The selection this week is one that I've never heard and probably won't seek out based on the description of the music and the artists that it supposedly influenced. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (1976)

Jamaica's invention of dub - a stripped-down, echo- laden instrumental remix of a vocal track - was spawned principally on the B-sides of local reggae hits and in the island's competing sound-systems, with technician-engineer King Tubby as its master creator, a man who could 'play' the mixing console. This collection of etherial melodies by melodica maestro Augustus Pablo distilled the art into album form. It would be years before the West caught up. Without this...no DJ remixes, no house, no rave.

Gee, I don't know how I could live without DJ remixes, house, and rave "music". Spare me. That doesn't mean it wasn't influential (are you listening J?), it's just that I won't ever put this stuff on equal footing with true musicians and song-writers. It's a monstrosity dammit!

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