jah shaka & king tubby - rare dubplate

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a few days ago I found a rare dubplate that I'd like to share with you. Produced by king tubby for Jah shaka and his soundsystem.

Jah shaka:
Reggae may have been born in Jamaica, but it found some of its sharpest expressions amid the racism faced by the Jamaican immigrant community of England in the '70s and '80s. The Jah Shaka story (his real name and birth date are a mystery because of the seeming unavailability of a proper bio) begins in the '70s, when he apprenticed with one of the "sound systems"-traveling crews of DJs and MCs working with custom-built PA's-that were beginning to fire the immigrant community with messages of black consciousness.

While their influence was at first limited to the West Indian community, these sound systems would go on to have a great impact on music from hip-hop to electronica. Crossover successes like Massive Attack got their start as a sound system.

Launching his own sound system, Shaka, or "King of the Zulus," had an arrangement whereby he was able to get fresh Jamaican dub-at its essence a form of instrumental reggae-before most of the competing sound systems of the day. This gave him an edge over the other acts that made the rounds of the highly competitive scene.