Guerilla Dub

Burning Sounds has reissued the album Guerilla Dub by The Aggravators (The Aggrovators) and The Revolutionaries for this year’s Record Store Day (RSD). Originally released in 1978 by the UK-based record company, the 10-track album was then re-released on CD and 180 grams vinyl LP in 2016. Now, they have once again repressed the LP, this time on red colored vinyl LP.

The Aggrovators, named after Lee’s Agro Sounds record shop, were a key session band for Bunny “Striker” Lee in the 1970s and 1980s. The Revolutionaries served as the house band for Channel One Studios, owned by the Hoo Kim brothers, during the same time period. The lineup of both bands frequently changed, with Bunny Lee and the Hoo Kim’s using the name to refer to whichever musicians they were working with at the time. Musicians like Sly & Robbie, Bertram McLean, Tommy McCook, Bobby Ellis, Vin Gordon, Ossie Hibbert, Earl “Chinna” Smith, and Aston Barrett were involved with both bands at one point or another. The Aggrovators and The Revolutionaries can be heard on numerous artist albums and dub collections that have been released throughout the past five decades.