Tubby's Want The Channel: Dubbing With The Observer 1976-1978 CD

Winston 'Niney' Holness was undoubtedly one of the most successful roots reggae producers of the late 1970s, and one of the first - besides fellow greats and eventual specialists like Lee 'Scratch' Perry and King Tubby - to embrace the skeletal rhythms, ten-ton bass weight and spaced out sonics of dub. He took his 'versions' and dubs seriously, often recruiting King Tubby to provide the necessary production polish. This brilliant double-disc collection draws together no less than 40 dubs of 'Niney' productions from the period, most drawn from the flipsides of hard-to-find 7" singles. It's packed to the rfafters with genuinely brilliant dubs and is arguably as essential as Island's classic Perry retrospective, Arkology.