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Dub music

Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is commonly considered a subgenre of reggae, though it has developed to extend beyond that style.[1] Generally, dub consists of remixes of existing recordings[2] created by significantly manipulating the original, usually through the removal of vocal parts, emphasis of the rhythm section (the stripped-down drum-and-bass track is sometimes referred to as a riddim), the application of studio effects such as echo and reverb, and the occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works.[3]

Dub was pioneered by recording engineers and producers such as Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Errol Thompson and others[1] beginning in the late 1960s. Augustus Pablo, who collaborated with many of these producers, is credited with bringing the distinct-sounding melodica to dub, and is also among the pioneers and creators of the genre. Similar experiments with recordings at the mixing desk outside the dancehall scene were also done by producers Clive Chin and Herman Chin Loy.[4] These producers, especially Ruddock and Perry, looked upon the mixing console as an instrument, manipulating tracks to come up with something new and different. The Roland Space Echo was widely used by dub producers in the 1970s to produce echo and delay effects.[5]

Dub has influenced many genres of music, including rock, most significantly the subgenre of post-punk and other kinds of punk,[6] pop,[7] hip hop,[6] post-disco, and later house,[8] techno,[8] ambient,[8] electronic dance music,[9] and trip hop.[8] Dub was a basis for the genres of jungle and drum and bass, as well as a major influence on dubstep, with its orientation around bass and utilization of audio effects.[10][11][12] Traditional dub has survived, and some of the originators such as Mad Professor continue to produce new material.

Name edit

The use of the word dub in a recording context originated in the late 1920s with the advent of "talking pictures" and referred to adding a soundtrack to a film; it is an informal abbreviation of the word double. Over the next 40 years or so the term found its way into audio recording in general, often in the context of making a copy of a recording on another tape or disc.

It was in this sense that the term was first used in the Jamaican recording industry: new recordings were often initially copied onto one-off acetate discs, known colloquially as soft wax[13] or dub and later as dubplates, for exclusive use by sound system operators; playing a song as an exclusive recording on a sound system was a good way for a producer to test the potential popularity of a recording before committing to the pressing of hundreds or thousands of copies of singles for retail sale. Initially, these acetates would simply be the standard recording of a song that was yet to be released on a single; around 1968-69, however, they started to be exclusive mixes with some or all of the vocal mixed out. Producer Bunny Lee notes:

"Yeah...it was really VERSION those days - it wasn't dub yet beca' it was jus' the riddim. One day an incident: Ruddy's (sound system operator Ruddy Redwood) was cutting dub, an when it start, Smithy (recording engineer Byron Smith) look like 'im start bring on the voice and Ruddy's say: no, mek it run and 'im take the whole backing track off it. 'Im say, alright, run it again, and put in the voice. 'Im didn't do no more like that yet."

After describing how Redwood then had his deejay first play the vocal version and then the instrumental version at a dance, and how popular this novelty was, Lee continued:

"The next day now, 'im start it and just bring in the riddim. Or...down in the tune, bring a little voice and drop it out again...yes. Ruddy use to handle that part himself, drop in the voice and drop it out. All Smithy do was cut the dub..."[13]

Jamaican soundsystems had always sought exclusive recordings from their origins in the late 1940s. However, when they played American rhythm & blues records through the 1950s, these were simply records that rival sound system operators didn't have and couldn't identify. This progressed from the late 1950s onwards via having local musicians record a song exclusively for play on a particular sound system to having exclusive mixes of a song on acetate, which became possible with the arrival of multi-track recording in Jamaica. From the concept of a version with some or all of the vocal mixed out dubbed to acetate, the novelty-hungry sound system scene rapidly drove the evolution of increasingly creative mixes in the first few years of the 1970s. Within a few years the term dub became attached to these regardless of whether they were on an exclusive acetate or "dubplate". As the use of the term widened and evolved, Bob Marley and The Wailers used the order "dub this one!" in live concerts to mean, "put an emphasis on bass and drums". Drummer Sly Dunbar similarly points to a usage of the related term dubwise to mean using only drums and bass.[14]

It is possible that the existing use of the word dub for other meanings in Jamaica around the time of the music's origin may have helped to cement its use in the musical context. The most frequent meanings referred to either a form of erotic dance or sexual intercourse;[15] such usage is frequently present in names of reggae songs, for instance, of The Silvertones' "Dub the Pum Pum" (where pum pum is Jamaican slang for female genitalia), Big Joe and Fay's "Dub a Dawta" (dawta is Jamaican patois for daughter). I-Roy's "Sister Maggie Breast" features several references on sex:

I man a-dub it on the side

Say little sister you can run but you can't hide
Slip you got to slide you got to open your crotches wide

Peace and love abide

However, all three of these songs were recorded after the use of dub for a style of remixing was already prevalent.

Characteristics edit

Dub music is characterized by a "version" or "double"[16] of an existing song, often instrumental, initially almost always pressed on the B-sides of 45 RPM records and typically emphasizing the drums and bass for a sound popular in local sound systems. A "version" is an alternative cut of a song made for the DJ to "toast" over (a form of Jamaican rapping), usually with some or all of the original vocal removed. These "versions" were used as the basis of new songs by rerecording them with new elements.[17] The instrumental tracks are typically treated with sound effects such as echo, reverb, with instruments and vocals dropping in and out of the mix. The partial or total removal of vocals and other instruments tends to emphasise the bass guitar. The music sometimes features other noises, such as birds singing, thunder and lightning, water flowing, and producers shouting instructions at the musicians. It can be further augmented by live DJs. The many-layered sounds with varying echoes and volumes are often said to create soundscapes, or sound sculptures, drawing attention to the shape and depth of the space between sounds as well as to the sounds themselves. There is usually a distinctly organic feel to the music, even though the effects are electronically created.[16][18]

Often these tracks are used for "toasters" rapping heavily rhymed and alliterative lyrics. These are called "DJ Versions". In forms of sound system based reggae, the performer using a microphone is referred to as the "DJ" or "deejay" (where in other genres, this performer might be termed the "MC", meaning "Master of Ceremonies", or alternately, the later developed slang terms: "Microphone Commander" or "Mic Control"), and the person choosing the music and operating the turntables is called the "selector" (sometimes referred to as the DJ in other genres).

