Dub Specialist - Mojo Papa

Studio One Dub 2 is a second collection bringing together some of the finest dubs from the
legendary Studio One Records, Kingston, Jamaica. Dub music was the creation of a generation
of brilliant recording studio engineers in Jamaica. But although Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's
Studio One is hailed as the greatest of the Jamaican recording labels, and although many
talented engineers worked the board at Dodd's Brentford Road studio over the years
(including Sylvan Morris, Syd Bucknor, Overton "Scientist" Brown and Dodd himself),
Studio One was never typically known as a centre for dub. This is because for many fans
the studio's commercial and stylistic heyday was in the 1960s, prior to the rise of dub
as a distinct sub-genre of Jamaican music in the 1970s. By the 1970s, however, dub music
was the rage in Jamaica's sound systems. Always the pioneer — and since Sylvan Morris had
left the Studio One operation around 1972 — Coxsone supervised the dubs till leaving Jamaica
at the end of the decade. This meant that for the most part, for example, the twelve Studio One
dub albums released during the 1970s were mixed by Dodd himself, using the moniker "Dub Specialist."
Throughout the decade, the mixes became more sophisticated and atmospheric. Along with the first
volume of Studio One Dub, the cuts here demonstrate that Studio One's contribution to the innovative
musical form of dub was substantial, and go straight to the head of listeners who feel that the only
centres for dub were studios such as King Tubby's, Lee Perry's Black Ark, Channel One, or Joe Gibbs's.
The tracks on this compilation are taken from this period in the 1970s when dub was the cutting-edge
of Jamaican music studio production. Most of them are the dub-version flip-sides of rare Jamaican 45s, and none have appeared on CD before. Michael E. Veal, author of Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae