Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Lambs Bread - Sly Dunbar
2. Casanova Dub - The Observer All Stars
3. Loving Melody - Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators
4. Fist of Fury - Prince Jammy
5. Kingdom of Dub - The Upsetters
6. War in a South Africa [Version] - Keith Jarrett
7. Buck Rogers in the Black Hole - Roots Radics
8. Channel One Dub - Linval Thompson
9. Buckshot Dub - Rupie Edwards
10. Reform Institute - Gregory Isaacs All Stars
11. Smile Dub - Niney and the Soul Syndicate
12. Well Red - Augustus Pablo
13. Dancing Version - King Tubby
14. Young Lover - Scientist
15. Freedom Dub - Linval Thompson
16. Jungle Fever - Perry
17. Since I Dub - Beaumont, Lester, Martin, Rock, Taylor, Versharen, Vogel

Disc 2:

1. I Trim the Barber - Holt, Lee
2. Here I Come Dub - Holness
3. Stop the Dubbing - Clarke, Lee
4. Rizzla Dub - Beckford
5. Thompson in Dub - Linval Thompson
6. Gambling - Gray
7. Throne of Blood - Prince Jammy
8. Doctor Seaton in the Echo Chamber - Rupie Edwards
9. Straight to Channel One Head - Aggrovators
10. House Raid - Augustus Pablo
11. Bad Lamp - The Upsetters
12. Embarassment - Gregory Isaacs
13. Silver Bullet - The Observer All Stars
14. This Is the Greatest Version - Soul Syndicate
15. Mighty Gates of Goza - Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators
16. Dub I Dub - Revolutionaries

Disc 3:

1. Bus a Dub - The Upsetters
2. Soldering Version - Aggrovators
3. Roots Man Dub - Revolutionaries
4. Another Version - King Tubby
5. Shaolin Temple - Prince Jammy
6. So Long Dub - Niney and the Soul Syndicate
7. Long Time Version - Winston Fergus
8. Curly Dub - Augustus Pablo
9. Crofs - Gregory Isaacs
10. Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker - Roots Radics
11. Negrea African Dub - Linval Thompson
12. Mr. D Brown Skank - The Observer All Stars
13. Tangle Locks - Groove Master
14. Strictly Dub - Rupie Edwards All Stars
15. Scientist - Scientist
16. True Believer in Dub - Tommy McCook
17. Acapulco Gold - Sly Dunbar

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #558148 in Music
• Released on: 2000-06-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
Limited edition 3 CD boxset featuring 50 of the very best dub tracks...many on CD for the first time. Artists include The Upsetters, Linval Thompson, Gregory Isaacs, King Tubby, Prince Jammy, The Revolutionaries & many more. 2000 realease. Each disc comes in it's own paper sleeve and come housed together in a 5 x 5 x 1 inch box.

Customer Reviews

An adventurous second attempt
Trojan's first dub box set was a stab at introducing the casuallistener to the original analog sound of dub made in Jamaican studiosin the 1970s and early '80's, before the dominance of dancehall and digital production shifted the island's musical focus. So that set contained a huge amount of mixes by King Tubby and other engineers who learned at his feet, resulting in stylistic overlap (maybe overkill) and a predictable package, despite some wonderful tracks. This time around, Trojan has dropped in Augustus Pablo, Niney the Observer, and some madder-than-mad Upsetter mixes to give a better-rounded perspective and more adventurous package. Fans of the idiosyncratic singer Leo Graham will be delighted with his twin appearance on two of the three Upsetter tracks, and if you dig Graham chances are the Upsetter's deejaying on "Kingdom of Dub," set off by the bell tone borrowed from "Roast Fish and Cornbread," will appeal to you. The inclusion of any Pablo from his classic years is always a pleasure, and the Niney tracks hold their own next to the Scratch mixes. Beyond these deviations from the previous set, there's more Tommy McCook, more Tubby, more Scientist, more Prince Jammy...

Dub and Duberer
A good collection spanning about 25 years of Rub-a-Dub, Although without any revealing info about the musicians or who actually mixed each track, just a sometimes questionable writing credit. For example a few tracks are credited to Roots Radics, and Aggrovators, when I know these were mixed by Scientist and Tubby respectively, and others credited to Scientist, Tubby, Jammy, etc. With still others credited to the producer of the works, who knows who wrote, produced or mixed each cut.
Still, coming in at 50 tracks including several classics and only one or two throwaways(if you dislike mid '80s casio drum machine and synth tracks), around 45 or so riddims which means only a few versions on the same cut(and believe me the ones that do appear twice are well good), this is a bargain: the domestic issue being only [$$].

So, for the somewhat confusing liner notes: 2 stars.
In it for the music(which I suspect most of you reading this are): 5 stars. wicked.

Also the sound quality is a little flat for a CD. Does not sound digitally remastered as advertised. Shame on you mr.trojan!

Not as good as volume 1 but...
In my opinion. This Trojan dub volume is not as good as volume 1. But still great. How couldn't it be? As it's just like the first volume, bringing together tracks from some of the best dub artists, it's a great addition to your reggae/dub collection.