Sound Systems to Bristol
Jamaican dub's bass weight and space, carried by sound systems into a British city, then sped up.
- 11968-1980 · Kingston, Jamaica
70s Dub Reggae
King Tubby and Lee Perry made the mixing desk an instrument. Massive Attack's Blue Lines would carry a clear debt to Tubby's spatial sense and bass pressure.
Read the issue - 21983-1998 · Bristol, England
Bristol Trip Hop
In St Paul's, where Jamaican sound system culture had taken root a generation earlier, the Wild Bunch built sets around the bass weight and space that dub had taught them. Massive Attack came out of that crew.
Read the issue (members) - 31990-1998 · London and Bristol, UK
90s UK Jungle and Drum & Bass
Roni Size, the son of Jamaican immigrants, learned from Bristol's sound systems and the Wild Bunch scene, then pushed dub, hip-hop and breakbeats into drum and bass.
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