King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (song)
| "King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown" | |
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Dutch single cover | |
| Single by Augustus Pablo | |
| from the album King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown | |
| B-side | "Baby I Love You So" |
| Released | 1974 |
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| Length | 2:58 |
| Label | Mango |
| Songwriter(s) | Augustus Pablo |
| Producer(s) | Augustus Pablo |
"King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" is a dub instrumental track by reggae musician Augustus Pablo, first released under the title "King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown" as a single in 1974 on Island Records sublabel Mango Records. It is a dub version of the Jacob Miller song "Baby I Love You So", also produced by Pablo. King Tubby was the mixing engineer.
Island issued the track again as a single in 1975 in the US, Canada, UK and Netherlands. As "King Tubby's Meet Rockers Up-Town", it was also released in Jamaica in 1975 as the B-side of "Baby I Love You So". With the title "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown", it was later included on the 1976 album King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown.
At a time when other dub musicians emphasized bass lines and drums, Pablo and sound engineer King Tubby accentuated the melodica melody line in this cut using four-track recording technology. Musicology professor Michael Veal wrote that the track's appeal stems partly from "Pablo's dynamic backing rhythm, built from an insistent, eighth-note bass pattern anchoring a I minor-IV minor chord sequence". AllMusic noted "a busy, almost double-time drum part that, in its intricacy, foreshadows the frenetic breakbeats of mid-'90s jungle."