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Blackboard Jungle Dub — The Upsetters

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1973 dub set credited to the Upsetters, issued in Jamaica in a pressing of only a few hundred copies as Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle; mixed by King Tubby for producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, who had no studio of his own yet. Frequently cited among the very first dub albums and the first mixed in stereo.

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Story · ProbableThe dub album as its own art form

By the mid-1970s, stripping a reggae master down to drum, bass and echo had stopped being a B-side trick and become an album statement in its own right.