DUB FOR THE BODY (Version)

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Reggae sound systems were engineered from the early 1950s in Kingston specifically to make bass a physical, felt phenomenon — bass bins create the powerful physical vibration that characterizes reggae sound, and scholars describe how sound systems transform listening into a tactile and communal event, emphasising the role of bass as a physical, spatial, and social medium producing "sonic bodies." Sub-bass below 60Hz travels through your body, and your chest cavity, muscles, and even organs subtly vibrate in response. This is the one thing reggae did first and best, sixty years before EDM claimed it — and no reggae album has ever been built for the technology that finally puts that physical bass in everyone's pocket.