The 'Dub Discussion Board' is back !

What a surprise to read in my email-box this morning that the Dub Discussion Board is back !

This board was the home for all online dubmasters to share technics during long times (1998-2006), but due to spam problem the website was closed until today.

Now the board is re-open with all archive inside, it's a really good news for all dubmaster that want to share and exchange mixing knowledge.

We are still migrating and organizing knowledge from interruptor.ch and versionist.com on the Open Dub Foundation - Knowledge Base

First open dub conference

The first open dub conference 'down in reality' is planned:

Saturday 08.12.2007 / Sunday 09.12.2007 | Starting at 3pm
Gasthof Ritter, Tuebingen, GERMANY
Dub Jam Conference organized by Rick (Overdubber)

More information

Unfortunately I'm not sure to be able to go to this conference due to family issue ... but hope to resolve it before ...

It's really a nice step forward for the Open Dub Foundation, this bring it to reality and make people able to have pleasure making music together.

Finally a big up for all who made that possible and too to every one that make the reggae/dub community alive by making gathering in past and future (versionist, dubconference,...) !

Dub poetry or the roots of slam

I love dub poetry from long time, the first ever dub album I bought was the 'LKJ in Dub' (recorded in 1981, and bought by myself more than ten years later...) and this was a musical revelation for me.


Then I started listening to Tubby's records and other 70's records, until I found a Prince Far I record made by Adrian Sherwood in 80's... I was shocked by the power of Prince Far I voice, it was like a slam in my face !

Dub poetry is the spoken word version of dub music. For I dub poetry is more related to dub than 'simple reggae', because words get an other power when the music is mixed in a specific way giving voice a strong signification, it's for me the roots of 'today' slam...

I'm actually trying to create a new project about dub poetry, here is some links to get more inside this musical style:

Dub Poetry - Wikipedia article
Dub Poetry Introduction - Nice introduction to dub poetry
Dub Poetry Selection - A selection of dub poetry albums
Dub Poets Collective - Dub poets crew from Canada

Remote dub conference

Just discover this software with the help of versionist community.
NinJam

This software enable musicians to play together using Internet connection.

The problem when doing remote connection to play music is the latency, the solution proposed by ninjam is to use latency measured in measures, and that's what makes it interesting.

Hope to do jam soon !

Website was hacked !

The website was down between Sunday morning to Monday evening, sorry for any inconvenience but direct link was still available.

The hack was done using simple script kidding, the corrupted module is now updated and all is back in order.

Opening Dub Connection

I've just uploaded a new project on the Open Dub Foundation.

A preview of the whole song is available for download at versionist.

This song was build using only digital synth (except vocoder samples), it's first time (since I started use traditional instrument) that I make a full digital dub, I hope artists from the foundation are going to enjoy playing with it !

It's a kind of try out to see how can sounds my music in digital style... It was a real pleasure to build this song.

Don't hesitate to download the new project.