Med Dred meets Rastaveli Mc & Ras Nelson - Freedom

The Cypriot producer Med Dred returns with a brand new riddim featuring Russian vocalist Rastaveli Mc and reggae artist Ras Nelson from Norway. The track Freedom is presented in three versions: the radio edit, a live dub and a special extended cut.

Med Dred is the leading reggae/dub producer from Cyprus, with many releases on Dubophonic Records, digital and vinyl. He is known for his deep roots sound that blends classic analog dub techniques with modern digital production. 

He is well respected in the European dub community, particularly among independent reggae networks. His music has been played on international reggae radios and included in compilations supporting conscious and spiritual dub culture.

Rastaveli Mc, is also no stranger on the label. Through releases like Better Galaxy and Jah Plan, he showcases productivity and conscious lyrics, his main features distinguishing him from many musicians. Rastaveli MC is in constant search and creation of something new.

Ras Nelson is a Norwegian roots reggae artist with enormous passion for music, with roots from Cape Verde. On stage, he has an energy that gives the audience a fantastic show. This is his first appearance on Dubophonic Records.

 

 

 

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Rastaveli Mc meets Dub Healer - Jah Plan

An emerging dub producer and musician from Russia, Dub Healer, creates riddims and one-take dubs with raw textures, analog imperfections, and heavyweight basslines crafted for sound system dances.

On his first appearance on the label, Dub Healer meets Artem Kostyuk aka Rastaveli Mc, the Russian artist who is well established, thanks to his conscious lyrics, manner of performance and right message.

Jah Plan is theri new song, presented in a fine stepper style and in two versions: the vocal cut and the obligatory dub version. 

 

Rastaveli MC / Step Machine - Better Galaxy

Artem Kostyuk aka Rastaveli Mc, is a Russian artist who is well established abroad, thanks to his conscious lyrics, manner of performance and right message.  His songs can be heard on festivals and radio stations in Europe, South America and even Africa. He collaborates with artists and producers all over the globe with equal success. 

 

Rastaveli Mc's high productivity and conscious lyrics are his main distinguishing feature from many musicians. Rastaveli MC is in constant search and creation of something new. At the moment he is the best reggae performer in Russia according to “Reggaemedia” and “Daily Vibes” the main media publishers covering reggae music in Russia

Step Machine is an apologist of reggae/dub/ska music, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Russia. He began his creative way as a music composer, arranger and drummer in several local reggae bands at the same time. Over time, he became interested in sound engineering and started to play dub on an old Soundcraft with a couple of analog effects. He now focuses on all stages of music creation, from composing to mastering. He is notable for using traditional reggae hardware and believes that they are the perfect polish for good music in this genre.

Culture Horn & Sammy Gold - Jah Creator

Culture Horn Sound System return with a brand-new EP entitled Jah Creator. 

For this release, the heavyweight sound system from the town of Kremenki in the Kaluga region in Russia, teams up with the mighty Sammy Gold to deliver a fresh vibe!  

Sammy Gold has been in the scene since the late 70s, when he started as a toaster and later in the 80s as a singer. Getting his influence from artists like Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller and Rod Taylor, he worked with many producers like Rus Muffet, Ras Kuntus and High Elements releasing music on Roots Injection, Cubiculo Records and many other labels.

Jah Creator is offered for free download from Bandcamp. As it usual in most of the releases of Culture Horn, the first composition is in a dubplate style and the second composition is the main track. Each track includes the obligatory dub version. The compositions were recorded back in 2016 and since then they have been played on various dances and streamed in radio broadcasts.

The EP is dedicated to Jah and his deeds. Peace and love to all. 

Culture Horn - Dublaboratory, Vol. 1

Culture Horn Sound System, the heavyweight sound system from the town of Kremenki in the Kaluga region in Russia, was build back in 2012. Gathering at least a dozen of musicians around it, it formed a big musical family from all over Russia. Armed with dubplates from local and international artists produced exclusively for Culture Horn, they are celebrating this year their 10thn anniversary.

This is a special release, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the sound system, with tracks accompanied the dances for the last 10 years.
 
For this release we have compiled a collection of four of the most popular dubs played during the dances, accompanied by their versions. These are all fire steppers produced by the Culture Horn dub laboratory and offered for free download to all the fans and followers to celebrate with them this special occasion!  

 

  

 

DubRaJah - Repatriation

DubRaJah has a unique way of blending the cultural elements from the countries he has been to, into his music. Being an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, he has made many ethnographical expeditions in different parts of Africa, Asia and Europe, produced several films about indigenous peoples and studied their native music.

