIST JAMMYS LAST !!! BECAUSE THE OTHER TWO CAN REALLY MIX & TING !!! ITS SAID THAT JAMMYS TOOK CREDIT FOR LOADS OF SCIENTIST WORK !!! YUH LISTEN TO PRINCE JAMMY VS KING TUBBY AND TELL MI WHAT YUH HEAR BECAUSE TO MI EAR ITS SCIENTIST PRODUCTION !!! THE COMBO YUH WANT ON ANY RECORD IS ROOTS RADICS,SCIENTIST !!!! MOST OF THE BADDEST RIDDIMS ITS DEM AH DWEET SEEN ... JAH THOMAS PRODUCTION AS WELL !! BLESS ..

[costarica]

Couldn't pick 5 unless you go for comps. Fill your boots with this lot - All Tubby and all utterly essential IMO

Blackboard Jungle (with Lee Perry)
Sound System International Dub LP (Clancy Eccles Allstars)
Herbs Of Dub (Jah Lloyd)
Dub From The Roots (Bunny Lee)
KT Meets the Upsetter At The Grass Roots of Dub (with Lee Perry)
Dubbing with the Observer (Niney's Observer Allstars)
Roots Of Dub (Bunny Lee)
Shalom Dub (Bunny Lee)
KT Meets the Agrovators At Dub Station (With Tommy McCook)
Dub Me (with Morwell Esquire)
E-E Saw Dub (King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller In A Tenement Yard)
I Admire You In Dub (Larry Marshall)
Harry Mudie Meets King Tubby's In Dub Conference Vol. 1
KT Meets Rockers Uptown (with A. Pablo)
Surrounded By The Dreads At The National Arena
King Tubby's Prophesy Of Dub (Yabby You)
Black & White In Dub (Carlton Patterson)
Termination Dub (Glen Brown)
The African Brothers Meets King Tubby In Dub (African Bros Dub/version b Sides - dub plate quality pressed from vinyl)