King Tubby in no uncertain terms invented DUB. Born Osbourne Ruddock in Kingston in 1941. He grew up around High Holborn Street in central Kingston,before moving to the Waterhouse district in 1955. His electronic genius grew from working and fixing radios and t.v. sets, a natural progression led to working with amplifiers,and starting his own sound system’’Tubby’s Home Town Hi- Fi’’. A very competitive game in the late 60’s. You were as good as the EXCLUSIVE records you played. Tubby discovered during his time cutting discs for Duke Reid’s Treasure Isle set up, that by dropping vocals / instruments in and out of the backing tracks, you could invent new versions of existing old tunes. These early versions tried and tested on his sound system went down so well that he invested in a four track mixing console, that was being sold from Dynamic Studios in Kingston. With his vast knowledge of electric’s, he rewired the existing console with delay echo effects, sliders and phasing units and so