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Just recently came back from my girls home island of Mauritius where they have their own special brand of local music similar to Dub and Reggae called Sega and a dub version called Seggae ... bought allot of jams over there and taped allot of the classical and contemporary Indian music which mixes with the creole language into Sega and Segae. All this got me back into my Dub roots collections and the early PIL and Jah Wobble stuff that later drifts into Bill Laswell, Adrian Sherwood and Creation Rebel, Dub Syndicate and the like. So in going back further been listening to allot of Black Ark stuff tonight Lee Scratch Perry et al.

 

Anybody else into heavy mind altering dub? My faves are as mentioned but more or less ...

 

King Tubby

Lee Perry

Rasta Far I

Creation Rebel

Dub Syndicate

Scientist

PIL

Jah Wobble

Style Scott

 

Some other great comps are X-ray Dub and DubMission - I also get a big kick out of early Grace Jones Island Life period also - what a {censored}in band!

 

So dubbers and toasters, what's your taste cause it is bless!

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No, no!

Don't hold our ignorance against us (well, i guess you should hold it against a couple {censored} heads...)

I don't know doo-da about dub but i'd love to learn about it. Please enlighten us! And thanks for doing so.:cool:

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Originally posted by TIKIROCKER

Ahhh what do you expect from pigs but a grunt ...
:idea:



sorry. it just never captured my imagination. even when it pops up as an influence in bands i dig like PIL and bauhaus i just kinda tolerate it.
if you wanna start a thread on early reggae or 60's ska, however, then i'm your man. :thu:

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Originally posted by Blungo

No, no!


Please enlighten us! And thanks for doing so.
:cool:



Well check any of the influences mentioned in my above list as places to start - it was Don Letts who was a DJ at the 100 Club in London during the 70's that used to play Dub reggae as the default music to the Punk scene ( I hate using the word Punk though ) ... it formed the backbone and influence for so much that came later including drum & bass and trip hop.

There are no specific sites I can think of but check out ONU Sound and Adrian Sherwood as well as Lee Perry and other influences above and just do a google search and go from there. Check albums by the above artists also at Amazon to get an idea too. :cool:

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Originally posted by GuyaGuy



If you wanna start a thread on early reggae or 60's ska, however, then i'm your man.
:thu:



This is the same thread ... dub is just the B-side extended mix of standard Reggae and Ska --- I'm amazed you dig one but not the other though I must admit I'm less interested in straight Reggae than I am Dub Reggae. Why don't you just jump in with you faves and why etc.

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Originally posted by DaSkip

Hey Tiki,


Give me a link where I can sample some of this stuff.


:)



Hey man,

Check this link as it's the ONU SOUND catalogue for Creation Rebel ... people like Jah Wobble and Keith Levine from PIL played on many of these early recordings along side West Indian and Jamaican musicians in the late 70's and early 80's ... there was a big cultural overlap between the Punk scene and the London Reggae and Dub scene.

http://www.skysaw.org/onu/discography/creationrebeldiscog.html#cr-onulp8

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Originally posted by TIKIROCKER



This is the same thread ... dub is just the B-side extended mix of standard Reggae and Ska --- I'm amazed you dig one but not the other though I must admit I'm less interested in straight Reggae than I am Dub Reggae. Why don't you just jump in with you faves and why etc.

 

you'd think i'd be MORE into dub than trad reggae since it's kinda spacey, which i usually like in music (Floyd, Spiritualized, Radiohead). but dub usually involves extended sections of music without melodic development that just become a bit tiresome for me. but i guess a lot of people would say the same thing about some Spiritualized so there you go.

 

i guess mostly it's that the first jamaican music i got into was 60's ska: Skatalites, early Maytals, Desmond Dekker, et al. so in the back of my head dub is always like a bastardization of that. or something.

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Originally posted by bucky

I have the Trojan Dub Massive collection. I love it, I could listen to it all day. Bill Laswell is the man. I'll have to check out those artists you mentioned above.



Sweeeet man, yeah ... Laswell is THE MAN! But yeah definately check out Adrian Sherwood and particularly the first few Creation Rebel and Dub Syndicate albums and work your way into stuff from there! :cool:

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when the thompson twins and babble broke up, tom bailey went and started djing and doing dub again (old old TT has a lot of dub influence). thyre called int'l observer and they won alot of awards and played with all the greats.

international observer, check them out!

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Yeah I love the dub. Scientist and the late great King Tubby especially. Not a lot of interest here due to the lack of weedely-weedely guitar.
I've done my own version, messing about with delay and reverb units and the faders... this was a few years back. Analog!
The Dub process lends itself to the old school tools: tape, actual physical sliders on a board, outboard effects units. Done on the fly.
Nowadays recording is done digitally- no real faders, everything done in the computer, hence premeditated. Would be interested to hear from anyone making dub digitally, particularly using Logic or Protools. I guess you have to plan it out first...

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Originally posted by slideroni

Yeah I love the dub. Scientist and the late great King Tubby especially. Not a lot of interest here due to the lack of weedely-weedely guitar.

I've done my own version, messing about with delay and reverb units and the faders... this was a few years back. Analog!

The Dub process lends itself to the old school tools: tape, actual physical sliders on a board, outboard effects units. Done on the fly.

Nowadays recording is done digitally- no real faders, everything done in the computer, hence premeditated. Would be interested to hear from anyone making dub digitally, particularly using Logic or Protools. I guess you have to plan it out first...

 

 

I've done dub recording tracks to a Digital hard disk recorder ... it's all outboard though but it sounded the {censored}! I've long been a bass player just as much a guitarist and love playing bass patterns and then adding layers of tape echo with voice and drums tracks ... it's easily workable but ya have to have a feel for it when doing it. If you like Scientist you should really check out Adrian Sherwood and Creation Rebel/Dub Syndicate ... damn I have some great dub tunes I've recorded in the past but can't make them MP3 at the moment.

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Mighty jah-jah's big bad bass and echo-dek abuse has a vice grip on Wellington, NZ. Honestly, you can't move for dub in this town.... and apparently NZ buys the most dub and reggae percapita than any ther country aside from Jamaica.


As for me? I dig King Tubby, PiL, Lee Perry, Sizzla, Capleton, Augustus Pablo, and lots of other cats.

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