King Tubby: Termination Dub (with Glen Brown) - 1973 to 1976

Glen Brown was originally a singer and, not having much success, he tried his hand at production in the early-mid seventies. the riddims he oversaw were played by such luminaries as Aston and Carlton Barrett, Lloyd Parks, Winston Wright and Earl Lindo. 

When taken, without vocals, and mixed by King Tubby, they reach a high level of crucial bassline business. This was a compilation of fourteen such recordings, full of horns, flute, pounding bass and drum. It is all dread-heavy, late seventies Notting Hill Carnival or pre-punk gig sound system stuff, something I reference many times. They don't all sound the same, either, a track like Assack Lawn No. 1 Dub is quite different from Save Our Dub or Melodica International, for example.

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