The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 25th of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. NO one has had as profound ...

King Tubby made tentative forays into record production in the late 1970s, most notably with Horace Andy’s ‘Pure Ranking,’ but did not become a fully-fledged producer until the dancehall era of the ...

In commemoration of Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of Independence from Britain, the Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment section recognises 50 persons who made significant, yet unheralded, contributions to ...

Dub music pioneer King Tubby; Pre-dub, pre-reggae Mento Madness; Joplin & The American Ragtime Ensemble; Solo work by Yes guitarist Steve Howe; The wobbly, oscillating sounds of for stars; Former ...

This newly-reissued 1982 dub reggae album carries historical heft as one of the last times three of the form’s titans would work together. There’s a halcyon sweetness to its 10 mellow grooves. Just ...

Sound engineer and radio repairman King Tubby had worked on the sound system scene in Kingston, Jamaica – where competing groups of DJs would hold street parties blazing out ska and reggae – since the ...

King Tubby did not invent dub, but with hundreds—if not thousands—of sides standing witness to his wizardry—he elevated the form to an exalted level. Jamaican dub of the roots reggae era is the direct ...

An early pioneer of the Jamaican sound system culture and a studio engineer par excellence, Osbourne Ruddock - widely known and revered as King Tubby - was in his time without equal when it came to ...

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, ...

King Tubby did not invent dub, but with hundreds—if not thousands—of sides standing witness to his wizardry—he elevated the form to an exalted level. Jamaican dub of the roots reggae era is the direct ...