Another guest post from ART58Koen with more dub!
Sometime during the 1970s I vaguely remember hearing the occasional reggae track on the
radio (Veronica) or on TV (Top-Pop), but I couldn’t care less. It all sounded a bit same-same to me... Oh well, talk about uneducated youth! Then one day I joined a friend’s birthday party and of course music was being played. Suddenly I heard something incredibly weird, it sounded like Peter Tosh’s Don’t Look Back, BUT completely alien, what the heck?!
That was my first exposure to dub, it made quite an impact and is still reverberating through my body, something my Thai family doesn’t always appreciate.
In 1981 Island released a killer dub compilation called Raiders of the Lost Dub, complete with a pretty cool parody Indiana Jones cover (& movie inspired titles!), which was not appreciated by Hollywood apparently, no sense of humor I guess. It featured the usual suspects; Sly & Robbie, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, a.o.
By the time I finally got seriously interested into roots reggae & dub, I was already living in
Thailand and this album no longer available. Also I had sold off most of my vinyl (for peanuts as everybody seemed to be doing it & I had no storage) and depended for my music addiction on bootleg cassette tapes sold almost everywhere in Bangkok.
During the early 1990s on one of my visits to the home country I was lucky enough to find in an Amsterdam recordshop a CD which not only had the whole album but also 9 additional later period dub tracks: Time Warp Dub Clash: Old School Vs. New School (1993)! The new school artists included Jah Shaka, Alpha & Omega, MixMan, a.o. Unnecessary to say I was extremely pleased, also with the completely different cover art.
This is one of those classic compilations I have kept playing over the years from time to time. You don’t need any ganja to get stoned, just turn up the volume and let the booming bass do its magic work!
Fast forward to 2022, by now Time Warp Dub Clash has been unavailable for a long time, never seen it 2nd hand either, although it’s offered on Discogs.
Those wishing to acquire this artifact - recently liberated from Area 51 by a crack team of ninjas - will find a searching question from ART58Koen in the comments below.
ART58Koen sez:
ReplyDeleteIf you’d like a personally ripped copy at 256 kbps (VBR) AAC audio, please confess what was the first dub record you ever heard which made a lasting impact...
Augustus Pablo - Raiders Dub....Your mixes are great. Keep up great music mixes[
DeleteThey're just my rips, not my mixes, but thanks anyway.
DeleteThe Dub Factor by Black Uhuru, though I may have heard some dub B sides of singles, before.
ReplyDeleteGreat album, highly recommended, together with Sly & Robbie – A Dub Experience - Reggae Greats.
DeleteThe Dub Factor was also my introduction to Dub.
DeleteSomebody lent me a CD of Burning Spear's "Marcus Garvey" and it included "Garvey's Ghost" - the dub versions. I've always been open to dub versions since then.
ReplyDeleteI got that CD too, great!
DeleteJoe Gibbs - Dub Chapter 13 - I've never seen it anywhere else. I know there are 4 albums numbered differently. I got mine in a junk shop in Fort Walton Beach in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteHere's some Dub, from Mr. Gibbs:
DeleteJoe Gibbs - African Dub All-Mighty Chapter 1&2
https://mega.co.nz/#!VUlBRLyT!MZ06zP_UV2ppvqw1ZEElsOVZXoh6zgpQsTtmpPRO55c
Joe Gibbs - No Bones For The Dogs
(Dubs from the Mighty Two 1974-1979)
https://mega.nz/file/mjIQmLrI#9SlawAyfNMVTRDLPLUjGArW_zWdMqzsydLpDRI9kU2s
Joe Gibbs - Dub Serial 1973
https://mega.nz/file/uqYmXTzB#UOOUnEwIjqGKz2yFUj-XjD5rj6JXLZs4bsbNtDIjPoo
Joe Gibbs - African Dub All-Mighty Chapter 3&4
https://mega.co.nz/#!JN0QBLwb!wmY0hD5f2o-lSbCgtk-K0zbaxAiklVgDseopz6cM6ZM
Joe Gibbs - African Dub Chapter 2 1976
https://mega.nz/file/X2ZmQDBb#fkCUPIj920nkFqv2I1NfDJ-zErjHg9pYqNB-6IMGqjM
Joe Gibbs - Majestic Dub 1985
https://mega.nz/file/P7ZEDRIQ#eFUrV1JmRemHAObp5an8UzyyFFFak-1jjNlZbqXAAbY
Joe Gibbs - African Dub Chapter 5 1984
https://mega.nz/file/nuZA1bgQ#Q9qSv_cAZCv0qO2MIFbwHAXIFiTJHXGy1yzI9ZQZ-UY
Joe Gibbs - African Dub Chapter 1 1975
https://mega.nz/file/v2QiDLwC#11rE3EJhw5YAdqdXUM9Mr5lmLcUDJdXFfME_t4SgTL0
Joe Gibbs & Errol Thompson - African Dub All Mighty Chapters 1 and 2 1999
https://mega.nz/file/KrIUwJpJ#PgxM2m0HrUP9xR8Q1SsA3cMtng4x3xLfmBNbocxNFuE
Nice find! Those African Dub All-Mighty albums by Joe Gibbs & The Professionals are classics.
