King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
by Augustus Pablo$19.95 Free Shipping
- Released
- 23/02/95
- Music Genre
- Reggae
Description
During the early 1970s, a maverick Jamaican producer known as King Tubby (aka Osbourne Ruddock--he was born in Kingston in 1941) embarked upon a series of pivotal recordings, ultimately creating a reggae offshoot called dub. First, he pared his forces down to a drum kit and bass and slowed the tempo until a bottom-heavy, primal heartbeat emerged. Over this framework, spare vocal and instrumental riffs emerged from layers of echoing reverb and artful distortion, erecting atmospheric soundscapes bound for infinity. This classic album is a primer for how Tubby could harness raw rhythmic power through his subtle, imaginative grasp of texture and dynamics. A potent rhythm team, including Robbie Shakespeare (one half of the famed Sly & Robbie combo) on bass, Earl "Chinna" Smith on guitar, and a rough-and-ready brass section, surrounds the organ-piano and clavinet (mouth-blown keyboard clarinet) of Augustus Pablo with hip, stylish Kingstonian street-bred attitude.
Product Details
- Artist
- Augustus Pablo
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- SHANACHIE
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 1976
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2002
- Cast & Crew
- Augustus Pablo (Guest Artist)
- King Tubby (Guest Artist)
- Augustus Pablo (Music Performer)
- Horace "Augustus Pablo" Swaby (Producer)
Press Reviews
Included in Mojo's 50 Greatest Reggae Albums - "...the definitive dub album... Mojo (8/02, p.77)
Ranked #38 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s. NME (9/18/93, p.19)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Keep On Dubbing
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Stop Them Jah
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Young Generation Dub
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Each One Dub
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Branwin's Secret
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Brace's Tower Dub
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Brace's Tower Dub No 2
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King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
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Corner Crew Dub
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Skanking Dub
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Frozen Dub
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Satta Dub