A major reason for producing multiple versions was economic; a record producer could use a recording he owned to produce numerous versions from a single studio session. A version was also an opportunity for a producer or remix engineer to experiment and express their more creative side. The version was typically the B-side of a single, and used for experimenting and providing something for DJs to talk over, while the A-side was more often dedicated to the original vocal-oriented track. In the 1970s, LPs of dub tracks began to be produced; these could be, variously: a collection of new dub mixes of riddims previously used on various singles, usually by a single producer; the dub version of an existing vocal LP with dub mixes of all the tracks; or, least commonly, a selection of previously unissued original riddims mixed in a dub style.[citation needed]

History edit

 
Lee "Scratch" Perry was an early pioneer of the genre

Dub music and toasting introduced a new era of creativity in reggae music. From their beginning, toasting and dub music developed together and influenced each other. The development of sound system culture influenced the development of studio techniques in Jamaica,[19] and the earliest DJs, including Duke Reid and Prince Buster among others, were toasting over instrumental versions of reggae and developing instrumental reggae music.[20]

"Versions" and experiments with studio mixing (Late 1960s) edit

In 1968, Kingston, Jamaica sound system operator Rudolph "Ruddy" Redwood went to Duke Reid's Treasure Isle studio to cut a one-off dub plate of The Paragons hit "On The Beach". Engineer Byron Smith left the vocal track out by accident, but Redwood kept the result and played it at his next dance with his deejay Wassy toasting over the rhythm.[21] The instrumental record excited the people at the sound system and they started singing lyrics of the vocal track over the instrumental. The invention was a success, and Ruddy needed to play the instrumental continuously for half an hour to an hour that day.[22] The next day Bunny Lee who was a witness to this, told King Tubby that they needed to make some more instrumental tracks, as "them people love" them, and they dubbed out vocals from "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" by Slim Smith. Because of King Tubby's innovative approach, the resulting instrumental track was more than just a track without a voice – King Tubby interchanged the vocals and the instrumental, playing the vocals first, then playing the riddim, then mixing them together. From this point on, they started to call such tracks "versions".[22] Another source puts 1967 and not 1968 as the initial year of the practice of putting instrumental versions of reggae tracks to the B-side of records.[23]

At Studio One the initial motivation to experiment with instrumental tracks and studio mixing was correcting the riddim until it had a "feel," so a singer, for instance, could comfortably sing over it.[22]

Another reason to experiment with mixing was rivalry among sound systems. Sound systems' sound men wanted the tracks they played at dances to be slightly different each time, so they would order numerous copies of the same record from a studio, each with a different mix.[24]

Evolution of dub as a subgenre (1970s) edit

By 1973, through the efforts of several independent and competitive innovators, engineers, and producers, instrumental reggae "versions" from various studios had evolved into "dub" as a subgenre of reggae.

The innovative album The Undertaker by Derrick Harriott and the Crystallites, engineered by Errol Thompson and with "Sound Effects" credited to Derrick Harriott, was one of the first strictly instrumental reggae albums on its release in 1970.

In 1973, at least three producers, Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Aquarius studio engineer/producer team of Herman Chin Loy and Errol Thompson simultaneously recognized that there was an active market for this new "dub" sound and consequently they started to release the first albums strictly consisting of dub. In the spring of 1973, Lee "Scratch" Perry released Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle, mixed in collaboration with King Tubby and more commonly known as "Blackboard Jungle Dub". It is considered a landmark recording of this genre.[25]

In 1974, Keith Hudson released his classic Pick a Dub, widely considered to have been the first deliberately thematic dub album, with tracks specifically mixed in the dub style for the purpose of appearing together on an LP, and King Tubby released his two debut albums At the Grass Roots of Dub and Surrounded by the Dreads at the National Arena.

Dub history (Early 1980s–present) edit

Dub has continued to evolve, its popularity waxing and waning with changes in musical fashion. Almost all reggae singles still carry an instrumental version on the B-side and these are still used by the sound systems as a blank canvas for live singers and DJs.

In 1986, the Japanese band Mute Beat would create dub music using live instruments such as trumpets rather than studio equipment, and became a precursor to club music.[26]

In the 1980s, the United Kingdom became a new centre for dub production with Mikey Dread, Mad Professor and Jah Shaka being the most famous. It was also the time when dub made its influence known in the work of harder edged, experimental producers such as Mikey Dread with UB40 and The Clash, Adrian Sherwood and the roster of artists on his On-U Sound label. Many bands characterized as post-punk were heavily influenced by dub. Better-known bands such as The Police, The Clash and UB40 helped popularize Dub, with UB40's Present Arms In Dub album being the first dub album to hit the UK top 40.

Side by side with reggae at this time (early 1980s) running B side dub mixes, a rising number of American (mostly New York state and New Jersey-based) post-disco record producers in collaboration with prominent DJs decided to supply 12 inch singles with alternate dub mixes, predating the era of "remixes". Reflected in the production of records such as The Peech Boys' "Don't Make Me Wait", Toney Lee's "Reach Up", and artists mostly on New York City labels Prelude or West End. In the aforementioned mixes the beat of the record was accentuated, "unnecessary" vocal parts dropped, and other DJ-friendly features making it easy to work with, like picking out key sections to play over other records, heightening the dancefloor effect.

Contemporary instances are also called "dubtronica", "dub-techno", "steppers" or electronic music influenced by dub music.[27]

Musical impact edit

Influence of dub edit

Yale professor Michael Veal described dub as "the sound of a society tearing itself apart at the seams". His book, "Starship Africa", says that the African diaspora is reflected in dub by the "extensive use of reverberation/delay devices and the fragmentation of the song surface" – he considers dub's use of reverb a "sonic metaphor for the condition of diaspora." Veal wrote that dub creators used echo and reverb to elicit memories of African culture in their listeners.[28] King Tubby, Lee Perry, Eroll Thompson, Mad Professor, Jah Shaka, Denis Bovell and Linton Kwesi Johnson influenced rock musicians. From the 1980s forward, dub has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced, techno, dubtronica/dub techno, jungle, drum and bass, dubstep, house music, punk and post-punk, trip hop, ambient music, and hip hop, with electronic dub sound. Musicians such as Culture Club,[29] Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble, New Age Steppers,[30] PiL, The Pop Group, The Police, Massive Attack, The Clash, Adrian Sherwood, Killing Joke,[31] Bauhaus and others demonstrate clear dub influences in their respective genres, and their innovations have in turn influenced the mainstream of the dub genre.

