King Tubby

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King Tubby (born January 28, 1941 in Kingston , Jamaica , † February 6, 1989 ), whose real name was Osbourne Ruddock , was a Jamaican reggae sound engineer with his own studio. He significantly influenced the development of dub .

Life

Osbourne Ruddock, born in Kingston in 1941, initially worked as an "electronic engineer", ie he repaired everything from radio to television that was generated in his area. In 1968 he founded his Home Town HiFi sound system and stood out from the crowd of sound systems created at that time through the use of his unique reverb and echo effect devices. Tubby's first dub track came about by chance, because Ruddock, who was then employed as a dubplate cutter for Duke Reid and his Treasure Isle label, mistakenly omitted parts of the vocal track of a tune. Another explanation says that he deliberately left out the music track (at that time it was still recorded using the two-track method) for a few bars to check whether the singer had actually hit the note. However, he liked this "mistake" or the effect that was triggered by the repeated music track. More precisely, he was so enthusiastic about it that he began to develop his own musical style from it.

Working together with Edwart Beckford, better known as U-Roy , who answered Tubby's instrumental dubs with vocal interjections, in turn produced a new style of reggae music, toasting (the forerunner of today's rap and deejaying). Tubby set up a small studio in Waterhouse (Kingston) in 1972, in which he first experimented with various effects processors, combined them with equalizers and thus produced a new sound that was unattainable at the time. At this time he began to work increasingly with other producers, such as Bunny Lee or Lee “Scratch” Perry , with whom he completed the stereo dub album “Blackboard Jungle Dub” in 1973. 1974 Tubby worked a lot with Bunny Lee, who recorded many of his artists, including Cornell Campbell and Johnny Clarke at Tubby in the studio. In the mid-1970s, King Jammy took over as an engineer in Tubby's studio, and later Overton "Scientist" Brown. Tubby worked steadily on his new studio, which he completed in the early 80s and then landed his first big hit in 1986 with Anthony Red Rose's "Temper" (aka Tempo).

In 1989, Osbourne Ruddock was shot dead by a mugger at the age of 48. His labels include: Waterhouse, Firehouse, Taurus, Kingston 11

Discography

Albums

  • A Ruffer Version (Bunny Lee + King Tubby) 1974-1978 release 2002 Trojan
  • Bring the Dub Come with Niney the Observer 2003
  • Beware Dub 1978
  • Creation Dub 1995
  • Crucial Dub
  • Dub Gone 2 1999
  • Dub Gone 2 Crazy Prince Jammy 1996
  • Dub Gone Crazy: The Evolution of Dub at King Tubby's 1975-79 1994
  • Dub Hits From Studio One & More
  • Dub from the Roots 1974
  • Dub like dirt 1975-77 1999
  • Dub over Dub Prince Jammy
  • Dubbing with The Observer 1975
  • Dangerous Dub: King Tubby meets Roots Radics 1981
  • Essential Dub - Ruff Cuts & Hard Riddims from the Mixmaster
  • Essential Smokin 'Dub Classics - From the Palace of Dub
  • Explosive dub
  • Firehouse Revolution: King Tubby's Productions in the digital Era 1985-89 2001
  • Harry Mudie meets King Tubby - in Dub Conference Vol. 1; 2 & 3 1975-76-77
  • Horace Andy - The King Tubby Tapes
  • Inna Roots of Dub - meets Jah Thomas
  • In The House Of Vocal & Dub with Prince Far I
  • Ital Dub 1976
  • Johnny Clarke - A Ruffer Version - At King Tubby's 1974 - 1978
  • King Dub 2000
  • King Tubby & Friends - Dub Like Dirt 1996
  • King Tubby´s presents Soundclash Dubplate Style 1989
  • King Tubby's special 1973-76
  • King Tubby surrounded by Dreads at the National Arena 1976
  • Lee Perry - Black Board Jungle Dub 1973
  • Meets Augustus Pablo - Rockers Uptown 1976
  • Meets Augustus Pablo - At The Control - In Roots Vibes
  • Meets Lee Perry - At the Grass Roots of Dub 1975
  • Meets Lee Perry - In Dub Confrontation
  • Meets Lee Perry - Megawatt Dub
  • Meets Morwell Unlimited - Dub Me
  • Meets Scientist - at Dub Station 1996
  • Meets Scientist - In A World Of Dub 1996
  • Meets Skatalites - Heroes of Reggae in Dub - 1975
  • Meets Skatalites - The Legendary Skatalites In Dub
  • Meets The Aggrovators - at Dub Station 1975
  • Meet The Reggae Masters 2002
  • Original King Key Dub 2000
  • Rockers meets King Tubby in a Firehouse 1980
  • Rupie Edwards - Dub Basket The King Tubby Mixes 1976
  • Scientist vs. Prince Jammy - Big Showdown at King Tubby's 1980
  • Scientist vs. Mad Professor - Dub Duel at King Tubby's
  • Select cuts: 100% of dub 2003
  • Skatalites meet King Tubby - Heroes of Reggae in Dub 1975
  • Sly & Robbie - King Tubby's Dancehall Dub
  • Soul Syndicate - Freedom Sounds in Dub
  • Special 1973-76
  • The Aggrovators - Shalom Dub 1975
  • The Breads at King Tubby's - If Deejay Was Your Trade 1974-77
  • Niney the Observer & The Aggrovators - King Tubby Special 1973-76
  • The Roots of Dub & Dub from the Roots 2003
  • The Sound of Channel One : King Tubby Connection 1999
  • Yabby U - King Tubby's Prophecy of Dub 1976

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personal data
SURNAME King Tubby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruddock, Osbourne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican reggae musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1989