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Hello everybody, my first post...

I'm looking for 70's / early 80's dub albums with some synthesizer stuff. For example, the African dub series have some tunes with cool synth overdubs. Another example is Augustus "Gussie" Clarke's "Black Foundation Dub LP" ("Late Arrival" from this album can be found on Youtube). Also Junior Dan's "KTW Dub" has nice synth stuff.

So could you please recommend me some old dub albums which have at least some tunes with synth lines? I've browsed these forums and already found "Majestic Dub", "Mawamba Dub chapter 2", Black Uhuru's "Dub Factor", "King Tubby meets Jacob Miller inna Tenement Yard" and "E-E Saw Dub".

I've checked the songs of the aforementioned albums and some of the synth stuff is indeed a bit cheesy, but I just can't get over how cool for example the synth stuff on "Idler's Rest" (of African Dub Chapter 2) sounds! And no matter how cheesy, the two synth tunes on "Black Foundation Dub" are just great (as is the whole album)!

As an analog synth and dub enthusiast I'd love to find more of that stuff. I'd appreciate any recommendations very much!

Welcome.

Not "dub" per se, but it fits your criteria of "analog" and "synthesizers". The recommendation comes only because you said that you aren't afraid of a bit of cheese. :^)

http://www.roots-archives.com/release/1082

It's funny how tastes vary: I was just listening to some Gussie material a few days ago (like Dennis Brown's first cut of "To The Foundation") and was wishing he left the squelching bastards out, they date an otherwise good production, and sound particularly 'orrible at high volume!

not dub as such but there is a lot of synth on this as I recall

www.roots-archives.com/release/1944

and the early lee Perry produced albums of instrumentals have lots of cheese organ

The dub version to the Mighty Diamonds Deeper Roots is a synth dub album -available as a set with deeper roots on Virgin and also if you can find it the dub to Friends and Money by Mikey Dread a Joe Gibbs production.

E-E Saw dub has synth on it.

Syncopation by Sly & Robbie has some awful synths!

Thanks for the recommendations! E-E Saw Dub is the same as the Tenement Yard dub, right? Is there a vinyl reissue available?

That Might Diamonds album seems very interesting, thanks!

I'd recommend some Joe Gibbs stuff, just like someone said before me. I'd recommend "Majestic Dub" & "Chapter Three".

There is a load of synth on Pablo Moses pave the way and its dub counterpart

sisaket wrote:The dub version to the Mighty Diamonds Deeper Roots is a synth dub album -available as a set with deeper roots on Virgin and also if you can find it the dub to Friends and Money by Mikey Dread a Joe Gibbs production.

I love Deeper Roots! Is there any album withthe same lineup? Can't find anything similar to it ...