In 1987, US grunge rock band Soundgarden released a dub version of the Ohio Players' song "Fopp" alongside a more traditional rock cover of the song.[32] DJs appeared towards the end of the 1990s who specialised in playing music by these musicians, such as the UK's Unity Dub. In the UK, Europe, and America, independent record producers continue to produce dub. Before forming The Mars Volta, Cedric Bixler, Omar Rodriguez and other members, recorded a series of dub albums under the name De Facto since 1999.

Influence of dub on punk and rock music edit

Since the inception of dub in the late 1960s, its history has been intertwined with that of the punk rock scene in the UK. The Clash worked on collaborations involving Jamaican dub reggae creators like Lee "Scratch" Perry (whose "Police & Thieves", co-written with Junior Murvin, was covered by the Clash on their first album) and Mikey Dread (on the Sandinista! album). As well, the English group Ruts DC, a post-Malcolm Owen incarnation of the legendary reggae influenced punk group The Ruts, released Rhythm Collision Dub Volume 1 (Roir session), with the expertise of the Mad Professor. Many punk rock bands In the U.S. were exposed to dub via the rasta punk band Bad Brains from Washington, D.C., which was established and released their most influential material during the 80s. Blind Idiot God placed dub music alongside their faster and more intense noise rock tracks. Dub was adopted by some punk rock groups of the 90s, with bands such as Rancid and NOFX writing original songs in a dub style.[33] Often, bands considered to be ska punk play dub influenced songs; one of the first such bands to become popular was Sublime, whose albums featured both dub originals and remixes. They went on to influence more recent American bands such as Rx Bandits and The Long Beach Dub Allstars. In addition, dub influenced some types of pop, including bands such as No Doubt. No Doubt's fifth album, Rock Steady [1], features an assortment of popular dub sounds like reverb and echoing. As noted by the band themselves, No Doubt is heavily influenced by Jamaican musical aesthetics and production techniques, even recording their Rock Steady [2] album in Kingston, Jamaica, and producing B-sides featuring dub influences on their Everything in Time B-sides album. Some controversy still exists on whether pop-ska bands like No Doubt can regard themselves as a part of dub lineage. Other bands followed in the footsteps of No Doubt, fusing pop-ska and dub influences, such as Save Ferris and Vincent.

There are also some British punk bands creating dub music. Capdown released their Civil Disobedients album, featuring the track "Dub No. 1", while Sonic Boom Six and The King Blues take heavy influences from dub, mixing the genre with original punk ethics and attitudes. The post-punk band Public Image Ltd, fronted by John Lydon, formerly of Sex Pistols, often use dub and reggae influenced bass lines in their music, especially in their earlier music through various bassists who were members of the group, such as Jah Wobble and Jonas Hellborg. Their track "Rise", which reached #11 in the UK Chart in 1986 uses a dub/reggae influenced bass line.

The British post-punk band Bauhaus were highly influenced by dub music, so far that Bauhaus' bass player, David J mentioned that their signature song, Bela Lugosi's Dead, "was our interpretation of dub".[34][35][36]

Shoegaze bands such as Ride with their song "King Bullshit" and the intro to "Time Machine" have explored and experimented with dub. Slowdive also penned "Souvlaki Space Station" and their instrumental "Moussaka Chaos" as a testimony of dub influence, while the Kitchens of Distinction released "Anvil Dub".

Steve Hogarth, singer with British rock band Marillion, acknowledged the influence of dub on their 2001 album Anoraknophobia.[37]

Al Cisneros, founder and bassist of Doom Metal outfit OM has gone on record regarding the influence of Reggae and Dub on his bass playing style.[38]

21st-century dub edit

Traditional dub has survived, and some of the originators of dub such as Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad Professor have produced music in the 21st Century. New artists continue to preserve the traditional dub sound, some with slight modifications but with a primary focus on reproducing the original characteristics of the sound in a live environment. Some of these artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria (who recorded the album Return from Planet Dub in collaboration with, and performing live with, Lee "Scratch" Perry); Liquid Stranger from Sweden; New York City artists, including Ticklah (also known as Victor Axelrod, Earl Maxton, Calbert Walker, and Douglass & Degraw), Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, and Dub Trio—who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu); Subatomic Sound System (who have remixed material by Lee "Scratch" Perry and Ari Up); Dub is a Weapon; King Django; Dr. Israel; Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, New York; the Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Gaudi; Ott from the UK, who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Boom One Sound System, and Dubsmith from the Boom One Records label; Future Pigeon from Los Angeles; German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label; Twilight Circus from the Netherlands; Moonlight Dub Experiment from Costa Rica; and Stand High Patrol from France. More eclectic use of dub techniques are apparent in the work of BudNubac, which mixes Cuban big band with dub techniques. Modern dub producer Ryan Moore has received critical acclaim for his Twilight Circus project. In 2022 was released Sly & Robbie vs. Roots Radics "The Dub Battle" produced by the Argentine artist and dub engineer Hernan "Don Camel" Sforzini, it work is the first to reunite all the legends of dub in one album dubbing the entire "The Final Battle" album, Grammy nominated in 2019. It album includes the last dubs produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry and Bunny "Striker" Lee, also dub versions produced by King Jammy, Mad Professor, Dennis Bovell, Don Camel and two unreleased dub versions of King Tubby.[39]

Afrofuturism and Diaspora edit

Dub music is in conversation with the cultural aesthetic of Afrofuturism. Having emerged from Jamaica, this genre is regarded as the product of diaspora peoples, whose culture reflects the experience of dislocation, alienation and remembrance. Through the creation of space-filling soundscapes, faded echoes, and repetition within musical tracks, Dub artists are able to tap into such Afrofuturist concepts as the nonlinearity of time and the projection of past sounds into an unknown future space. In a 1982 essay,[40] Luke Ehrlich describes Dub through this particular scope:

With dub, Jamaican music spaced out completely. If reggae is Africa in the New World, then dub must be Africa on the moon; it's the psychedelic music I expected to hear in the '60s and didn't. The bass and drums conjure up a dark, vast space, a musical portrait of outer space, with sounds suspended like glowing planets or the fragments of instruments careening by, leaving trails like comets and meteors. Dub is a kaleidoscopic musical montage which takes sounds originally intended as interlocking parts of another arrangement and using them as raw material, converts them into new and different sounds; then, in its own rhythm and format, it continually reshuffles these new sounds into unusual juxtapositions.

