El dub es un género de música electrónica, que surgió a partir de la experimentación de la música reggae en los años 1960, y está generalmente considerado como un subgénero del reggae, aunque su desarrollo supera ampliamente el espectro de éste. Musicalmente, el dub consiste fundamentalmente en música con efectos electrónicos ecos y efectos y en otras ocasiones las remezcla instrumental de grabaciones previamente existentes. Estas versiones se logran mediante la profunda manipulación y reelaboración de la toma original, normalmente a través de la eliminación de las vocales y enfatizando las partes de batería y bajo (a esta forma desnuda de una canción se la conoce en ocasiones como "riddim"). Otras técnicas incluyen la adición dinámica de efectos de eco, reverb, delay y ocasionalmente la inclusión de fragmentos de partes vocales o instrumentales de la grabación original o de otras. El dub también incluye en ocasiones efectos de sonido generados electrónicamente o el uso de instrumentos característicos como la melódica.

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Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae. Music in this genre consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, and emphasizing the drum and bass parts (this stripped-down track is sometimes referred to as a 'riddim'). Other techniques include dynamically adding extensive echo, reverb, panoramic delay, and occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works. Dub was pioneered by Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Errol Thompson and others in the late 1960s. Augustus Pablo is credited with bringing the melodica to dub, and is also among the pioneers and creators of the genre. Similar experiments with recordings at the mixing desk outside of the dancehall environment were also done by producers Clive Chin and Herman Chin Loy. These producers, especially Ruddock and Perry, looked upon the mixing console as an instrument, manipulating tracks to come up with something new and different. Dub has influenced many genres of music, including rock (most significantly the subgenre of post-punk and other kinds of punk), pop, hip hop, disco, and later house, techno, ambient, electronic dance music, and trip hop. Dub has become a basis for the genres of jungle and drum and bass Traditional dub has survived and some of the originators, such as Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad Professor, continue to produce new material.

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