King Tubby - The Roots of Dub 3x10" box set

"The sound of dubs mixed by King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock) in Jamaica in the early to mid-1970s have long been the stuff of legend in reggae. Those who take a deep dive into the origins of electronic dance music or hip-hop will inevitably confront this formidable legacy. Tubby is also a household name among recording engineers, regardless of genre, as his approach to his craft was genuinely groundbreaking, the idea that a vocal mix of a song was just the beginning of sonic possibilities, not the end goal.“Nobody had ever heard remixing done to the extent that dub was deconstructing these vocals,” explains musicologist and Blood & Fire A&R man Steve Barrow. “That was Tubby’s genius. In a sense, King Tubby gave the world new ears to listen to music.”"From 1968-1975, Ruddock ruled one of the most revered soundsystems in Jamaica, Tubby’s Home Town Hi-Fi out of Waterhouse. It was sidelined by bullets in 1975, the year Dub From The Roots and The Roots of Dub were released. Tubby’s sou