Long Live the King: King Tub’s Dub in 5 Tracks

Oct. 2019 - “30 years since the assassination of Dub’s founder, the King’s legacy still looms large over the world of music. To pay tribute to the King, hailed as the godfather of dub, PAM focuses on 5 tracks that represent the diverse talents and innovations of the late King Tubby. Looking into King Tubby, born Osbourn Roddick in 1941 Kingston Jamaica, is like staring into the guts of an amplifier and trying to understand its relationship to sound. If you’re not an expert it’s one dense electronic mystery, but even to the untrained eye, there is an ordered beauty in the mangle of wires, power tubes, and speaker jacks. ...”

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