King Tubby - Essential Dub

Man, there is a lot of King Tubby, and even though it's ALL good it's not the easiest thing to just sit down and throw on fifteen of his records and just listen straight through.  Well I have some good news, I have done just that too many times, and in general I've just been listening to his shit for so long that I have mad love for the man and his genius and craft.  This record is definitely one of his best, working with guys from the famous Aggrovators to Tommy McCook.  Also it's definitely one of his more dance based and trippy records.

 First off, the man invented dub.  He not only invented dub, he took his skills and know-how of electronics he picked up from his profession as a poor television and radio repairman to fabricate his own musical effects boxes to create the music he did.

So here's the skinny.  The man worked with bands to record tracks and he would go back over the master tracks and loop certain parts, mix certain parts up and and out and back together, turn up the bass and drop the treble completely here, etc.  But mostly he would UP the bass and UP the highs and completely drop the mids, add a liberal portion of reverb and some healthy flanger and you have a big room sound that's simultaneously gut rumbling and crisp and clean.  

Tracklist

1	The Observer All Stars	Silver Bullet	2:50	0
2	Horace Andy & The Aggrovators	A Better Version	3:29	0
3	King Tubby	King Tubby's Conversation Dub	3:10	0
4	King Tubby	Psalms Of Dub	3:04	0
5	King Tubby	Rebel Dance	3:00	0
6	King Tubby	Sir Niney's Rock	3:27	0
7	King Tubby	Straight To The Boy Niney Head	3:38	0
8	King Tubby	Casanova Dub	3:10	0
9	Tommy Mccook & The Aggrovators	Bongo Man Dub	3:30	0
10	Augustus Pablo	Barbwire Disaster	2:27	0
11	The Aggrovators	A Rougher Version	2:55	0
12	The Aggrovators	Natty Dread Girl (Version)	3:13	0
13	The Aggrovators	Natty Version	3:16	0
14	The Aggrovators	Don't Cut Of Your Dreadlocks (Version)	3:05	0
15	Dirty Harry And The Aggrovators	The Poor Barber	3:11	0
16	The Aggrovators	The Jehovah Version	3:28	0
17	The Aggrovators	Move Out A Babylon (Version)

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