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Sly & Robbie A Dub Experience Reggae Greats

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A Dubwise Experience? Wrong! Eight Dubwise Experiences as I would say. Mixed by the hands of Paul "groucho" Smykle, the same who mixed the legendary DUB FACTOR (Black Uhuru) and the arguably even more legendary Ini Kamoze mini LP back in the 1980's, this album belongs in my personal all time top ten of favorite Dub Albums. The music on the album, needless to say actually when it's Sly and Robbie, is super tight!
1983. Digital Devices were not so common as today, and people were complaining about what they called a plastic sound. It's in this time, that Paul Smykle mixes some of the weirdest dubs with the use of these so-called plastic devices, at such a high level of skill, that many of today's DUB producers can only dream of making dub mixes like the ones presented on this CD. Without apology. Decennia later, this album is still ahead of it's time!
DUB is de-constructing and remixing reggae tunes. Smykle does that to the extreme, in this dubwise attack to your brain! Many wouldn't recognize the original even when they hear it. Most of the original tracks for this album, by the way, are pretty hard to get and have been topic of discussion in the reggae newsgroup REC.MUSIC.REGGAE for a long time. Very special is "Danger Zone", sung by the legendary Errol Flabba Holt, super bassist from the Roots Radics in their Channel One period.
If you like dub, if you like Sly and Robbie, if you like a bargain, than this is an absolute must in your collection. And because it's a mid-price album, you have no excuse!

I would have to agree with Messian Dread, of JaHRoOtS, on this review. JaHRoOtS also has some of the greatest dubs iv ever heard.

getting heavily into dub,I recenyly picked up this album which is truly rie.This is classic dub from the mid-eighties.Only its length keeps it from being a 5 star CD

If you like Black Uhuru's Dub Factor, then you'll love this one.

With the same far out treatment, but mainly of Sly & Robbie's Taxi gang material, Smykle once again outdoes himself with this classic dubplate for the ages.

This is not just a rehash remix of the originals. These are definite interpretations, but not taken with the all out liberty of Bill Laswell's "Ambient Translations" of Bob Marley. With Smykle, you know Sly & Robbie are still intact.

This album is probably my most favorite album I own. Been listenening to it for almost 10 years and still just as fresh and awesome as it ever has been.
This is defintely, without a doubt, my favorite reggae album ever. This album alone got me into dub music, which in turn introduced me to a lot of different kinds of music.

If you love dub, or you love bass, or you love reggae, this is a must have cd.

Pop it in, throw on some speakers, and burn one down. The album is best when listened at a high volume (you need bass), all the way through, and preferably with some herbal treatment in the air.

I used to wear this album out back in the late 80's while cruising my bike around campus. I had it on a casette that was copied from original vynal and my walkman was set at 10! I now have well over 60 gigs of Reggae/Dancehall/Dub in my collection and was amazed that this classic sly and robbie album was not part of my collection. Needless to say I had to purchase it again, no disapointment here! It is as good as when I first heard it, i do miss the snap crackle pop of the vynil but what are you to do...This is the album that turned me on to Dub back in the day and still remains one of my all time favorites...ENJOY!!