Revolution Dub
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Revolution Dub ... was a dub album with a difference: the obtrusive sound of television reared its ugly head over much of it with overdubbed dialogue taken from the British sit-com Doctor in the House."--People Funny Boy (2000) by David Katz, p. 239 |
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Revolution Dub is an album by Lee Perry & The Upsetters, released in Jamaica in 1975 in very small quantities. It was also released on Cactus in the UK. It features radical, groundbreaking drum & bass mixes, sound effects (including bizarre excerpts of British sitcom Doctor in the House recorded from the radio, including its laugh track), heavy bass, vocals by Perry himself, and an early use of a drum machine in reggae. This is some of the earliest available dub material mixed by Lee "Scratch" Perry, who would soon make a name for himself as a dub master with classic, internationally distributed albums such as Super Ape (Island 1976). Other early Scratch groundbreaking dub albums include the fine Rhythm Shower (Trojan). Scratch's first dub album, the 1973 super classic Blackboard Jungle Dub was mixed by dub originator and master King Tubby, who taught Perry a great deal at Dynamic Sound studios before Scratch went out on his own and opened his famous Black Ark Studios in January 1974.
In 1998, Wire selected it as one of the 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening).
Track listing
All tracks composed by Lee "Scratch" Perry
Side one
- "Dub Revolution"
- "Womans Dub"
- "Kojak"
- "Doctor on the Go"
- "Bush Weed"
Side two
- "Dreadlock Talking"
- "Own Man"
- "Dub the Rhythm" belching song
- "Rain Drops"
