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It's because Linval owns the rights to the music. They are his productions. Scientist is not a music writer, nor was he the producer of the project. Back when these records were first released, dub was a big time novelty and dub was a way for producers to make as much money off of a single recording session as possible. That's where the practice of "versioning" began, as the producer would keep releasing a hit riddim with new vocalists and new remixes (or dubs). There was some legal battles between Scientist and the owners of the copyrights, because Scientist felt he was owed more money because his name was on the releases. So, they took his name off. Simple as that. It's like if you were to produce a record and then commission someone to remix the record. You still own the masters, you produced the project, but the guy who remixed the record wants more than his fair share.

It's unfortunate because dub, as a genre, is the re-configuration of previously recorded material. When we (in 2017) listen to Scientist Wins the World Cup, we might not know the original tracks that he is dubbing. But back in the time of its release, the trick was that EVERYONE at the dance knew the tunes, and hearing them in this new tripped out context was amazing. Additionally, these dubs were never really meant to listen to on their own, they were made as backing tracks for the DJ (or what we would call the MC or "rapper") to rhyme and vocalize over, in the context of the dance.

Although pioneers like Tubby and his many protégés created this new genre, they were not writers, musicians or producers of the work, and therefore own none of the rights to the music.

For further reading about the ins and outs of Dub music from a cultural as well as economical perspective, I highly recommend this amazing book. https://www.amazon.com/Dub-Soundscapes-Shattered-Jamaican-Culture/dp/0819565725

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Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae by Michael Veal

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This debate sent me searching and to the following passage from
Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae:

>Today, the sounds and techniques of classic dub music have been stylistically absorbed into the various genres of global electronic popular music (such as hip-hop, techno, house, jungle, ambient, and trip-hop), and conceptually absorbed into the now commonplace practice of song remixing. Few people are aware that dub, a style built around fragments of sound over a hypnotically repeating reggae groove, was a crucial forerunner of these genres and that much of what is unique about contemporary dance music is directly traceable to the studio production techniques pioneered in Kingston beginning in the 1960.

Of course, it's just one scholars opinion.

European experimental electronic music certainly had a huge impact on the development of the electronic part of electronic dance music, most conspicuously through the medium of Kraftwerk's infectious refinement of the tradition. But, as far as I know, the Jamaican sound-system culture that fueled the development of dub is the earliest manifestation of something like a DJ centric "club culture".

Whilst at the core, dub is stripped back bass and drum riddims, a lot of early dub excursions are complimented by very jazzy improvisations.

If you want to explore dub in more detail, I wholeheartedly recommedn this book: https://www.amazon.com/Dub-Soundscapes-Shattered-Jamaican-Culture/dp/0819565725