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Features Disc of the day
King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller
In A Tenement Yard
(Motion, 2006)
From 1976, a buried synth-dub masterpiece to bust your bins.
As well as working his studio magic with the likes of Lee Perry and Augustus Pablo, and initiating King Jammy and Scientist into the mysteries of dub, the mighty works of reggae sound magus King Tubby are many. But even bearing these achievements in mind, there’s something rare and remarkable about this early synth-dub album which is thought to come from 1976, and was originally pressed in tiny quantities and then released in a blank sleeve with the wrong label. Now that’s cool. It utilises spry but solid rhythms from Jacob Miller’s LPs Tenement Yard and Jacob ‘Killer’ Miller, originally produced by the Lewis Brothers from his band Inner Circle, and mixes Tubby’s three-dimensional sound sculpts with the robo-burble, trill and squelches of Inner Circle keyboardist Bernard ‘Touter’ Harvey’s synth, to bizarre and absorbing effect; “There’s groups like Tangerine Dream that you would hear of,” Touter told David Katz, a made man of reggae scribes, in the informative sleevenotes; “there's Stevie Wonder on the radio, playing all kinds of things on Living For The City… the Moog synthesiser was the talk of the century at that time.” Other instruments include the xylophone, possibly played by Augustus Pablo, with sounds shifting in and out of the mix and the music’s sonic building blocks alchemically altered (but how? See reggae polymath Chris Lane’s writing on Tubby’s secret bass-manipulating filter control, the ‘Big Knob’), creating spatial anomalies, new depths and dimensions and coolly minimal atmospheres that are propulsive and reflective at the same time. So what happens when King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller In A Tenement Yard? He dubs him, and us, out into space.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 02/02/2009
Further Listening
Upsetters – Double Seven (Trojan, 1974)
Scientist Vs. Prince JammyBig Showdown At King Tubby’s (Greensleeves, 1980)
Fatman Riddim Section - Featuring Touter (Top Ranking Sounds, 1978)
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