At the same time, dub music's role in the Black musical canon marks a theme of the diaspora the music was birthed from. Due to the sonic structure of echoes and reverberations, dub can create a dream-like world symbolizing the generational trauma of African diaspora as a result of slavery.[41] This understanding of dub gives it the power to take on the darker emotions related to the diaspora, including violence. In King Tubby's dub mixes, one can hear sonic elements of screeching tires, gun fire, and police sirens.[42] Artist Arthur Jafa said this about dub music and the diaspora in 1994 during a keynote address at the Organization of Black Designers Conference:[42]

those group experiences that reconfigure who we [African Americans] are as a community. One of the critical primal sites would be the Middle Passage. If you understand the level of horror directed towards a group of people, then you start getting some sense of the magnitude, impact, and level of trauma that that had on the African American community, and how it was particularly one of the earliest group experiences that reshaped an "African psyche" into the beginning of an African American psyche. . . . Now, for example, you look at Black music and see certain structural things that really are about reclaiming this whole sense of absence, loss, not knowing. One of the things I'm thinking about is dub music . . . it ends up really speaking about common experiences because the structure of the music is about things dropping out and coming back in, really reclaiming this whole sense of loss, rupture, and repair that is very common across the experience of black people in the diaspora.

William Gibson frequently mentions dub in the 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer.

As they worked, Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community. Case heaved at one of the yellow sheets; the thing was light but still awkward. Zion smelled of cooked vegetables, humanity, and ganja.

"We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub."

Jamaican Sound System edit

The most straightforward explanation of the Jamaican sound system would be an individual who deals with a mechanical system consisting of musical amplification and diffusion. This would include turntables, speakers, and a PA system. In this system the deejay is the person who speaks over the record. This is not to be confused with the American term DJ, which refers to the one in charge of selecting the tracks at an event with music. This role is known as the selector in the sound system dub culture, who also plays a vital role in the system, especially in Jamaican dancehalls.

The sound system has had a prevalent spot in music production in Jamaica for well over 60 years. The true importance and relationship between the sound system and dub music can be found in the dubbed out versions of sounds that became the source of Dub music. These dubbed out versions of songs consisted of the original track, without the vocals. Through reggae soundscape and the Jamaican Sound System, dub artists were able to creatively manipulate these dubbed out versions or remixes of songs. These dub remixes were heavily influenced with effects, vocal samples, and were essential to the progression of dub. The remixes, often referred to as versions were the B-sides of a specific record. The dub musician would add in dramatic pauses and breakdowns in the version to make the song have a dub influence and feel. The artists who were using the sound system to create dub tracks would refer to their creation of remixes of certain records versioning. In the setting of a sound system, versions allow for more vocal improvisation and expressions from the deejay. These remixes or versions would not have been possible without the Jamaican sound system and its progression over the years.

At the heart of reggae and Jamaican culture lies the sound system. In the early 1950s the sound system consisted of a turntable, amplifier, and pair of speakers. In the 21st century they have become larger scale productions[citation needed]

At the time Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, the culture was in flux, and the country was experiencing a form of identity crisis. Throughout the 40's and 50's Jamaican audiences had come to favor American R&B records over locally produced music. Jamaican sound system culture and dub music helped cement Jamaican musical forms into Jamaican national cultural identity in this critical time in the nation's development.[43]

See also edit

References edit

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Further reading edit

  • Du Noyer, Paul (2003). "Dub". The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music. New York City: Billboard Books. pp. 356–357. ISBN 0-8230-7869-8.
  • Veal, Michael E. (2007). Dub: Songscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
  • Cox and Warner, eds. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Continuum: 2004.[3] "Replicant: On Dub" by David Toop; Chapter 51, Pages 355–356.

