Meets Rockers Uptown

Meets Rockers Uptown

Track Listings

1. Keep on Dubbing

2. Stop Them Jah

3. Young Generation Dub

4. Each One Dub

5. 555 Dub Street

6. Braces Tower Dub

7. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown

8. Corner Crew Dub

9. Say So

10. Skanking Dub

11. Frozen Dub

12. Satta Dub

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King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown Deluxe Edition
Average customer rating:

dubbinoff

Amazon.com info by Christina Roden is misinformed

This Is Where It All Started!!!

Are these people kidding?!?!?!?!?!!

Essential

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown Deluxe Edition
Augustus Pablo , and King Tubby
Manufacturer: Shanachie
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-01-20

Tracks:

Keep On Dubbing
Stop them Jah
Young Generation Dub
Each One Dub
555 Dub St.
Brace's Tower Dub
King Tubby Meets rockers Uptown
Brace's Tower Dub No. 2
Corner Crew Dub
Skanking Dub
Frozen Dub
Satta Dub
Black Gunn
1 Ruthland Close
1-2-3 Version
Silent Satta

Amazon.com

During the early '70s, a maverick Jamaican producer known as King Tubby (aka Osbourne Ruddock -- he was born in Kingston in 1941) embarked upon a series of pivotal recordings, ultimately creating a reggae offshoot called dub. First, he pared his forces down to a drum kit and bass and slowed the tempo until a bottom-heavy, primal heartbeat emerged. Over this framework, spare vocal and instrumental riffs emerged from layers of echoing reverb and artful distortion, erecting atmospheric soundscapes bound for infinity. This classic album is a primer for how Tubby could harness raw rhythmic power through his subtle, imaginative grasp of texture and dynamics. A potent rhythm team, including Robbie Shakespeare (one half of the famed Sly & Robbie combo) on bass, Earl "Chinna" Smith on guitar, and a rough-and-ready brass section, surrounds the organ-piano and clavinet (mouth-blown keyboard clarinet) of Augustus Pablo with hip, stylish Kingstonian street-bred attitude. --Christina Roden

Customer Reviews:

dubbinoff.......2006-08-09

its nice to read so much love to dub,
and one thing i remember reading this great
and true stuff here was like there's no other dub specialist
than pablo and tubby, hey wattabout Scientists?
hey, they're G R E A T..2

Amazon.com info by Christina Roden is misinformed.......2006-01-23

I am just adding to the voices disgusted by Christina Roden's writing on King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown, which Amazon.com used for their official review. Her so-called review is an insult to the music and its makers, besides not making sense.

For the record, Augustus Pablo plays mainly the melodica, which is an instrument played by blowing through while manipulating a small keyboard that is part of the instrument. Pablo also played various keyboards, including the clavinet. And no one "slowed" the music down to make dub. Dub is simply re-mixed reggae with the vocals all or mostly removed.

I could go on correcting Roden's misinformation, but you get the idea. Ignore Roden and read the other volunteer reviewers for additional proper info.

This Is Where It All Started!!!.......2005-11-12

Those who like hip hop, techno, or any other musical development of the last quarter century would do well to acquaint themselves with this masterpiece. This is where remixing began and no one has done it better than King Tubby in the ensuing years. Able to reduce a song down to its core elements and still make it utterly mesmerizing, Tubby paved the way for virtually all modern music. This is an album to play at maximum volume, while the bass and the groove wash over you with that perfect riddim. You can't call yourself a connoisseur of music without getting inside this rhythmic beast.

Are these people kidding?!?!?!?!?!!.......2005-03-23

Clavinet, flute?!?!?!?!? Augustus Pablo plays the Melodica people! And to say the album has "no names" on it! Maybe no names as far as pop music is concerned. Pablo and King Tubby are 2 of the most influential Reggae\Dub artists dead or alive!!!!! Comparing them to Bob Marley is equally as ignorant! Please review only items you have half a clue about!!! Thanks

Essential.......2004-12-13

I don't know what this reviewer is talking about "...also known as Glen Adams Upsetters keyboard player...". King Tubby is Osbourne Ruddock ONE of the originators of the style weh call 'rub-a-dub' alongside Lee "Scratch" Perry and another lesser known producer whose name evades me. For real the reviewer don't know what the bumclat she is talking about! very pretentious to think she can talk some bull-isht and get away with it! Augustus Pablo plays the melodica primarily, which is a children's instrument, a small keyboard which has a baffle and a mouthpiece to generate the tones. Clavinet is a floorstanding keyboard instrument which generates sounds similar to an electric guitar, and on some Jazz fusion records occupies the space of an electric guitar i.e. Herbie Hancock "Headhunters".
Christina Roden, you suck. Amazon.com please remove this dubious and inacurate review please!

To further clarify, the riddims herein are written and arranged by Pablo, voiced by various vocalists, notably Jacob Miller whose "Baby I love you so" is the foundation of the title track, and "Keep on Knockin" here in dub as "Keep On Dubbing". So these are dub versions of those tunes with many featuring Pablo blowing on top, therefor putting them in a 'Horn version' or specifically 'Melodica version' context. Semantics.

