Chapter Four
“Jus’ Like a Volcano in Yuh Head!”
King Tubby, Philip Smart, Prince Jammy, Scientist
The Waterhouse lineage. King Tubby’s four-track room and the engineers who came up in it, from the first drop-out mixes to Scientist’s arcade-cover era.
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Songs & tracks
Every song the chapter names, in the order the text names them, each with the sentence that introduces it, set as printed.
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Just A Dream
Slim Smith
Some Slim Smith tunes like ‘Just A Dream’ was mixed there.
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A Heavy Dub
King Tubby
On “A Heavy Dub” (his remix of Delroy Wilson’s “Just Say Who”), the intermittent fist-attacks jar the listener violently out of the soothing, aquatic textures of Wilson’s lover’s mood.
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Just Say Who
Delroy Wilson
On “A Heavy Dub” (his remix of Delroy Wilson’s “Just Say Who”), the intermittent fist-attacks jar the listener violently out of the soothing, aquatic textures of Wilson’s lover’s mood.
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Marcus Dub
King Tubby
The technique was especially effective when applied to songs with a political or apocalyptic theme, such as “Marcus Dub” (a remix of Johnny Clarke’s “Them Never Love Poor Marcus”).
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Them Never Love Poor Marcus
Johnny Clarke
The technique was especially effective when applied to songs with a political or apocalyptic theme, such as “Marcus Dub” (a remix of Johnny Clarke’s “Them Never Love Poor Marcus”).
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Silver Words
Ken Boothe
Ken Boothe: “Silver Words” > King Tubby: “Silver Bullet”
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Silver Bullet
King Tubby
Ken Boothe: “Silver Words” > King Tubby: “Silver Bullet” “Silver Bullet” is King Tubby’s remix of Ken Boothe’s 1975 song “Silver Words” and is typical of his early mixes, amounting to an atmospheric excursion of drum & bass with dropouts, track bleed-through, mild filtering, and echo providing compositional interest.
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This Is The Hardest Version
King Tubby
Johnny Clarke: “Enter His Gates With Praise” > King Tubby: “This Is The Hardest Version” / Dennis Brown: “Live After You” > King Tubby: “Dubbing With The Observer”
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Live After You
Dennis Brown
Johnny Clarke: “Enter His Gates With Praise” > King Tubby: “This Is The Hardest Version” / Dennis Brown: “Live After You” > King Tubby: “Dubbing With The Observer”
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Dubbing With The Observer
King Tubby
Johnny Clarke: “Enter His Gates With Praise” > King Tubby: “This Is The Hardest Version” / Dennis Brown: “Live After You” > King Tubby: “Dubbing With The Observer”
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Enter Into His Gates With Praise
Johnny Clarke
“This is the Hardest Version” is King Tubby’s remix of Johnny Clarke’s “Enter Into His Gates With Praise,” a rhythm track heavily reliant on the flying cymbal sound.
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Death Trap
Tommy McCook
Tommy McCook: “Death Trap” > King Tubby: “Living Style”
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Living Style
King Tubby
Tommy McCook: “Death Trap” > King Tubby: “Living Style”
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Sniper
Jackie Mittoo
Jackie Mittoo: “Sniper” > King Tubby: “Dub Fi Gwan”
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Dub Fi Gwan
King Tubby
Jackie Mittoo: “Sniper” > King Tubby: “Dub Fi Gwan”
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Totally Together
Jackie Mittoo
Mittoo had recorded an original version years earlier as “Totally Together” for Studio One, reworking the groove of Santana’s “Evil Ways” into a minor-key organ vamp.
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Fire Fire
Vivian Jackson (Yabby You) & The Prophets
(a.k.a. “Fire Inna Kingston”)Vivian Jackson (Yabby You) & The Prophets: “Fire Fire” (A.K.A. “Fire Inna Kingston”) > King Tubby: “Fire Fire Dub”
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Fire Fire Dub
King Tubby
Vivian Jackson (Yabby You) & The Prophets: “Fire Fire” (A.K.A. “Fire Inna Kingston”) > King Tubby: “Fire Fire Dub” As mentioned earlier, the effect produced by delay units is primarily rhythmic in the sense that it is a timed replay of an audio signal that results in the characteristic “echo” effect.
