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Dub Specialist - Version Dread
Dub Specialist - Version Dread
Rare Studio One B-sides on Version Dread.
About ten years ago Heartbeat issued a compilation with B-sides taken from Studio One singles. That compilation has been deleted for many years, but has now been reissued by Studio One and Yep Roc Records.
Version Dread comes with a hefty 18 B-sides of rare Studio One singles, and includes versions of classic cuts by the likes of Wailing Souls, Abyssinians and Burning Spear. Also included are two extended mixes – Never Give Version by Carlton and the Shoes and a rare mix of Ernest Ranglin’s Surfing. Neither of these songs were featured on the original LP.
These tracks are in some cases little more than glorious instrumentals of reggae staples and the music is presented with vocals dropping in and out of the mix. But the mixing engineers – label head Clement “Coxsone” Dodd and Sylvan Morris – have added none or very little effects. The music is what you get. Check excellent cuts like Please Be True Version, a cut of Alexander Henry’s original, or The Brentford Rockers’ version of Cornell Campbell’s Natty Don’t Go.
To call these cuts just versions doesn’t really give them credit for their greatness. These tracks are sublime and timeless instrumentals.
Version Dread was released on September 22th, 2017, and is available from Studio One on LP, CD, and for digital download.
Tracklist:
- Ernest Wilson & The Sound Dimension – Why Oh Why Version
- Sound Dimension – Fire Coal Version
- Winston & The New Establishment – Creation Version
- Sound Dimension – Please Be True Version
- Willie & The Brentford Rockers – Armagideon Version
- The Soul Vendors – Born to Dub
- Sound Dimension – Pick Up Version
- Lloyd Robinson & Brentford Disco Set – It Deep, Pt. 2
- Sound Dimension – Version Dread
- Sound Dimension – Declaration Version
- The Soul Vendors – Things a Come Up to Dub
- Sound Dimension – Zion Lion
- Cornel & The Brentford Rockers – Natty Rub a Dub
- The Heptones & Sound Dimensions – Give Me This Version
- The New Establishment – Fire Version
- Basil Daley – Hold Me Baby, Pt. 2
- Sound Dimension – Train Is Coming, Pt. 2
- The New Establishment – New Broom, Pt. 2
- Ernest Ranglin & The Sound Dimension – Surfing (Extended Mix)
- The New Establishment – Never Give Version (Extended Mix)
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