Over the course of The Slackers' nearly 35 year career, the NYC legends have paid respect to numerous interconnected genres of Jamaican music, including ska, reggae, and rocksteady. Dub mixing - a process of creating new "versions" of songs that emphasize the rhythm section and heavy utilization of atmospheric effects such as delay and reverb - looms so large as a driving force in that world, it is no wonder that the band would approach it with the same mix of reverence and creativity. "Dub is the other side of The Slackers," says the band's guitarist, Agent Jay. "A contrast to the uptempo danceable wit of our ska." The Dub Classics LP - originally released (and sold out) in 2021 and now available from Pirates Press Records - represents a collection of some of the greatest fruits of that labor. More than just a "re-mix" album, it is an essential part of the band's catalog that reinvents their sound and reveals all new perspectives on their many talents. Around 2010, as he was dialing in the process of digitally producing dub mixes, Agent Jay proposed a sequel of sorts to The Slackers' first dub album, 2005's An Afternoon in Dub. It remained an off-and-on, back burner project, until around 2017 when he returned to it with different songs than he'd started with, but ultimately, it was tabled again. Finally, in 2021, with the band itching for a new release during the pandemic lockdown, the concept for the album crystallized around dubs of the band's early material (drawn from 2001's Wasted Days and earlier), and three months on from that point, the sessions for Dub Classics were completed.