External links edit

  • A documentary about the influence of dub in today's dance music and hip hop
  • A short history of dub
  • A History of Dub Footnoted Article
  • Dub.com Links to labels, websites and resources
  • Allmusic's Essay on Dub
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For the process of transferring or copying audio material see Dubbing music For the UK garage subgenre see Dubstep Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s It is commonly considered a subgenre of reggae though it has developed to extend beyond that style 1 Generally dub consists of remixes of existing recordings 2 created by significantly manipulating the original usually through the removal of vocal parts emphasis of the rhythm section the stripped down drum and bass track is sometimes referred to as a riddim the application of studio effects such as echo and reverb and the occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works 3 DubStylistic originsReggaeelectronicskarocksteadyCultural originsLate 1960s JamaicaDerivative formsAmbientbig beatdancehalldembowdrum and bassdubstepgrimehip hophousejunglepost discopost punkpost rocktechnotrip hopSubgenresDub poetryFusion genresDubtronica dub techno psydubOther topicsList of dub artistsDub was pioneered by recording engineers and producers such as Osbourne King Tubby Ruddock Lee Scratch Perry Errol Thompson and others 1 beginning in the late 1960s Augustus Pablo who collaborated with many of these producers is credited with bringing the distinct sounding melodica to dub and is also among the pioneers and creators of the genre Similar experiments with recordings at the mixing desk outside the dancehall scene were also done by producers Clive Chin and Herman Chin Loy 4 These producers especially Ruddock and Perry looked upon the mixing console as an instrument manipulating tracks to come up with something new and different The Roland Space Echo was widely used by dub producers in the 1970s to produce echo and delay effects 5 Dub has influenced many genres of music including rock most significantly the subgenre of post punk and other kinds of punk 6 pop 7 hip hop 6 post disco and later house 8 techno 8 ambient 8 electronic dance music 9 and trip hop 8 Dub was a basis for the genres of jungle and drum and bass as well as a major influence on dubstep with its orientation around bass and utilization of audio effects 10 11 12 Traditional dub has survived and some of the originators such as Mad Professor continue to produce new material Contents 1 Name 2 Characteristics 3 History 3 1 Versions and experiments with studio mixing Late 1960s 3 2 Evolution of dub as a subgenre 1970s 3 3 Dub history Early 1980s present 4 Musical impact 4 1 Influence of dub 4 2 Influence of dub on punk and rock music 5 21st century dub 6 Afrofuturism and Diaspora 7 Jamaican Sound System 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksName editThe use of the word dub in a recording context originated in the late 1920s with the advent of talking pictures and referred to adding a soundtrack to a film it is an informal abbreviation of the word double Over the next 40 years or so the term found its way into audio recording in general often in the context of making a copy of a recording on another tape or disc It was in this sense that the term was first used in the Jamaican recording industry new recordings were often initially copied onto one off acetate discs known colloquially as soft wax 13 or dub and later as dubplates for exclusive use by sound system operators playing a song as an exclusive recording on a sound system was a good way for a producer to test the potential popularity of a recording before committing to the pressing of hundreds or thousands of copies of singles for retail sale Initially these acetates would simply be the standard recording of a song that was yet to be released on a single around 1968 69 however they started to be exclusive mixes with some or all of the vocal mixed out Producer Bunny Lee notes Yeah it was really VERSION those days it wasn t dub yet beca it was jus the riddim One day an incident Ruddy s sound system operator Ruddy Redwood was cutting dub an when it start Smithy recording engineer Byron Smith look like im start bring on the voice and Ruddy s say no mek it run and im take the whole backing track off it Im say alright run it again and put in the voice Im didn t do no more like that yet After describing how Redwood then had his deejay first play the vocal version and then the instrumental version at a dance and how popular this novelty was Lee continued The next day now im start it and just bring in the riddim Or down in the tune bring a little voice and drop it out again yes Ruddy use to handle that part himself drop in the voice and drop it out All Smithy do was cut the dub 13 Jamaican soundsystems had always sought exclusive recordings from their origins in the late 1940s However when they played American rhythm amp blues records through the 1950s these were simply records that rival sound system operators didn t have and couldn t identify This progressed from the late 1950s onwards via having local musicians record a song exclusively for play on a particular sound system to having exclusive mixes of a song on acetate which became possible with the arrival of multi track recording in Jamaica From the concept of a version with some or all of the vocal mixed out dubbed to acetate the novelty hungry sound system scene rapidly drove the evolution of increasingly creative mixes in the first few years of the 1970s Within a few years the term dub became attached to these regardless of whether they were on an exclusive acetate or dubplate As the use of the term widened and evolved Bob Marley and The Wailers used the order dub this one in live concerts to mean put an emphasis on bass and drums Drummer Sly Dunbar similarly points to a usage of the related term dubwise to mean using only drums and bass 14 It is possible that the existing use of the word dub for other meanings in Jamaica around the time of the music s origin may have helped to cement its use in the musical context The most frequent meanings referred to either a form of erotic dance or sexual intercourse 15 such usage is frequently present in names of reggae songs for instance of The Silvertones Dub the Pum Pum where pum pum is Jamaican slang for female genitalia Big Joe and Fay s Dub a Dawta dawta is Jamaican patois for daughter I Roy s Sister Maggie Breast features several references on sex I man a dub it on the sideSay little sister you can run but you can t hide Slip you got to slide you got to open your crotches widePeace and love abide However all three of these songs were recorded after the use of dub for a style of remixing was already prevalent Characteristics editSee also Music of Jamaica Dub music is characterized by a version or double 16 of an existing song often instrumental initially almost always pressed on the B sides of 45 RPM records and typically emphasizing the drums and bass for a sound popular in local sound systems A version is an alternative cut of a song made for the DJ to toast over a form of Jamaican rapping usually with some or all of the original vocal removed These versions were used as the basis of new songs by rerecording them with new elements 17 The instrumental tracks are typically treated with sound effects such as echo reverb with instruments and vocals dropping in and out of the mix The partial or total removal of vocals and other instruments tends to emphasise the bass guitar The music sometimes features other noises such as birds singing thunder and lightning water flowing and producers shouting instructions at the musicians It can be further augmented by live DJs The many layered sounds with varying echoes and volumes are often said to create soundscapes or sound sculptures drawing attention to the shape and depth of the space between sounds as well as to the sounds themselves There is usually a distinctly organic feel to the music even though the effects are electronically created 16 18 Often these tracks are used for toasters rapping heavily rhymed and alliterative lyrics These are called DJ Versions In forms of sound system based reggae the performer using a microphone is referred to as the DJ or deejay where in other genres this performer might be termed the MC meaning Master of Ceremonies