Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Super Ape (1976)Super Ape (1976)Released 1 Jan 1976Crafted at the Black Ark on a modest four-track board, Lee Perry conjures dense acoustic atmospheres filled with flanging tape echoes and ghostly vocal fragments. The mixing desk operates as an occult amplifier, pulling basslines into the foreground before submerging brass sections in swirling…0
  2. 2King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (1976)King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (1976)Released 1 Jan 1976Osbourne Ruddock, universally revered as King Tubby, treats his custom MCI console and high-pass filter as sculpting chisels throughout this legendary session. Augustus Pablo's plaintive melodica motifs are systematically detonated into sudden silences, trailed by cascading spring reverb splashes…0
  3. 3Blackboard Jungle Dub (1973)Blackboard Jungle Dub (1973)Released 1 Jan 1973Widely 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…0
  4. 4Dub From the Roots (1974)Dub From the Roots (1974)Released 1 Jan 1974Engineered at Tubby's legendary home studio in Waterhouse, this seminal 1974 session captures Osbourne Ruddock carving rhythm tracks into pure dynamic tension. Stripping Bunny Lee's house band arrangements down to bass and drums, Tubby uses his custom high-pass filter and echo chamber to launch…0
  5. 5Pick a Dub (1974)Pick a Dub (1974)Released 1 Jan 1974Often cited as the first intentionally conceived dub LP, Keith Hudson's minimalist masterpiece strips Jamaican rhythm tracks down to their raw skeletal essence. Working with Carlton and Aston 'Family Man' Barrett, Hudson uses razor-sharp mutes and dry snare cracks that reverberate across stark…0
  6. 6King Tubby's Prophesy of Dub (1994)King Tubby's Prophesy of Dub (1994)Released 1 Jan 1994King Tubby takes Vivian Jackson's mournful vocal chants and devout spiritual rhythms, deconstructing them into vast acoustic caverns. The custom mixing board operates with supernatural precision, dropping heavy basslines abruptly beneath soaring tape delays and shimmering spring reverb washes. This…0
  7. 7African Dub All-Mighty, Volume 3 (1978)African Dub All-Mighty, Volume 3 (1978)Released 1 Jan 1978Resident studio wizard Errol Thompson transforms the Joe Gibbs mixing desk into a playful sonic laboratory on this high-water mark of late seventies dub. Flanger sweeps, sudden channel dropouts, and surreal sound effects like ringing bells and sirens collide against blistering Sly and Robbie rhythm…0
  8. 8East of the River Nile (1977)East of the River Nile (1977)Released 1 Jan 1977Bridging instrumental roots reggae and deep dub, this atmospheric tour de force showcases Augustus Pablo's Far East melodica sound swathed in masterly studio acoustics. Recorded between the Black Ark and King Tubby's studio, the desk engineers wash organ riffs and polyrhythmic percussion through…0
  9. 9Garvey's Ghost (1976)Garvey's Ghost (1976)Released 1 Jan 1976Serving as the dub counterpart to the monumental Marcus Garvey album, this release deconstructs Winston Rodney's militant chants into ghostly, reverberating fragments. The engineers push Robbie Shakespeare's bass to crushing amplitudes while carving out massive sonic valleys through dramatic…0
  10. 10Kamikazi Dub (1979)Kamikazi Dub (1979)Released 1 Jan 1979Lloyd James, widely known as Prince Jammy, steps forward from King Tubby's tutelage with this ferocious demonstration of analogue board wizardry. Mixing rhythms cut by Sly and Robbie at Channel One, Jammy hurls explosive snare echoes across the stereo spectrum while locking down an unrelenting…0