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'El Rocker's', features one of the greatest of Jamaica's musicians/producers: Augustus Pablo;
'El Rocker's' focuses on the rhythms and tunes that were used to make up the epochal 'King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown' album. Consisting of seventeen tunes, all rare alternate cuts and hard to find gems, no Pablo aficionado's collection will be complete without this album.
Tastefully packaged with a twelve page booklet with the CD and a special insert on the vinyl featuring probably the best sleevenotes on the artist that we personally have ever seen. This album is so strong that it practically walks out of the record shop!
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Augustus Pablo’s dub set King Tubby’s Meets Rockers Uptown is regarded by many as one the greatest dub albums of all time. Pablo’s early run of singles on his own Rockers and Hot Stuff labels are rightly regarded as foundational roots reggae music, though familiarity may have diminished their reputation somewhat for those who initially celebrated them, such is human nature. KTMRU’s selection of killer tracks combined with a quite superb stereo mix from the King himself set many a reggae fan on the trail of the original instrumental and vocal tracks lost to obscurity except amongst a select few, a search alleviated by Pablo himself when he re-pressed most of them in the eighties. This CD gathers all the instrumental sides plus their original B side mixes, different from the mixes on the KTMRU album, and even throws in a couple of very hard to find items in the original B side mix of Paul Whiteman’s Say So and the melodica cut to Dillinger’s Braces A Boy; Tribalist. Fabulous stuff.