or alternately the later developed slang terms Microphone Commander or Mic Control and the person choosing the music and operating the turntables is called the selector sometimes referred to as the DJ in other genres A major reason for producing multiple versions was economic a record producer could use a recording he owned to produce numerous versions from a single studio session A version was also an opportunity for a producer or remix engineer to experiment and express their more creative side The version was typically the B side of a single and used for experimenting and providing something for DJs to talk over while the A side was more often dedicated to the original vocal oriented track In the 1970s LPs of dub tracks began to be produced these could be variously a collection of new dub mixes of riddims previously used on various singles usually by a single producer the dub version of an existing vocal LP with dub mixes of all the tracks or least commonly a selection of previously unissued original riddims mixed in a dub style citation needed History edit nbsp Lee Scratch Perry was an early pioneer of the genreDub music and toasting introduced a new era of creativity in reggae music From their beginning toasting and dub music developed together and influenced each other The development of sound system culture influenced the development of studio techniques in Jamaica 19 and the earliest DJs including Duke Reid and Prince Buster among others were toasting over instrumental versions of reggae and developing instrumental reggae music 20 Versions and experiments with studio mixing Late 1960s edit In 1968 Kingston Jamaica sound system operator Rudolph Ruddy Redwood went to Duke Reid s Treasure Isle studio to cut a one off dub plate of The Paragons hit On The Beach Engineer Byron Smith left the vocal track out by accident but Redwood kept the result and played it at his next dance with his deejay Wassy toasting over the rhythm 21 The instrumental record excited the people at the sound system and they started singing lyrics of the vocal track over the instrumental The invention was a success and Ruddy needed to play the instrumental continuously for half an hour to an hour that day 22 The next day Bunny Lee who was a witness to this told King Tubby that they needed to make some more instrumental tracks as them people love them and they dubbed out vocals from Ain t Too Proud To Beg by Slim Smith Because of King Tubby s innovative approach the resulting instrumental track was more than just a track without a voice King Tubby interchanged the vocals and the instrumental playing the vocals first then playing the riddim then mixing them together From this point on they started to call such tracks versions 22 Another source puts 1967 and not 1968 as the initial year of the practice of putting instrumental versions of reggae tracks to the B side of records 23 At Studio One the initial motivation to experiment with instrumental tracks and studio mixing was correcting the riddim until it had a feel so a singer for instance could comfortably sing over it 22 Another reason to experiment with mixing was rivalry among sound systems Sound systems sound men wanted the tracks they played at dances to be slightly different each time so they would order numerous copies of the same record from a studio each with a different mix 24 Evolution of dub as a subgenre 1970s edit By 1973 through the efforts of several independent and competitive innovators engineers and producers instrumental reggae versions from various studios had evolved into dub as a subgenre of reggae The innovative album The Undertaker by Derrick Harriott and the Crystallites engineered by Errol Thompson and with Sound Effects credited to Derrick Harriott was one of the first strictly instrumental reggae albums on its release in 1970 In 1973 at least three producers Lee Scratch Perry and the Aquarius studio engineer producer team of Herman Chin Loy and Errol Thompson simultaneously recognized that there was an active market for this new dub sound and consequently they started to release the first albums strictly consisting of dub In the spring of 1973 Lee Scratch Perry released Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle mixed in collaboration with King Tubby and more commonly known as Blackboard Jungle Dub It is considered a landmark recording of this genre 25 In 1974 Keith Hudson released his classic Pick a Dub widely considered to have been the first deliberately thematic dub album with tracks specifically mixed in the dub style for the purpose of appearing together on an LP and King Tubby released his two debut albums At the Grass Roots of Dub and Surrounded by the Dreads at the National Arena Dub history Early 1980s present edit Dub has continued to evolve its popularity waxing and waning with changes in musical fashion Almost all reggae singles still carry an instrumental version on the B side and these are still used by the sound systems as a blank canvas for live singers and DJs In 1986 the Japanese band Mute Beat would create dub music using live instruments such as trumpets rather than studio equipment and became a precursor to club music 26 In the 1980s the United Kingdom became a new centre for dub production with Mikey Dread Mad Professor and Jah Shaka being the most famous It was also the time when dub made its influence known in the work of harder edged experimental producers such as Mikey Dread with UB40 and The Clash Adrian Sherwood and the roster of artists on his On U Sound label Many bands characterized as post punk were heavily influenced by dub Better known bands such as The Police The Clash and UB40 helped popularize Dub with UB40 s Present Arms In Dub album being the first dub album to hit the UK top 40 Side by side with reggae at this time early 1980s running B side dub mixes a rising number of American mostly New York state and New Jersey based post disco record producers in collaboration with prominent DJs decided to supply 12 inch singles with alternate dub mixes predating the era of remixes Reflected in the production of records such as The Peech Boys Don t Make Me Wait Toney Lee s Reach Up and artists mostly on New York City labels Prelude or West End In the aforementioned mixes the beat of the record was accentuated unnecessary vocal parts dropped and other DJ friendly features making it easy to work with like picking out key sections to play over other records heightening the dancefloor effect Contemporary instances are also called dubtronica dub techno steppers or electronic music influenced by dub music 27 Musical impact editInfluence of dub edit This section possibly contains original research Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations Statements consisting only of original research should be removed October 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message Yale professor Michael Veal described dub as the sound of a society tearing itself apart at the seams His book Starship Africa says that the African diaspora is reflected in dub by the extensive use of reverberation delay devices and the fragmentation of the song surface he considers dub s use of reverb a sonic metaphor for the condition of diaspora Veal wrote that dub creators used echo and reverb to elicit memories of African culture in their listeners 28 King Tubby Lee Perry Eroll Thompson Mad Professor Jah Shaka Denis Bovell and Linton Kwesi Johnson influenced rock musicians From the 1980s forward dub has been influenced by and has in turn influenced techno dubtronica dub techno jungle drum and bass dubstep house music punk and post punk trip hop ambient music and hip hop with electronic dub sound Musicians such as Culture Club 29 Bill Laswell Jah Wobble New Age Steppers 30 PiL The Pop Group The Police Massive Attack The Clash Adrian Sherwood Killing Joke 31 Bauhaus and others demonstrate clear dub influences in their respective genres and their innovations have in turn influenced the mainstream of the dub genre In 1987 US grunge rock band Soundgarden released a dub version of the Ohio Players song Fopp alongside a more traditional rock cover of the song 32 DJs appeared towards the end of the 1990s who specialised in playing music by these musicians such as the UK s Unity Dub In the UK Europe and America independent record producers continue to produce dub Before forming The Mars Volta