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FRENCH
DUB RELEASED
DUBROOM
NETLABEL REVIEW |
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July 2011 - French Dub Released (FDR)
well-picked their name: the Net Label is the
direct result of the ever-growing gathering
of online DUB producers. They specialize in
non-commercial music, to be more precise:
almost-everything-French-but-everything-DUB.
With such
relatively well-known French
artists/producers like Manutension, I-Plant,
and Webcam Hi-Fi, FDR is definitely a Net
Label to put in your bookmarks as they do
put a lot of effort in showing the quality
of contemporary France-based DUB.
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DUB
MACHINIST AND I-PLANT - NO SMOKING AREA
DUBROOM
MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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June 2010 - No Smoking Area is a Riddim
EP in the DUB sense of the word. I-Plant,
Hatman and Gary Dub are just three names who
have showcased their work on the riddim and
these names should ring a bell to those who
know their EURODUB and their NET LABEL DUB.
More than
niceness, this is definitely not the kind of
music which would make a No Smoking Area
occupied with slaveish followers of the next
anti-smoking law in some or another
country.This is the kind of music that makes
the heart and soul of every lover of DUB
rise up in joy.
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GARY
DUB - MAXIS FROM FIRST STEPS
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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July 2010 - Gary Dub, or Gary
Clunk, or Gaetan Pastor was born in the
French city of Metz in 1985. In the
meantime, he has played with many of the
better UK and EURODUB Sounds. In this
4-track EP we're getting to know him a
little better, musically.
Gary's
music is done in a special style which
combines musical play with programming in a
way that gives him a distinct sound within
the wide spectrum of UK and EURO DUB. Even
more, every track could be seen as
representing yet another style, in a way.
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GARY
CLUNK - ARCHIVES OF DUB VOLUME 1
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July 2012 - Another one from the widely
acclaimed French
DUB Released Netlabel: Archives
of DUB is actually a showcase album with six
titles in twelve tracks. Twelve marvelous
tracks where you can find everything, from
upfull vocals such as Paul Fox'
"Freedom Fighters" and Sammy
Gold's "Hail Rastafari" to massive
DUB like "Lasting Friendship" and
"Headlong DUB".
Everything
is nicely sequenced: A Vocal, it's DUB, an
Instrumental (DUB) Version, it's DUB, three
times over. It makes the album very
enjoyable to listen to in it's entirety,
even though the quality of the tracks in
themselves do not need a sequence in order
to be enjoyed. This is some very, very fine
and solid Roots and Culture (DUB) Reggae
from the French producer!
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HATMAN
- A DUB ENTERTAINMENT
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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July 2012 - It's clear at the very
first seconds of the very first track:
Hatman is as much a musician as he is a
producer. Interesting chord changes, subtle
keyboards, and everything on a solid sound
of the bass and drums. The recently released
Net Album is full of this kind of niceness!
Even though
all nine different titles have their own
dynamic and style, there is also something
that makes them into the album as well. This
is not just a collection of singles, in
other words. The first three tracks are
basically relaxed instrumental versions, the
fourth one introduces more and more DUB
mixing in the tunes that follow. There is a
very enjoyable line in the sequence of the
album which gives much credit to the title.
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HATMAN
- DUB TO DUB SHOWCASE VOLUME 1
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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July 2010 - Usually, a Showcase album
indicates that the titles come with a Vocal
and a Dub part in one long mix. Not in the
DUB TO DUB Showcase, though. The French
producer came up with this Iriginal concept,
worked out in a excellent eight-track Net
Album.
It's
not just the concept of a "Dub to Dub
Showcase" which should be recognized as
Iriginal, Hatman's music is kind of Iriginal
as well. It is clear that he knows his
instruments and has some pretty in-depth
ideas about production and engineering as
well. From the crucial French Dub Released
(FDR) Net Label: the first installment of
Hatman's contribution to the Online Dub
Massive. Nuff Thanks!
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HATMAN
- DUB TO DUB SHOWCASE VOLUME TWO
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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July 2010 - With a second edition
of Dub-To-Dub-Showcase, we can speak about a
series. Hopefully, that is. For we have
another collection of truly nice Roots and
Culture Reggae DUB tunes on our hand that we
really need to listen to four our musical
dietary needs as true DUBheads.
The French
multi-instrumentalist himself sees this
second episode as more of a foundation foor
Roots and Culture singers where Episode One,
he says in a French interview on the Net
Label's album page, was more aimed at the
Sound Systems.
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MANUTENSION
- TRIBUTE TO KING TUBBY
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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June 2010 - Unfortunately, Manutension
is -just like King Tubby- no longer with us
physically. His music lives on, though, and
in this four-track DUB RIDDIM EP we can get
a touch of that.
Manutension
was part of the well-known French based
Improvisators DUB Collective, worked with UK
greats such as Vibronics and vocalists like
Winston McAnuff, his music has pumped though
the speakers of many sound systems.
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VARIOUS
ARTISTS - FIRE DUB REVOLUTION
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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August 2010 - With 500 hard copies pressed,
this free and legal online release by the
crucial FRENCH
DUB RELEASED NET LABEL even
has some bonus tracks attached. Yes, here is
another compilation of Dub tracks in several
Dub styles, all of them more than
recommended and beyond!
"Fire
Dub Revolution" is definitely one of
the most interesting releases by the FDR,
which says something given the constant
quality of the music the Net Label has
blessed the Online Dub Reggae Community with
already. It took the label one year more
than they expected, but it definitely paid
off musically. Hopefully, it will also pay
off financially for the label even though
French Dub Released has a non-profit nature:
They did press 500 hard copies of the album
which -at the time this is written- is about
to be available for purchase.
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VARIOUS
ARTISTS - ROOTSTARITZ SESSION VOLUME ONE
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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July 2010 - When The Dub Machinist
spent two years in Basque country, he was
visited on a regular basis by his friends
and colleagues of the French DUB scene.
Every time, they would work on two or three
riddims in what would become the Rootstaritz
Sessions. With a couple of other episodes in
sight, Volume One sets the tone and that
tone is excellent!
Don't
expect too much dubbing in this first
volume, even though most titles come in two
different versions of which the second ones
are called "Dub". The Dub
Machinist himself, in an
interview with the French net label French
Dub Released, says that this first
volume has the least mixing going on and
that promises a thing in itself for the
upcoming parts.
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UPTOWN
REBEL- RANDOM ROAD
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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April 2014 - Three years after his debute
album, Uptown Rebel returns in the year 2014
with a heavyweight nine-track DUB album.
With collaborations by Dub Machinist, Sammy
Gold and Zion UK, Random Road has become a
more than pleasant work of DUB Art.
Electronic
DUB Art, that is. In a Roots Reggae Style.
The opening
track, featuring Sammy Gold at the
microphone is an easy going One Drop style
Roots tune, with conscious lyrics for your
heart and soul to meditate upon. During the
massive Dub version, for example. Bredda
Sammy surely has a message for each and
everyone to take heed while Uptown Rebel has
the riddim and the Dub mixing skills to
accompany it just in style.
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