Tommy McCook & The Supersonics ~ Pleasure Dub [PSCD63]

'Tommy McCook was a Cuban-born saxophonist who moved to Jamaica in 1963. A founding member of The Skatalites, he also directed The Supersonics for Duke Reid, and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or with The Revolutionaries at Channel One Studios in the 1970s.

Duke Reid died from cancer in 1974 & his nephew, Errol Brown, who had been a junior engineer at Treasure Isle and who would go on to become one of the key engineers at Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studio, took over the studio controls. He mixed three dub albums at Treasure Isle that dressed down and dubbed up some of the best of the Bond Street catalogue. Snatches of the original vocals were woven in and out of mixes that sound as fresh and as vital today as they did when they were first released… both in their original sixties incarnations and their 70's mutations. Treasure Dub Volume 1 & Treasure Dub Volume 2 have been available in various incarnations ever since. However, ‘Pleasure Dub’, the best of the set featuring Errol Brown’s cuts to rock steady classics such as ‘The Right Track’ by Phyllis Dillon, ‘The Tide Is High’ and ‘Riding On A High & Windy Way’ from The Paragons and ‘Things You Say You Love’ by The Jamaicans has never been re-pressed since its initial release. ‘Pleasure Dub’ is a record we have wanted to release for a long, long time and we are all delighted to be able to finally add a Treasure Isle album to the Pressure Sounds catalogue.'

'Yet another killer from the PS catalogue. 18 cool Treasure Isle rhythms, dubwise ~ impossible to resist. Considering that dub didn't really come of age for several years after these tunes were originally released, it's a dam unique set of dubs. Errol Brown is the unsung hero of dub if you ask me. Pressure Sounds have done it again!' ~ someone else

i luv me some mixing desk fuggery & interweaving of echoic vocal snatchery, which in the rite hands can only help make the source material more interesting. i likewise wholeheartedly encourage the rapturous support of pressure sounds & only recently discovered that he's [re]issued several of my favourite platters. a top tier outfit indeed. r.i.p. to owl the talented folks who made these sounds

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