King TubbyDub from the Roots

Bass you feel in your sternum, drums that echo off into black space and drift back changed. Osbourne Ruddock, better known as King Tubby, mixed this at his Dromilly Avenue room in Kingston, pulling apart Bunny Lee riddims and drenching the pieces in reverb and delay until the studio itself became the instrument. 'Dub From the Roots' sets the template: a groove stripped to its skeleton, then haunted. 'African Roots' rides deep and hypnotic. 'Declaration of Dub' cuts everything to smoke and pressure. One of the records that invented the genre. Turn it up loud and let the low end rearrange the room.