About Dubplates

[gunosantos]

They sound as good as regular pressed vinyl on quality labels like pressure sounds or blood & fire.

[Perilous]

"Vinyl plates"? You either have an acetate, which comes in a round form already, or vinyl, which is a piece of hot goo goes on a stamper to make the finished platter."

"You can't buy already round-shaped blank "vinyl" for cutting. Please provide a link to illustrate what you mean by "vinyl plate", or else I think you are making this up!"

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"Very interesting, thanks. This is a relatively new development. How do they sound compared to a regular press?"

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empty barrel makes the most noise ha ha ha

[davek]

They sound as good as regular pressed vinyl on quality labels like pressure sounds or blood & fire.

Thanks. I think I would still save the money and play it from CD!

[Vinnie]

skunkride wrote :Here you go :

http://www.dubstudio.co.uk/studio/shop

Very interesting, thanks. This is a relatively new development. How do they sound compared to a regular press?

some info how dubplate/vinyl are made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H342sImB ... re=related

this link will give answers to some questions

[Javier]

No, You cant call them Duplates unless they're cut on a Dubplates, that's like calling an mp3 a record.

If you told me you were playing dubplates at your soundsystem then they turned out to be CD's I'd just laff, Dubplates are Dublates, you could call the tracks "Dubs" but they're not Dubplates until they're cut.

well, I'm not talking strictly about format, I think everybody else got what I mean. I always meant dubplates meaning special songs (whatever the format)

[Javier]

I would be good knowledge to find about when question n2 started happening, right ?

[Litelet]

As I said, according to my limited knowledge, 80's, most probably mid to late. Have never seen any early 80s with sound calls. Clash lyrics earlier.

[Vinnie]

i have a recording somewhere with praising lyrics to fatman
on the yabby you - dread up. a '70 ish tune

lyrics are mostly the same as the original only (if i remember well) the chorus was a bit twisted praising fatman sound ruffer than ruff

[zonard]

Hi Litelet,

This thread reminds me our Friday night discussion !!

The sound calls arrived in the 80's as you said, but some (quite rare) examples exist before :

First ever tune praising a sound : Owen Gray - On The Beach for Coxsone (late 50's). Apparently he wrote the lyric for King Edwards first but gave it to Coxsone.

Another early example : Gregory Isaacs & Slim Smith - Tubby's A The Ruler (1971)

The one reputed to be the first special cut for a particular dance : Cornell Campbell - Dance Ina Greenwich Farm

[Vinnie]

just found that recording heres a little clip of it
ofcourse this could have been made later than 70s

but just love this one

http://www.divshare.com/download/10723620-d3c

johnny clarke?