Sound engineer and radio repairman King Tubby had worked on the sound system scene in Kingston, Jamaica – where competing groups of DJs would hold street parties blazing out ska and reggae – since the ...

Dub music pioneer King Tubby; Pre-dub, pre-reggae Mento Madness; Joplin & The American Ragtime Ensemble; Solo work by Yes guitarist Steve Howe; The wobbly, oscillating sounds of for stars; Former ...

An early pioneer of the Jamaican sound system culture and a studio engineer par excellence, Osbourne Ruddock - widely known and revered as King Tubby - was in his time without equal when it came to ...

The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 25th of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. NO one has had as profound ...

This newly-reissued 1982 dub reggae album carries historical heft as one of the last times three of the form’s titans would work together. There’s a halcyon sweetness to its 10 mellow grooves. Just ...

Long before artistes like Black Uhuru, Junior Reid and Wayne “Sleng Teng” Smith helped put Waterhouse on the music map, there was Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock, a down-to-earth sound engineer who ...

I first heard this record while I was going to luthier school in Arizona (where you learn to make and repair stringed instruments). I’d played in a few ska bands growing up, but this wasn’t the kind ...

Somehow, I had always pictured King Tubby as a rotund overlord ruling his domain from a bejewelled throne, but in fact he was slim as a whippet and the Tubby moniker came from his Mother’s maiden name ...

David Rodigan looks back at the life of the ‘Dub Originator’, Osborne Ruddock, AKA King Tubby, and the influence Dub has on the music we listen to today. Through talking to his friends and colleagues, ...

Dub music pioneer King Tubby; Pre-dub, pre-reggae Mento Madness; Joplin & The American Ragtime Ensemble; Solo work by Yes guitarist Steve Howe; The wobbly, oscillating sounds of for stars; Former ...