The Dub Factor

by Black Uhuru

The Dub Factor cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1983
  • Label: Island
  • Country: Jamaica
  • Length: 38:38
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Puma Jones, Sly Dunbar, Michael Rose, Sly & Robbie, Ansel Collins, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, Mikey Chung, Radcliffe "Dougie" Bryan, Sky Juice, Wally Badarou, Robbie Shakespeare, Bertram "Ranchie" McLean, Keith Sterling, Barry Reynolds, Robbie Lyn

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a radical dub companion to their highly successful 'Chill Out' album, this release puts producers Sly and Robbie at the forefront. 'The Dub Factor' heavily deconstructs the band's vocal tracks, emphasizing massive, reverberating basslines and intense, psychedelic studio effects. The album helped popularize heavy Jamaican dub aesthetics to a broader international rock and pop audience.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Ion Storm (3:49)
  2. Youth (3:49)
  3. Big Spliff (4:06)
  4. Boof 'N' Baff 'N' Biff (3:30)
  5. Puffed Out (3:55)
  6. Android Rebellion (4:04)
  7. Apocalypse (3:48)
  8. Back Breaker (3:39)
  9. Sodom (3:23)
  10. Slaughter (4:35)

Credits

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