sounds of Jamaica
King Tubby: The Heaviest Dubs, published 2021
As a white London boy growing up in the 70’s, surrounded by my friends of west indian descent with their red, gold and green coloured wooly hats and King Tubby blasting from their portable cassette players, I learned to love the almost mystical sound of the incessant, almost hypnotic, bass.
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sounds of Jamaica
Mista Savona (DJ), King Tubby’s Heaviest Dubs (King Tubby aka Osbourne Ruddick, 1941-1989), published 2021
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Why is everything now geared to longevity? If everything’s directed at maximizing the number of years you live, you’re denying life itself.
—artist David Hockney (1937-), quoted in A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Martin Gayford, expanded edition, 2016)
basement jukebox
Augustus Pablo (1953-1999, melodica), King Tubby (1941-1989, engineer, producer), “King Tubby’s Meets Rockers Uptown,” 1974
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