Familyman in Dub

Aston Barrett | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 2, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 2, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Heartbeat / Pgd
• ASIN: B00000I5KE
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,277 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cobra Style Dub

2. Steppers Rock

3. Familyman Skank

4. Rebel Am I

5. E.T. Special

6. Pleasing Dub

7. Dubbing Naturally

8. Dub Combination

9. Pickney Dub

10. A Distant Dub

11. Trubute To Y Mas Gan

12. Elegant Dub

13. Iron Rock

14. Dub Maker

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dank, dank grooves, July 26, 2000

By 

Andrew Duckles (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Familyman in Dub (Audio CD)

This album, is full of fat, fat, groovalicious groovages. Many of you have come across Aston Barrett before, as he spent several years as the preferred bass player of Bob Marley, and collaborated with Bob on most of his albums as bass guitarist. This album are essentially Barrett's "Dubs" of a series of great reggae melodies. His versions of tunes such as "Cobra Style and "Elegant Shape" are melodies deep, heavy grooves, driven by Barrett on the bass. The keyboards, rhythmic interplay and space-age effects are all offspring of the dominant bass line throughout the album. The Dubs are tastefully put together, and the album grooves extrememly heavily.

What I love so much about this album is the amount of space and simplicity that each dub reveals. Barrett's using simple ingredients here, bass, keyboard, guitar, and some wild syth effects. Each element operates independently, but at the same time is synchronous in groove with every other element. Amazing. It gives the music the ability to work with flow instead of clutter, and change it's shape and color without being noticed. Beautiful, and heavy in its groovatude.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Dub Album Ever, September 3, 2008

By 

Justin Perkins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Familyman in Dub (Audio CD)

I've had this album for about 10 years and still can't get enough of it. Best dub ever recorded. If you like this stuff, check out 21st Century Dub .. equally good.

5.0 out of 5 stars woah, April 14, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Familyman in Dub (Audio CD)

this album is great i suggest you buy this becasue i feel that it has done the great drummer/bassist justice is this album.I especialy like dubbing naturally for its funkalicous funkyness