Tracklist:

Mad Professor - Ariwa The Dub Sampler

Earl Lawerence - Dancing On A Bassline Dancing On The Bass Line

Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - Only One God

Mad Professor - H2so4

Starky Banton - Dub De Heart

Ragga Doll - Hippamuffin

Professor Doppler - Cook Up Rice

Mad Professor - Disco Dude

Mad Professor - Kathmandu Dub

The Robotics! - Hong Kong Flew!

Robotiks - Miss Mood

Aisha - Can You Feel It

Great selection of Dub, definitely moving to the wide left side with unique sounds…

Ariwa Sounds started in a front room in Thornton Heath, South London. Four tracks, some homemade equipment, and Neil Fraser, better known as Mad Professor, at the controls. That was 1980. Over four decades later, the label has more than 300 albums to its name and a legacy that stretches well beyond the reggae scene.

This compilation pulls twelve tracks from across the catalogue. Dub, lovers rock, heavy roots music, digital dancehall — it's all here. What ties it together is the Ariwa studio sound, all going through Mad Professor’s desk.

Mad Professor is the backbone of it. Dub Me Crazy got him known and his production credits run from Jah Shaka and Horace Andy to Massive Attack, Sade and The Orb. The tracks here — the Dub Sampler, H2SO4, Disco Dude, Kathmandu Dub — show why.

The Jah Shaka collaboration Only One God is a landmark. Two of the UK's most important dub figures on one track. Dark and heavy roots music.

The Robotics appear twice — Hong Kong Flew! and Miss Mood. They are Ariwa's house band and have backed U-Roy, Lee Perry, Big Youth and more over the years.