… Dub music is in conversation with the cultural aesthetic of Afrofuturism. Similar experiments with recordings at the mixing desk outside the dancehall environment were also done by producers Clive Chin and Herman Chin Loy. Augustus Pablo is credited with bringing the melodica to dub, and is also among the pioneers and creators of the genre. Dub was pioneered by Osbourne ‘King Tubby’ Ruddock, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Errol Thompson and others in the late 1960s. The Roland Space Echo was widely used by dub producers in the 1970s to produce echo and delay effects. It was an early form of popular electronic music. Other techniques include dynamically adding extensive echo, reverb, panoramic delay, and occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works. Music in this genre consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, and emphasizing the drum and bass parts (this stripped-down track is sometimes referred to as a riddim). “ Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae. YouTube: King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown 48:25 …”ĭusting ∞m Off: Augustus Pablo – King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown Without ‘King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown’ there would be no post-punk. The end. But one story of theft-or tribute-that runs a little more below the surface is that of ‘King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown’ the dub reggae single by Augustus Pablo and King Tubby that may have accidentally reinvented punk. The Beatles ripped off Ravi Shankar, and the Police basically kept Jamaica as a musical banana republic. The Rolling Stones nicked from Howlin’ Wolf. Truth be told, whether it was an American, an Indian, or a Jamaican-if you were English and played any instrument except the lute, anytime after 1950, somebody who used to make your sugar had been there first. In most cases, the play-by-play of who stole what is fairly apparent. They don’t exactly call it ‘The British Invasion’ over there. Since the dawn of the popular music era, the English have stolen their music from their colonies and then written the history books to say they invented it.