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2011年9月14日水曜日

EVENTS : Deadly Dragon Sound Presents Downtown Top Ranking in a Tribute to King Tubby's w/Special Guest Addis Pablo ~ Thursday 15 September 2011!



Selectors: Scratch Famous, Queen Majesty, Selector JD and Mr.K
When: Thursday 15 September 2011 10pm - 4am
Where: Happy Ending (302 Broome St, New York)
Admission: Free
Subway: Grand St (B,D)
Special Guest : Addis Pablo, DJ Linh

http://www.myspace.com/addisaugustuspablo
http://www.facebook.com/addispablomusic


On Thursday, September 15th Addis Pablo, the son of the late, legendary instrumentalist/producer/label owner Augustus Pablo, will be performing as special guest at Deadly Dragon Sound's DownTown Top Ranking for their Tribute to King Tubby. This special Tribute to King Tubby edition of DTR is part of the first annual Dub Invasion Festival.

Augustus Pablo was one of Jamaica's most revered artists. A master of the melodica (amongst other instruments) Pablo is credited with creating the first all DUB LP (JAVA JAVA JAVA with producer Clive Chin). He was a deeply spiritual rastafari who believed in the power of music to combat an oppressive system. As such, he parlayed his musical successes into the creation of his own labels (Rockers and Message) and record store which became synonymous with serious Roots music. In 1977 he and King Tubby released the LP KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWN for Bronx based label CLOCKTOWER RECORDS. It is an LP that has found its place as one of the most influential DUB LPs of all time.

Addis Pablo né Swaby grew up in both Kingston, Jamaica and the United States and learned at the foot of his father the importance of both the technical aspects of music and the spiritual resonance that roots music can contain. Over the past few years he has been working with Kingston based One Motion LLC and Triniyard Music developing multiple projects of his own as well as producing for other arists. In addition he has also taken on the mantle of re-developing the Rockers Record Shop in Kingston and working with his father's catalog. Every year, Addis (on Melodica) also joins Chinna Smith and his band for the Annual Celebration of the Life & Works of Augustus Pablo.

For Thursday's DOWNTOWN TOP RANKING - TRIBUTE TO KING TUBBY, Addis will be joining the selectors of Deadly Dragon Sound for an exploration into the vibes of his father's famous collaboration with TUBBYS: KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWN. With Addis Pablo live on Melodica, the selectors of Deadly Dragon will be pulling some serious vinyl from the vaults as backing tracks, as well as mixing the whole performance in a Dub Wise style.


SPACE IS SEVERELY LIMITED so for guaranteed entrance please remember RSVP -- Email RSVP@dubinvasion.net with subject heading "Deadly Dragon".

Check out http://www.dubinvasion.net/ for more info.

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2010年12月2日木曜日

From the DDS Dub Plate Archives: King Tubby ALI BABA mix 1.





Last week I uncovered what looked like an unplayable Acetate Dub Plate -- the plate looked seriously wrecked with no sheen and what looked like mold growing out of the grooves. I put it on and to my amazement it not only played, but in fact, gave a sonic primer in why King Tubby was such a genius. Enough has been written about Tubby by much better and more knowledgeable writers than myself, so I am not going to try to give a history here, but I do have to say something. I got into Jamaican music in the 80s and 90s and for years only looked forward, never back. Then, one day, I happened to be at Moodies Records up in the Bronx when a bunch of Freedom Sounds reissues came into the shop and listening to Dub side totally blew my mind...this Sonic murderation! This was a man -- Tubby himself -- taking the every elements of space and time and ripping them apart and re-imagining what what sound actually felt like. I became a devotee. I read all the stories about Tubby's Hi Fi causing riots when the first dubs were unleashed, I talked to anyone I could find about what is what like to wind transformers for the man...and gradually all that knowledge and interest just became part of my interior dialogue -- yes, Tubby is a genius, but I no longer was as excited as I once had been....I was jaded, immune to his wonders.

Then....I put this Dub Plate on and as the sound opened and closed, expanded and contracted, as bass lines dropped in and vocals dropped out, and the richness of the hi-hats snapped and contorted and the reverb rumbled, I heard Tubby again!!! Yes, this dub had me again! I saw his hands on that mixing board, his ears lighting up as he told a narrative in Dub, a poetry of sound...yes!!!!! Listen to this dub and hear what I hear -- sound, sound in itself, being brought to the highest level of sound -- a sonic experience that sounds richer and more alive than anything our ears could take in on their own...yesss.....Tubby!!!!! All hail to the man himself!!!!!!