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King Tubby's electrical repair shop

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The radio and electrical repair operation King Tubby ran in Waterhouse, winding transformers and building amplifiers for local sound systems, the electronics workshop out of which his celebrated dub studio grew.

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Era: Open era →

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Story · Well supportedKing Tubby's soldering iron: the engineer as author

How a Waterhouse repairman turned a mixing desk into an instrument and became the uncredited composer of dub.