Don Carlos - Inna Dub Style: Rare Dubs 1979-1980 '2013

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Bridging the seemingly disparate world of jazz standards and modern dance
remixes, the dub method employed by many of Jamaica's foremost producers and
vocalists in the early '80s found easily recognizable riddims mashed up with
other songs from a singer's catalog. This collection of previous unreleased dubs
featuring Black Uhuru's first and current vocalist (though he left the group for
most of its '70s and '80s heyday), Don Carlos, teams him with producer Bunny
"Striker" Lee. The pair reworks several of Carlos' better-known cuts, including
"Spread Out" and "Lazer Beam" as well as several cuts from other artists,
including Alton Ellis' "Too Late to Turn Back Now" and Boney M.'s "Rivers of
Babylon." But while this continual sharing of instrumental tracks and strongly
similar lyrics may make the uninitiated wonder where the originality went, one
listen to these slow grooves makes it evident that the soul is within each
performer. And with Carlos' masterful voice and Lee's light dub touches (a
little delay here, a laser sound there), each track floats effortlessly through
a green haze. Carlos' themes are what you'd expect: chants of Rasta pride,
personal triumph (and tribulation), and a fair degree of self-congratulation ("I
am a conscious Rasta man" he proclaims on "Conscious Rasta Dub"). But these are
the foundations upon which everything from Perry Farrell's highly affected
lyrics with Jane's Addiction to Massive Attack's seminal U.K. trip-hop sound are
built -- something so simple, producing such a vast world of sound in its wake.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Don Carlos - Spread Out In Dub (3:36) 
1.02 - Don Carlos - My Brethren In Dub (3:23) 
1.03 - Don Carlos - Bosrock Dub (4:05) 
1.04 - Don Carlos - I'm Gonna Make You Love Dub (3:06) 
1.05 - Don Carlos - Big Mouth Dub (3:50) 
1.06 - Don Carlos - Conscious Rasta Dub (2:55) 
1.07 - Don Carlos - Booming Dub (3:32) 
1.08 - Don Carlos - Infra Red Dub (3:32) 
1.09 - Don Carlos - Move Me Dub (3:29) 
1.10 - Don Carlos - Baby Don't Care Dub (3:33) 
1.11 - Don Carlos - Tribulation Dub (3:35) 
1.12 - Don Carlos - Too Late To Dub (4:16) 
1.13 - Don Carlos - Rivers Of Dub (3:26) 
1.14 - Don Carlos - There's A Dub Faraway (3:46)

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