Johnny Dubs

Archive EP Vol 1

Ibiza

“My dad had a sound called Billy The Clown alongside Fatman Sound in the sixties. I found JTS and Music House (mastering and dubplate studios). JTS is run by Keith who owns Jah Tubby’s, a sound that started in 1971. Then you had Chris at Music House who had a band called Black Slate, he was doing dubs for all the reggae men.
“When I found Music House, it was easy. I told Chris, ‘this is the new thing coming, it’s called hardcore’. When he first heard it, he said ‘this is mad music man’. I said ‘Chris, this is the future’. He found it a bit mad because he was used to cutting reggae and this new hardcore stuff was a bit noisy for him but over time he got used to how I wanted the cut loud.”
“The first person to get all my dubs was Top Buzz, reason being Mad P is my older brother who worked with Mikey B and Jason Kaye. We started together in London. We said, ‘right, you lot run the DJ thing and I will pump you with the dubplates from Ibiza Records.’ That’s how Ibiza grew so quick and Top Buzz grew at the same time.”