King Tubby And The Aggrovators - Shalom Dub

This album was purchased at PLAY Music & CDs in Melbourne on the weekend, after seeing it for a couple of years, with no one purchasing it. I had been eyeing it up from earlier visits to Melbourne. A bit of background on King Tubby, he studied electronics and built amplifiers in his spare time. He built his first Sound System in 1957. He was not actually a producer, but a sound engineer, and the story goes when he and producer Bunny Lee one night invented dub music, it was by mistake. They had forgotten to add vocals to a track, and they instead got an instrumental. Basically dub is instrumentals laden with effects. An effect machine used by Lee ''Scratch'' Perry was in fact the Roland RE-201 Space Echo, which consisted of echo (or delay as it is known these days) and reverb. The combination of reverb and delay on a track is what gives dub its experimental and unique sound.