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Ruby's Dub Gems

Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976

REGGAE IS in many ways a producer's music. More than any other ethnic music since Twenties hillbilly, it is a music that has been created in recording studios, in which live performance takes second place in Jamaica to the performance of records played by exotically named disc jockeys on powerful, gleaming sound systems.

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