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Baby I Love You So
Jacob Miller
Jacob Miller: “Baby I Love You So” > King Tubby: “King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown”
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King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown
King Tubby
Jacob Miller: “Baby I Love You So” > King Tubby: “King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown”
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Look Within Yourself
Tetrack
One reason for its popularity was Pablo’s dynamic backing rhythm, built from an insistent, eighth-note bass pattern anchoring a I minor–IV minor chord sequence very similar in structure to some of Pablo’s other riddims such as the one used for Tetrack’s “Look Within Yourself.” “Rockers Uptown” is in fact one of Pablo’s most celebrated riddims, and has remained one of the most venerated riddims of the roots era.
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Jah Jah Dub
Augustus Pablo
The riddim itself had a history dating to the earliest days of dub music in 1971 when it first surfaced on Herman Chin-Loy’s Aquarius Dub collection (as “Jah Jah Dub”), credited to Pablo.
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Black Force
Norris Reid
Pablo had subsequently cut other versions on the riddim, including Norris Reid’s “Black Force” vocal and his own melodica instrumental “Cassava Piece.”
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Cassava Piece
Augustus Pablo
Pablo had subsequently cut other versions on the riddim, including Norris Reid’s “Black Force” vocal and his own melodica instrumental “Cassava Piece.”
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None Shall Escape the Judgement
Johnny Clarke
Smart recalls that it was his mix of Johnny Clarke’s “None Shall Escape the Judgement” which established him as a credible engineer in the eyes of many, including Bunny Lee: “When [Lee] was working on “None Shall Escape The Judgement,” I voiced Johnny [Clarke] on the riddim.
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Jah Jah In De Dub
Philip Smart
A good point of comparison between the two engineers is Smart’s “Jah Jah in De Dub,” a 1976 remix of Johnny Clarke’s “Enter Into His Gates With Praise,” which King Tubby had previously remixed into “This is the Hardest Version” (discussed earlier in this chapter).
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Bosrah
Prince Alla
Prince Alla: “Bosrah” > Prince Philip Smart: “Tapper Zukie in Dub”
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Tapper Zukie In Dub
Prince Philip Smart
Prince Alla: “Bosrah” > Prince Philip Smart: “Tapper Zukie in Dub” In 1976, Smart remixed a batch of tracks for producer Tappa Zukie that were collectively released as Tappa Zukie in Dub.
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Sun Is Shining
Ronnie Davis
Ronnie Davis: “Sun Is Shining” > Prince Jammy: “Jammy’s A Shine”
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Jammy’s A Shine
Prince Jammy
Ronnie Davis: “Sun Is Shining” > Prince Jammy: “Jammy’s A Shine” “That is the best mix I ever did!
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Government Land
Horace Andy
Horace Andy: “Government Land” > Prince Jammy: “Government Dub”
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Government Dub
Prince Jammy
Horace Andy: “Government Land” > Prince Jammy: “Government Dub”
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Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker
Prince Jammy
Prince Jammy: “Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker”
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Oh, Mr. D.C.
Sugar Minott
Scientist also mentions productions such as Sugar Minott’s “Oh, Mr. D.C.” as representative examples of his engineering at this time.
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Rub-A-Dub Style
Michigan and Smiley
Other tracks such as Michigan and Smiley’s “Rub-A-Dub Style” were actually engineered by Scientist, and clearly reflect his efforts to record with more microphones and to utilize equalization.
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See A Man Face
Peter Ranking
A later version of “See A Man Face” recorded by Peter Ranking for Don Mais’s Roots Tradition label around 1980 finds the drumming pattern reversed in a manner more typical of American popular music, a style of drumming some refer to as “rockers.”
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Bandits Taking Over
Wailing Souls
Wailing Souls: “Bandits Taking Over” > Scientist: “The Corpse Rises” / Peter Ranking: “See A Man Face” > Scientist: “See A Dub Face” / Sammy Dread: “Follow Fashion” / Scientist: “De-Materialize”
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The Corpse Rises
Scientist
Wailing Souls: “Bandits Taking Over” > Scientist: “The Corpse Rises” / Peter Ranking: “See A Man Face” > Scientist: “See A Dub Face” / Sammy Dread: “Follow Fashion” / Scientist: “De-Materialize”
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See A Dub Face
Scientist
Wailing Souls: “Bandits Taking Over” > Scientist: “The Corpse Rises” / Peter Ranking: “See A Man Face” > Scientist: “See A Dub Face” / Sammy Dread: “Follow Fashion” / Scientist: “De-Materialize”
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Follow Fashion
Sammy Dread
Wailing Souls: “Bandits Taking Over” > Scientist: “The Corpse Rises” / Peter Ranking: “See A Man Face” > Scientist: “See A Dub Face” / Sammy Dread: “Follow Fashion” / Scientist: “De-Materialize”
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De-Materialize
Scientist
Wailing Souls: “Bandits Taking Over” > Scientist: “The Corpse Rises” / Peter Ranking: “See A Man Face” > Scientist: “See A Dub Face” / Sammy Dread: “Follow Fashion” / Scientist: “De-Materialize” As might be expected, Scientist’s early work (featured on albums such as the Bunny Lee–produced Scientific Dub [1980]) sounded fairly similar to that of his predecessors at King Tubby’s. It was with the heavy riddims of Roots Radics as his foundation, that he found his sound and became the remix engineer of choice in the early dancehall era.
