Playlist for Dec. 17, 2010

U Roy: Wake The Town - Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music (Island 1993) *
Dub Syndicate: Wadada (Means Love) - Stoned Immaculate (On-U Sound 1991) *
Prince Jammy: Step It Up In Dub - X-Ray Music (Blood & Fire 1999) *
Scientist: Step It Up (Dan Donovan for Don Letts Dub Cartel Remix) - Select Cuts From Blood & Fire Chapter Two (Select Cuts 2001) *
Sound Iration: Holshe In Dub - Sound Iration In Dub (Year Zero 2010)
King Tubby: Dub The Right Way - X-Ray Music (Blood & Fire 1999)
King Tubby & The Soul Syndicate: Dub The Right Way (Dreadzone Remix) - Select Cuts From Blood & Fire (Select Cuts 2001)
Dubblestandart: Love Can Grow - Are You Experienced? (Collision 2006)
Dubblestandart: They Became One - Marijuana Dreams (Collison 2010)
Lazy Robot: Free Soul from MySpace
Rhythm & Sound feat. Love Joy: Best Friend - Rhythm & Sound w/ The Artists (Asphodel 2003)

Deadbeat: Roots & Wire - Roots & Wire (Wagon Repair 2008)
El Fata: Ina The Dancehall - Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 2 (Jahtari 2010)
Bob Marley: Slave Driver - Classic Airwaves: The Best Of Bob Marley Broadcasting Live (Bootleg) (Orig. 1973)
Mungo's HiFi: Shanty Dub - Dub Solidarity (Dubhead 2003)
Dubkasm feat. Ras Addis: Strictly Ital - Transform I (Sufferah's Choice 2009)
Dubkasm: Beto's Yard - Transformed In Dub (Sufferah's Choice 2010)
Dubmatix: Shaolin Warrior - Dread & Gold (7 Arts Entertainment 2008)
Dubmatix: Skankin' & Rockin'- Atomic Subsonic (7 Arts Entertainment 2006)
Black Seeds: Slingshot (Truth Remix) - Specials: Remixes and Versions From Solid Ground (Ind. 2010)
Gary Clail: Food, Clothes & Shelter - Emotional Hooligan (RCA 1991)
Roots Combination: Wicked A Go Dub It - Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions Chapter 4 (Guidance Recordings 2002)

Check out this video of a group of musicians improvising over a recording of "Wicked A Go Dub It." The camera concentrates almost exclusively on the melodica playing of Ticklah (a.k.a. Victor Axelrod, founding member of the Easy Star All Stars):

*Prince Jammy is identified as the dubmaster responsible for "Step It Up In Dub" on the compilation X-Ray Music, but Steve Barrow claims, in the liner notes to Dub Gone Crazy (Blood & Fire 1994) that it's Scientist. And Scientist is identified as the original dubmaster whose song is remixed twice on Select Cuts from Blood & Fire Chapter Two...