KING TUBBY & THE AGGROVATORS - SHALOM DUB

King Tubby and Producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of Dub Music. Tubby’s vast knowledge of electronics and Bunny’s vast catalogue of rhythms would lay the foundations of what today is taken as a standard - the Remix / Version cuts.

Tubby and Striker were at Treasure Isle Studio’s one day while Ruddy from Spanish Town was working with the engineer Byron Smith....
“Tubby and myself was talking when Ruddy was cutting some dub but Smithy (engineer) made a mistake through we were talking and forgot to put in the voice. It was two track recording in those days. Ruddy said ‘No Man! Make it stay! and so they cut the rhythm. When I went over to Ruddy’s that Saturday night a dance was in progress and when they played the vocal to the tune... then he said we’re going to play ‘Part Two’. They never called it ‘Version’..and then he played the rhythm track. The song was a catchy song and everybody started to sing along and the deejay started to toast so everything went down well. On Monday morning I went up and I said ‘Tubbs the mistake we made was a serious joke. It mash up Spanish Town! The people went wild. So you have to start to do that now ‘cause when the man put on the ‘Part Two’ everyone start singing this song. It played about twenty times. I said you try Tubbs!’...Well the next Saturday night now when Tubby strung up down the farm U Roy said he’s going to play ‘Part Two’ but Tubby did it different now. He started with the voice then dropped it out and let the rhythm run and then he brought in the voice in the middle and from there Tubby started to get really popular.’’

It was only a matter of time before Tubby’s dub plate experiments began to make it on to vinyl and the first ever long playing King Tubby releases would feature a collection of his mixes to a selection of Strikers rhythms. So please sit back and enjoy this historic set  of sounds. These releases were the first to carry the name of King Tubby and the first to credit the great musicians that contributed so much to the rhythms that made these albums possible.

Tracklist:
1. NATTY DUB
2. LEE’S DUB
3. WONDER WHY DUB
4. I’M GONE DUB
5. COUNTRY BOY DUB
6. TRUE BELIEVER DUB
7. CARE FREE DUB
8. RASTA TRAIN DUB9. MOVE OUT OF BABYLON DUB
10. GIVE A LITTLE MAN A GREAT BIG HAND DUB
11. FEEL SO GOOD DUB
12. FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE DUB
13. WHEN WILL I FIND MY WAY DUB
14. I’M LEAVING DUB
15. FEEL LOST DUB
16. DAWN DUB