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Jah Help the People
Freddie McGregor
A dub remix of Freddie McGregor’s “Jah Help the People” finds Scientist fashioning a unique variant of the instrument’s sound by combining it with the rhythm guitar and routing both through the delay unit in a way that blended and accented their respective metallic sonorities.
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Sufferer’s Time
The Heptones
Chords that had previously sounded like collections of individual pitches now sounded like hardened metallic chunks (Lee Perry had achieved a similar effect on songs such as the Heptones’ 1976 “Sufferer’s Time”).
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Albums, compilations & series
Albums, compilations and series, again in the order the chapter names them.
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The Roots of Dub
King Tubby
The most representative collections of Bunny Lee–produced tracks featuring flying cymbal drumming and creative use of the high-pass filter would include those released under Tubby’s name (such as The Roots of Dub and Dub From the Roots) as well as material credited to Johnny Clarke and Tubby’s mixes of material produced by Winston “Niney the Observer” Holness.
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Dub From the Roots
King Tubby
The most representative collections of Bunny Lee–produced tracks featuring flying cymbal drumming and creative use of the high-pass filter would include those released under Tubby’s name (such as The Roots of Dub and Dub From the Roots) as well as material credited to Johnny Clarke and Tubby’s mixes of material produced by Winston “Niney the Observer” Holness.
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Keyboard King
Jackie Mittoo
We do an album named Keyboard King, that’s the album that brought back Jackie.
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King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown
Augustus Pablo
The 1977 release of King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown (a compilation of tracks produced by Augustus Pablo and remixed by Tubby) represented a high point in the development of dub, providing one of the enduring album-length classics of the genre.
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Aquarius Dub
Herman Chin-Loy
The riddim itself had a history dating to the earliest days of dub music in 1971 when it first surfaced on Herman Chin-Loy’s Aquarius Dub collection (as “Jah Jah Dub”), credited to Pablo.
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Rasta Dub '76
Bunny Lee (prod.)
In addition to numerous single B-sides, Smart is credited with mixing Bunny Lee’s Rasta Dub ’ compilation, DJ/producer Tappa Zukie’s Tappa Zukie in Dub LP, and portions of Brad Osbourne’s Macka Dub collection.
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Tappa Zukie in Dub
Tappa Zukie
In addition to numerous single B-sides, Smart is credited with mixing Bunny Lee’s Rasta Dub ’ compilation, DJ/producer Tappa Zukie’s Tappa Zukie in Dub LP, and portions of Brad Osbourne’s Macka Dub collection.
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Macka Dub
Brad Osbourne (prod.)
In addition to numerous single B-sides, Smart is credited with mixing Bunny Lee’s Rasta Dub ’ compilation, DJ/producer Tappa Zukie’s Tappa Zukie in Dub LP, and portions of Brad Osbourne’s Macka Dub collection.
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Creation of Dub
King Tubby / Philip Smart (Bunny Lee prod.)
He also claims the seminal Creation of Dub, an excellent and very influential LP that had been widely attributed to King Tubby.
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Kaya Dub
Prince Jammy
As might be expected, Jammy’s early dub mixes (collected on albums such as Kaya Dub) sound fairly close to King Tubby in style.
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Jammy’s in Lion Dub Style
Prince Jammy
In addition to selling strongly on the local Jamaican market as B-sides, his mixes were also compiled onto albums aimed at the European market, such as Jammy’s in Lion Dub Style, Kamikaze Dub, Slum in Dub, and Uhuru in Dub.
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Kamikaze Dub
Prince Jammy
In addition to selling strongly on the local Jamaican market as B-sides, his mixes were also compiled onto albums aimed at the European market, such as Jammy’s in Lion Dub Style, Kamikaze Dub, Slum in Dub, and Uhuru in Dub.
