Prince Douglas Dub Roots

• Prince Douglas – Jah Love Dub
• Prince Douglas – Hard Times Dub
• Prince Douglas – Let Me Love You Dub
• Prince Douglas – Tongue Shall Tell Dub
• Prince Douglas – March Down Babylon Dub

• 1. Jah Love Dub
• 2. Hard Times Dub
• 3. Let Me Love You Dub
• 4. Tongue Shall Tell Dub
• 5. March Down Babylon Dub
• 6. Sunshine Dub
• 7. You And Me Dub
• 8. North Of The Border Dub
• 9. Tribesman Dub

Besides Sugar’s International Herb, this 1980 dub album is engineer Douglas Levy’s finest work. Many of the rhythms are derived from a tape given to the studio by Sly and Robbie, containing their versions of recent Joe Gibbs hits. And there are brilliant treatments of Tribesman Dub — the rhythm for Tyrone Evans’ Black Like Me — and Wayne Jarrett’s definitive interpretation of Every Tongue Shall Tell. Elsewhere Jah Batta takes deejay duties — likewise Prince Douglas himself. (And there are lovely skewed graphics by team regular Leslie Moore, self-styled ‘LAM International’). But the deadliest cut of all reworks another gift, Steel Pulse’s Handsworth Revolution, which arrived in a parcel of records from England the same weekend as the session: March Down Babylon Dub, with Bullwackie himself at the microphone in his Chosen Brothers guise, as steely and apocalyptic as Douglas Levy’s fabulous production.