Dub Kings

two kings for the price of one!, king tubby the master of the dub cut, has had many proteges that trained and worked with him over the years, as his services became more and more in demand. producer scientist, singer pat kelly, prince phillip smart all served their time at king tubby's studio at his home 18 drummile avenue, kingston, jamaica. but the person who would take his production skills on to another level and had cut his musical teeth with tubby was prince jammy, who would soon to be renamed king jammy. king tubby's (b. osbourne ruddock, 1941, kingston, jamaica ) fascination with all things electronic grew out of working and repairing radios and tv sets. this would eventually lead to working with amplifiers and the lucrative work of winding transistors, a job that was much in demand in jamaica and work that tubby carried on with throughout his career. this knowledge of the way sound / music was made and transferred, tubby would adapt this into ground breaking ideas, like removing various parts of the recordings. for example the vocals and distorting elements of the sound like the bass line or drums and adding delays and echo to enhance and reshape the song. king jammy (b.lloyd james, 1947, montego bay, jamaica ) then named prince jammy took up the vacant spot as engineer at king tubby's request around 1975, after what turned out to be 5 year hiatus in canada. jammy had worked with tubby for many years previous to this and had built a great working relationship, but jammy had taken some work opportunity that would see him actually staying in canada for 5 years. it was the tubbys offer of fulltime work and missing jamaica and family that would lead to his return.this would enable tubby to continue his electrical business knowing full well that jammy could be trusted to run the studio sessions smoothly. jammy was always the first to arrive and the last to leave the hundreds of sessions he oversaw at tubbys studio,honing his skills that again with tubby's blessing and guidance would lead to building his own studio not a stones throw from tubbys in the waterhouse district of kingston. we have selected a set of tunes that were worked on at king tubbys with king jammy at the controls.yes two kings at the top of their game, hope you enjoy the set.