Cedric Bixler Omar Rodriguez and other members recorded a series of dub albums under the name De Facto since 1999 Influence of dub on punk and rock music edit Since the inception of dub in the late 1960s its history has been intertwined with that of the punk rock scene in the UK The Clash worked on collaborations involving Jamaican dub reggae creators like Lee Scratch Perry whose Police amp Thieves co written with Junior Murvin was covered by the Clash on their first album and Mikey Dread on the Sandinista album As well the English group Ruts DC a post Malcolm Owen incarnation of the legendary reggae influenced punk group The Ruts released Rhythm Collision Dub Volume 1 Roir session with the expertise of the Mad Professor Many punk rock bands In the U S were exposed to dub via the rasta punk band Bad Brains from Washington D C which was established and released their most influential material during the 80s Blind Idiot God placed dub music alongside their faster and more intense noise rock tracks Dub was adopted by some punk rock groups of the 90s with bands such as Rancid and NOFX writing original songs in a dub style 33 Often bands considered to be ska punk play dub influenced songs one of the first such bands to become popular was Sublime whose albums featured both dub originals and remixes They went on to influence more recent American bands such as Rx Bandits and The Long Beach Dub Allstars In addition dub influenced some types of pop including bands such as No Doubt No Doubt s fifth album Rock Steady 1 features an assortment of popular dub sounds like reverb and echoing As noted by the band themselves No Doubt is heavily influenced by Jamaican musical aesthetics and production techniques even recording their Rock Steady 2 album in Kingston Jamaica and producing B sides featuring dub influences on their Everything in Time B sides album Some controversy still exists on whether pop ska bands like No Doubt can regard themselves as a part of dub lineage Other bands followed in the footsteps of No Doubt fusing pop ska and dub influences such as Save Ferris and Vincent There are also some British punk bands creating dub music Capdown released their Civil Disobedients album featuring the track Dub No 1 while Sonic Boom Six and The King Blues take heavy influences from dub mixing the genre with original punk ethics and attitudes The post punk band Public Image Ltd fronted by John Lydon formerly of Sex Pistols often use dub and reggae influenced bass lines in their music especially in their earlier music through various bassists who were members of the group such as Jah Wobble and Jonas Hellborg Their track Rise which reached 11 in the UK Chart in 1986 uses a dub reggae influenced bass line The British post punk band Bauhaus were highly influenced by dub music so far that Bauhaus bass player David J mentioned that their signature song Bela Lugosi s Dead was our interpretation of dub 34 35 36 Shoegaze bands such as Ride with their song King Bullshit and the intro to Time Machine have explored and experimented with dub Slowdive also penned Souvlaki Space Station and their instrumental Moussaka Chaos as a testimony of dub influence while the Kitchens of Distinction released Anvil Dub Steve Hogarth singer with British rock band Marillion acknowledged the influence of dub on their 2001 album Anoraknophobia 37 Al Cisneros founder and bassist of Doom Metal outfit OM has gone on record regarding the influence of Reggae and Dub on his bass playing style 38 21st century dub editTraditional dub has survived and some of the originators of dub such as Lee Scratch Perry and Mad Professor have produced music in the 21st Century New artists continue to preserve the traditional dub sound some with slight modifications but with a primary focus on reproducing the original characteristics of the sound in a live environment Some of these artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna Austria who recorded the album Return from Planet Dub in collaboration with and performing live with Lee Scratch Perry Liquid Stranger from Sweden New York City artists including Ticklah also known as Victor Axelrod Earl Maxton Calbert Walker and Douglass amp Degraw Victor Rice Easy Star All Stars and Dub Trio who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu Subatomic Sound System who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up Dub is a Weapon King Django Dr Israel Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester New York the Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado Gaudi Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records Boom One Sound System and Dubsmith from the Boom One Records label Future Pigeon from Los Angeles German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label Twilight Circus from the Netherlands Moonlight Dub Experiment from Costa Rica and Stand High Patrol from France More eclectic use of dub techniques are apparent in the work of BudNubac which mixes Cuban big band with dub techniques Modern dub producer Ryan Moore has received critical acclaim for his Twilight Circus project In 2022 was released Sly amp Robbie vs Roots Radics The Dub Battle produced by the Argentine artist and dub engineer Hernan Don Camel Sforzini it work is the first to reunite all the legends of dub in one album dubbing the entire The Final Battle album Grammy nominated in 2019 It album includes the last dubs produced by Lee Scratch Perry and Bunny Striker Lee also dub versions produced by King Jammy Mad Professor Dennis Bovell Don Camel and two unreleased dub versions of King Tubby 39 Afrofuturism and Diaspora editDub music is in conversation with the cultural aesthetic of Afrofuturism Having emerged from Jamaica this genre is regarded as the product of diaspora peoples whose culture reflects the experience of dislocation alienation and remembrance Through the creation of space filling soundscapes faded echoes and repetition within musical tracks Dub artists are able to tap into such Afrofuturist concepts as the nonlinearity of time and the projection of past sounds into an unknown future space In a 1982 essay 40 Luke Ehrlich describes Dub through this particular scope With dub Jamaican music spaced out completely If reggae is Africa in the New World then dub must be Africa on the moon it s the psychedelic music I expected to hear in the 60s and didn t The bass and drums conjure up a dark vast space a musical portrait of outer space with sounds suspended like glowing planets or the fragments of instruments careening by leaving trails like comets and meteors Dub is a kaleidoscopic musical montage which takes sounds originally intended as interlocking parts of another arrangement and using them as raw material converts them into new and different sounds then in its own rhythm and format it continually reshuffles these new sounds into unusual juxtapositions At the same time dub music s role in the Black musical canon marks a theme of the diaspora the music was birthed from Due to the sonic structure of echoes and reverberations dub can create a dream like world symbolizing the generational trauma of African diaspora as a result of slavery 41 This understanding of dub gives it the power to take on the darker emotions related to the diaspora including violence In King Tubby s dub mixes one can hear sonic elements of screeching tires gun fire and police sirens 42 Artist Arthur Jafa said this about dub music and the diaspora in 1994 during a keynote address at the Organization of Black Designers Conference 42 those group experiences that reconfigure who we African Americans are as a community One of the critical primal sites would be the Middle Passage If you understand the level of horror directed towards a group of people then you start getting some sense of the magnitude impact and level of trauma that that had on the African American community and how it was particularly one of the earliest group experiences that reshaped an African psyche into the beginning of an African American psyche Now for example you look at Black music and see certain structural things that really are about reclaiming this whole sense of absence loss not knowing One of the things I m thinking about is dub music it ends up really speaking about common experiences because the structure of the music is about things dropping out and coming back in really reclaiming this whole