Latest Release
- 13 OCT 2023
- 12 Songs
- Shalom Dub · 1975
- King At the Control · 1981
- King At the Control · 1981
- Dub From the Roots · 1975
- Rootikal in the Vaults At Midnight Rock · 2012
- The Fatman Tapes · 2000
- King Tubby's Classics: The Lost Midnight Rock Dubs Chapter 3 · 2012
- King At the Control · 1981
- The African Brothers Meet King Tubby · 2005
- Dangerous Dub · 1981
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
- This dub ruler spins reggae magic with just a mixing desk.
- The dub ruler conjures reggae and dancehall magic with his mixing desk.
- The reggae, R&B and jazz that provided the roots of dub.
- His studio, the home of dub, was a source of unending creativity.
- Whether reggae or EDM, his DNA survives in dance music.
- 2018
Appears On
- King Fuji aka Rising Sun
- King Tubby & Barry Brown
About King Tubby
As the originator of dub, one of the most important developments not only in reggae, but in all of contemporary music, King Tubby is a towering historical figure. Born Osbourne Ruddock, the Kingston pioneer started out as an electronics repair man. By the late '60s he was working as a recording engineer and DJ, and the die was cast when he began playing his first instrumental dub mix of a record he'd just engineered. By the early '70s, Tubby had his own studio where he became a master at the art of transforming reggae recordings through creative, often spontaneous remixing. Throughout the '70s he collaborated with a stunning cast of producers and artists, making reggae history in the process.
- HOMETOWN
- Kingston, Jamaica
- BORN
- 28 January 1941
- GENRE
- Reggae