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Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	Balmagie Jam Rock
Label:	DOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	DOVE 010CD

"Balmagie Jam Rock consists of 16 unreleased dub mixes from the dub master King Tubby. All the original songs were written and produced by Roy Cousins from the Royals. Featuring a virtual who's who of reggae from the classic era -- Sly & Robbie, Lloyd Parkes, Pablo Black, Lloyd Charmers, Ansel Collins, Earl Lindo, Tony Chin, Geoffery Chung, Ernest Rangin, Earl 'Chinna' Smith,Bobby Ellis, Tommy McCook and many more. With the voices of Prince Farl, I Roy, The Royals, and Baba Dread. Recorded between 1966 and 1979 at Dynamic, Channel One and Randy's studios, mixed and voiced at King Tubbv's."

Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	King Tubby's In Fine Style
Label:	EARMARK (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	EAR 43035LP

"Now available on double LP. Definitely the ultimate Tubby compilation, this album covers the brightest and most productive years (1972-74) in this producer/dubmaster's musical history without carrying some of the obnoxious assemblages that made some of Tubby's collections useless and/or poorly compiled. In Fine Style is a title that truly adapts to the contents of this LP, since it features some of the greatest dubs of reggae monsters of the 1970s like the Upsetters, Horace Andy, Niney the Observer, Augustus Pablo, plus the Aggrovators."

Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	Dub Mix Up: Rare Dubs 1975-1979
Label:	JAMAICAN RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	JR 016CD

"Subtitled 'Rare Dubs 1975-79' -- this is the long awaited follow up to Jamaican Recordings 2001 top selling compilation Lost Treasures. Comprising of Tappa Zukie produced tunes dubbed either at King Tubby's or indeed by the King himself. Expect to hear rare versions of Knowledge tracks 'Population', 'Words Sounds and Power', Prince Alla's 'Slavemaster'. Junior Ross and The Spears 'You Can't Run', 'Judgement Time', Alton Ellis's 'Ain't That Loving You', Ronnie Davis's 'No Weak Heart' and also a reworking of the 'Shank I Sheck' rhythm. 12 track 180 gram vinyl LP and 14 track CD."

Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	The Roots Of Dub & Dub From The Roots
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MOLL 008CD

This release combines two of the most essential dub albums in a 2CD/2LP set, both originally released in late 1974 and early 1975. As a re-release, this edition contains for the first time every track on the original LPs in an incomparable sound quality. Both albums are part of the historic and epoch-making early phase of dub and demonstrate more than any other recordings the great pioneer collaboration of the duo King Tubby (engineer/mixer) and Bunny Lee (producer). Many of the most important riddims of all times are included here, including Bunny Lee's biggest hits. The music was played by The Aggrovators in their best line up, featuring Robbie Shakespeare, Chinna Smith, Carlton & Aston Barrett, Tony Chin and Augustus Pablo. These songs have lost nothing of their atmospheric depth over the years, and as musical statements they are as magical as ever. Double CD in an eight page digi-sleeve-pack with liner notes and a picture of the original LP covers.

Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	Motion Dub Special (Classic Dubs 1974-1978)
Label:	MOTION (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	FAST 017CD

"Excellent low price dub sampler containing a choice selection from the Motion catalogue. Mixed primarily by King Tubby, the album features classic dub cuts from The Skatalites, Dennis Brown, The Chantells, Gregory Isaacs, Larry Marshall, John Holt and Jacob Miller. Also featured are two tracks from forthcoming dub release 'King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller In A Tenement Yard' and an unreleased exclusive Niney The Observer dubplate as a bonus track."

Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	100% Of Dub - Select Cuts
Label:	SELECT CUTS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	SELEC 2005CD

Awaiting repress. This is a mid-line priced repress of the classic collection 100% Of Dub - Select Cuts, originally issued in 2003 on Select Cuts. Jamaican sound engineer and musical aesthete Osbourne Ruddock (aka King Tubby) is widely credited with being the original dub creator. The results of his experiments in the early and mid-1970s pervade all areas of contemporary dance music. King Tubby's instrument was the mixing desk, and like jazz musicians before him, his passion was finding ways to make it do things that hadn't been done before. King Tubby was an electronics genius, the self-taught master of circuitry and sound, skills learned during his time as a repairman in a culture where poverty dictated that you didn't throw things away if they could be fixed -- you improvised instead. It began during a stint with Ruddy Redwood's Treasure Isle Sound System. Tubby single-handedly innovated the primitive echo and reverb units to his Home Town Hi-Fi system, adding the extra spatial dimension that became the hallmark of dub. He played an instrumental right after the original version ("version" became the original term for what later became known as a "dub cut," or simply a "dub") and the crowd went crazy. Back home in his primitive studio (his mother's house in the Waterhouse district), he went further, creating a sort of DIY graphic equalizer that allowed him to take out various elements, accentuate others and end up with the signature, beautiful bass-heavy echoing sound. It was a sensation -- a full, warm, mind-bending groove -- and soon enough, King Tubby was the most sought-after engineer in Jamaica. Listen to the twenty groundbreaking tracks of shimmering bass-heavy magic. All of the production is under Fatman and Bunny Lee control with mixing beauties by King Tubby in the King Tubby studio. Dizzy rhythms by Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare and more significant perfection by the creme of Jamaican studio artists like Earl "Chinna" Smith, Jackie Mittoo, Aston Barrett, Augustus Pablo, just to name a few. 100% of Dub - Select Cuts is an exercise in innovation and perfection, it is a story about sound manipulations in a style of music that possessed its own innate spirituality -- the spacious echo and vast reverb emitting a profound vibe.

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