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The evolution of DJ soundsystem, dub studio, and live band. Original reggae, hip hop and drum and bass beats with a blues meets the mid-east melodic attack. Crossfaded real-time inna dub style, with samplers, mixers, computers, analog echo and electric guitar.Dub Champions transform what was once... Learn More »

The evolution of DJ soundsystem, dub studio, and live band. Original reggae, hip hop and drum and bass beats with a blues meets the mid-east melodic attack. Crossfaded real-time inna dub style, with samplers, mixers, computers, analog echo and electric guitar.

Dub Champions transform what was once confined to the studio — the Jamaican dub reggae production style of the 1970s -- into a dynamic DJ soundsystem for the here and now. Vintage analog delay, mixers, and samplers shape the sound of original tunes: tunes that blend reggae, sure, but also hip-hop, drum and bass, blues, mid-east, and african influences, among others.

Think of Lee Scratch Perry dubbing out bass so subsonic (damn...is that the F train?), beats so kicking (go ahead and wipe your feet on the rhythm rug), horns and keys so lush (Augustus P. and Booker T., look out), and guitar so tasty (unofficially classified as finger-licking) that Bob, Dre, Roni, Muddy, and some Turkish and Malian dudes you’ve never heard of would just have to smile. Good. Now think of all that happening live, with songs crossfading into one another and instrumental passages breaking it on down, and you've creatively visualized the Dub Champions live experience.  Nice work--now get yourself to one of these shows, 'cause that's how it's gonna to go down.

Dub Champions is a live Subatomic project performing in New York City on the regular, featuring ANDREW CARRAS on guitar, saz, & cumbush and EMCH 'pon the sound system controls.   EMCH & CARRAS met in 7th grade.  Mutually enamored by hometown Seattle hero Jimi Hendrix, Carras went on to explore the depths of the blues guitar tracing it back to Africa before encountering a similar tradition in his own heritage that led him to study Greek, Turkish and Arabic music as well as jazz and classical guitar while Emch veered into the noisier side of Hendrix, both in studio production, beat making, and live bands, eventually lured into dub reggae through a brush with Bad Brains and Fugazi that turned into a head on collision with Lee Scratch Perry and King Tubby.
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