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ou encore trouvé sur le site de l'ami Mick Sleeper :
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Dubious Treasures
The latest Lee Perry release to make a buzz with fans is Dub Treasures From The Black Ark, a new compilation from the dubious Jamaican Recordings label. Jamaican Recordings have a history of releasing interesting but questionable collections of rare reggae and dub; some seem to be genuine while others have clearly been overdubbed or remixed and presented as "lost" or "unreleased". Sadly, the latter seems to be true with Dub Treasures, which should really be called Dubious Treasures.
At first listen, the tracks on Dub Treasures do sound like Black Ark productions, but wait – isn't that a Morwells tune ("Bald Head") that's been subjected to a lot of phasing and renamed "Covenant Dub"? And isn't "Flut In The Ark" actually "Shooter Dub" by King Tubby, a Leonard Chin production, also being subjected to some phasing in a crude attempt to replicate the Black Ark sound? Other frauds are more interesting, such as "Hold Fast Dub", which seems to be a track from the infamous Mike Brooks collection Solid Ground, a set of bogus Black Ark tracks that were clumsily edited and overdubbed in the 1990s by Brooks and passed off as lost master tapes. It's basically a dub version of the Heptones "Crying Over You" with some strange vocals from Brooks thrown into the mix. "Vampire" (the Upsetters version of "Mr. Brown") shows up as the oddly-titled "Ox Man Dub", but isn't a Black Ark production.
I could give a track-by-track analysis of the entire album, but suffice it to say that very few of the tracks on Dub Treasures are actually from the Black Ark, they are not rare, and they are all being presented as something that they're not. It's sad that in a time where we have so few companies re-releasing vintage reggae that Jamaican Recordings has to put out a bogus collection like Dub Treasures instead of giving us something more bona fide.
Mick Sleeper
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Voilà ! Ca ne veut pas dire que c'est mauvais mais c'est pas des mix d'époque, c'est tout.
