Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Marijuana - Sly Dunbar
2. Storming the Death Star - Roots Radics
3. Public Eyes - Gregory Isaacs
4. Love of Jah Jah Children - GG's All-Stars
5. Dancing Version - Tommy McCook,
6. Miss Know It All - Scientist
7. Rebel Dance - The Observer All Stars
8. Dubbing Sandra - The Upsetters
9. King Tubby's Conversation - King Tubby
10. Crabbit Version - Aggrovators
11. White Rum - Sly Dunbar
12. Mission Impossible - Roots Radics
13. Leggo Beast - Gregory Isaacs
14. Dubbin & Wailin - Velvet Shadows
15. Rema Dub - The Observer All Stars
16. Long Time Dub - The Upsetters
17. Version I Can Feel With Love - Tommy McCook,

Disc 2:

1. King Tubby's Explosion Dub - King Tubby
2. Cocaine - Sly Dunbar
3. Death of Mr Spock - Roots Radics
4. Nigger - Gregory Isaacs
5. Right Road to Dubland - Jahlights
6. Jah Jah Dub - Aggrovators
7. Rasta Locks - Niney the Observer
8. Dub Dat - The Upsetters
9. Gorgon of Dubs & Horns - Aggrovators, Tommy McCook
10. King Tubby's Patient Dub - King Tubby
11. Black Ash - Sly Dunbar
12. Son of Darth Vadar - Roots Radics
13. Slum - Gregory Isaacs
14. Do You Dub - Aggrovators
15. Mosquito Dub - GG's All-Stars
16. Dubbing with the Observer - The Observers
17. Rock Me in a Dub

Disc 3:

1. Freedom Dub - The Upsetters
2. Gigantic Dub - Tommy McCook
3. Collie - Sly Dunbar
4. Tam Tam - Gregory Isaacs
5. Turntable Dub
6. Scientist Ganja Dub - Scientist
7. Dub on My Pillow - Aggrovators
8. Herb - Sly Dunbar
9. Alien Aborts - Roots Radics
10. Leaving - Gregory Isaacs
11. Dread Dub - Lloyds All Stars
12. Sir Niney's Rock - Niney the Observer
13. Big Boss of Dubs - Tommy McCook,
14. Dub So - The Upsetters
15. King Tubby's Badness Dub - King Tubby
16. African Dub - The Silvertones

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #418194 in Music
• Released on: 1999-05-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
50 great dub tracks from the vaults of Trojan Records. Includes cuts by Gregory Isaacs, Upsetters, King Tubby, Scientist and Silvertones. Each disc comes in a separate slipcase sleeve & together they come packaged in a full color brilliant box. 1998 release.

Customer Reviews

Five Stars and Five Spliffs To Trojan
Long before reggae music or Bob Marley became household words among music lovers in the United States, Duke Reid's Trojan Records had been tremendously successful in marketing reggae music in the UK. Duke Reid began in Jamaica as a master blaster who traveled the island with his massive sound system, which he dubbed the "Trojan" after the brand name of the semi-truck he used to haul the system around in. Eventually Reid ended up in the production and entrepanuerial end of reggae music as well. He began recording promising rock steady and ska artists in Jamaica and marketing the music in the UK on his newly found Trojan label in the mid 1960s. He also bought the UK licensing rights to many early Jamaican reggae hits and sold them on the Trojan label in the UK. As a result, the Trojan back catalog of music may be the most extensive and best preserved archive of early reggae music anywhere. Trojan music did for reggae in the UK, what Chess records did for the blues in the USA, that is, each label successfully marketed a specialty music and developed a large crossover audience.

We are all lucky that Trojan records nearly 40 years after it's founding is remastering and repackaging a great deal of it's massive vault of master tapes and packing the songs in chronological 3 cd box sets. Every conceivable sub-genre is available on the 70 or so releases by Trojan, including ska, intrumental reggae, dub, nyabingi, rock steady, Brit hits, lover's rock, down tempo....you name it. The amazing part is the retail price for each three cd box is about the same price as a single CD. I've already bought about 10 of the Trojan boxes and be cautioned, many of the releases are limited edition, so this is a rare opportunity for collectors and newbies alike to browse through the nearly 5000 tracks released in the 70 Trojan boxes, and pick and choose by genre the music they like. It's enough to make hardcore reggae fans shout, "Irie" and say goodbye to a lot of hard earned money, but the music is priceless.

This 3 cd set of Dub music is the best seller of all the Trojan boxes on Amazon. It features dub style remixes of many of the early studio efforts of two great reggae studio bands, the turbo charged riddims of Sly and Robbie and the bubbling and pulsating riddims of the Roots Radics. It's no coincidence that the Radics and Sly and Robbie were both early back-up bands for lover's rock icon Gregory Isaacs, who's music is also prominently featured on this dub collection. The other featured dub remix masters are King Tubby and Scientists along with early rock steady and ska versions by the Aggrovators, the Upsetters and the Observers. The reason why the "Dub Box Set 1" is the best seller is probably the large number of Gregory Isaac tunes. I'd advise the serious collector to browse the tunes on each of the Trojan Box sets, all of which are five star selection in my book, but many others have a greater variety and more obscure cuts than these remixes of mostly Sly and Robbie and the Radics. It's not a bad thing, however because Sly and Robbie's Band and the Radics have long been the Twin Towers of reggae studio bands.

You can't go wrong with 50 songs
When you're compilation is 50 songs deep, you really can't go wrong. When the compilation is dub music, you're in for some VERY good times ahead indeed.

This box set is just about all the dub the average reggae person would want, plenty of hard-to-find stuff for the true dub head, and contains just enough great stuff per disc to ensnare the person new to instrumental and re-mixed reggae. There's some classics on here you can't get anywhere else anymore, and the quality of the tracks compared to the number of them is actually pretty breathtaking. A little bit of just about everybody in the realm to get you going, or to pad out your existing collection of dub.

Fine for Dub Beginner but nothing special
Okay set, but just adds up to about 2 full CD's of music, so unless you get a great price it is not a 'super-value'. There is a booklet with a very general essay on dub music, but otherwise there is a serious lack of info on the cuts. Sound quality is just okay -- you can do WAY better for a dub collection if you look elsewhere. Incidentally, many of these tracks were used by Bill Laswell for his Dub Massive Trojan re-mix sets.