MUSICIANS- Drums: Style Scott; Bass: Flabba Holt; Guitar: Bingy Bunny; Guitar: Dwight Pinkney; Keyboards: Earl Fitzsimmons; Percussion: Style, Flabba, Bingy, Dwight. Carl Ayton plays Percussion on "How Could I Dub" & replaces Style Scott on Drums for "Let's Dub It".
Roots Radics started informally in 1978 as a group of well-known respected artists, brought together by superstar Gregory Isaacs to back his recording endeavors. The concept of being a "group" really stuck as they continued to back Isaacs' as well as Yellowman, Eek-A-Mouse, Clint Eastwood & General Saint, The Wailing Souls, Don Carlos, Linval Thompson, Frankie Paul, The Meditations, Sugar Minott, Shinehead, Culture, Bunny Wailer, Prince Far-I, Adrian Sherwoods' "On-U Sound System" and many others.
The Roots Radics special sound is rootsy, heavy and danceable. They are masters of the cool and deadly "one-drop" sound. "Hot We Hot Dub" is the hot dub version of the RAS release "Hot We Hot". Originally released as a cassette-only by ROIR in 1989, it has now been digitally re-mastered for CD with two bonus tracks produced by Dwight Pinkney. Never before available on CD.
In Dub history the Roots Radics were the musicians on a majority of Scientist's historic productions. Under the pseudonym "The Arabs", they backed Prince Far-I on his most crucial Dub recordings. As recording artists, on their own merits, the Roots Radics have released records for RAS, Heartbeat, Taboui and Trojan Records.
Roots Radics started informally in 1978 as a group of well-known respected artists, brought together by superstar Gregory Isaacs to back his recording endeavors. The concept of being a "group" really stuck as they continued to back Isaacs' as well as Yellowman, Eek-A-Mouse, Clint Eastwood & General Saint, The Wailing Souls, Don Carlos, Linval Thompson, Frankie Paul, The Meditations, Sugar Minott, Shinehead, Culture, Bunny Wailer, Prince Far-I, Adrian Sherwoods' "On-U Sound System" and many others.
The Roots Radics special sound is rootsy, heavy and danceable. They are masters of the cool and deadly "one-drop" sound. "Hot We Hot Dub" is the hot dub version of the RAS release "Hot We Hot". Originally released as a cassette-only by ROIR in 1989, it has now been digitally re-mastered for CD with two bonus tracks produced by Dwight Pinkney. Never before available on CD.
In Dub history the Roots Radics were the musicians on a majority of Scientist's historic productions. Under the pseudonym "The Arabs", they backed Prince Far-I on his most crucial Dub recordings. As recording artists, on their own merits, the Roots Radics have released records for RAS, Heartbeat, Taboui and Trojan Records.