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tappa zukie - m.p.l.a sessions lp - jamaican recordings - vinyl

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Genre: Reggae / Dub

1. Pick Up The Rockers
2. Pick Up The Rockers (dub)
3. MPLA
4. MPLA (dub)
5. Go De Natty
6. Go De Natty (dub)
7. Marcus
8. Marcus (dub)
9. Chalice To Chalice
10. Chalice To Chalice (dub)
11. Don't Deal With Babylon
12. Don't Deal With Babylon (dub)

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2013 RSD release. The great M.P.L.A. (KSCD 042CD/LP) album got its first release in 1976, the same year that also saw the release of Tapper Zukie in Dub.

A misconception is that the M.P.L.A. album is the vocal version of the dub album. But on closer inspection, you can see that only five of the rhythms correspond to both sets and new rhythms were added to make the In Dub set. The reasons were firstly to make it different from the M.P.L.A. album and secondly, other rhythms were chosen at the time to enhance the dub set.

For the first time, Jamaican Recordings has put the vocal version alongside its dub counterpart to get a feeling of how they would have worked together in that context. M.P.L.A. Sessions pulls together the corresponding vocal cuts from the M.P.L.A. album and the dub versions found on the In Dub set to add a little something nice to the dance