His journey on our label started in 2014 with the EP Enkang, introducing a style that fuses dub with ethnic elements, samples and recordings made through his various journeys. In 2017 came the LP Reprise and 2019 the EP Nilotic. 

 

This is his fourth release, his second album entitled Repatriation, which is a collection of music recorded between 2016 and 2020 in Arusha (Tanzania), Sauraha (Nepal) and Moscow (Russia). Strictly outernational ethnic dubwise sounds. Our favourite track: Sajenio!

 1.Bhang / 2.Nilgiri / 3.Nad / 4.Java / 5.Chittorgarh / 6.Osh Dub / 7.Natron / 8.Sajenio / 9.Kalderash

Culture Horn & Gun Power - Feel It

Gun Power is a music band from Moscow. Nevertheless, the band was born in Thailand in 2017 by travelling musicians, who were playing in reggae bars all around Koh Samui and Koh Phangan islands. After returning to Russia, they decided to keep groovin' together and that’s how Gun Power was founded.

In 2019 Gun Power started working with Culture Horn Sound System, recording compositions that the CHSS team worked on. Later the same year, the band started to experiment with the sound, making improvisational concerts, playing over with jazz, dub, funk, instrumental "chillrave." In 2020, as a result of the pandemic times, the band was reshaped. But despite these changes, Gun Power is still working on events and a studio album.

This release is the result of their collaboration with Culture Horn Sound System and includes two songs and two dubs, following the format of all the releases of Culture Horn. The first tune is a rework of the classic anthem of Althea and Donna in a discomix style, while the title track Feel It is their first song ever released, written in a lovers rock style. Both tracks are accompanied by the obligatory dub mixes.

01 Gun Power - Top Ranking (discomix) / 02 Culture Horn - Ranking Dub / 03 Gun Power - Feel It / 04 Culture Horn - Feel It Dub

Aza Lineage & Culture Horn - I Give Thanks

Culture Horn Sound System, the heavyweight Russian dub sound system from the town of Kremenki in the Kaluga region in Russia, returns with a new EP. After the first release in year 2018 and the great feedback it received from listeners all around the world (I am a Rootsman was awarded Best Album of 2018 in Russia and “Best Indie Artist” for Madi Simmons), the sound system crew returns with a new collaboration, this time featuring the Jamaican uprising artist Aza Lineage.

Aza Lineage was born to teenage parents in the harsh inner cities of Kingston, Jamaica in late 1980s. She grew up with her extended family with hergrandmother being the head of the household. Growing up Aza realized she could sing and would often do so for friends, schoolmates and family members. On searching she found Rastafari, the Energy she thanks for changing her thinking, brought African Spirituality to her awareness and connected her to her roots, hoping to impact people in a positive way through her music.

The new EP of Culture Horn includes six tracks: 2 vocals tracks and 4 instrumentals/dubs. The first one is a special dubplate on the Roots Radics Riddim, recorded exclusive for Culture Horn Sound System., followed by a flute version ft. Aktuch and the necessary dub. The second one is the title track. With lyrics to spark your mind, I Give Thanks is followed by a special melodica dub by Med Dred and a heavyweight cut by Culture Horn Sound System.We give thanks! 

01 Dubplate Style / 02 Flute Dub (ft. Aktuch) / 03 Dub 2 / 04 I Give Thanks /

05 Melodica Dub (ft. Med Dred) / 06 I Give Dub

DubRaJah - Nilotic

Dubrajah, one of the most prolific Dubophonic artists, is back with his new release.  The ethnomusicologist from Russia continues to follow the path he started in year 2014, demonstrating with each release his ability to fuse a deep digital dub style with organic sounds, traditional African melodies and chants. After Enkang (2014) and Reprise (2017), the Russian artist Sergey Gabbasov returns with his new EP entitled Nilotic.

Nilotic is a group of people indigenous to the Nile valley. Dubrajah’s new music is a journey inspired by the cultures of East Africa and specifically by the Nilotic people. All compositions include samples of traditional music and singing of Twa, Karamojong, Maasai & Swahili people.

The first track Mji Mkongwe (which means "old town" in Swahili language) is inspired by an old part of the Zanzibar city, which is also known as "Stone Town". This town from the time of its foundation has been the melting pot of people and cross-point of cultures of Indian ocean - from Madagascar to Iran, from Congo to Indonesia.

