Artists
Producers, engineers, singers, players and sound men. The people behind the records we keep coming back to.
Producers and engineers
The people at the desk, who made dub a way of working rather than a style.
Alvin Ranglin
Barnabas
Bunny "Striker" Lee
Greenwich Farm, Kingston, Jamaica
Clement "Coxsone" Dodd
Kingston, Jamaica
Clive Chin
Derrick Harriott
Errol Thompson
Kingston, Jamaica
Glen Brown
Gussie Clarke
Harry J
Herman Chin Loy
Jah Shaka
Jamaica, then London

Jah Thomas
Joe Gibbs
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Keith Hudson
Kingston, Jamaica

King Jammy
Waterhouse, Kingston, Jamaica
King Tubby
Waterhouse, Kingston, Jamaica

Lee "Scratch" Perry
Kendal, Jamaica
Leonard "Santic" Chin

Linval Thompson
Lloyd "Matador" Daley

Mikey Dread
Port Antonio, Jamaica
Niney the Observer
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Pat Kelly
Phil Pratt
Philip Smart
Prince Jammy / King Jammy
Prince Tony Robinson
Rupie Edwards
Scientist
Kingston, Jamaica
Soljie Hamilton
Steven Stanley
Sylvan Morris
Tappa Zukie
Winston Riley
Yabby You
Waterhouse, Kingston, Jamaica
Studio bands
The house bands whose rhythms everything else was built on.
Brentford All Stars

Roots Radics
Kingston, Jamaica
Skin, Flesh & Bones
Sly & Robbie
Soul Syndicate
Sound Dimension
The Aggrovators
The Arabs
The Black Disciples
The Crystalites
The Dub Specialists
The Dynamites
The Fire House Crew
The Gladiators Band
The Hi-Times Band
The High Times Players
The Hippy Boys
The Impact All Stars
The Ja-Man All Stars
The Morwells
The New Establishment
The Observer All Stars
The Professionals
The Randy's All Stars
The Revolutionaries
Kingston, Jamaica
The Roots Avengers
The Santic All Stars
The Soul Defenders
The Soul Vendors
The Taxi Gang
The Underground Vegetables

The Upsetters
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics
We the People Band
Musicians
Players whose individual sound carried into the versions.
"Deadly" Headley Bennett
Ansel Collins
Aston "Family Man" Barrett
Augustus Pablo
Kingston, Jamaica
Bobby Ellis
Boris Gardiner
Carlton "Santa" Davis
Carlton Barrett
Cedric "Im" Brooks
Dean Fraser
Earl "Chinna" Smith
Earl "Flabba" Holt
Earl "Wya" Lindo

Ernest Ranglin
George "Fully" Fullwood
Gladstone Anderson
Jackie Mittoo
Browns Town, Jamaica
Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace
Lloyd Parks
Noel "Scully" Simms
Ranchie McLean
Rico Rodriguez

Robbie Shakespeare
Sly Dunbar
Kingston, Jamaica
Style Scott
Tommy McCook
Tony Chin

Tyrone Downie
Uziah "Sticky" Thompson
Vin Gordon
Winston Wright
Singers and groups
The voices, and the vocal cuts the dubs were taken from.

Barrington Levy
Black Uhuru
Bob Marley & The Wailers

Burning Spear
Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Cornell Campbell
Culture

Dennis Brown
Earth & Stone

Freddie McGregor

Gregory Isaacs

Horace Andy
Kingston, Jamaica
Hugh Mundell

Israel Vibration
Jacob Miller

Johnny Clarke

Johnny Osbourne
Junior Murvin
Junior Reid

Max Romeo

Michael Prophet

Sugar Minott
The Abyssinians
Kingston, Jamaica
The African Brothers
The Cables
The Chantells

The Congos
The Ethiopians
The Gaylads

The Gladiators
The Heptones
The Itals
The Meditations
The Melodians

The Mighty Diamonds
The Mighty Threes
The Paragons
The Pioneers
The Royals
The Silvertones
The Tamlins
The Techniques
The Twinkle Brothers
The Uniques
The Viceroys

The Wailing Souls
Deejays and voices
Toasters, chanters and the sound system microphone.

Big Youth

Brigadier Jerry
Charlie Chaplin
Clint Eastwood

Dennis Alcapone
Dillinger
Dr. Alimantado

Eek-A-Mouse
General Saint
I-Roy
Jah Lion
Jah Stitch
Jah Woosh
Josey Wales

Lone Ranger
Nicodemus
Prince Far I
Spanish Town, Jamaica
Prince Jazzbo
Prince Mohammed
Ranking Dread
Ranking Joe

Trinity
U Brown
U-Roy
Jones Town, Kingston, Jamaica
Welton Irie
Yellowman
British and European
The second tradition, built in basements and back rooms.

Aba Shanti-I
Adrian Sherwood
London
African Head Charge
London
Alpha & Omega
Alpha Steppa
Brain Damage
Creation Rebel

Dennis Bovell
Saint Peter, Barbados, then London

Dreadzone
Dub Syndicate
London
Dubkasm
Gorgon Sound
High Tone
Improvisators Dub

Iration Steppas
Jah Free
Jah Warrior
Kanka

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Chapelton, Jamaica, then London

Mad Professor
Guyana, then London
Manasseh
New Age Steppers
O.B.F.
Panda Dub
Revolutionary Dub Warriors
Singers & Players

Stand High Patrol
The Bush Chemists
The Disciples
Vibronics
Weeding Dub
Zenzile
Zion Train
Descendants
Where the method travelled once it left the studio.

