Living Dub Vol. 1

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Living Dub Volume 1
Burning Spear - Living Dub Volume 1 album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1979
Recorded1979
Genre Reggae
Length30:50 (Heartbeat CD)
Label Burning Spear
Producer Winston Rodney
Burning Spear chronology
Marcus' Children
(1978)
Living Dub Volume 1
(1979)
Hail H.I.M.
(1980)
Alternative cover
Burning Spear - Living Dub Volume 1 album cover (alternate).jpg
Burning Music release

Living Dub Volume 1 is a studio album by reggae artist Burning Spear. [1] It is a dub mix of the 1978 album Social Living. [2]

Contents

Originally released on vinyl in 1979, the album's first CD issue came in 1991 on a Jamaican release by Dee Jay Records and featured the same mix as the 1979 album. The second CD release came in 1993 on Heartbeat Records, but this time featured a completely new remix created specially for the CD.

The original 1979 mix was restored to CD in 2002 as Original Living Dub Vol. 1, on Burning Music. Both mixes credit Winston Rodney (Burning Spear) with production. The 1979 mix was created by Sylvan Morris, the 1993 mix by Barry O'Hare. [3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Calgary Herald B [5]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Seventies Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Reviewing a reissue, the Calgary Herald wrote that the "remixed, stripped-down, mostly instrumental tracks pulsate with hypnotic rhythms and sparse, vocal echoes." [5]

Track listing

  1. Children of Today
  2. Present
  3. Associate
  4. Jah Boto
  5. In Those Days
  6. Run Come Dub
  7. Help Us
  8. Musiya
  9. All Over
  10. Hill Street Dub (Heartbeat release only)

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References

  1. Devenish, Colin (June 2, 2004). "Burning Spear a Free Man". Rolling Stone.
  2. The Voice as Something: More Essays Toward Materiality. University of Chicago Press. 2019. p. 306.
  3. Thompson, Dave (July 20, 2002). Reggae & Caribbean Music. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9780879306557 via Google Books.
  4. "Living Dub, Vol. 1". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. 1 2 Muretich, James (13 June 1993). "Burning Spear: Living Dub, Volume One". Calgary Herald. p. C2.
  6. Larkin, Colin (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Seventies Music. Virgin. p. 70.