King Tubby And The Aggrovators [CD] - Shalom Dub King Tubby And The Aggrovators [CD]

Tracklisting 

1. NATTY DUB 

2. LEE’S DUB 

3. WONDER WHY DUB 

4. I’M GONE DUB 

5. COUNTRY BOY DUB 

6. TRUE BELIEVER DUB 

7. CARE FREE DUB 

8. RASTA TRAIN DUB

9. MOVE OUT OF BABYLON DUB 

10. GIVE A LITTLE MAN A GREAT BIG HAND DUB 

11. FEEL SO GOOD DUB 

12. FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE DUB 

13. WHEN WILL I FIND MY WAY DUB 

14. I’M LEAVING DUB 

15. FEEL LOST DUB 

16. DAWN DUB 

17. DON’T CUT OFF YOUR DUB* 

18. A ROUGHER VERSION* 

Tracks 1 - 16 Original 1975 Release *CD Bonus Tracks

“Tubby did three original dub albums, ‘Dub From The Roots’. ‘The Roots of Dub’ and the third is ‘Brass Rockers’ with Tommy McCook ‘pon the flying  cymbals. Where he mixed it with the horn going in and out in a dub way and one  named ‘Shalom Dub’ you can call Tubby’s too because he mixed the versions as they  were off forty fives’’ 

Bunny ‘Striker‘ Lee 

King Tubby and Producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of Dub  Music. After discovering a mistake that made a ‘serious joke’ ( more of which later...)  they went on to release the first pressings of this new musical genre namely ‘Dub  Music’. Tubby’s vast knowledge of electronics and Bunny’s vast catalogue of rhythms  would lay the foundations of what today is taken as a standard... the Remix / Version  cuts to an existing vocal tune. 

Osbourne ‘King Tubby’ Ruddock was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 28th January 1941  and grew up in the High Holborn Street area of downtown Kingston. He studied  electronics at Kingston’s National Technical College and also on two correspondence  courses from the U.S.A... When he had qualified Tubby began repairing radios and  other electrical appliances in a shack in the back yard of his mother’s home. His work  in the early days included winding transformers and building amplifiers for Kingston’s  Sound Systems. Tubby built his first Sound System in 1957 playing jazz and Rhythm  & Blues at local weddings and birthday parties. His reputation as a man who knew  and understood both electronics and music grew steadily and as the sixties drew to a  close. Tubby purchased his own basic two track equipment. He installed this  alongside his dub cutting machine, a home made mixing console and his impressive  collection of Jazz albums in the back bedroom of his home at 18 Dromilly Avenue  which he christened his music room.

Tubby and Striker were at Treasure Isle Studio’s 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 through we were talking and forgot to put in the voice. It  was 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 start singing this song. It played about twenty 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 sixteen track recording in 1972 and Tubby purchased,  again with the help of a deal brokered by Bunny Lee. The old four 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. It was only a matter of time before Tubby’s dub plate  experiments began to make it on to vinyl and the first ever long playing King Tubby  releases would feature a collection of his mixes to a selection of Strikers rhythms. So  please sit back and enjoy this historic set of sounds. Lovingly restored and with a few  extra gems added to the CD Editions. These releases were the first to carry the name  of King Tubby and the first to credit the great musicians that contributed so much to  the rhythms that made these albums possible.