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King Tubby

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History

The mixing desk became an instrument

In a small room in Waterhouse, King Tubby stopped using a mixing desk to balance records and started using it to play them. Everything we call dub comes out of that decision.

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History

U-Roy and the birth of the deejay

Somebody talking over a record was not a new idea. Doing it so well that the talking became the record was, and one man on King Tubby's sound worked out how.

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Reviews

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

The record people hand you when you ask what dub is. Fifty years on it is still the right answer, and still stranger than its reputation suggests.

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