| features in: Album Chart of 1976 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |
As you’d expect with Tubby and Pablo at the desk, this is a primal dub affair with all shades of nice keys from the melodically-inclined Augustus. The various sessions for this one over the last few years have featured the Barrett brothers (drum n bass), Robbie Shakespeare (bass), Earl Smith (guitar) as well as the main man on melodica, piano, organ and clavinet. Dub rarely catches-a-fire for me, but there are plenty of enjoyable episodes on this set. “Keep On Dubbing” opens splendidly, and it’s the first time out for the root source of Jacob Miller's “Keep On Rocking” single of '75. The dub version on the single (credited to Rockers All Stars) was a different mix with some Miller vox, so what we have here, as with much of the album, is an exclusive. Equally brassy and melodious is “Stop Them Jah” which keeps up the lively and rhythmic start. The feeling is maintained again with “Young Generation Dub”, my favourite piece on the album, the descending refrain from which pleases my simple soul as I play mouth trombone. It’s another album exclusive mix I think, rooted in the ‘74 single, “Bongo Pat - Young Generation b/w Augustus Pablo - New Style (Rockers)”, although the dub version on the original had xylophones which are omitted here. The title-track, first released as a single early in ’75, is very nice indeed, with great licks and tricks on the drums and a spacey but lively vibe which is actually the essence of the whole LP. Towards the end, “Frozen Dub” takes this feeling one step beyond with some really wild mixing desk action. “Satta”, a previously unreleased extended dub version to his 1975 single “Pablo Satta” (Rockers), finishes the set off strongly. Nice vibes.
The Jukebox Rebel
24–May–2016
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:11]  Agustus Pablo - Keep On Dubbing (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| A2 | [02:52]  Agustus Pablo - Stop Them Jah (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| A3 | [02:35]  Agustus Pablo - Young Generation Dub (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| A4 | [02:55]  Augustus Pablo - Each One Dub (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| A5 | [02:44]  Agustus Pablo - 555 Dub Street (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| A6 | [02:53]  Agustus Pablo - Braces Tower Dub (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| B1 | [02:34] Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| B2 | [02:58]  Agustus Pablo - Corner Crew Dub (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| B3 | [03:07] Pablo All Stars - Dub So (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| B4 | [02:44]  Agustus Pablo and Rhythm Force - Scank Version (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| B5 | [02:54]  Agustos Pablo - Frozen Dub (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
| B6 | [04:22]  Agustus Pablo - Satta (Horace Swaby) Reggae |
