aDUBTA & The Black Oak Roots Allstars feat. Ammoye – “ Baby I Love You So”

50 years anniversary of a really special and famous Reggae tune…;when dub meets a song so sweet it makes you heart bleed: In 1974, a young Jacob Miller voiced an instrumental which was originally recorded by Augustus Pablo aka Horace Michael Swaby and his fantastic Melodica: a casual anthem called “King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown”. Miller’s vocal version was called BABY I LOVE YOU SO. Back then, nobody was aware that this fling between Pablo’s Far East Sound, Miller’s velvet voice and Tubby’s touch will turn out one of the most influential love triangles from the golden age of Dub and a blueprint of “cool” Reggae. Today we know better. This masterpiece belongs in every Top 25 Reggae compilation, period. Paired with a King Tubby dub on the flip side, it came out first in 1974 on a Jamaican label called “The Thing” (complete with a counterfeit of the mutant Marvel comic hero) before the music industry saw the potential and Mango/Island picked it up for European release in 1975. Here it was soon championed by every sound that mattered. It was recorded with the following line-up: Carlton Barrett on drums, Robbie Shakespeare and Aston “Family Man” Barrett (R.I.P.) on bass guitar, and Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitar. Augustus Pablo produced and played melodica, piano, organ and clavinet. The song was mixed & engineered by King Tubby. 50 years later: ECHO BEACH (specialists for legendary DUB stuff from the vaults) asked  “aDUBta” & The Black Oak Roots Allstars (a Bavarian music collective) to do a new and even more casual version true to the spirit of the original from 1974. They delivered a vocal with singer Ammoye, as well as an instrumental and three increasingly intense dub versions. Their set is closed by a remix from Vienna’s Dub specialist and Echo Beach Stalwarts Noiseshaper.