The bass-heavy sound of Jamaica had a huge cultural and social impact on
London and beyond, as a new exhibition showsDub London: bassline of a city – in picturesMusic producer Mad Professor has been mixing dub reggae in his Croydon studio for 35 years. “When dub hits you in the chest you feel it,” he said. “It gets inside you – it shakes your belly.”
With its heavy beat of drum and bass, and the hypnotic spacing of reverb and echo, dub is a world apart from the
music it grew from – the reggae of artists such as Bob Marley and Desmond Dekker.