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"Dub-Aromes" up to now:

dub the world
UMBERTO ECHO
Spring 2010

riding strange horses
DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL
Winter 2010

too many reverbs to cross
RAGANA
Autumn 2009

dr. boondigga & the big BW
FAT FREDDYS DROP
Summer 2009

heliopolis
ORNAH-MENTAL
Spring 2009

renegade rocker
DUBMATIX
Winter 2009

radio retaliation
THIEVERY CORPORATRION
Autumn 2008

solid ground
THE BLACK SEEDS
Summer 2008

upload/download & mutiny on the ship
ANIMA SOUND SYSTEM
Spring 2008

the dream
THE ORB
Winter 2008

walkin' target
ASHTECH
Autumn 2007

aelita
TIED & TICKLED TRIO
Summer 2007

immigration dub
DUBBLESTANDART
Spring 2007

searching..... the dubs
JAN DELAY
Winter 2007

radiodread
EASY STAR ALL STARS
Autumn 2006

heart of dub
NUCLEUS ROOTS 
Summer 2006

nitro
DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL
Spring 2006

sofa surfers
SOFA SURFERS
Winter 2006

deutsche grammophon recomposed by MATTHIAS ARFMANN
Autumn 2005

j.a.c.
TOSCA
Summer 2005

I-WOLF and BURDY meet the BABYLONIANS
&
product
MARKUS KIENZL
Spring 2005

in dub
AFRICA UNITE
Winter 2005

original sounds of the zion - remixed
ZION TRAIN
Autumn 2004

dub side of the moon
EASY STAR ALL STARS
Summer 2004

nothing to proove
OVERPROOF SOUNDSYSTEM
Spring 2004

original rockers
TWILIGHT CIRCUS DUB SOUND S.
Winter 2004

DUB SOLIDARITY
various artists
Autumn  2003

step like pepper
MANASSEH MEETS THE EQUALIZER

Spring/Summer 2003

never trust a hippy
ADRIAN SHERWOOD
Winter 2003

dub plates from the elephant house 2
GROOVE CORPORATION
Autumn 2002

streets of dub
DUBBLESTANDART
Summer 2002

hard grind
LITTLE AXE
Spring 2002


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tor.ma in dub
from 'popol vuh' to the ocean´s 'big blue' (08/2009)

fe wolter
schaffensrückblick (07/2009)

burial
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(11/2007)


ashtech

"walkin' target and german angst" - interview with Ashtech (10/2007)

ornah-mental
"tonale mandalas stadtflüchtiger phantasie - interview with Dirk Schlömer (10/2007)

radikal dub kolektiv

"as a matter of bass" - 
interview with Vedran & Vrki (06/2007)


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"prophets in their homeland" - 
interview with Paul Zasky (06/2007)


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Voiceful phantasies of the dub reggae (08/02)

