Skanking Dub

The track was recorded for King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown during Augustus Pablo’s 1972-1975 Rockers sessions, with the rhythm tracks recorded at Randy’s in Kingston and mixed at King Tubby’s studio. Pablo produced the album and played keyboards, with King Tubby and Errol Thompson credited for the dub mixing. Released in 1976, the track formed part of one of the defining long-playing dub albums of the 1970s. Its placement on King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown linked Pablo’s Far East melodica style with King Tubby’s mixing-room innovations. The track remains part of a landmark dub album that has been repeatedly reissued and cited among the essential reggae albums. It preserves the Rockers-era sound that made Pablo and King Tubby central figures in dub’s international reputation.