No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: King Tubby.

Like most of Glen Brown’s productions, ‘Tubbys At The Control’ was mixed by King Tubby at his home studio at 18 Dromilly Avenue, Waterhouse. The tiny space was not a recording studio in the conventional sense, nor was Tubby an actual producer until the late 1980s. His bedroom studio was never large enough for rhythms to be created in full, but the space was gradually converted into a sound manipulation unit complete with a machine to cut acetates.

‘Tubbs is an innovator,’ says ‘Prince’ Philip Smart, engineer at the studio for much of the mid-1970s. ‘He didn’t buy his first console, he built it – built the chassis and everything, put all the components together. That’s what he used to use first, until he bought the MCI console from Dynamics, their studio B. It was just that room he had at first. You have a carport, and then the carport is a bedroom and a bathroom, so him turn the bathroom into the voice room and the bedroom into the control room, and he had his repair shop in another little house in the back. His main income was building amplifiers and winding transformers, because he had contracts for hotels that needed transformers for stabilizing the current. The music was an addition, because he had the sound and he always wanted to make his own dubs, so that’s how he started: he bought the dub machine to cut his own dubs.’

— David Katz: Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 372 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

Honey Cone — “The Truth Will Come Out” — Backbeats – Detroit Gold: 70s Soul Grooves from The Motor City

Rob — “Boogie On” — Funky Rob Way

Five More — “Avalanche” — The Surf Creature Vol. 3

The Joe Cuba Sextet — “Asi Soy” — Wanted Dead Or Alive (Bang! Bang! Push, Push, Push)

Plas Johnson & His Orchestra — “Downstairs” — Boom-A-Lay: Exotic Blues & Rhythm Vol. 7

King Tubby’s & Santic All Stars — “One Heavy Duba” — Harder Shade Of Black

The Coasters — “Run Red Run” — 50 Coastin’ Classics

Adnan Othman — “Gadis Semalam” — Bersyukor: A Retrospective of Hits by a Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend

IT’S MADISON TIME…

The Cramps — “Like A Bad Girl Should” — Big Beat from Badsville

THE SECOND SET

La Logia Sarabanda — “Todos O Ninguno” — Guayaba

Funkadelic — “I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody’s Got A Thing” — Funkadelic

Los Destellos — “Constelacion” — The Roots Of Chicha 2: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru

Jimmy McCracklin — “Let’s Do It (The Chicken Scratch)” — R&B Humdingers: Twenty Two Greasy Groovers Vol. 13

Prince Jammy — “Wreck Up A Version” — Dub Gone Crazy: The Evolution of Dub at King Tubby’s 1975-1979

Frank Zappa — “Alley Cat” — The Lost Episodes

Kalyanji Anandji — “Bluff Master (Title Music)” — Bombshell Baby of Bombay: Vol. 2 Bouncin’ Nightclub Grooves from Bollywood Films 1959-1972

Those Rogues — “Wish I Could See You Again” — Wyld Canada Vol. 4: Rotten To The  Core

Man City Lion — “Tid Lom Ta Lai (Drinking Whiskey Until I’m Blurred)” — Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s–1980s

The Kirkbys — “It’s A Crime” — A Slight Disturbance In My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966

THE THIRD SET

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo — “Ne Te Fâche Pas” — Cotonou Club

Eugene Church & the Fellows — “Pretty Girls Everywhere” — The Complete Story of Doo Wop Volume 10: 1958

Horace Andy — “Dub The Light” — In The Light Dub

Paul Bearer & The Hearsemen — “I’ve Been Thinking” — Teenage Shutdown, Vol. 10: The World Ain’t Round, It’s Square!

Teresa Khoo & Her Five Notes — “You Don’t Know, Baby” — Singapore Nuggets: The Ladies

Dennis Coffey — “Ride Sally Ride” — Absolutely The Best Of Dennis Coffey

Coupé Cloué — “Mango” — Maximum Compas From Haiti

Abstracts — “The Beard” — Las Vegas Grind Vol. 7

THE FINAL SET

Los Papacitos — “Jazzy” — Panama! 2: Latin, Calypso & Funk On The Isthmus 1967-77

Howard Werth — “Obsolete” — Dangerhouse 45rpm

Soonthorn Sujaridchan — “DRUNK: Wasted” — Thai Funk ZudRangMa Vol. 2

Wire — “A Question Of Degree” — 154

Nyboma et L’Orchestre les Kamalé — “Doublé Doublé” — Doublé Doublé

The Satellites — “You Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’” — Gee Whiz: The Class Records Story 1956-1962

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

David Crosby — “Laughing” — If I Could Only Remember My Name

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