Errol Brown

ORTHODOX DUB (LP)

Dub Store Records

DSRLP609

Info:

Reissue - Miraculously Rare And Seriously Obscure Killer Dubs. One Of The Very Few Hard Core Seventies Dub Albums Mixed By Errol Brown. A Selection Of Solid Dubs Originally Recorded In 1978 By Bb Seaton At Duke Reid S Legendary Treasure Isle Studio And Mixed In-house By The Duke S Nephew Errol Brown. A Radical Departure For All Concerned This Bold Dub Album Was Never Officially Released Although A Few Clandestine Copies Reputedly Did The New York Rounds At The Time. Mojo By David Katz - Extremely Rare 1978 Dub Album Stands Up Against Any From That Era - -errol Brown Began Engineering Through Family Connections, Producer Duke Reid Was His Uncle. Trained By The Highly-skilled Byron Smith, Chief Engineer At Reid S Treasure Isle Facility, Brown Cut His Teeth Mixing Alton Ellis, The Paragons, Peter Tosh And Marcia Griffiths. -orthodox Dub- Dates From 1978 When Bb Seaton Of The Gaylads Was Working Closely With Brown At Treasure Isle, Cutting Tracks With Ken Boothe And Mikey Dread Along With Self-produced Work, And Although Only Ever Issued In Tiny Numbers As Pre-release Lp In The Bronx, These Dubs Pack A Mighty Punch, Easily On Par With Any Of The Dub Sets Issued In The Era By Channel One Or Joe Gibbs. Outstanding Tracks Include -roots Rockas-, A Stripped Down Cut Of Boothe S -who Really Cares-, And -black Forest Rock-, A Bass-heavy Reading Of Seaton S -is Life-.-