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Slum in Dub
Gregory Isaacs / Prince Jammy
In addition to selling strongly on the local Jamaican market as B-sides, his mixes were also compiled onto albums aimed at the European market, such as Jammy’s in Lion Dub Style, Kamikaze Dub, Slum in Dub, and Uhuru in Dub.
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Uhuru in Dub
Prince Jammy
In addition to selling strongly on the local Jamaican market as B-sides, his mixes were also compiled onto albums aimed at the European market, such as Jammy’s in Lion Dub Style, Kamikaze Dub, Slum in Dub, and Uhuru in Dub.
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Love Crisis
Black Uhuru
Following his 1978 production debut of Black Uhuru’s debut album Love Crisis, he established himself with other Waterhouse artists such as Half Pint, Echo Minott, and Junior Reid.
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Rare Reggae Grooves from Studio One
Various Artists (Heartbeat)
The period to which Scientist refers is well represented on compilations such as Heartbeat’s Rare Reggae Grooves from Studio One and Soul Jazz’s Studio One Disco Mix, which feature artists such as Lloyd Robinson, Peter Broggs, The Gaylads, and others.
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Studio One Disco Mix
Various Artists (Soul Jazz)
The period to which Scientist refers is well represented on compilations such as Heartbeat’s Rare Reggae Grooves from Studio One and Soul Jazz’s Studio One Disco Mix, which feature artists such as Lloyd Robinson, Peter Broggs, The Gaylads, and others.
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Scientist and Jammy Strike Back
Scientist & Prince Jammy
His early work reflects the influence of the studio’s previous engineers, and the autumnal Scientist and Jammy Strike Back album (1980) provides an excellent comparison, showing both engineers working out in dub’s final stylistic era over a selection of Linval Thompson–produced tracks.
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Scientific Dub
Scientist
As might be expected, Scientist’s early work (featured on albums such as the Bunny Lee–produced Scientific Dub [1980]) sounded fairly similar to that of his predecessors at King Tubby’s. It was with the heavy riddims of Roots Radics as his foundation, that he found his sound and became the remix engineer of choice in the early dancehall era.
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Scientist Encounters Pac Man at Channel One
Scientist
Mainly designed by Greensleeves artist Tony McDermott, they provided a convenient channel for a local Jamaican consumption and reinterpretation of images and themes from global (mainly American) pop culture such as video games (Scientist Encounters Pac Man at Channel One, Scientist Meets the Space Invaders), horror films (Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires), science fiction films (Scientist & Prince Jammy Strike Back), and athletics (Heavyweight Dub Champion, Scientist Wins the World Cup).
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Scientist Meets the Space Invaders
Scientist
Mainly designed by Greensleeves artist Tony McDermott, they provided a convenient channel for a local Jamaican consumption and reinterpretation of images and themes from global (mainly American) pop culture such as video games (Scientist Encounters Pac Man at Channel One, Scientist Meets the Space Invaders), horror films (Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires), science fiction films (Scientist & Prince Jammy Strike Back), and athletics (Heavyweight Dub Champion, Scientist Wins the World Cup).
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Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
Scientist
Mainly designed by Greensleeves artist Tony McDermott, they provided a convenient channel for a local Jamaican consumption and reinterpretation of images and themes from global (mainly American) pop culture such as video games (Scientist Encounters Pac Man at Channel One, Scientist Meets the Space Invaders), horror films (Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires), science fiction films (Scientist & Prince Jammy Strike Back), and athletics (Heavyweight Dub Champion, Scientist Wins the World Cup).
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Heavyweight Dub Champion
Scientist
Mainly designed by Greensleeves artist Tony McDermott, they provided a convenient channel for a local Jamaican consumption and reinterpretation of images and themes from global (mainly American) pop culture such as video games (Scientist Encounters Pac Man at Channel One, Scientist Meets the Space Invaders), horror films (Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires), science fiction films (Scientist & Prince Jammy Strike Back), and athletics (Heavyweight Dub Champion, Scientist Wins the World Cup).
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Scientist Wins the World Cup
Scientist
Mainly designed by Greensleeves artist Tony McDermott, they provided a convenient channel for a local Jamaican consumption and reinterpretation of images and themes from global (mainly American) pop culture such as video games (Scientist Encounters Pac Man at Channel One, Scientist Meets the Space Invaders), horror films (Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires), science fiction films (Scientist & Prince Jammy Strike Back), and athletics (Heavyweight Dub Champion, Scientist Wins the World Cup). In each case, sound is the weapon with which the hero does battle.
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