Osbourne Ruddock trained as an electronics repairman in Kingston's Waterhouse district before Duke Reid's studio put him behind a mixing desk cutting dubplates, work that led him to start stripping the vocal off a rhythm and pushing echo and reverb onto the instrumental until an entirely new genre, dub, fell out of the process. He played the mixing desk itself like an instrument, mentored the next generation of engineers including King Jammy and Scientist, and left behind a stark template, drop the voice, chase the bassline, let the space and echo do the talking, that would resurface decades later in hip-hop, techno, and jungle's own bass-first architecture. He was murdered outside his home in Kingston in 1989.

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