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Before long Miller would become hugely successful with his band Inner Circle, but artistically at least, he never surpassed the recordings on this album.

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Miller wanted to make more records with Pablo (who can blame him?) but given Pablo's dire financial status (he was often dependent on many of the musicians playing on his records for free on the basis that he would do the same for them), the promises of fame and fortune from other producers soon became too tempting.

But from the opening 'Keep on knocking', which begins with a statement of intent by Miller ('This is rockers! Original rockers!') it's non-stop quintessential mid-70's reggae from start to finish.

The most famous of these singles is undoubtedly 'Baby I love you so' or rather its dub version 'King Tubby meets rockers uptown', which was one of the first examples of dub to make any sort of impact internationally. It's difficult to pick favourite tracks on a compilation as good as this one. The idea of stripping a track down to its bare bones, adding effects such as echo and reverb, and dropping its constituent musical elements in and out of the mix was pioneered by Tubby, opening the door to a whole new world of sonic exploration. Dub was still a relatively new phenomenon when these recordings were made and hardly known outside of Jamaica. Miller was still a teenager when he started working with Pablo, but handles each vocal performance with an assurance that belies his youthful inexperience, whether it's the dread lyrics of tracks like 'False rasta' or love songs like 'Baby I love you so', and Tubby's dub mixes beautifully complement the A-sides. All the tracks were recorded over an 18 month period (1974-75) at Randy's and Dynamic studios and provided much of the source material for the landmark 'King Tubby meets rockers uptown' album, after being mixed at King Tubby's studio by the master himself.

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It's a great collaboration: Miller's impassioned vocals, Pablo's uniquely strong rhythms, melodies and arrangements played by some of Jamaica's finest musicians plus the legendary King Tubby at the mixing desk.

This showcase collection features all six of Jacob Miller's Augustus Pablo produced single A-sides back to back with their respective dub versions.