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.
Mikey Dread
Broadcaster, singer and producer
- Port Antonio, Jamaica
- 1970s to 2008
Michael Campbell was a radio engineer before he was an artist, and it shows in everything he made. His late night programme Dread at the Controls on JBC played roots records the station was not otherwise interested in, and he cut it together with effects, jingles and voices in a way that was closer to dub than to broadcasting.
African Anthem carries that method onto a record: collage, radio furniture and studio effects treated as part of the composition rather than decoration on top of it.
He later worked with the Clash, which is how a great many people outside reggae first heard him. He died in 2008.
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