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king tubby - dub from the roots - clocktower records inc - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Reggae / Dub

1. Dub From The Roots
2. Iyatha
3. Mine Field
4. Hijack The Barber
5. African Roots
6. Double Cross
7. East Of (Arrows Hi-Fi)
8. Invasion
9. Dub Of A Woman
10. Dub On My Mind
11. Steeling
12. Dub Experience
13. Declaration Of Dub
14. A Truthful Dub

There are very few individuals who command the respect of dub aficionados greater than “The Dubmaster” himself, King Tubby. On Tubby’s venerable 1974 release “Dub from the Roots”, he introduces us to the “Shalom Dub”, a method of mixing flying cymbals with horns in what he describes as “going in and out in a dub way”. Check!

Borrowing from the forty fives of Johnny Clarke, Jackie Edwards, Cornell Campbell, John Holt, and
Horace Andy, King Tubby takes the listener on a journey through a vast array of different emotions,
rhythms and soundscapes. One of the standout cuts, “Iyahta” explores Tubby’s use of deep electric
basslines to evoke a melodic calmness in the listener, while “Mine Field” and “Hijack The Barber” bring
you back with the cavernous echoes of stabbing guitars, horns, and cymbals.
Though previously released by different labels on a variety of dusty pressings and formats, Clocktower’s
reissue of Dub From The Roots is the definitive edition of this “Dubmaster” classic, featuring audio
mastered from the original analog tapes.