The dance is the point
Roots and dub were never really album music. They were built for a room, a stack of speakers and a selector who knows what the crowd needs before the crowd does.
sound system
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Building the bass
A roots sound system is not a big hi-fi. It is a room-sized instrument built by hand, tuned by ear, and designed around one frequency range most speakers never reach.
When dub came to Britain
The music crossed the Atlantic in suitcases and stayed. What British sounds did with it was not imitation, it was a second tradition growing out of the first.