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While the band's personnel remained fluid – depending on which players were available and frequently overlapping with other seminal sessions bands such as Joe Gibbs' The Professionals and Bunny \"Striker\" Lee's The Aggrovators – The Revolutionaries were most known as Channel One's house band in the mid to late '70s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe decision to top-bill The Revolutionaries, rather than feature an individual artist as was customary at the time, was made by Kingston's most celebrated female producer, Sonia Pottinger who shrewdly determined that The Revolutionaries' name alone would be a can't miss selling point. One only needs to spend a minute with \u003cem\u003eDub Expression\u003c\/em\u003e to hear why. Originally released in 1978 on Pottinger's High Note label, \u003cem\u003eDub Expression\u003c\/em\u003e represents the essence of dub in its purest form. An absolute classic. 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