King Tubby
A legendary Jamaican producer, King Tubby became one of the world's first ever
remixers, inventing dub and shaping the sound of the Caribbean by producing
records for reggae greats Horace Andy, Cornell Campbell and Augustus Pablo. An
electrical engineer who repaired radios and built huge speakers for Kingston's
sound system crews, Tubby started his own pirate radio station before being
recruited by Treasure Isle Studio boss Duke Reid to create instrumental tracks
for the local MCs and toasters. By the 1960s his method of chopping up existing
records, stripping back the vocals and...
