Blackboard Jungle Dub (1973)

Widely regarded as one of the earliest full-length dub albums, this landmark collaboration between Lee Perry and King Tubby tests the stereophonic limits of early seventies multitrack tape. Channels are radically panned hard left and right, pitting dry drum hits against tape-echoed rhythm guitars before plunging the entire mix into cavernous spring reverb voids. The tactile fader rides and abrupt dropouts transformed rhythm tracks into an uninhibited three-dimensional experience.