Perhaps recalling the long history of dub reggae, London's
Basement 5 titled their debut album 1965-1980, though it lay closer to the synth pop of the time than anything Jamaica had produced. That same year, producer and group mastermind
Martin Hannett -- who had recently capped his long association with
Joy Division -- engineered the ambitious
In Dub LP, featuring versions of tracks from the original album. ~ John Bush