Karamoja, the second track, applies to a region in the North of Uganda. its main inhabitants are Nilotic people, Karamojong and Ik, who are semi-nomadic pastoralists.

The last track refers to Bwindi, a large primeval forest in southwestern of Uganda (means "impenetrable" in Runyakitara language), which includes the half of the world's population of mountain gorillas. Previously it was inhabited by Twa pygmies - hunter-gatherers, first indigenous people, who have been resettled by the government outside of the forest, because of creation of the National Park.

01 Mji Mkongwe / 02 Karamoja / 03 Bwindi

Traditional African melodies & chants by Dubrajah

Dubrajah, the ethnomusicologist from Russia, returns with new music. He continues to follow the path he started in 2014, demonstrating his ability to fuse a deep digital dub style with organic sounds, traditional African melodies and chants. In this new release, his third one on the label, he is inspired by the life of Nilotic people, while the track Mji Mkongwe is inspired by an old part of the Zanzibar city, which has been the melting pot of people and cross-point of cultures of Indian ocean.

>> OUT ON THE 14th DEC 2018 <<

Culture Horn ft. Madi Simmons - I Am A Rootsman

Culture Horn Sound System is a weighty and heavyweight Russian dub sound system from the town of Kremenki in the Kaluga region in Russia. Built in year 2012, it managed to gather at least a dozen musicians are around it, forming a big musical family from all over Russia. Armed with dubplates from local and international artists produced exclusively for CHSS, their sound is constantly being improved. Culture Horn Sound System plays a very important role in the local sound system culture and scene of Russia, not only playing uncompromising roots reggae and heavyweight steppers, but also releasing their own reggae and dub compositions on vinyl.

On their first release on Dubophonic, Culture Horn collaborate with Madi Simmons, hailing from the USA and Dubophonic resident artist Med Dred, representing the likkle island of Cyprus. Madi has been performing and recording music for the last 20 years, going through lots of blood, sweat and tears in the music industry. Having toured the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, California and the Midwest and being just recently voted as BEST MALE INDIE REGGAE ARTIST of 2018, Madi had a lots of ups and downs, nevertheless loving every minute of it and enjoying not following the rules of reggae music (whatever they are).

The EP includes alltogether 6 tracks:  The first one is done ina dubplate style followed by a melodica version by Jahpapu and an uncompromising CHSS-dub. The second one is the title track, followed by a special melodica dubmix by Med Dred and a heavyweight dub by CHSS, demonstrating the uncompromising style of the artists. Culture Horn Sound System is coming to shake your town!

1. Culture Horn ft Madi Simmons - Dubplate / 2. Culture Horn ft. Jahpapu - Dubplate Version II / 3. Culture Horn - Dubplate Version III / 4. Cultre Horn ft. Madi Simmons - I am a Rootsman / 5. Culture Horn ft. Med Dred - Rootsman Dub (Dubophonic Dubmix) / 6. Culture Horn - Rootsman Dub Version III

DubRaJah - Reprise

Our first release of 2017 and the second one on the label by the Russian social anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Sergey Gabbasov and his project Dubrajah is coming your way. You already know his release from year 2014 entitled “Enkang”, though which we discovered the artist's ability to fuse a deep digital dub style with organic sounds, traditional African melodies and chants from the people of Maasai, Datooga, Hadza, Pemba and Zanzibar tribes.

The new album entitled "Reprise" uses the same musical recipe, but with different ingredients. It was recorded last year in Russia, Nepal and India and includes 8 new tracks by the Russian artist. By this album Dubrajah delivers his returning to the start and principal point of his researches – to Asia. Using sampled sounds from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Mongolia, we are led into a magnificent dub journey through Asia. New sounds and vibrations, new destinations and inspirations!

All tracks recorded in Jaisalmer (India), Sauraha (Nepal) and Moscow (Russia) in March/November 2016. Photography by Sergey Gabbasov.

 

01 Welcome to Asia / 02 Coconut / 03 Arusha / 04 Ganja Chai /
05 Dao Dub / 06 Mad Honey / 07 Citwan / 08 Deep Karnataka

Dubrajah - Enkang

DubRaJah is a project of Sergey Gabbasov, a Russian anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, specialized in the peoples of East Africa and Indonesia and student of “Dhow Countries Music Academy” (Zanzibar, Tanzania). He has made many ethnographical expeditions in different parts of Africa, Asia and Europe, produced several films about indigenous peoples and studied their native music. This is Sergey's first release on Dubophonic.