King Tubby
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ACTS
ARG DUBSALON A fine new psychedelic-dub band with reggae- and rock-influences, space-night vibes, reminding a bit on DUBBLESTANDART  
australiaAUS DUB IN THA PUB Fresh dub soundsystem (Dec 2005) from Cairns, Queensland, who is jamming and partying in a pub called Barrier Reef Hotel. On Little Rascal Records.
PETE MURDER TONE Dub producer from Sydney, who has worked formerly as dj/selector, also in China. Moved in 2006 to London.
TREVOR THE TECHNICIAN MCKENZIE Australian dub specialist who has also worked in London. Heavy reverbs on drums. Many downloads!
austriaAUT DUBBLESTANDART Powerful as extensive IT-presentation of the international act who works together with artists all over the world. 
SOFA SURFERS Completely new arranged site of the vienna collective with possibility to login. Bandsite and subsites to bandmembers I-WOLF, MARKUS KIENZL, HUMBUCKER and TIMO NOVOTNY, each with news, images and releases.
KRUDER & DORFMEISTER KRUDER & DORFMEISTER, PEACE ORCHESTRA and other acts of the vienna breakbeat & dub community with short portraits on the site of their label.
brazilBRA DIGITALDUBS SOUND SYSTEM Sound System from Rio, "focused on dub and reggae in all their possibilities" (own info).
canadaCAN DEADBEAT "Abstract state-of-the-art-dub-elektronica with a roots-heart" (Ulrich Kriest, Indigo notes 101). On Scape.
DUBMATIX New act by Jesse King from Toronto with an interesting debut-album (2004). Some mp3´s on the site. 
czech republicCZE DUB LIBERATION FRONT Live dubbing reggae act around mastermind SYNCRO with own label 'Gunjah' from Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad). They work close with NY-singer JUAKALI.
HYPNOTIX ... going asian underground and converted into a world music act. Video-Download.
croatiaCRO RADIKAL DUB KOLEKTIV Founded 2002, an 8-headed dub-reggae collective between punk- & hippie-attitudes. Site in english, german and croatian with news, concerts, history, gallery and mp3s.
denmarkDMK TRENTEMÖLLER A successful artist with a set of electronica, techno and dub with a touch of experimental psychedelia. Also busy as remixer.
englandENG ALPHA & OMEGA Very busy releasers: every prayer an album! Nice styled site! Their actual lp 'trample the eagle and the dragon and the bear' is brilliant! 
ASHLEY New and much more than talented artist connecting brilliantly classic dub styles with new technologies in a very english style. 
ASHTECH Interesting & different experimental electronica meet rootical riddims inna dub style. Debut-LP out Summer 2007. ASHTECH works actually too on releases of RAIZ and MAUXUAM.
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION Five types, five profiles were lighted: They seem to be different characters. Downloads: Bonustracks from the session to their last studio lp. Brillant live-act.
DREADZONE Shocked by the tragical death of guitarist STEVE ROBERTS in October 2006, the band decides after a time-out to work on. Two new members, new live shows of their sound sytem, well known for their tenses between house, dancefloor, riddims & dub.  
GROOVE CORPORATION Nice concepted with a guitar amp-design. I wish a little bit more infos about them on their page...
IRATION STEPPAS "The Vanguards of Dub." Bio, extensive  discography.
JAH SHAKA Mr. Charism of the english dub. His soundsystem influenced younger dub generations deeply. 
LOVE GROCER Producer/Soundsystem with Englands exquisitest hornsection in dub.
MACKADUB The dub-mixer of a New Age roots-community together with TAYLOR BOLTON, SAMMY GOLD, TEACHER and UMOJAH II. Interesting, charming style, short sample-downloads. 
MAD PROFESSOR One of the finest and likeable sites in this link-community. Always actual, diary entries, many photos, very extensive.
MOLARA A wonderful singer and an excellent dub artist - a rare combination. She plans to release two dub albums in 2006 - look for downloads. Nice, extensive page by the former frontwoman of ZION TRAIN. 
NUCLEUS ROOTS Founded 1996 as a "studio resource for the abundant and obvious talent already existing in Manchester" (site). Now on 'Hammerbass'-label. 
ROOTS MANUVA Artically-politic hiphop, on 'dub come save me' in a very convincible way. Project of Rodney Smith.
ROOTSMAN Rootsman is nowadays between all styles, but great. Classic tunes of the present.
ADRIAN SHERWOOD On-U Sound is back! (autumn 2006). To this time infos about the comeback and the next releases, some bios, site will growing!
TACKHEAD The mighty rocking dub band from the house of On-U Sound. Waiting for a real re-animation...
UNITONE SOUNDIMENTIONAL A site for the whole band community with hidden links. Nice to rummage.
URBAN DUB Deep neo-dub act (debut-LP 2000). Bio, five longcopy-interviews and discography. Now with French singer Marjorie Paris. Actual album 'illegal immigrants' out July 2007.
VIBRONICS Starting 1995, they released their lp-debut  2000 on 'Universal Egg'. Mighty roots meet experimental sounds. Extensive site, many Downloads.
JAH WOBBLE Ex-bassist of Public Image Ltd. of their early, dark and dubby phase. Now worldmusic meets - sometimes - dub. Site is named after his own label.
ZION TRAIN Completely newed site: Extensive galleries, some interesting live-downloads, tour-diary. No wishes let open for fans! Nice!
franceFRK
BARBES D
Composer and guitarist (ex-JAMASOUND) from Marseille. Now he is playing 'reggae dub steppa in a digital style'.
BRAIN DAMAGE
Pioneers of the modern French dub. Very active and well-known act in France. Some international sampler-contributions, own releases on 'hammerbass'. New live-lp out in Autumn 2009.
GARY DUB Nice page. Released on dubflash records 2005: split lp SOCIAL LIVING SOUNDS meets GARY.  
HIGH TONE Progressive dub-music for sound-gourmets, the "champagne" of french dub. Five lps are own works, three lps are made as cooperations with other French dub-acts.
JAH ACID DUB Dub-Project of painter/musician MATHIEU ZIEGLER, Paris-Malakoff. Downloads also on 'versionist.com'.
KANKA Multi-instrumentalist and producer, site with all infos and downloads, one inofficial lp and three officials on the french dub label "hammerbass", actual lp "sub.mersion".
MANUDUB New dub dj/performer from Marseille. Some society critical experiments with statement samples (Bush, Martin Luther King), brillant remix on "the eagle, the dragon & the bear". On 'versionist.com'. 
VOLFONIQ Live performing young electro-dub duo from Montpellier. Many audio/video-downloads. Site in english is fitted with all their download links, site in french (with menu) is richer in information.
ZENZILE Dub Act from Angers. Website with bandhistory and info. They tell they are influenced also of german/austrian-dub acts, nice as rare to hear.
germanyGER ALPENDUB A canadian called 'the man cable' settled down in Berlin and connected traditional alpine 'jodel-music' based tracks with dub-works. Result: it works fantastic! Hollereihidi! 
BLACKWOOD SOUNDSYSTEM Swaarz-walde? Yess! Mighty bassboxes and roots til the Feldberg gets shaking... Much photos of their live-events.
DUBVOYAGERS Reggae-HipHop-Ragga-Ambient-Dub-Ska-Show - Tübingen/Stuttgart based.
NOISESHAPER
The german "wild ones" in dub, Axel Hirn und Flo Fleischmann, came over from Vienna and firmed her smooth project in Berlin. Great dub-dancehall-roots-connections.
ORNAH-MENTAL
Index-site in the design of the last release 'testimony' with trackguide. Links on some reviews, publisher und label; Video of 'redemption dub' in quicktime. 
PEACEMAKERS Young roots/dub-band from Dortmund plays excellent vintage dub orientated stuff - on reggaedubwise.com. 
SATTATREE Nine-headed dub collective from Berlin - "The Berlin dub massive!" Downloadable are fat live reggae style tracks from a Berlin backyard party and something more...   
SIR LARSIE I "Earthshaking dub outta germany!" Roots & steppers dub-producer & musician based in the Cologne-area. Also site of his own label: 'Phoenix Upliftment Records'.
SMALL AXE Soundsystem from Aachen who is into dub. Members of the crew are ex-musicians of The RUTS (DC).
TIGER HIFI International artist-collective around KRAANS DE LUTIN, based in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Fulminant Dub-Debut-LP 2007 on majorlabel Island Records. Twelve stream-edits of the album, single-video, infos and more. 

