Trojan Dub Box Set 1 (Spec) [Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording reissued, Special Edition]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 6, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording reissued, Special Edition
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Sanctuary Records
• ASIN: B00006BXIF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,623 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > World Music > Reggae > Rocksteady
  • #16 in Music > World Music > Reggae > Dub

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Media Type: CD
Artist: TROJAN DUB BOX SET
Title: TROJAN DUB BOX SET
Street Release Date: 08/06/2002
Domestic
Genre: REGGAE COLLECTIONS

Customer Reviews

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars and Five Spliffs To Trojan, March 2, 2004

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Gavin B. (St. Louis MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trojan Dub Box Set 1 (Spec) (Audio CD)

Long before reggae music or Bob Marley became household words among music lovers in the United States, Duke Reid's Trojan Records had been tremendously successful in marketing reggae music in the UK. Duke Reid began in Jamaica as a master blaster who traveled the island with his massive sound system, which he dubbed the "Trojan" after the brand name of the semi-truck he used to haul the system around in. Eventually Reid ended up in the production and entrepanuerial end of reggae music as well. He began recording promising rock steady and ska artists in Jamaica and marketing the music in the UK on his newly found Trojan label in the mid 1960s. He also bought the UK licensing rights to many early Jamaican reggae hits and sold them on the Trojan label in the UK. As a result, the Trojan back catalog of music may be the most extensive and best preserved archive of early reggae music anywhere. Trojan music did for reggae in the UK, what Chess records did for the blues in the USA, that is, each label successfully marketed a specialty music and developed a large crossover audience.

We are all lucky that Trojan records nearly 40 years after it's founding is remastering and repackaging a great deal of it's massive vault of master tapes and packing the songs in chronological 3 cd box sets. Every conceivable sub-genre is available on the 70 or so releases by Trojan, including ska, intrumental reggae, dub, nyabingi, rock steady, Brit hits, lover's rock, down tempo....you name it. The amazing part is the retail price for each three cd box is about the same price as a single CD. I've already bought about 10 of the Trojan boxes and be cautioned, many of the releases are limited edition, so this is a rare opportunity for collectors and newbies alike to browse through the nearly 5000 tracks released in the 70 Trojan boxes, and pick and choose by genre the music they like. It's enough to make hardcore reggae fans shout, "Irie" and say goodbye to a lot of hard earned money, but the music is priceless.

This 3 cd set of Dub music is the best seller of all the Trojan boxes on Amazon. It features dub style remixes of many of the early studio efforts of two great reggae studio bands, the turbo charged riddims of Sly and Robbie and the bubbling and pulsating riddims of the Roots Radics. It's no coincidence that the Radics and Sly and Robbie were both early back-up bands for lover's rock icon Gregory Isaacs, who's music is also prominently featured on this dub collection. The other featured dub remix masters are King Tubby and Scientists along with early rock steady and ska versions by the Aggrovators, the Upsetters and the Observers. The reason why the "Dub Box Set 1" is the best seller is probably the large number of Gregory Isaac tunes. I'd advise the serious collector to browse the tunes on each of the Trojan Box sets, all of which are five star selection in my book, but many others have a greater variety and more obscure cuts than these remixes of mostly Sly and Robbie and the Radics. It's not a bad thing, however because Sly and Robbie's Band and the Radics have long been the Twin Towers of reggae studio bands.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't go wrong with 50 songs, April 26, 2003

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Scott Woods (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trojan Dub Box Set 1 (Spec) (Audio CD)

When you're compilation is 50 songs deep, you really can't go wrong. When the compilation is dub music, you're in for some VERY good times ahead indeed.

This box set is just about all the dub the average reggae person would want, plenty of hard-to-find stuff for the true dub head, and contains just enough great stuff per disc to ensnare the person new to instrumental and re-mixed reggae. There's some classics on here you can't get anywhere else anymore, and the quality of the tracks compared to the number of them is actually pretty breathtaking. A little bit of just about everybody in the realm to get you going, or to pad out your existing collection of dub.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fine for Dub Beginner but nothing special, January 2, 2006

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Dm Otis (vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trojan Dub Box Set 1 (Spec) (Audio CD)

Okay set, but just adds up to about 2 full CD's of music, so unless you get a great price it is not a 'super-value'. There is a booklet with a very general essay on dub music, but otherwise there is a serious lack of info on the cuts. Sound quality is just okay -- you can do WAY better for a dub collection if you look elsewhere. Incidentally, many of these tracks were used by Bill Laswell for his Dub Massive Trojan re-mix sets.