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King Tubby (born '''Osbourne Ruddock''', January 28 , 1941 – February 6 , 1989 ) was a Jamaica n electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of Dub in the 1960s and 1970s . Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of Record Producer to a creative height previously only reserved for Composer s and Musician s, would prove to be highly influential across many genres of popular music. He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the Remix , and so may be seen as a direct antecedent of much Dance and Electronic music production. EARLY LIFE In the 1950s , King Tubby's musical career began with the Sound System s, which were set up on the streets of Kingston to play dance music for the people. As a talented radio repairman, Tubby was soon in great demand at most of the major sound systems of Kingston, as the tropical weather of the Caribbean Island, (often combined with sabotage by rival sound system owners) prompted many malfunctions in the equipment. Tubby would eventually form his own sound system, ''Tubby's Hometown Hi-Fi'', which became a crowd favourite due to high sound quality, exclusive releases and Tubby's own Echo and Reverb sound effects, at that point something of a Novelty . REMIXES Tubby began working as a disc cutter for producer Duke Reid in 1968 . Reid, one of the major figures in early Jamaican music alongside rival Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd , ran Treasure Isle studios, one of Jamaica's first independent production houses, and was a key producer of Ska , Rocksteady and eventually Reggae recordings. Asked to produce instrumental versions of songs for sound system MCs or Toasters , Tubby initially worked to remove the vocal tracks with the sliders on Reid's mixing desk, but soon discovered that the various instrumental tracks could be accentuated, reworked and emphasised through the settings on the mixer and primitive early effects units. In time, Tubby (and others) began to create wholly new pieces of music by shifting the emphasis in the instrumentals, adding sounds and removing others and adding various special effects, like echoes, reverb and phase effects. Partly dues to the incredible popularity of these early Remixes , 1971 (see 1971 In Music ) saw Tubby's soundsystem consolidate its position as one of the most popular in Kingston and so he decided to open a studio of his own. DUB MUSIC PRODUCTION King Tubby's production work in the music. Using existing master tapes or his own highly-skilled session musicians, Tubby would twist the instrumental parts of songs into unexpected configurations which highlighted the heavy rhythms of their bass and drum parts with minute snatches of vocals, horns and keyboard. These techniques mirrored the actions of the soundsystem Selector s, who had long used EQ equipiment to emphasise certain aspects of particular records, but Tubby was able to use his custom-built studio to take this technique into unexpected areas, often transforming a hit song to the point where it was almost unrecognizeable from its original. As producer, Tubby had a long string of hit songs, and worked as a producer for some of Jamaica's most popular artists, including Lee Perry , Bunny Lee , Augustus Pablo and Yabby You . In 1973 , he began recording vocals to put along the instrumentals. By the later part of the decade, though, King Tubby had mostly retired from music, still occasionally recording remixes and tutoring a new generation of artists, including King Jammy and Scientist . In the 1980s , he focused on Production for Anthony Red Rose , Sugar Minott and other popular musicians. DEATH King Tubby was shot and killed by unknown persons outside his home in Duhaney Park, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio, probably in a robbery attempt, in 1989 (see 1989 In Music ). SAMPLE of "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown", an Augustus Pablo track produced by King Tubby. EXTERNAL LINK |
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