TURTLE BAY COUNTRY CLUB

MATTHIAS ARFMANN, the man behind the "club", has made a great dub-reggae and real classic-music soundclash for 'Deutsche Grammophon'. We´re expecting new releases of the 'club'. 
hungaryHUN ANIMA SOUND SYSTEM Budapests wonderful crossover in time high fictioned pop, world music and dub. New webpage in english. Actual you can download on their site the new double-cd "mutiny on the ship", a live performance of them at artemovsk 38.
IRE BOXCUTTER This Dubstep-project of BARRY LYNN is open-minded and rich with stepping electro beats, melodic fantasies and pioneer appeal! His actual lp "glyphic" is one of the best dubstep-releases of 2007!
italyITA ALAMBIC CONSPIRACY Mighty stepping dub from Pordennone. Tracks from their actual album "basmati kitchen DUBs one" (2007) are playable by cursor. 
BR STYLERS Brillant dub act faced by a wonderful female voice. All their lps are downloadable for free on this page.
SARDINIA BASS LEGALIZE Blog-styled site of this fine act from Sassari/Sardinia. Some links and downloads.

SUD SOUND SYSTEM
Extensive, charmful site by the harmonic dancefloor-act from Lecce/Salento. No wishes open for fans, all lyrics, some downloads.
jamaicaJAM ZACHEOUS JACKSON His voice, deep belief, Westmoreland background, his travels between Jamaika and London and the dubs in his music agree and remind definitely on BIM SHERMAN. The smartest hope about new Jamaican dub. Also on 'versionist.com'.
japanJPN
DRY & HEAVY
A small page presents the importanst infos about the band around mixmaster Uchida Naotyki on the website of their japanese label.
LITTLE TEMPO Very successful in Japan, but mostly unknown in Europe: LITTLE TEMPO. Someone called the impression of the since 1992 existing act  'SUN RA meets KING TUBBY'. Site in japanese.
maltaMAL MIND´S EYE DUB Mediterranean dub sounds by british people. Also on 'versionist.com'.
MEX

TOR.MA IN DUB

Psy-roots-dub from Playa del Carmen. Fine Arrangements in the tense of roots music and spacey sound worlds...
netherlandsNDL
DUBCREATOR

IT-active dub collective from Amsterdam.
SLIMMAHSOUND DUB SYSTEM  Massive steppers dub sound system of TIM "Slimmah" BAUMGARTEN based in Groningen. Listen to the streaming tracks of the debut lp: hot newcomer!!!
TOGETHA BROTHA SOUNDSYSTEM Their first lp-release is called 'The highpriests of vocals and thundering'. Well, BAMBU and DOWNPRESSA from Utrecht are! Also on 'versionist.com', 'mp3.com.au' and other download sites.
TWILIGHT CIRCUS 
DUB SOUND SYSTEM
Fulminant dub-project of the ex-LEGENDARY PINK DOTS frontman RYAN MOORE. Analog-Sounds only. It is also the side of his Label M Records.
new zealandNZL FAT FREDDYS DROP New Zealands soul-dub-sensation! Site actual in the design of their new lp. Stream snippets, infos very few, more infos you get on their myspace-site...