sense of loss rupture and repair that is very common across the experience of black people in the diaspora William Gibson frequently mentions dub in the 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer As they worked Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster It was called dub a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop it was worship Molly said and a sense of community Case heaved at one of the yellow sheets the thing was light but still awkward Zion smelled of cooked vegetables humanity and ganja We monitor many frequencies We listen always Came a voice out of the babel of tongues speaking to us It played us a mighty dub Jamaican Sound System editThe most straightforward explanation of the Jamaican sound system would be an individual who deals with a mechanical system consisting of musical amplification and diffusion This would include turntables speakers and a PA system In this system the deejay is the person who speaks over the record This is not to be confused with the American term DJ which refers to the one in charge of selecting the tracks at an event with music This role is known as the selector in the sound system dub culture who also plays a vital role in the system especially in Jamaican dancehalls The sound system has had a prevalent spot in music production in Jamaica for well over 60 years The true importance and relationship between the sound system and dub music can be found in the dubbed out versions of sounds that became the source of Dub music These dubbed out versions of songs consisted of the original track without the vocals Through reggae soundscape and the Jamaican Sound System dub artists were able to creatively manipulate these dubbed out versions or remixes of songs These dub remixes were heavily influenced with effects vocal samples and were essential to the progression of dub The remixes often referred to as versions were the B sides of a specific record The dub musician would add in dramatic pauses and breakdowns in the version to make the song have a dub influence and feel The artists who were using the sound system to create dub tracks would refer to their creation of remixes of certain records versioning In the setting of a sound system versions allow for more vocal improvisation and expressions from the deejay These remixes or versions would not have been possible without the Jamaican sound system and its progression over the years At the heart of reggae and Jamaican culture lies the sound system In the early 1950s the sound system consisted of a turntable amplifier and pair of speakers In the 21st century they have become larger scale productions citation needed At the time Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962 the culture was in flux and the country was experiencing a form of identity crisis Throughout the 40 s and 50 s Jamaican audiences had come to favor American R amp B records over locally produced music Jamaican sound system culture and dub music helped cement Jamaican musical forms into Jamaican national cultural identity in this critical time in the nation s development 43 See also edit nbsp Music portalList of dub artists List of electronic music genresReferences edit a b Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 2 Chris Roberts Heavy Words Lightly Thrown The Reason Behind Rhyme Thorndike Press 2006 ISBN 0 7862 8517 6 Michael Veal 2013 Dub Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae pages 26 44 Electronic Music in Jamaica Wesleyan University Press Larkin Colin The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae 1998 Virgin Books ISBN 0 7535 0242 9 Truesdell Cliff 2007 Mastering Digital Audio Production The Professional Music Workflow with Mac OS X John Wiley amp Sons p 310 ISBN 9780470165768 a b Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 3 Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 4 a b c d Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 1 Roy Shuker 2012 Popular Music Culture The Key Concepts pages 117 118 Routledge Living through pop p 107 Discographies dance music culture and the politics of sound p 79 Multi Ethnic Britain 2000 New Perspectives in Literature Film and the Arts p 263 a b Steve Barrow sleeve notes of Dub Gone Crazy Blood And Fire Records BAFCD 002 February 1994 Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 62 Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 61 a b Toop David 2001 Ocean of Sound Serpent s Tail ISBN 1852427434 Brewster Bill 1999 Last Night a DJ Saved My Life The History of the Disc Jockey London Headline Book Publishing p 100 Eshun Kodwo 1998 More Brilliant Than the Sun Quartet Books ISBN 0704380250 Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae Cut n mix culture identity and Caribbean music p 83 Dacks David 2007 Dub Voyage Exclaim Magazine Archived from the original on 2007 10 13 Retrieved 2007 09 18 a b c Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 52 Caribbean popular music an encyclopedia of reggae mento ska rock steady p 94 Dub soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae p 53 David Katz sleeve notes of Auralux reissue of Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle 2004 Greg Prato In Dub Mute Beat Songs Reviews Credits Awards AllMusic Retrieved 2014 05 20 Doherty Greg 2003 Strange Bedfellows Brits like Groove Corporation refile dub under electronica Archived 2014 08 08 at the Wayback Machine Miami New Times 14 August 2003 retrieved 8 November 2009 Veal Michael 2007 8 Starship Africa The Acoustics of Diaspora and of the Postcolony Dub Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae Wesleyan University Press ISBN 978 0819565723 BBC Culture Club Dub Retrieved 31 March 2021 Raymer Miles Creation Rebel New Age Steppers Threat to Creation Pitchfork Media Retrieved 2 October 2014 Louder Killing Joke In Dub review Retrieved 13 September 2021 Erlewine Stephen Thomas AllMusic Screaming Life Fopp Review AllMusic Retrieved 20 May 2009 With Life Won t Wait Rancid nearly made good on its Clash inspired promise The A V Club 20 January 2015 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine 40 Years of Bauhaus An Interview with David J YouTube Post Punk com Retrieved 12 January 2021 David J We were very influenced by reggae especially dub I mean basically Bela was our interpretation of dub Bauhaus invent goth Music The Guardian 2014 03 13 Retrieved 2016 10 14 Thompson Dave Review of Bela Lugosi s Dead AllMusic San Francisco All Media Guide Archived from the original on 26 November 2012 From those basics Bela Lugosi s Dead crackles in on percussion alone a tapping rattling rhythm into which a three note bass line only gradually intrudes itself before Ash s treated guitar slides in echoed and echoing the most atmospheric dub Marillion fans to the rescue BBC News 2001 05 11 Al Cisneros Sleep OM When I m stoned it s readily apparent whether a rhythm has a shelf life or not musicradar com 2019 09 11 Sly amp Robbie vs Roots Radics comparten the Dub Battle Ehrlich Luke X Ray Music The Volatile History of Dub in Reggae Interventional ed Stephen Davis and Peter Simon New York R and B Books 1982 104 Gilroy Paul 1993 The Black Atlantic Modernity and Double Consciousness Cambridge Mass Harvard University Press a b Veal M 2007 Dub songscapes and shattered Songs in Jamaican reggae Middletown CT Wesleyan University Press The Sound System Debate uvm edu 1998 02 17 Retrieved 2014 05 20 Further reading editDu Noyer Paul 2003 Dub The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music New York City Billboard Books pp 356 357 ISBN 0 8230 7869 8 Veal Michael E 2007 Dub Songscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae Middletown Wesleyan University Press Cox and Warner eds Audio Culture Readings in Modern Music Continuum 2004 3 Replicant On Dub by David Toop Chapter 51 Pages 355 356 External links edit nbsp Look up dub in Wiktionary the free dictionary Dub Echoes A documentary about the influence of dub in today s dance music and hip hop Melting Pot Dub A short history of dub A History of Dub Footnoted Article Dub com Links to labels websites and resources Allmusic s Essay on Dub When Dancehall was Nice In the 80s Dancehall Reggae Reggae Recall Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dub music amp oldid 1206795844, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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