Augustus_Pablo-This_Is.-1999-JVC

Augustus Pablo - This Is... (CD) 1999 -

rIPPER .................: Spigga
bITRATE ................: 192kbps
rECORD lABEL ...........: Above Rock
sOURCE .................: Compact Disc
dATE rIPPED ............: 08/02/00
dATE rELEASED ..........: 08/24/99
rELEASE sIZE ...........: 57MB
mUSIC gENRE ............: Reggae

Track List
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01 Dub Organizer 3:00
02 Please Sunrise 2:39
03 Point Blank 2:35
04 Arabian Rock 3:54
05 Pretty Baby 2:46
06 Pablo In Dub 2:51
07 Skateland Rock 3:13
08 Dread Eye 3:05
09 Too Late 3:17
10 Assignment No. 1 2:47
11 Jah Rock 2:54
12 Lovers Mood 2:49
13 Java Original 2:50
14 Guiding Red 3:13

Notes
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Horace Swaby
BORN: 1954, St. Andrews, Jamaica
DIED: May 18, 1999

The name never gained the international
recognition of Bob
Marley's, but Augustus Pablo is one of reggae's
legitimate
legends, a pioneer who flipped the genre
completely upside
down. Along with producer King Tubby, Pablo
almost
singlehandedly invented dub, wherein reggae's fat
bass and
popping drums are twisted and contorted until
they crack
like bullwhips and rumble like syncopated
earthquakes. This
is instrumental music: voices will emerge from
the supple
rhythms only to trickle into an echo-shrouded
void,
forsaking their contribution to the bedrock
grooves. And
Pablo's haunting splashes of melodica (which at
times
conjure images of Ennio Morricone's Sergio Leone
soundtracks) gave his music a sound that is
immediately
identifiable and as singular as anything Marley
managed.
Born Horace Swaby, as a youngster he hung around
Kingston's
jostling recording studios, watching the masters.
There he
met the original Augustus Pablo -- the Upsetters
keyboardist
Glen Adams -- who invented the name and played
the melodica,
the odd instrument that gave reggae its "Far
East" sound.
Adams moved to the States in 1971 and left the
concept to
Swaby, who began recording in 1972. As Augustus
Pablo, he
released a string of brilliant singles over the
next five or
so years on his Rockers label. The best of those
singles are
collected on Original Rockers; his best early
album is King
Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (1976). He continued
working for
decades, occasionally striking a balance between
the
technical wizardry of his Tubby years and the
slick
production style of modern reggae. Though Pablo's
later work
only occasionally matched the breathtaking
innovation of his
prime material., 1981's East of the River Nile
equaled his
early triumphs -- the results weren't always
great but they
were always interesting. He died of a nerve
disorder on May
18, 1999 at the age of just 46.

enjoy!!!