Review of Positive Dub by Black Uhuru
Artist: Black Uhuru
Album title: Positive Dub
Release year: 1987
Label: Combat Records
Genre: Reggae
Rating: 4 out of 10

Track listing:
Burning Dub
Dub Town
Conceptual Dub
Space Within Your Dub
Positively Dub
Extra Dry Dub
Painful Dub
Dub Creation
Conquer the Dub

Review: A dub version of Black Uhuru's 1987 album POSITIVE, POSITIVE DUB is an interesting instrumental effort. Producer Steve Stanley isn't a radical dub mixer in the style of Lee Scratch Perry or Augustus Pablo; there are no weird sound effects or oddball mixing-desk tricks here. Instead, Stanley wisely foregrounds the exemplary bass and drum work of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, adding percussion tracks and other audio ephemera along with ghostly shards of the tracks' original lead vocals by Junior Reid, Duckie Simpson and Olafunke. The eight extended tracks are excellent to whatever extent the original vocal versions are, which means that Dub Town is magnificent and Space Within Your Dub is interesting though not earth-shattering. Fine late '80s dub.