Previously unreleased dub companion to Flick Wilson - School Days LP. Killer Scientist at King Tubby's mixes!

Totally killer previously unreleased dub companion LP to Flick Wilson's "School Days" LP. Jah Life was no slacker when it came to mixing dubs, and sat in with Scientist at King Tubby's for the mixing of many of the classic Junjo/Radics/Scientist albums. But more importantly, they also mixed a ton load of dubs for Jah Life himself, many of which, like this album, remain unreleased...until now! Nine out of ten tracks from the Flick Wilson album are dubbed here, and one track from the Wayne Jarrett "What's Wrong..." album. Classic Scientist 1980 style mixing, nothing else like it, hard stuff. Cover features a fantastic previously unseen photo from Beth Lesser.

Overton Brown, the mixing engineer who became known as Scientist while mastering his craft at King Tubby’s Dromilly Avenue studio, initially created dubs of reworked Studio One riddims for Don Mais’ Roots Tradition label, but was given his chance at King Tubby’s when Prince Jammy cut short a mixing session for Don Mais because he was too tired to continue. After Scientist had left King Tubby’s studio, he became the principal engineer for the Hoo Kim brothers’ Channel One Studio. In the early 1980s he came to prominence with a remarkable series of dub albums, released by Greensleeves Records.

Hidden Treasure

“The Dub Album They Didn’t Want You To Hear!”, a long hidden treasure from the early dancehall days, is the previously unreleased dub counterpart to Flick Wilson’s “School Days” album. This rare and in demand Flick Wilson album from the early ’80s – at the time only released in NYC, but in 2012 reissued on the Dub Irator label – was produced by Hyman ‘Jah Life’ Wright and Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes and featured the Roots Radics at Channel One and Scientist at King Tubby’s. The combination of the typical heavy Roots Radics riddims from those days and Scientist’s wizardry at the mixing board makes this a wicked dub companion to the vocal set. “The Dub Album They Didn’t Want You To Hear!” has nine out of ten tracks from the “Schooldays” album, and one track from Wayne Jarrett’s “What’s Wrong With The Youths” LP, namely “Rockers Dub”, which all have been given the dub treatment in classic Scientist style. From the excellent album opener, “Jah Turn Them Dub” to the strong “School Days Dub”, the last track of this album, the listener is treated to some great classic stuff from the Roots Radics and Scientist.

2024 US pressing is in new condition.