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"Down In A Tenement Yard" collection from Trojan.
Picked it up yesterday along with the "Children of Jah" Chantells collection.

RE:"Judgment in a Babylon"

I remember reading about that song -- or least Perry's thoughts about Blackwell (giving Marley cancer)-- at the time or shortly afterwards and thinking "that guy must be insane".

Anyway, that was my first impression of him. Didn't know about "People Funny Boy" African Herbsman, the Black Ark, "Police and Thieves", the Clash, or anything else.

And then his name kept cropping up all over the place... every record I bought, it seemed he had a hand in it. And I kept thinking "Wait a minute, it's that crazy guy again."

Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators - King Tubby Meets The Agrovators At Dub Station - Live and Love

http://www.roots-archives.com/release/2017

Popular music is littered with albums where one or two tracks have obviously slipped in merely to fill the wax. Great reggae LPs aren't like that. No matter how many versions these guys did of these riddims they all seemed to manage to come out sounding sublime. 'At the Dub Station' is non-stop solid gold dub from the the run in all the way to the matrix - on both sides!

This is a milestone in reggae dub. If you needed to explain dub to someone who can't speak your language, you would simply play them this.

This Bunny Lee production sums up dub right down to its most Jamaican roots. It has it all, including that impeccable King Tubby sound. Because it is the Agrovators and the Revolutionaries it has horns on top of that trademark drum and bass sound. All the instruments playing on this record are in the hands a master of that particular reggae art, there's no room for anything less than perfect.

It's a very instrumental dub, as the Agrovators sessions tend to be. It is more musical than the more stripped down Revolutionaries' dubs and yet isn't short of actual dubbing. No surprise there with King Tubby mashing it up at the controls!

Gene Rondo's sleeve notes from 1975 are right on the money:


"This is it which you can't miss. This ya a real dub from back a yard, with fantastic sound from King Toby, when he met the Agrovators at Dub Station studios. So hep this Dreads, and keep them stepping to Dubs of meditation. This is straight Instrumental from Tommy McCook with versions. So dress up for your education of Dub."


Sheer reggae magic!

[JR Productions - Junior Reid - Youthman]
JAH BLess
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iqulah - rasta philosophy.
very good record from iqulah, searched for this one for a long time, couldnt find it anywhere until a trip to london 2 years ago, and since then i've seen it now and then on e-bay. worth checking out roots fans.

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Jamming - Bob Marley - Island 12 inch limited edition extended mix.

A great tune but unusually for 12 inch Disco versions the dub comes first and then segues into the vocal version.

Jackie Mittoo - Now - Studio One LP

Fantastic smooth vibes from the master. Don't ever make the mistake of underestimating what this guy did for reggae music, he's one of the founding fathers.

Wall-shakingly brilliant!

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listening to the records i've not listened for ages

wailing souls - inchpincher
burning spear - fittest of the fittest
condemned 84 - no one likes us...we dont care

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Singing along with every track, great great joyful music.