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Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - 100 Years of Dub '2023

100 Years of Dub
ArtistJoe Gibbs & The Professionals Related artists
Album name 100 Years of Dub
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Date 2023
GenreDub
Play time 77 min
Format / BitrateFLAC Stereo 553 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 309.31 Mb
Price$2.95
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1. Jamaican producer Joe Gibbs was formative in shaping the sound of reggae throughout the 1970s and beyond, with him and partner Errol Thompson sculpting enormously successful tracks for Althea & Donna, Prince Far I, Dennis Brown, and many other reggae greats in the golden era of the mid-'70s. The lengthy compilation 100 Years of Dub focuses not on the Gibbs-produced vocal tracks that drew the most attention during his prime years, but the instrumental dub versions that often accompanied the singles on the flip sides of their respective 45 releases. Though Gibbs was more widely known for his ability to craft hit songs, his style as a dub remixer is equally strong, and gets a proper overview on 100 Years of Dub. The collection features 48 dub mixes of some of the biggest songs he had a hand in, with 30 of them making their first appearances on any format besides the original vinyl. Unlike his contemporaries like King Tubby or Lee "Scratch" Perry, Gibbs' dub style is oftentimes relatively reserved, opting to hone in on little details and nuanced shifts in sound rather than work in wide swoops or thunderous crashes of reverb. "Dub in the Morning" is skeletal and direct, dropping in segments of vocal harmonies and subtly dubbing out slivers of guitar. "Dread Problems," a reworking of the Echoes' lovely vocal tune "Problems in Being a Dread," dips the original in a stew of delay but keeps things minimal to enhance the song's funkiness. Then again, Gibbs uses a heavy hand on "Informer Version," a frantically psychedelic rendering of Culture's 1977 song "Jah Jah See Dem A Come." The entire song is coated in dizzying amounts of phaser, sounding almost as if Gibbs had just gotten a new effect and was using this particular dub to test its limits. "Earthquake " lands somewhere between the straightforward and the experimental, with spaceship-like synthesizer and feedback sounds invading an otherwise lazy riddim. 100 Years of Dub is a welcome slice of somewhat overlooked dub history, with a deeper inspection of Gibbs' exploratory remixing approaches adding a new perspective to the sometimes overwhelming annals of '70s dub
2. Tracklist:
3. 1.01 - - 100 Years of Dub
4. 1.02 - The Mighty Two - Black September Version
5. 1.03 - The Mighty Two - Burning Version
6. 1.04 - The Mighty Two - East Africa
7. 1.05 - The Mighty Two - Far Land
8. 1.06 - The Mighty Two - I Stand Accused
9. 1.07 - The Mighty Two - I've Made Up My Mind Version
10. 1.08 - The Mighty Two - Natty Dread a Curnal
11. 1.09 - - Piilow With Strings
12. 1.10 - The Mighty Two - Slave Master
13. 1.11 - The Mighty Two - The Winner
14. 1.12 - - Broom Stick
15. 1.13 - - Dub In the Morning
16. 1.14 - - Dub Nu Crackers
17. 1.15 - The Mighty Two - Earthquake
18. 1.16 - - State of Emergency
19. 1.17 - The Mighty Two - War
20. 1.18 - The Mighty Two - Big Fat Thing
21. 1.19 - - Deck of Cards Version
22. 1.20 - The Mighty Two - Financial Business
23. 1.21 - The Mighty Two - Fulfilment
24. 1.22 - The Mighty Two - Give It to Jah
25. 1.23 - - I Need Dub
26. 1.24 - The Mighty Two - Informer Version

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