Big props to Blood & Fire for lovingly reissuing
this classic and underappreciated seminal music,
and putting so much info in the liner notes. Andrew Duke :)
Blag wrote:
quoted 60 lines On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 Cesium5Hz@aol.com wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 Cesium5Hz@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Actually, I think this Zen Artist is better known as Mad Professor and I
> > doubt that he was referring to our rather limited conception of linear time.
> > All Dub certainly did not come from King Tubby. It came from the
> > shamanist-rhythmic spheres of the witchdoctor, which in African culture is
> > the source of the mystical experience - that which allows the use of trance
> > in healing. This rhythmic trance was and is very similar in structure to
> > modern techno music. Both forms are uniquely intertwined - one reflects the
> > effect of trance, the other of the dance. It is not coincidental that modern
> > electronic dub music ala Basic Channel, Chain Reaction and Rhythm & Sound
> > camps have a strong basis in mystical music - the reduction in sound
> > structure is their extension into the spirit world.
> > The dub was, is and ever shall be...
>
> Umm, you can talk about witchdoctors and mystics if you want, but King
> Tubby invented dub. Period. I'm sure if you asked the Mad Professor
> directly, he'd also tell you that King Tubby is the "dub originator."
> Don't take it from me, take it from Steve Barrow:
>
> "Today the remix and dub version are commonplace in popular music; less
> widely appreciated is the fact that these techniques were pioneered in a
> tiny studio at 18 Bromilly Avenue in the Kingston district called
> Waterhouse. That pioneer of dub was an electronics engineer and sound
> system operator named Osbourne Ruddock, but to the crowds who flocked to
> his dances, and the countless singers and record producers who utilised
> his skills, he was known as King Tubby."
>
> You can download the rest from bloodandfire.co.uk, it's the liner notes to
> "Dub Gone Crazy."
>
> Every style of music is based on what came before, and no one benefits
> from skipping the intermediaries. Jumping straight back to some african
> witchdoctor without giving any props to King Tubby is just plain wrong.
>
> Where does Fela Kuti fit into this? He's a lot closer to a witchdoctor
> than King Tubby was, I mean, he was in Africa, and he did 20 minute long
> songs with trance inducing precussion and call and response sections, but
> I wouldn't describe *anything* that he did as "dub." How does that fit?
>
> I guess I'm freaking out a little bit too much, but Tubby is completely
> overlooked by just about every electronic music fan I've ever met in my
> life, and I can't figure out why, mainly because he was a fucking genius
> *and* none of ths stuff we're listening to today would even exist if he
> didn't come up with the flying cymbal (and those spring-reverb
> thunderclaps and the dropped in test tones, etc etc) first.
>
> You can't go to the record store and talk to a witchdoctor for
> inspiration, but you can go and buy a King Tubby album. I'd say that King
> Tubby is more of an inspiration to most musicians than witchdoctors are.
>
> Umm, can I get an amen?
>
> .Bil.
>
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