ReplyDeleteYes, they are!
DeleteI think I first read about On-U Sound in Op Magazine in the early 80's. I wanted "My Life In A Hole In The Ground" by African Head Charge, but had to settle for "Drastic Season", which was my point of entry into the world of the On-U collective and producer Adrian Sherwood. Not "authentic" Jamaican dub, but not cod reggae either, and nothing like I'd ever heard.
ReplyDeleteOn-U are cool, I got the first 2 Singers & Players compilations, brilliant!
DeleteDon't remember my first hear, nor my first hear of reggae or bluebeat/rocksteady/ska, but I got a ton of that proto-reggae. Not as much dub, tho, so looking forward to hearing this cuz when it's good, it's really good.
ReplyDeleteC in California
Mmm .. not sure if it's dub as such ..but, Linton Kwesi Johson "Smash their brains in" (??)
ReplyDeleteHi Steve, this is the dub version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjYKME4PFVw
DeleteThanks!!!
DeleteBig Youth – Reggae Gi Dem Dub, 1978.
ReplyDeleteWow, I didn't know that one!
DeleteIt's a classic!
Deletehttps://mega.nz/file/oGEyTZzZ#Tu4HrsvmvQ12Rwx3lP-15zbCGW1Nc2aLKRvwi_t61sI
Thanks Babs!
DeleteThanks for reminding me Steve, I need to send you the bill for hiring those ninjas, great guys, but not cheap!
ReplyDeletei first heard dub on the flip sides of various reggae 45s that looked and sounded like they were pressed on old rubber tires. i didn't dislike it, i was just not enthused enough to pursue. that was early 70's.
ReplyDeletebefore the silence, i am trying to hear everything.
Yeah, I can imagine, the quality of those first pressings were usually pretty poor. But do give the remasters a try, they certainly sound much better!
DeleteI'm looking forward to having 'Raiders' back, I lent it to a "friend", and never saw it again.
ReplyDeleteLots of interaction on this post, great to see, so here is Time Warp Dub Clash, Old School selected by Paul "Groucho" Smykle & Trevor Wyatt, New School by Don Letts, incl scanned booklet, enjoy:
ReplyDeletehttps://mega.nz/file/yN1UWCwZ#8v_Ec9xc9XP-Zo4f4o05md-Rs9OmTDFeaMaZOuYk6wI
OK, what are people's recommendations for the "spaciest" reggae dub available? Lots of delay and stuff like that to mess with your head.
ReplyDeleteActually, the album ART58Koen has just uploaded is pretty spacey!
DeleteReally enjoying it, many thanks!
Glad you like it Steve. Regarding the "spaciest" reggae dub available.., some Bill Laswell recordings/mixes are worthy of that title I'd say, maybe something for a future post?
DeleteSounds good to me!
DeleteCuriously it was New Order's "Turn the heater on", originally a Keith Hudson classic.
ReplyDeleteYou may find it of dubious test (oh,my....) but for many postpunkers was a fine introduction to the style.
Having listened to some reggae before I was instantly hooked.
The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite also grabbed some of that sound.
Cheers.
Bat
Whatever it takes!
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