The Strange World Of… King Tubby

David Katz navigates ten entry points into the back catalogue of the King Tubby, the enigmatic Jamaican audio engineer who devised the dub art form Fifty years after the release of magnum opus King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, the work of King Tubby still beguiles and inspires. Operating out of a converted bedroom in Waterhouse, western Kingston, Tubby was an integral force in the development of dub, the abstract reggae subgenre defined by its bass-heavy remixes and echo-shrouded disappearing vocals, the idiosyncratic audio treatments tailored for sound system events. Utilising an obsolete MCI console with a built-in high-pass filter and a homemade tape delay, Tubby’s sonic alchemy yielded a distinctive sound that was totally unlike that of his peers, making his... The post The Strange World Of… King Tubby appeared first on The Quietus .