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King Tubby's electrical repair shop

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The radio and electrical repair operation King Tubby ran in Waterhouse, winding transformers and building amplifiers for local sound systems, the electronics workshop out of which his celebrated dub studio grew.

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King Tubby Wikipedia; Michael Veal, Dub; David Katz, Solid Foundation.

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