The Orb- I'll Be Black (Trojan Records comp)

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Got this in the mail the other day and I can’t recommend it more for hardcore dub/regagge lovers (looking at you Maggit! )

Check out this tracklisting on this 2 disc set:
Disc: 1

  1. Liquidator - Harry J All-Stars Listen
  2. Double Barrel - Dave & Ansel Collins Listen
  3. Long Shot Kick de Bucket - The Pioneers Listen
  4. Auntie Lulu - Clancy Eccles Listen
  5. Ain’t No Sunshine - Ken Boothe Listen
  6. I’m Still in Love with You - Hortense Ellis Listen
  7. Three Piece Chicken & Chips - Ranking Trevor Listen
  8. Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna Listen
  9. It’s Raining - The Three Tops Listen
  10. Screaming Target [Version 2] - Big Youth Listen
  11. We’re Hot Listen
  12. Cool Down the Pace [10" Mix] - Gregory Isaacs Listen
  13. Sitting in the Park - Slim Smith Listen
  14. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Marcia Griffiths Listen
  15. Alton’s Official Daughter [Version 2] - Herman Chin-Loy Listen
  16. Dr. Kitch - Lord Kitchener Listen
  17. Ali Baba - John Holt Listen
  18. I Trim the Barber - King Tubby & the Aggrovators Listen
  19. Caring for My Sister - Scientist Listen
  20. Queen Majesty - The Techniques Listen
  21. Rougher Version Listen
  22. Harder and Harder - Alton Ellis Listen
  23. Orbots Surround the Trojan Horse - The Orb Listen
    Disc: 2
  24. Enter the Dragon - Lee “Scratch” Perry & the Upsetters Listen
  25. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner - Michael Rose Listen
  26. Clap the Barber - Michael Rose Listen
  27. Mah Ah Warrior - Tapper Zukie Listen
  28. Beaming - Scientist Listen
  29. Come on Little Girl, Come On [King of Kings Dub, Second Cut] - King Tubby Listen
  30. Son of Al Capone Listen
  31. Bam Bam - Byron Lee & the Dragonaires, The Maytals, Sister Nancy Listen
  32. Underground Root - Lee “Scratch” Perry & the Upsetters Listen
  33. Return of Django/Mr. Brown’s Coffin - Dennis Alcapone, The Upsetters Listen
  34. Free the Weed [Free the Dub] - Rupie All Stars Edwards Listen
  35. Scientist (Stalag 17) - Roots Radics, Scientist Listen
  36. Bad Day at Black Rock Listen
  37. Bells of Death/I Am Alright - Gregory Isaacs, Augustus Pablo Listen
  38. Beyond the Realms of the Orb Listen
  39. 9: 27 to Norbury Listen
  40. Sipple Dub - The Upsetters Listen
  41. Tower Twenty Three - The Orb Listen
  42. Hole in the Sky [The Wave Version]
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Yeah nice selection although I do have most of the cuts already.

Definately a good start for folk not too familiar with Dub & Roots Reggae.

What are the Orb tracks like???

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The Orb- Tower 23- this track has been released on their Bicycles & Tricycles album, though the mix here is a bit different. This track is MASSIVE. the bass is HEAVY and the riddim is perfect with it.

Madorb- Hole In the Sky (Wave Version) - not sure the year on this track, guessing it’s recent. A strange-ish track of weird samples, a good bassline, a decent electronic beat. This is the ending freakout track.

Madorb- 9:27 to Norbury- some other weird samples, but a great great dub bassline in it, really deep. nice electronics throughout.

Madorb- Beyond the Realms of the Orb- WOW. a sample of a guy singing “judgement day” throughout, with a massive bassline and a dope beat. comes off HARD at the end.

the orbots surround the trojan horse is just an interlude track.

great new material from the orb here, I’ll upload it for ya if you’d like. really gets me excited to see them live 2 nights in a row in July- I hear they bringing live drums and someone toasting the mic!

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Yeah that’d be cool if you could do that.