Megawatt Dub - King Tubby Meets Lee Perry

Advantages: Fantastic bassline. Original sounds. Good chioce of tracks.
Disadvantages: It's music designed for sound systems. Sound quality suffers.

...and nice neighbours). There are only really a handful of dub reggae artists from the 70’s, but between them they have produced a lot of material. The 21 tracks here, recorded at Randy’s, Black Ark, Harry J’s, Channel One and King Tubby’s studios are simply a taster of the total. Sadly Augustus Pablo (Horace Swaby) died in 1999 at only 46 from the nerve disorder ‘Myasthenia Gravis’ but left a whole discography behind for us to enjoy. The album features a whole host of bass players and drummers. On lead guitar is Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith and on rhythm guitar are Fazal Predergrass, Tommy McCook, Marquis, Bobby Ellis and Vincent Gordon. The saxophone is played by Richard ‘Dirty Harry’ Hall and Everton DaSilva is on percussions. For a good comparison check out King Tubby, Lee Perry or Scientist. The first two of which have also contributed... Read review

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Advantages: fun
Disadvantages: some stupid songs

...and Blues Orchestra feat. Jamiroquai 4. Ooh la la - Wiseguys 5. Love island (4/4 mix) - Fatboy Slim 6. Straight to hell - The Clash 7. King of snake (Straight mate mix) - Underworld 8. Another day (Perfecto dub) - Skip Raiders feat. Jada 9. Mystery land (Sickboy courtyard mix) - Y-Traxx 10. Ayla (DJ Taucher mix) - Ayla 11. Crazy Ivan - Vervlads 12. Chicago - Groove Armada 13. The look of love - Gladys Knight 14. Ethnic majority - Nightmares on Wax 15. F**k dub - Tosca 16. Emotion/Sweet Harry - Nightmares on Wax 17. Mi amor - Phil Pope and Los Lidos 18. The Partee - Roger Sanchez 19. Follow me - Lange feat. The Morrighan 20. Eyeball - Sunburst 21. Luvstruck - Southside Spinners 22. Don't Give Up 23. Must Be The Music 24. Get Get Down 25. Needin' U 26. Horny 27. Get Wicked 28. Dreaming 29. Sound Of Bamboo 30. I Feel Love... Read review

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Advantages: A total classic
Disadvantages: nothing

...It does not get much better than this. Back in 1967 lee perry and the upsetters were making and braking ground in jamica with their roots reggae. Perry is firmly at the controls on this release and everything really seems to just come together, the harmony singing, the heavy rumbling bass (i mean HEAVY) and rhythm. For anyone with any liking for dub reggae this is essential. Truly great piece of work. Lee perrys studio the black ark was burned down a number of years later but thankfully this seminal record really captures the great sound from the black ark for posterity. A sweet sweet record that hits all the right bottons with the only complaint being that it has quite a short playing time over the 10 tracks. Enjoy... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful