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2005
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Dr. Auratheft - King Tubby's Home Town HiFi Sound System
Inna rubbadub style!
No tracklist for this one, sorry. I can't work it out by myself, and finding one has proven impossible. BUT, there is some KILLA DUB inside dis one.
Dr Auratheft - King Tubby's Home Town HiFi Sound System
BIG UPS:
King Tubby is the dude who really started the dub movement. Or genre. Both, really. I told my buddy Andrew that it was The Scientist, but this is blatantly false. It turns out that King Tubby literaly taught The Scientist everything he knows while The Scientist was King Tubby's protégé. King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry are the ones who vie for the title of inventor of "modern dub". It seems as if reggae studios had been playing with reverb for a long time, but one of those two characters switched the focus from the musicians (lousy unionized lazy break-takers) and put it squarely on the equipment, specifically the reverb. King Tubby also had a massive mobile sound system. So thats the deal.
This here mix is mostly King Tubby tracks, from what I can glean. Its hard to argue with this guy. And if you are, ya haffi smoke anodda spleef, ya 'eard meh?
Its notoriously hard to mix dub, but Dr. Auratheft does a pretty good job. There are some glaring "stop track 1, start track 2" moments, but the tracks are laid back enough that the flow is barely affected.
There is also a wide variety of feels on this mix. A lot of dub "feels" the same, if you know what I mean. Especially with more modern artists, such as The Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem , there seems to be a homogeneity which makes it hard to listen to an album from beginning to end. This mix has energetic dub, danceable dub, slowed down dub, beatless dub... All of it. Its nice.
CERTAIN APOLOGIES:
I love me some rastas, and there aren't enough for me in this mix. This is EARLY dub, though, where the emphasis was on the instrumental. In fact, the point of early dub was to remove the vocals. So its entirely understandable. Still, certain apologies have to be made!
glory be to: breaksblog
