Glen Brown & King Tubby — Termination Dub (1973-79) | Full Album | Roots & Dub Vault

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King Tubby was Glen Brown's neighbour.

That geographical accident, both men based on High Holborn Street in southeast Kingston in the early 1970s, turned into one of the most productive creative relationships in Jamaican music history, and Termination Dub is its definitive document.

Brown was born Glenmore Lloyd Brown in Kingston around 1944, self-styled as "God Son" and "The Rhythm Master" — the latter nickname earned, as his daughter later explained, for his uncanny ability to craft riddims that lodged in the memory and refused to leave.

When he pivoted to production in the early 1970s, that jazz background made him unlike virtually any other producer operating in Kingston — his rhythms underpinned by sinuous, muscular basslines and laced with emphatic percussion that felt simultaneously orthodox and deeply strange.

Lee Perry and his contemporaries reportedly laughed at what Brown was doing.
The records proved them wrong.

His Pantomine label released some of the most compelling reggae instrumentals of the era, pressed in limited runs that became precious collector's items almost immediately.

The label's releases sometimes arrived with advertisements for a local car dealership printed on the sleeve, because Brown had no phone of his own and had to use the car salesman's in exchange for the promotional favour.

His records, one writer noted, were "covered in more useless and incomprehensible information than previously thought possible." The music inside was anything but.

The working method with King Tubby was straightforward and extraordinarily productive: Brown would leave his riddims at Dromilly Avenue, asking Tubby to mix five or six different versions of each.

What came back was consistently astonishing. Tubby, working with the raw material of Brown's most original rhythms, found depths and dimensions in them that the original recordings had only hinted at.

Termination Dub, compiled by Steve Barrow's Blood and Fire label in 1996 from the best of their collaborations spanning 1973 to 1979, draws on this entire creative partnership and presents it in its most concentrated and powerful form.

The source material includes riddims voiced by Gregory Isaacs, Johnny Clarke, Lloyd Parks, and Sylford Walker — Brown's most significant vocal collaborator of the mid-to-late 1970s, whose "Lamb's Bread" album produced with Brown stands as one of the era's hidden masterpieces.

In dub form, stripped to their rhythmic and harmonic essence and subjected to Tubby's mixing board genius, these rhythms reveal themselves as some of the most original and uncompromising in the entire roots canon.

Brown eventually left Jamaica for New York in search of a better life, and the financial rewards that should have followed his creative achievements largely never arrived.

In 2010 he entered a nursing home in Far Rockaway, suffering from multiple serious conditions. He died there on 4 October 2019, at the age of 75.

His daughter remembered him as a man who "treated all musicians like friends and accepted the role of father to so many of them."

The records remember him as something rarer still: a genuinely original mind in a music full of great musicians, making sounds that nobody else would have thought to make, and leaving them with the greatest dub mixer who ever lived to finish the job.
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TRACKLIST & TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Termination Dub
03:39 - Save Our Dub
06:34 - Leggo The Herb Man Dub
09:58 - World Dub - Away With The Bad
13:22 - Wicked Tumbling Version
15:26 - Dub Universal
18:47 - Wicked Can't Run This Dub
21:55 - Assack Lawn No.1 Dub (Version 1)
24:54 - Assack Lawn No.1 Dub (Version 2)
28:01 - Father For The Living Dubwise
30:30 - There's Dub
32:56 - Version 78 Style
36:36 - Lambs Bread Dubwise
38:49 - Melodica International (Extended Mix)

VAULT SPECS:
🎵 Artist: Glen Brown & King Tubby
📀 Album: Termination Dub
📅 Year: 1973-1979
🏷️ Label: Blood & Fire
🎚️ Style: Dub
🎛️ Mixed By: King Tubby

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