Twelve dub records, in order
A route through dub itself rather than through reggae: twelve albums in sequence, from the first tentative experiments to the point where the method left Jamaica altogether.
Keith Hudson
Producer and singer
- Kingston, Jamaica
- 1960s to 1984
Keith Hudson is the most singular figure in early dub, and the least like anybody else working at the time. He produced, he sang in a cracked and unlovely voice, and he made records that sound as though they were assembled in the dark.
Pick a Dub, from 1974, has a strong claim to being the first record conceived as a dub album rather than assembled from leftover versions. That distinction matters. It is sequenced, it has a mood it sustains across two sides, and it treats the form as something you could make an album out of.
He moved to New York and kept working until his death in 1984, at forty six.
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