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Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle

Lee 'Scratch' Perry & King Tubby1973

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Lee 'Scratch' Perry & King Tubby
Released
1973

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70s Dub Reggae
Start here · 1968-1980

This helped establish dub as its own genre, turning versions into full artistic statements rather than throwaways.

Released in 1973, this collaboration between Perry and Tubby helped establish dub as a genre in its own right rather than a B-side afterthought. It marked a shift in how the music was heard: dub versions stopped being throwaways and started being treated as complete artistic statements, worth releasing at album length.

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Version
In reggae production, an instrumental or remixed rendering of an existing song, typically placed on the B-side of a single.