11/16/10

Dub Specialist : A Studio One Dub Compilation

This is a set of classic studio one instrumental-dub tracks that warps you through time back to the beginning of the roots dub movement.  You can easily keep this in rotation with your best albums.  This is a great disc to listen to straight through and that should really help you get the best feel for these great examples of some dub all-stars and pioneers classic cuts.  You can find solid dub tracks for several roots greats like: Cornell Campbell, The Heptones, Delroy Wilson,  Jackie Mittoo, Horace Andy, and a few others.  There are 17 tracks total on this 1995 release from Heartbeat - It's presented as an album by C.S. Dodd representing Studio One, but with the great line-up it has more of a compilation feel.  The best couple tracks on this one are: #2 (Dubbing Lecturer - The Soul Agents), #6 (Banana Walk), and #7 (Lost in Dub - The Heptones).  This is mostly very early seventies and late sixties classic roots dub, so if you're in to more heavy solid roots dub, this might not be the album for you.