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Dub occurs as form of Jamaican music, which developed in the early 1970s.

Dub is characterized as a "version" of an existent song, usually emphasizing the drums & bass for a healthy popular within local Sound Systems. A subservient tracks come usually drenched withinside healthy processing results, sustaining virtually all of a lead instruments & vocals dropping in & away from the mix. A music occasionally features filtered sound effects & other noises, like carnal sounds, infants crying, and producers shouting videos at a musicians.

These versions come mostly implemental, periodically including snipping of the original vocal version. Typically these tracks come utilized for "Toasters" rapping heavily-rhymed & alliterative lyrics. Which are actually known as "DeeJay Versions". When opposed to hep hop language, within reggae music a human using a mike is known as the "DJ" (elsewhere known as a "MC", for master of ceremonies), while a human finding a music & operating a turntables is the "Selector" (elsewhere known as a DJ).

The major caapply for producing multiple versions was economic: The record producer may use the recording he owned to create many versions from either one studio session. Version was likewise an chance for even the producer or remix engineer to experiment & vent their extra originative side. The version was occasionally the B-side of one, using a A-side dedicated to making a popular hit, & B-side for experimenting & providing something for DJs to discuss.

Understand particularly a works of King Tubby, who is widely recognized when a mastermind of dub music, although a few (including himself) claim that Lee Perry was the discoverer of this genre. More important creative person include: Errol Thompson, Prince Jammy, Keith Hudson and Augustus Pablo, who produced occasionally of the super right within dub music in the 1970s.

In the 1980s, Britain became a recently center for dub production using Mad Professor and Jah Shaka being the best known, when Scientist became the heavyweight champion of Jamaican dub. It was as well a period whenever dub manufactured its influence known in the function of harder edged, experimental producers like Adrian Sherwood and the roll of creative persin on his On-U Sound label.

In the 1990s and beyond dub has been influenced by and successively influenced techno, jungle, drum and bass, house music, trip hop, ambient music, and hip hop, with several electronic dub tracks by untraditional musicians from either these more genres. Musicians like Massive Attack, Bauhaus, The Clash, PiL, The Orb, Rhythm & Sound, Pole, Underworld and others demonstrate clear dub influences in their respective genres, and their innovations have in turn influenced the mainstream of the dub genre. DJs appeared towards a prevent of a Nineties world health organization specialised inside swimming music by these musicians, like the UK's Unity Dub. Traditional dub has, notwithstanding, survived (watch Aba ShantWe-I, for instance) & occasionally of the conceiver such as Lee Perry and Mad Professor continue to produce freshly lesson.

Samples
Download sample of "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" (1976) by Augustus Pablo and produced by King Tubby, a landmark dub recording.

The Echo Chamber
Long-running dub radio show on KFAI 90.3 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With schedule, playlist and features.

Ariwa Sounds
Label featuring dub, lovers rock, and roots and culture reggae music. Artists include Mad Professor, Chukki Starr, Macka B, Aisha, John McLean, Shaloma, and Borrah.

The Dub Me Crazy Page
Covering dub production techniques, as well as drum and bass, trip hop, big beat and abstract music.

Niceup.com
Links to dub pages

Jah Acid Dub and the Bad Weed Studio
Jah = roots bass & drums. Acid = TB303. Dub = Echo, delay, phasing, reverb, EQ, ... Some free MP3 demo from Acid Dub Revolution and New Land Dub albums.

The DubRoom
A site founded by the Netherlands-based dub artist, Messian Dread. Contains reggae MIDIs, MP3s, album reviews, and links.

Real Eyes
Links to project mp3.com sites, online shopping, radio stream, brief profile, and related links.

dub.com
Show listings, news, and links to many reviews, artist, radio and related music sites.

Dub Mission
Playlists, mixed tapes, press releases, as well as a schedule for the monthly Sunday night party at the Elbo Room in San Francisco.

Pressure Sounds
Dub + Roots label


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