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this website, we often big up Reggae
re-issue labels for their outstanding work.
But there are also labels releasing Reggae
music for decades now and thus have a very
interesting collection in their own
archives.
Trojan is such a label. They've put out a
lot of Box Sets containing some very
interesting material. The DUB Rarities Box
is such a Box Set. Three CD's
literally packed with 50 crucial DUBS mostly
from 1975 to 1978.
Even though Dubwise was allready
established in the mid-1970's, many would
argue that the years predominantly covered
in DUB RARITIES marked a crucial
development. No longer was DUB a
three-letter word usually found on the
B-sides of the 7 inch singles, no longer was
the engineer an unnamed individual behind
the mixing table.
Yes, it's a shame that all these
wonderfull DUB mixes have to be presented as
"Rarities". DUB is one of the
strongest expressions in Reggae Music, and
yet continually underestimated by the
"experts". DUB had, and still has,
a tremendous influence on popular electronic
Dance music. Instruments dropping in and
out, an emphasis on the drum and bass and
all kinds of effects while vocals drop in
and out.
Listen to the music on DUB RARITIES and
you will listen to some of the most advanced
musical arts from the 1970's. You will
listen to skillfull mixes of many riddims of
which only the vocal mix was more or less
known.
Some highlights. You can find DUBs from
Max Romeo's classic "War In A
Babylon", Dillinger's "Flat Foot
Hustling", and Barrington Levy's
"Shine Eye Girl". Just three out
of fifty crucial tunes!
The nice thing about this box is, that
many of the vocal tracks are reasonably
well-known but thusfar had to be popular
without a DUB version. DUBS from these
tracks were indeed, a rarity!
But this is the 21th century. We all know
how there's not a chapter without a version!
And so, DUB RARITIES is a must-have for
every self-respecting collector of Reggae
Music.
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