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ALBUMDub Too Much, Vol. 3King Tubby & Ring Craft Posse
Albums by King Tubby
ALBUMBig Dub -Glen Brown and King Tubby Lost Tapes-Glen Brown & King Tubby
ALBUMStraight to Tubby's HeadKing Tubby
ALBUMKing Tubby Meets Blackbeard's Ring Craft Posse: Lost Dub From The VaultKing Tubby & Ring Craft Posse
ALBUMKing Tub's WorkshopKing Tubby
ALBUMTubby's Wild DubsKing Tubby
ALBUMDub Split the AtomKing Tubby, Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators
ALBUMConcrete Jungle Dub (feat. Riley All Stars)King Tubby
ALBUMKing Tubby Takes Down Channel OneKing Tubby
ALBUMDub CreatorKing Tubby
ALBUMKing Tubby V I RoyI-Roy & King Tubby
Artist Playlists
King Tubby Essentials
This dub ruler spins reggae magic with just a mixing desk.
King Tubby: The Producers
The dub ruler conjures reggae and dancehall magic with his mixing desk.
King Tubby: Deep Cuts
His studio, the home of dub, was a source of unending creativity.
King Tubby: Influences
The reggae, R&B, and jazz that provided the roots of dub.
Inspired by King Tubby
Whether reggae or EDM, his DNA survives in dance music.
Artist Biography
As the originator of dub, one of the most important developments not only in reggae, but in all of contemporary music, King Tubby is a towering historical figure. Born Osbourne Ruddock, the Kingston pioneer started out as an electronics repair man. By the late '60s he was working as a recording engineer and DJ, and the die was cast when he began playing his first instrumental dub mix of a record he'd just engineered. By the early '70s, Tubby had his own studio where he became a master at the art of transforming reggae recordings through creative, often spontaneous remixing. Throughout the '70s he collaborated with a stunning cast of producers and artists, making reggae history in the process.
Hometown
Kingston, Jamaica
Genre
Reggae