Elastica Dub & Don Hartley - Need More Love

Italian producer Alberto Tucci aka Elastica Dub combines the vibes of reggae and dub with pure creative energy.  The founder of Elastica Records, a historic label of Dub and Electronic Music, gathers around him the best of international artists, who love reggae and dub music, to create some great releases. After his tour in India and his collaborations with Zion Train and Daman, he releases his first single on Dubophonic Records.

Jamaican born and raised Roots Reggae artist Don Hartley has over three decades of experience sharing his deeply spiritual music. He shot to notoriety on the UK and European Dub scene in 2001 via his association with Manchester UK’s Nucleus Roots label. Don has since then gone on to work with notable producers and labels like Thierry Negro (Faya Dub), Lewis Bennett (Lewis Bennet Dub), Roll & Record, Fat Bird Recordings, Rod Chaplin (MessenJah Music) and Dubophonic Records through his recent collaboration with Mikey Dub. From Kingston, Jamaica, to the UK - from Jah Rastafari to Jesus Christ - his journey has shaped both his music and his message.

Elastica Dub and Don Hartley come together in a collaboration that blends heavy dub grooves with a powerful social message. Known for his soul-stirring lyrics and global perspective, Don Hartley voices the pain of a world torn by conflict—from Ukraine to Gaza, from broken friendships to digital isolation. Need More Love, produced by Elastica Dub, channels this cry through deep basslines and immersive soundscapes. 

Born between the Tuscan hills, the vibrant energy of London, and the vast silence of the Rajasthan desert, this track is both a call to conscience and a tribute to reggae’s role as the voice of the voiceless.

Don Hartley & Mikey Dub - Causeless Shall Not Come

Portland musician and producer Mikey Dub returns in 2024 with a new single. After his EP Triumphant Riddim released in 2023 and his collaboration with Debbie Defire on Thank You, he enters 2024 with a new single and a new collaboration featuring this time Jamaican born vocalist Don Hartley. The new tune is entitled Causeless Shall Not Come and it is presented in two versions: the vocal and the dub version. Featured on the tune is also Texas born Joby Tijerna’s (aka. Joby T.) on the Horns and Andrew Deetz on the keyboards and then percussion.

Proverbs 26:2 "As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come." 

 

Jamaican born and raised Roots Reggae artist Don Hartley has over three decades of experience sharing his deeply spiritual music. He shot to notoriety on the UK and European Dub scene in 2001 via his association with Manchester UK’s Nucleus Roots label. Don has since then gone on to work with notable producers and labels like Thierry Negro (Faya Dub), Lewis Bennett (Lewis Bennet Dub), Roll & Record, Fat Bird Recordings, Rod Chaplin (MessenJah Music) and now Dubophonic Records.

His traditional Christianity which reflects in his brand of reggae is from his youthful years in Jamaica during which time he also embraced Rastafarian spirituality as a teenager, for many years a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel Organization in Kingston, hailing from the tribe of Naphtali. In 2006 he was received as a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Manchester UK where he now functions as a Catechist and as a reader, chanting the Saturday evening service respectively.

Don’s roots reggae mission continues unabated, entwined as always with traditional biblical themes advancing theocentric truths and rights across boundaries of empires and racial conceptions.