Niney and Tubby’s dubs from 45s, 1976-1978. Total murder. Heavyweight genius.

Surveying 1974-1978 at King Tubby’s studio, with Scientist in particular coming through. Randy’s and Channel One rhythms — Anywhere But Nowhere,  No No No — featuring the likes of Robbie Shakespeare, Lloyd Parks, Sly, Carlton Barrett, Augustus Pablo, and Chinna. A bouquet of exclusive cuts, only issued once before, in the mid-nineties, by Zola & Zola.

Magnificent dub album out originally on the Senrab label in 1976, drawing on a series of brilliant sevens and twelves on labels like City Line and Wackies, and sister imprints like Upton, Versatile, and Munchie Jackson’s Earth label. Core rhythm tracks from Jamaica — Treasure Isle mostly, with Tubbys mixes — worked over at the Sounds Unlimited studio on E 24th Street in Manhattan, given the full treatment by Lloyd Barnes alongside Prince Douglas and Jah Upton, in the first months of the White Plains Road headquarters.

Two no-flim-flam, cross-border, dub-wise stompers — paired with masterful versions — from the veteran, Kingston-based unit led by the trombonist of Count Ossie’s Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari and The Light Of Saba.

These are the blistering dubs to the companion album, many of them previously unreleased.

Monster dubs of Yabby You productions of Michael Prophet, Patrick Andy, Alric Forbes and Wayne Wade, by way of King Tubbys. The first-round knockout is pure Shaka fire: an extended version of Gates Of Zion.

Outstanding set of dubs originally released in the late-1970s, out of Carl Campbell’s record shop on Church Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
Sly & Robbie, Augustus Pablo, Chinna, Tommy McCook and co; with Mikey Jarrett doing the ebullient intros.
Dub For Joy is the standout, amongst several heavyweights.