In Dub

David “Tappa Zukie” Sinclair is a triple-threat in Jamaican music, a major talent as singer, producer, and dubmaster (he’s also the only reggae artist to share a label with Patti Smith and have a Robert Maplethorpe cover). The full toolkit is evident in this dub set. Pressed in a miniscule 300 copy run when Zukie was barely 21, it features Zukie voicing a set of riddims from Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee. Barely old enough to drink, Zukie turns upstroked guitar strums into slashes, thickens the bass until it wobbles like a jello mold, and cooks the snare and hi-hat until they sizzle like steak.