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Dubwise Experience? Wrong! Eight Dubwise
Experiences as I would say. Mixed by the
hands of Paul "groucho" Smykle,
the same who mixed the legendary DUB FACTOR
(Black Uhuru) and the arguably even more
legendary Ini Kamoze mini LP back in the
1980's, this album belongs in my personal
all time top ten of favorite Dub Albums. The
music on the album, needless to say actually
when it's Sly and Robbie, is super tight!
1983. Digital Devices were not so common as
today, and people were complaining about
what they called a plastic sound. It's in
this time, that Paul Smykle mixes some of
the weirdest dubs with the use of these
so-called plastic devices, at such a high
level of skill, that many of today's DUB
producers can only dream of making dub mixes
like the ones presented on this CD. Without
apology. Decennia later, this album is still
ahead of it's time!
DUB is de-constructing and remixing
reggae tunes. Smykle does that to the
extreme, in this dubwise attack to your
brain! Many wouldn't recognize the original
even when they hear it. Most of the original
tracks for this album, by the way, are
pretty hard to get and have been topic of
discussion in the reggae newsgroup
REC.MUSIC.REGGAE for a long time. Very
special is "Danger Zone", sung by
the legendary Errol Flabba Holt, super
bassist from the Roots Radics in their
Channel One period.
If you like dub, if you like Sly and
Robbie, if you like a bargain, than this is
an absolute must in your collection. And
because it's a mid-price album, you have no
excuse!
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