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  • noun Plural form of dubplate.

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Examples

  • I had to rent studio time from a friend, record the intros and then pay for one-off vinyl pressings of the audio (called "dubplates").

    blogTO 2009

  • He held down reggae nights at War Room for about a year and you can expect that his impressive knowledge of dubplates and dancehall will be on display at the Showbox this Sunday.

    In Support of Blue Scholars « PubliCola 2010

  • Weidenbaum: One of the classic examples of that is dubplates.

    Disquiet » The Organization Musician 2004

  • Dark, hard, sick dubplates along with some mixed stuff that made for a awesome night that has left my ears still ringing.

    plastickman Diary Entry plastickman 2003

  • While John Lydon's cultural impact will always be measured by his time with the Sex Pistols, his artistic reputation is more reliant on his subsequent work with Public Image Ltd, most notably the groundbreaking Metal Box, which borrowed the reggae sound-system notion of earth-shaking 12-inch dubplates, three of which were included in the circular tin.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • While John Lydon's cultural impact will always be measured by his time with the Sex Pistols, his artistic reputation is more reliant on his subsequent work with Public Image Ltd, most notably the groundbreaking Metal Box, which borrowed the reggae sound-system notion of earth-shaking 12-inch dubplates, three of which were included in the circular tin.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • Remember, you can have 3000 dubplates, and still never buy the BumbaCloT!!!!!!

    Fulldls.com 2009

  • Grooverider is armed with some killer dubplates from DJ Fresh,

    Latest mixes,live sets,radio shows.Trance,house,progressive,techno,electro... 2009

  • Granite-heavy basslines, messed-up, prehistoric dubplates and a sense of style not seen since Fred Flinstone's pet Dino got stuck in Wilma's closet, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs straddle filthy, scraping analogue and wonky beats and go "RAAAARRRRR!!!"

    unknown title 2009

  • A carload full of dubplates and DAT tapes full of unreleased material was handed over to the label at Sowerby bridge in Yorkshire sometime in 2008.

    Resonator Magazine 2008

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