African Dub Chapter 1 (Reissue) (Yellow Vinyl LP)

Yes summer might be gone but I’ll be damned if I’m not still summer vibing to this great reggae reissue of Joe Gibbs and his revolving band ‘The Professionals’. - Sophie

Producer Joe Gibbs took the credit for the four discs released in the mid-'70s under the title African Dub All-Mighty, but the musicians were in reality a shifting aggregation of members of the Soul Syndicate, We the People, and Revolutionaries bands, and the man actually working the mixing board was famed sound engineer Errol Thompson. On this first installment in the four-volume series, the dub mixes are actually quite tame - there are none of the challenging sonic gestures that characterized the work of colleagues like King Tubby and (especially) Lee "Scratch" Perry during the same period. But as mood music, Chapter 1 is a fine listening experience - note in particular Campus Rock (a dub version of Dennis Brown's Let Me Live) and Treasure Dub, which is a version of the Jamaicans' rocksteady classic Ba Ba Boom.

Tracklisting:

1. African Dub
2. Universal Dub
3. Midnight Movie
4. Getto Shank
5. Lime Key Rock
6. Lovers Serenade
7. Treasure Dub
8. Schooling The Beat
9. Campus Rock
10. Half Ounce
11. Worrier
12. East Africa