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01. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Foggy Pablo
02. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Best Dub
03. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Maka
04. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Barbwire Dub
05. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Musical Pablo
06. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Minstral Dub
07. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Desire Dub
08. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Rough Pablo
09. AUGUSTUS PABLO - House Is Not A Dub
10. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Put It On Dub
11. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Blind Dub
12. AUGUSTUS PABLO - No Jestering Pablo
13. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Ride Me Dub
14. AUGUSTUS PABLO - Every Dub I Own
ARTIST
TITLE
Augustus Pablo At King Tubbys
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RR 303CD RR 303CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/10/2017

Radiation Roots present a reissue of Augustus Pablo's Augustus Pablo At King Tubbys, originally released in 2005. The visionary musician and record producer Augustus Pablo made some of the most unique and individual recordings in the history of reggae. As with his friend and mentor, Jackie Mittoo, the man born Horace Swaby was of mixed Indian and African heritage, and although his middle-class background might have pointed him in a very different direction, the lure of Jamaica's sound system culture captured him at a young age, particularly after debilitating health problems saw him drop out of school. He began recording as a session keyboardist as the '60s gave way to the '70s, but everything changed when a school-friend introduced him to the melodica, a small plastic keyboard operated by a mouthpiece, which he used on seminal recordings for producer Herman Chin-Loy, credited to Augustus Pablo on the release. During the early 1970s, Pablo crafted melodica instrumentals for all of the leading reggae producers, scoring "best instrumental" for "Java" in 1973, and launching the Rockers label to showcase self-produced work at the same time. This multi-faceted compilation, first issued on Bunny Lee's Attack label in 2005, compiles memorable melodica interpretations of some of Lee's greatest productions, recorded over dub cuts of immortal numbers such as Cornell Campbell's "Queen Of The Minstrel" and John Holt's "My Desire".