“Enkang” means in the Maasai language “homestead” .Maasai is one of the very few tribes who have retained most of their traditions, lifestyle and lore. “Enkang” is also the name of DubRaJah’s EP, which was recorded in the period from Autumn 2013 till Summer/Autumn 2014 in Arusha (Tanzania), Stone Town (Zanzibar, Tanzania), Wete (Pemba, Tanzania) and Moscow (Russia). 

 

DubRaJah fuses a deep digital dub style with organic sounds, traditional African melodies and chants from the people of Maasai, Datooga, Hadza, Pemba and Zanzibar, incorporating also samples of Mad Professor on “Eyasi Dub” and “Zanzibar Dub”. Each track has is own magic, from the ritual chants in “Laibon” to the mystical beauty of the “Ngezi” forest, cleansing the body, the mind and the soul.

 TRACKS: 01 Laibon / 02 Eyasi Dub (feat. "Mad Professor") / 03 Pemba /
04 Zanzibar Dub (feat. "Mad Professor") / 05 Ngezi

Mexican Stepper - The Mad Sunday

Dubophonic introduces Mexican Stepper. Born in Mexico, Yasser Serano has been into music since his childhood. His anxiety to contribute to the reggae and dub scene led him into participating in many festivals in Mexico with important recognitions. Tapping into different rhythms but mainly with stepper productions, Yasser introduces 2009 his Mexican Stepper project with the intention of creating a new dub proposal in his homeland Mexico. Little he knew that his sound would soon overcome the borders of his country and spread like a virus all around the world. Living proof of this is the willingness of many artists from all around the world to join his effort, offering their own musical interpretations on Yasser’s tune.

Mexican Stepper’s first EP consists of the title track “Mad Sunday”, a hard stepper tune with an ethnic feel, accompanied by an ever so exiting dub cut. Just to step it up a bit more, we included some exclusive remixes by artists who were already introduced on previous releases like Dub-I (RUS) and Negritage (ARG), but also by Dubophonic newcomers Svaha Sound System (UK), Injham (FR), Mr. Lion AKA Jahstyle (CAN) and Mr Mefistou (PR).

Each track is more than just a remix. It is a brand new interpretation of the main tune with each artist reconstructing the basic tune according to his unique style. Negritage makes a dirty rough rootical stepper out of it, Dub-I transforms the hard stepper into a musical dub experiment, Mr Mefistou incorporates the revolutionary speech of the Bolivian president Evo Morales after the trouble he faced in Europe due to his pro Snowden attitude, while Injham introduces a complete recut of the tune. Big versions by BBC Introducing Artist of 2012 Svaha Sound System and the Canadian Mr. Lion.

[DPH005] Mexican Stepper: The Mad Sunday EP

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TRACKS: 01. Mad Sunday // 02. Dub Sunday // 03. Mad Dub (Injham recut) // 04. Rootical Sunday (Negritage remix) // 05. Dub of the Lion (Mr Lion remix) // 06. Svaha Sunday (Svaha Sound remix) // 07. Revolutionary Sunday (Mr Mefistou remix) // 08. I dub on a Sunday (Dub-I remix)

Dub-I - Creation

From the vast area of Siberia/Russia, a new dub sound is created. Kirill aka Dub-i has been composing and recording electronic music for the last 5 years, keeping his productions hidden from the mainstream. Inspired by the Rastafarian movement, he dares to combine the roots/reggae dub with the modern sounds of his environment, creating irie soundcsapes, pushing the dub as we know, it into new unexplored areas.

Dubophonic is proud to to have Dub-I's "Creation" as the first release on the netlabel. The name of his album symbolizes not only the birth of our new netlabel, but also the birth of a new sound. His album "Creation", released only in digital format, aims to lead all sound-travelers to adventurous dub journeys of experimental ambiance. Dub-I's special vision on dub music is to fill the heart of each and every one of us with with love and peace, through the earthly vibrations and the deep musicality of his tracks.

The ten tracks, of which four are just over two minutes long, are different than the conventional style of dub, as we know it today. Nevertheless we are proud of his innovations .... dub is all about experimenting!
 

TRACKS: 01 Black and Beat // 02 First Dub // 03 Lion Dub // 04 BC Dub // 05 Satta Dub // 06 Riddidub Master // 07 Revolution // 08 Weed War // 09 2409 // 10 Plantation by Fire Salad (Dub-I & 25parsec)