Dub, for the uninitiated, began simply as an instrumental of a reggae song that were released on the B side of 45 singles. It took the genius of Lee “Scratch” Perry and King Tubby of remixing those instrumentals and transforming them almost beyond recognition, fading each instrument in and out and applying echo and flanger liberally where needed. Dub became a genre unto itself and continued to grow and metamorphosize. Punk, industrial, ambient, pop, country—their musical distinctiveness were absorbed into dub.
While I love all forms of dub I’m partial to the stuff that’s more ambient and psychedelic. I can get lost in those realms of dub and in my mind’s eye I conjured King Dub, the Mystic Selector. King Dub became a mythic DJ who I would channel every now and then, playing dub drenched tracks over the airways of WMFO.
- The Orb “Towers of Dub, Live”
- Mazaruni “Mazaruni”
- Audio Active “Happy Shopper”
- Seventh Fire “Bury My Heart”
- The Fire This Time “Beyond Survival Dub”
- Andy Horace & Prince Jammy “Problems Dub
- Tappa Zukie “Jah Is I Guiding Star”
- Tappa Zukie “Hail Pot”
- Charlie Chaplin, Josey Wales & Luciano “Rebel With A Cause”
- Yoshida & Barrett “Dub Jam Rock”
- Yabby You “Rock Vibration”
- Jah Stitch “Crazy Joe”
- Cornell Campbell “Jah Jah Me No Born Yah”
- King Tubby “Dub To The Rescue”
- Diviniation, Hariprasad & Hussain “Baraka Rag Ahir Bhairav”
- Full Moon Scientist “Lunar Base Dub”
- The Upsetters “Black Vest”
- The Congos “Congoman Chant”
- Cecil Smith “Jah Jah Version”
- Burning Spear “Social Living”
- Burning Spear “Pit of Snakes”
- African Head Charge “My God”
- Revolutionary Dub Warriors “Mystic”
- Fish & Goat At The Controls “Dub Warmth”
- Zion Train “Free the Bass”
- Ice “Out of Focus”