Anyway, King Tubby meets rockers is absolutely essential and needs no introduction, as it is maybe the most well known 'Dub' albums of all time. This newly issued CD looks great with the added tracks and hopefully correct tracking as previous reissues of this album had incorrect sequencing. You should buy this. Tubbs is eternally the master at the controls, Pablo is the heaviest producer next to Vivain Jackson, and his meditations onn the Melodica are trancendant.

Average customer rating:

classic dub
Great, but the Deluxe version is better
Dub Evolution
Essential dub
Balance...

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
Augustus Pablo , and King Tubby
Manufacturer: Shanachie
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Keep On Dubbing
Stop Them Jah
Young Generation Dub
Each One Dub
555 Dub Street
Brace's Tower Dub
Brace's Tower Dub No 2
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Corner Crew Dub
Skanking Dub
Frozen Dub
Satta Dub

Amazon.com

During the early 1970s, a maverick Jamaican producer known as King Tubby (aka Osbourne Ruddock--he was born in Kingston in 1941) embarked upon a series of pivotal recordings, ultimately creating a reggae offshoot called dub. First, he pared his forces down to a drum kit and bass and slowed the tempo until a bottom-heavy, primal heartbeat emerged. Over this framework, spare vocal and instrumental riffs emerged from layers of echoing reverb and artful distortion, erecting atmospheric soundscapes bound for infinity. This classic album is a primer for how Tubby could harness raw rhythmic power through his subtle, imaginative grasp of texture and dynamics. A potent rhythm team, including Robbie Shakespeare (one half of the famed Sly & Robbie combo) on bass, Earl "Chinna" Smith on guitar, and a rough-and-ready brass section, surrounds the organ-piano and clavinet (mouth-blown keyboard clarinet) of Augustus Pablo with hip, stylish Kingstonian street-bred attitude. --Christina Roden

Customer Reviews:

classic dub.......2004-11-20

This is a reggae/dub album wich i heard first in 1986. It still is one of my favourites. pablo inna tough style. escpeccialy the use of what seems to be a metal bedbottom as percussion is wicked. the later stuff he produced are less beatifull than this or his el rockers album which contains also a lot of classics. it's a pitty that he died. Check North of the River Thames on On=U sound by Doctor pablo, also goos melodica dubs.

Great, but the Deluxe version is better.......2004-06-18

I have the deluxe version, which has four more tracks. These four tracks include two of my personal favourites. Since most places (including amazon) offer the deluxe and regular versions of the album for the same price, why not get the extra four tracks? If you want my rating on this version as it stands it would be a five star rating for sure, but I gave it four because there really isnt a reason not to buy the deluxe version instead.

Dub Evolution.......2004-02-29

Think King Tubby should be credited more on this CD; credits were not clear to me; but that is no big drawback, this is 5 star; "This is Augustus Pablo" though, is probably a safer bet, better release however.

Augustus Pablos instrument, the melodica; is sort of like a piano and flute combined, bring up, what some might call a middle eastern sound: One won't be dissapointed; on the straight and narrow path, songs with lyrics, known names, Bob Marley, etc. is a safer bet; but apparently, this disc has historical significance and Augustus is a splendid artist with his flute. It might make one think, of the pyramids and palm trees, Robbie Shakespeare and others appear on this disc.

If you are in the mood for lyricless reggae, a legend, dub evolution, try this.

A lot more reviews here, I moved my review from the deluxe edition over here as well.

Essential dub.......2004-01-07

You can't find a better pairing...King Tubby at the boards and the Rockers supplying the riddims. Music wouldn't be the same without the sounds found in this album.

Balance..........2003-12-07

An essential dub/reggae album...period! Five stars to balance out the other reviewers who gave this AMAZING album a weak rating.

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Full title, 'Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown'. UK release compiled by DJ Don Letts offers up the soundtrack to London's legendary Roxy Club - December '76 to April '77, where the Pistols, Clash & Banshees would chill out while Letts played a selection of tunes from his vast collection of reggae & dub 7 inches. 16 tracks including, King Tubby 'Bag A Wire Dub', Big Youth 'Marcus Garvey', Tappa Zukie 'M.P.L.A. Dub', Jah Stitch 'Black Harmony Killer', The Congos 'Fisherman', U-Roy 'Wear You To The Ball' & many more. 2001.

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Selected by DJ Don Letts, this Compilation features Dub and Reggae Songs that were Once the Soundtrack to London's Legendary Roxy Club in 1977.

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11 hip reggae jams.

Meets Rockers Uptown
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Tracks:

Keep on Dubbing
Stop Them Jah
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King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
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Say So
Skanking Dub
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Customer Reviews:

11 hip reggae jams........2004-11-03

Keep On Dubbing
Stop Them Jah
Young Generation Dub
Each One Dub
555 Dub Street
Braces Tower Dub
King Tubby Meets Rocker Uptown
Corner Crew Dub
Say So
Skanking Dub
Frozen Dub

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ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0000DEOH6
Release Date: 2001-03-13