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The West Kingston district that produced an outsized share of the music's engineering and voices — King Tubby's workshop and sound, King Jammy's studio, and singers and deejays including Black Uhuru and Junior Reid. Dub was effectively invented here, and the digital turn was launched from here fifteen years later.

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Story · Well supportedBlack Uhuru's revolving door

One harmony group's lead-singer chair changed hands more than almost any other in reggae, and each singer carried it somewhere new.

Story · ProbableWaterhouse digital: the mic men after Sleng Teng

When King Jammy's went digital in 1985, a wave of deejays rode the new Waterhouse computer sound into the dancehall mainstream.

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