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by Dries
Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:36 pm
Forum: DUB RECORDS
Topic: Rubber dub
Replies: 18
Views: 22820

Rubber dub

dub = remix, it's no style... it's just in jamaica a remix used to be called a 'dub' or a 'version'. <BR>In today's Jamaica 'dub' means a special version of a song made especially for a particular sound system, also called a dub plate or special.
by Dries
Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:33 pm
Forum: DUB RECORDS
Topic: Rubber dub
Replies: 18
Views: 22820

Rubber dub

rub a dub is the style that followed after the seventies roots reggae. It's bouncier, more danceable, less complex, more suited for dj-style, it was founded by the Roots Radics and Henry 'Junjo' Lawes. Very nice style. It's basically when vocalists began to sing or dj over dub versions/ check out j...
by Dries
Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:24 pm
Forum: DUB RECORDS
Topic: Recommended dub tracks?
Replies: 179
Views: 446060

Recommended dub tracks?

also check out Mikey Dread's 'Rockers Vibration' (not strictly dub but very nice ganja smoking music), Black Uhuru's 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner' (some of the best rythms ever), the reissue of Serge Gainsbourg & The Revolutionaries 'Aux Armes Etc' comes with a magnificent dub coun...
by Dries
Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:21 pm
Forum: DUB RECORDS
Topic: Recommended dub tracks?
Replies: 179
Views: 446060

Recommended dub tracks?

not augustus pablo, i don't like his sound <BR>lee scratch perry from the black ark era is very psychedelic <BR>prince jammy <BR>scientist <BR>king tubby, though sometimes i get tired of hearing bunny lee's productions again and again <BR>joe gibbs and errol thompson 'no bones for the dogs' CD is v...
by Dries
Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:05 pm
Forum: DUB RECORDS
Topic: dubs of marley
Replies: 22
Views: 31857

dubs of marley

Also in the seventies a lot of artists did covers of Marley songs for more conventional producers, so most of the time there are dubs of that. CHeck out Trojan's 'Friends of Bob Marley' box set (I don't know if it's called friends of bob marley - check the trojan web site) which is 3 discs ...
by Dries
Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:03 pm
Forum: DUB RECORDS
Topic: dubs of marley
Replies: 22
Views: 31857

dubs of marley

Of all the tracks which Bob Marley did for Lee Perry, there are dubs, so look for Bob Marley/Lee Perry collaborations. When Bob Marley signed to Island, he left the traditional way of recording reggae, where the producer owns the tracks and versions it again and again. Marley (or probably Islan...