Errol Brown And The Revolutionaries

★★★ Tip Top Dub DOCTOR BIRD. CD/DL Two CDs of uncomplicated dubs from Treasure Isle.

Jamaican producer Sonia Pottinger ran Tip Top distribution from her base on Orange Street, Kingston and retained the High Note label for her most hit-bound material. Following Duke Reid’s death in 1975, she took over his Treasure Isle studio and released a series of sublime dub albums crafted by Reid’s nephew Errol Brown, who kept his output largely gimmick-free. Thus, on Tip Top

Dub, clean mixes of Justin Hinds’ Rig-ma-Roe Game and Well Pleased and Satisfied’s Walla Walla draw the listener with just the right amount of delay. If dubs of Al Brown’s rendition of Sitting In Limbo and Ronnie Davis’s adaptation of Ballistic Affair lack the dynamism of a King Tubby, Lee Perry or Errol Thompson mix, there is still plenty here to engage the listener, because the musical backing of Sly Dunbar and the Revolutionaries remains rock-solid throughout.