rub-a-dub-dub

due to the frantic exam cramming stress of recent days, i've relied on geezers like king tubby to stop my brain from turning to mush and making a mess of my carpet.

growing up in kingston, jamaica, tubby became one of the initiators of the dub sound, easing out his wobbly bass riddims on pirate radio stations in the area. starting life as an electronics repair guy, he quickly became familiar with the inner workings of all kinds of machines, and used this talent to piss about making lovely dubly music.

he pretty much invented the remix, and was responsible in a large part for the emergence of the 12984729847329847 sub-genres of electronic music.

unfortunately, he was shot returning from a session in 1989, but his sound has continued to be echoed since, and without him we probably wouldn't have a vast majority or the dubstep, drum and bass, breaks...pretty much allll electronic music that we hear wobbling our soundsystems today.

here's my personal favourite, roots dub:

download once upon a time at king tubby's here.

www.myspace.com/kingtubbydub

if you like what you hear you might wanna check out mad professor too.

peace!