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01. KING TUBBY - Dub of Rights (Source: Johnny Clarke, "Declaration of Rights")
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02. KING TUBBY - Higher Ranking (Source: Johnny Clarke, "Top Ranking")
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03. KING TUBBY - A Stalawatt Version (Source: Cornell Campbell, "The Stal-O-Watt")
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04. KING TUBBY - King Tubby's In Fine Style (Source: Ronnie Davis, "Power of Love")
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05. KING TUBBY - African Sounds (Source: Johnny Clarke, "African People")
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06. KING TUBBY - Channel One Under Heavy Manners (Source: Leroy Smart, "Pumps and Pride")
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07. KING TUBBY - Channel Get Knockout (Source: Johnny Clarke, "Girl I Love You")
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08. KING TUBBY - The Champion Version (Source: Johnny Clarke, "King of the Arena"
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09. KING TUBBY - Stealing Version (Source: Johnny Clarke, "Stealing Stealing")
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10. KING TUBBY - Satta Dread Dub ... (Source: Wayne Jarrett, "Satta Dread")
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11. KING TUBBY - Crazy Dub (Source: Johnny Clarke, "Crazy Baldhead")
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12. KING TUBBY - Dreada Version (Source: Johnny Clarke, "Dread A Dread")
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13. KING TUBBY - No Love Version (Source: Leroy Smart, "No Love")
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ARTIST
KING TUBBY
TITLE
Hometown Hi-Fi Dubplate Specials 1975-1979
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
JAMAICAN RECORDINGS
CATALOG #
JRLP 051LP
JRLP 051LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
6/25/2013
2024 repress; LP version.
King Tubby
's Hometown Hi-Fi was one the great sound systems in Jamaica. It also proved a fantastic outlet for the Dub Plate Specials cut at Tubby's studio, providing exclusive cuts to be played out, enticing the dance's audience. The tracks at the time were mainly cut over producer
Bunny "Striker" Lee
rhythms, that Bunny stored at Tubby's studio which was in fact his home, 18 Drumilly Avenue in Kingston, Jamaica. The versions were given exclusive plays at Tubby's before some finding their way on to vinyl, as the B-side version cut to its A-side vocal, proving so popular, that the records were often bought for its version side over its vocal counterpart. King Tubby and Producer Bunny "Striker" Lee are intertwined in the birth of dub music. Tubby's vast knowledge of electronics and Bunny's vast catalog of rhythms would lay the foundations of what today is taken as a standard... the remix/version cuts to an existing vocal tune. Tubby and Striker were at Treasure Isle Studios one day while
Ruddy
from Spanish Town was working with the engineer
Byron Smith
. "Tubby and myself was talking when Ruddy was cutting some dub but Smithy (engineer) made a mistake and forgot to put in the voice. It was a two-track recording in those days. Ruddy said 'No Man! Make it stay!' And so they cut the rhythm. When I went over to Ruddy's that Saturday night a dance was in progress and when they played the vocal to the tune... then he said we're going to play 'Part Two.' They never called it 'Version.' And then he played the rhythm track. The song was a catchy song and everybody started to sing along and the deejay started to toast so everything went down well. On Monday morning I went up and I said 'Tubbs the mistake we made was a serious joke. It mash up Spanish Town!' The people went wild. So you have to start to do that now 'cause when the man put on the 'Part Two' everyone started singing this song. It played about 20 times. I said you try Tubbs!' Well the next Saturday night now when Tubby strung up down the farm U Roy said he's going to play 'Part Two' but Tubby did it different now. He started with the voice then dropped it out and let the rhythm run and then he brought in the voice in the middle and from there Tubby started to get really popular.'' --Bunny "Striker" Lee. Dynamic Sounds upgraded to 16-track recording in 1972 and Tubby purchased, again with the help of a deal brokered by Bunny Lee, the old 4-track equipment and the MCI console from their Studio B. The four tracks now gave him far wider scope to work with and he began to create a new musical form where the bass and drum parts were brought up while the faders allowed Tubby to ease the vocal and rhythm in and out of the mix. Jamaican Recordings has compiled a selection of cuts that were all tried and tested on Tubby's hometown hi-fi sound system and worked a great set of Bunny Lee's rhythms in fine style. All killer no filler.
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