The Aggrovators - (2015) Attack Dub (Rare Dubs From Attack Records 1973 - 1977) CD

 Jamaican Recordings ‎– 056

Throughout the seventies the productions of Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee were incredibly prolific
and he created a number of different labels to handle his ever expanding output.
The most important at the time when dub was king were Jackpot, Justice… and Attack.

“I had a lot of labels. Lee was my first label… just a plain little white label and then
I came out with Lee’s with an apostrophe s on it. In the Seventies most things used
to come on Jackpot… you know it was designed in Jamaica.
I still have labels sometimes that I don’t remember until I see it! Sometimes you’d
just make up a label on the spur of the moment. You understand? Those days it
was mainly blank labels too… The blank records were alright but then the people
wanted to know the name of the artists so we had the backgrounds ready and we
just printed out the name. It was easier. You could just put in Jackpot or Aggrovators
because in those days you used to have to do it quick! The printer started to make them
and everybody’s label looked the same way but with a different name. It meant every
man could do his own thing but you got out the record quicker…

Yeah man… I had Jackpot, Justice, Agro, Gas… Unity was the one that I started
with Pama… then Pama Supreme… I had a lot. Attack and Jackpot over Trojan side…
the Jackpot label Lee Gopthal and myself did start that, also the Big Shot label to
put out my product in the UK.” Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee

Bunny had always worked very closely with Osbourne ‘King Tubby’ Ruddock who
had built his first sound system in 1957 but Tubby felt that things really got going
when he took on Ewart ‘U Roy’ Beckford as his deejay in 1968. Not long afterwards
he purchased his own basic two track recording equipment which he installed
alongside his lathe for cutting acetates, a home made mixing console and his
collection of jazz albums in the back bedroom of his home on Dromilly Avenue
which was now known as his music room. When Byron Lee upgraded Studio B
at Dynamic Sounds to sixteen track recording in 1972 Striker brokered a deal for
Tubby to purchase the old four track equipment. The package included the
MCI console that Tubby would go on to make world famous and, as they say,
the rest is history.