Maxwell Avenue Breakdown: Dubs and Versions from Channel 1

Various Artists (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 2007)
• Original Release Date: February 19, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pressure Sounds
• ASIN: B000056UWM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #639,368 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
A Selection of Dubs and Instrumentals from the Brilliant Channel One Studio. Taken from the Period Between 1974 and 1979, it Collects Many of the Key Dub Tracks from the Period on to One Album. Superb Sleevenotes by Harry Hawk and Packaged with a 12-page Full Color Booklet. All Tracks have Been Remastered.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Dubroom Review, September 27, 2001

By	Messian Dread "DUBROOM.com" (Drachten, Fryslan Netherlands) - See all my reviews

A lot of people speak about Studio One as being very important in reggae history, and rightfully so. Studio One is the place where many reggae riddims came to exist. Channel One is another very important studio, where some of the hardest and heaviest Roots Rockers tracks have been recorded. With the mighty Sly and Robbie as the backbone of the Channel One studio bands in the 1970's, this ought to be no suprise.

Subtitled "Dubs & Instrumentals From Channel One (Remastered)", UK based PRESSURE SOUNDS suprises us with a massive 16 track disc containing what I can only describe as crucial hard rocking DUBS! Several dubs from Dillinger's mighty CB 200 album, some cuts from the Mighty Diamonds, and Leroy Smart, a very good singer who should have gotten more attention than he does. And that's not the complete list.

Not all tracks are DUBs in the sense of heavy mixing, but most of them are. And they're all "stricktly rockers", as this kind of roots reggae music was called in the late 1970's. Many drum rhtyhms on this album are of the "Steppers" kind, a rhythm said to be invented by Sly Dunbar: a militant rhythm with a bassdrum kick on every count, just like many modern dance tracks utilize this.

Everytime I listen to this album, I get a feeling to turn up the volume until it's so loud that my heart and soul are totally captured by the music! And how can a response be dfferent, with this multitude of crucial hard rocking roots Dubs?