SALMONELLA DUB

New zealand´s finest in dub. Excellent site-work, needs newest Flash Player. 
POL PAPRIKA KORPS Firmed 1996 in Opole, a reggae band between Pop and dub, with own label 'Karrot Kommando'. Five albums to this time, download tracks of every album on their site. 
Very tour-active in Europe since years. 
scotlandSCO MUNGOS HI-FI "The ongoing campaign for reggae in scotland and beyond." Small site. 
SER BLACK ARK CREW Founded in 1999 as the first dub band in Serbia. Since then drifting from a roots dub act to an self-contained mix style of roots, hiphop and electro in dub. Eight people who like also free improvisations on their live-gigs. Many downloads on their site!
south africaSUA KALAHARI SURFERS Small site of the genious south african underground band with history sheet, a page listening available records, and pages with download- as printable covers and text sheets.  
spainESP BASQUE DUB FOUNDATION Dub posse founded in London by Basque INARI YARRIKU. Meanwhile in Spain more active as in England. More roots-oriented as the similar named ADF. Little Info-Site on 'Reggae-News'.  
HOT DROP 7-headed riddim act from Madrid with a fine take into dub, actual two dub-remix eps as free downloads on their page.
swedenSWE SOCIAL LIVING SOUNDS Dubwise new act, also a sound system in swedish clubs. Some sound examples. First release on dubflash records 2005: split lp SOCIAL LIVING SOUNDS meets GARY.  
switzerlandSUI DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL Six hands for a trance-dub hallelujah! The Zurich trio understand themselves more as live- than studio-act. Four ep´s available on their website, musician bio dates, monthly changing download track. 
THA BANGKOK MASSIVE SOUNDSYSTEM Representing the small but growing dub scene in Thailand, the community includes AGENT SMIFF and THE ORACLE (check out their tunes on Versionist) as well as Dokta Toka, Rootsman Rik and six further musicians. On 'versionist.com'.
TRI JUAKALI Remarkable singer/entertainer. His electronic Ragga-music contains rhythms from dub, hip-hop and world music, covered in a juicy mix of lyrics inspired by the social context of original roots reggae.
TKE FIRUZAGA "Dubbing dubbing digital!" Steppers style with fat (melodica) sounds in a moderate speed from Istanbul. On 'versionist.com'.
united states of americaUSA DUB TRIO Bass, guitar and drums in a live dubbing style. Simple but great: lots of energy, spirit and humor. From NYC. Also on versionist.com.
GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SOUND "Roots & dub for your meditation"! Seven headed live dubbing band from Rochester, NY. First lp: 'slow down'. Conventional dub reggae, but powered by solar energy!
BILL LASWELL THE bassman. HIS label. Very much infos & history. Much innovation in the triangle jazz, ambient & dub.
KEITH LE BLANC The 'king of the beat'. Drummer of TACKHEAD, drum programmer with excellent solo works and sampling lps.
LITTLE AXE The long time expected site of the genius blues-dub artist SKIP MCDONALD is online. The sixth lp-release of the act 'stone cold ohio' is out since October 2006.
MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO Originally firmed 1987 in Swindon, England as an EBM/big beat act, the bandleader moved in 1994 to San Francisco to start with experimental sounds in the tense of electronica and dub.
SOLOMON JABBY Dub artist from Georgia who works brilliant in a 70s jamaican-dubstyle. Also on 'versionist.com'.
SOUND IMPERIUM First LP 'pre-emptive dub attack' is now relesed in US. The act from Minnesota now is looking for distribution partners in Europe. Twinband of SOUND IMPERIUM are the INFANTRY ROCKERS.
SUB OSLO
A very individual stylished dub-project from Texas. Eleven musicians. Open-end improvisations in their live gigs, influenced too by german krautrock. Impressive art-works. 
SUB SWARA Vital NYC-crew playing in the tense of oriental melodies and drums, experimental electronica and dub. SUB SWARA are Dhruva, Sunder, Haj and MC Juakali.
SYSTEM FAILURE SOUND New reggae-dub act from Hawaii. 
TELEDUBGNOSIS 'A new breed of ambient dub metal scientists, dark riddim warriors, noise sculptors and industrial roots rockers' (self-rating). On WordSound-Label.
THIEVERY CORPORATION Little department on the website of their american label: Bio- and discography, news and tourdates.
DOUG WIMBISH Starbasser of ON-U SOUND, TACK<<HEAD and LIVING COLOUR. Much infos, backgrounds and a 'bass of the month'-side (?!!).
walesWLS TALKING DOG Solo dub project of a member of the worldbeat collective 'Secret archives of the vatikan'. Imaginative (dub) sounds. 


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