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Jan 28, 1941 Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica Died on 06 Feb 1989 (aged 48)

Jamaican electronics and sound engineer

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About King Tubby

  • Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who greatly influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s.Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to a creative fame previously only reserved for composers and musicians, would prove to be influential across many genres of popular music.
  • He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the remix that later became ubiquitous in dance and electronic music production.
  • Singer Mikey Dread stated, "King Tubby truly understood sound in a scientific sense.
  • He knew how the circuits worked and what the electrons did.
  • That's why he could do what he did".

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