XVII - Issue Three

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August saw Jamaica celebrate its fifty years of independence, and to mark the occasion, and pay homage to the island’s continuing influence on modern music, our resident tech expert takes a look at perhaps the most important movement of the Jamaican sound – dub. Dub as a genre is inseparable from the technology used to create it. Unlike reggae artists, who use traditional instruments, dub artists use a wide variety of studio-based technologies to create their records. 12 - Q3 / September 2012 - XVII


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