DUB ROOTS by PRINCE DOUGLAS
| SKU | 45836 |
| Artist | PRINCE DOUGLAS |
| Title | DUB ROOTS |
| Label | WACKIES |
| Catalog # | W 295LP |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 23 - 2008 |
| Format | Vinyl - EULP |
| € 16,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- "Jam Love Dub"
- "Hard Times Dub"
- "Let Me Love You Dub"
- "Tongue Shall Tell Dub"
- "March Down Babylon Dub"
- "Sunshine Dub"
- "Tou And Me Dub"
- "North Of The Border Dub"
- "Tribesman Dub"
Description
Engineer Douglas Levy was part of the original Wackies set up from 1974-75, alongside Lloyd Barnes and Jah Upton. For a while he would have his own label - Hamma - within the Bullwackies group; but besides Sugar's International Herb, this 1980 dub album is his finest work. Wackies' fans have been clamouring for its reissue ever since Rhythm & Sound began making the catalogue available again.Many of the rhythms are derived from a tape given to the studio by Sly and Robbie, containing their versions of recent Joe Gibbs hits. And there are brilliant treatments of Tribesman Dub - the rhythm for Tyrone Evans' Black Like Me - and Wayne Jarrett's definitive interpretation of Every Tongue Shall Tell. Elsewhere Jah Batta takes deejay duties - likewise Prince Douglas himself. (And there are lovely skewed graphics by team regular Leslie Moore, self-styled 'LAM International'). But the deadliest cut of all reworks another gift, Steel Pulse's Handsworth Revolution, which arrived in a parcel of records from England the same weekend as the session: March Down Babylon Dub, with Bullwackie himself at the microphone in his Chosen Brothers guise, as steely and apocalyptic as Douglas Levy's fabulous production.
