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Hi,

I found King Tubbys Rarities on Spotify, a fantastic mid seventies compilation of King Tubby as a non-dub producer, by Attack. Check it out on amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/King-Tubbys-Rar ... B002B2QLFS

My problem is that it is only available as mp3.

Does anyone know where i can find these tracks on cd?

Attack is one of those labels whose releases should be viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism (as should pretty much *any* non-reissue King Tubby release these days, to be honest). They've put out stuff of dubious authenticity before - they may do so again.

It's very possible that they've released a compilation of songs *voiced* at Tubby's studio and claimed them as being produced by Tubby. This happens with alarming regularity...

Sounds about right to me Funky Punk.
KT did produce but not until the early 80s.
Up to that all voicing and mixing of recordings from the other studios.

Funky Punk wrote:Attack is one of those labels whose releases should be viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism (as should pretty much any non-reissue King Tubby release these days, to be honest). They've put out stuff of dubious authenticity before - they may do so again.

It's very possible that they've released a compilation of songs voiced at Tubby's studio and claimed them as being produced by Tubby. This happens with alarming regularity...

It's the label of Bunny Lee and or his family. He has tons of untitled/no info mastertapes. Once in a while he takes out stuff from the big pile and re-releases it.....

http://www.tomoldham.com/reggae/BunnyArchive.jpg

http://www.enuui.org/public/dub/striker ... chives.jpg

Ofcourse it sells better if you put King Tubby on the sleeve...that's why..

this album has a lot of simularities with this one:

http://www.roots-archives.com/release/4302

an album that was released by Jet Star in the early 2000's.

Mostly 70s dubplates voiced and mixed at king tubbys. and featuring some good songs that never saw an jamaican release before, but were only played by soundssytems with a tubbys link.

I believe there was either fatman or a lloyd coxsone connection, and it features some bad tracks and alternate mixes ( off course since it featured dubplates).

Well, guess Horace Andy already confirmed somewhere that PURE RANKING (one of his best work) is actually a KT production. The you have, in a dub plate style, some Linval Thompson that came out on Auralux years ago (Whip Them Tubby or something - terrific !). But indeed, KT prods were mainly issued in the 80's (like the Tempa riddim, some King Kong a go round etc).

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge
/Erik