![]() when DAT tape was introduced in the 90’s, producers had an easy way of homerecording their productions to high quality tape, which would be a convenient way to pass music around to peers. fabio & grooverider, having established a distinct sound of hardcore/jungle at rage from remnants of late 80’s acid house, rave, techno and breakbeat became the guys you wanted to play and test your tune and it cemented their status in this era. Music House in particular quickly became a hotspot not only to cut dubs, but also to mingle, exchange ideas, sort out scene politics and build the hierarchy that to some extent still exists today. (kool herc already used to scrape off the labels of his secret tunes, like he’d seen his jamaican relatives do) the connection was always there, which makes soundsystem culture a vital pillar of pretty much all modern club culture. The exact moment when hardcore/proto-jungle DJ’s started using the services of cutting houses is disputed, but since many of the ravepioneer DJ’s were heavily involved in jamaican soundsystem culture (shut up and dance, hype, norman jay, bryan gee, frost, even judge fucking jules of all people) having tunes that no one else had was a vital ingredient. Dub referring to its contents, which often where a “dubbed” riddim with no vocals for the DJ to chat or sing over and plate, because there is a metal plate under the acetate layer. ![]() The term “Dubplate” got attached to Acetates either in Jamaica or in the UK Caribbean Diaspora. ![]() This was after the Disco-Era in the US, where remixes and special edits were tested from tape (the very first acid tune by phuture 303 was apparently played from tape in the mid-80’s by Ron Hardy at Chicago’s Music Box). Acetate-Pressings had been a fairly standard way to test music and send it out to radiostations for all genres, including pop and rock, because the quality was so much better than playing from a tapedeck, especially regarding bass. some connected to mastering studios like Transition, others originally entrenched in a specific scene, like the legendary Music House which was born out of the huge UK Reggae, Dancehall and Dub community. To add some context to what’s already been said: in the UK there were a number of “cutting houses” in the 90’s, mainly in London.
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