Best dub albums of the last 20 years or so

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babaluma1
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Best dub albums of the last 20 years or so

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While I have found some more recent dub albums on various posts I am interested in a list of quality dub from the last 20 years or so all in one place! They don't need to be strictly JA roots but can include dub influenced electronic music, just anything mainly instrumental that will make my speakers shake with bass!

A few albums I like that are not strictly traditional dub but recent releases in that style are:

Disrupt - Foundation Bit
Burnt Friedman- Just landed
Rhythm & Sound - first album
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Return of Jesco
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I've mentioned it here before, but Towers of Dub by the Orb on UFOrb is pretty good "dub influenced" electronica, as is Jam J by James meets Sabres of Paradise (a CD single that goes on for 30 mins or so, also came out on vinyl which you could play at 45 to get it over with quicker!).
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This old thread should provide food for thought!

**["Favorite Dub Album?"](http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/rea ... 837,page=1)**
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Jah Warrior "Dub From The Heart" 1998.
I've only discovered this album 2 years ago.
For me ,it's the best dub album of the last 20 years.

From Jah Warrior's blog :
"The 4th album release from the label, Dub From The Heart came out in September 1997. It was a real change in direction from the music I’d produced before, as almost the entire album used samples as the basis for the tracks, working in a cut and paste style which I saw as the dub equivalent of hip hop. Dougie and I took a lot of old drum loops heavily mixed by Scientist & King Tubbys etc, various sound FX from classic tunes and other bits and pieces, adding basslines and other instrumentation of our own to create what I see as a real milestone of UK dub. There aren’t many other dub albums I can think of which take this method of working to the level achieved here, other than Part 2 of Dub From The Heart and Dougie’s own Hydroponics album. A lot of other people on the UK scene at this time were incorporating samples in their work, but few to the extent heard here. Another new sound on this album was the bass tone we used. I forget exactly where it came from but I think it was from a jungle sample CD. It has a real techno sound, some people loved it, others hated it, but it became a trademark of Jah Warrior productions for a few years after this album. The first four 7 inch from the label can be found on this CD, Babylon Shall Fall, the album’s title track, It A Go Dread featuring Naph-Tali on vocal, plus Hiding From Reality. Apart from Babylon Shall Fall which was recorded at the original Conscious Sounds studio, the rest of this album was the first to be made at the new studio premises in Dalston, east London. The CD is now unavailable but we have a limited quantity of vinyl left, without sleeves."
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Thanks guys will check these out. I also found this link on this forum:

http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/rea ... 805,page=1
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