Search - King Tubby :: Roots of Dub

Straight outa Kingston

painter@un.org | NYC | 02/08/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"By now it has become apparent even to the non-belivers that King Tubby didnt die in that accident in Kingston but rose directly to musical Heaven where he rules to this day as the most influential artist of the new millineum. Where would the Koln or silicon valley "clics" or Luomo be without the King of the original glitch? or for that matter PIL or Moroder or ORB. Minimalism, ambient,IDM - KING TUBBY gave us the blueprint.Even Krautrock and pink floyd got the buzz from Tubby's chalice. This music is now over thirty years old but still sounds like the future, there is no one else even close to the true King.He was doing this when the Rolling Stones were still listening to Chuck Berry! This import CD may be hard to find ( its the first KT I heard years ago) but it doesnt matter get your hands on anything by the KING!"