First, second, third generation

We are all Manutension’s children!!!
 
Two decades after its birth in Jamaica, Dub Music finally arrived in France. Throughout the country, there were different points of contact and a main one was the city of Bordeaux. In the 90s, this breakthrough was especially around the band Improvisators Dub. Among the instigators of the project, Manutension did not limit himself to play the guitar during the gigs. He also persisted to spread the Sound System culture around him, by regularly hosting dances and inviting people such as the UK Dub scene, hitherto unknown in France.

Manutension and the Impro inspired others very quickly. It is first the Uzinadub crew who proceeded from the end of the 90s under an Electroroots6tm configuration with someone called Dub Machinist. Later on, it is him who inaugurated the Control Tower label of his friend Sir Hill, another survivor of the Uzinadub. A new generation determidly got into the Dub adventure with the new millennium. One of the most virulent activists, Gary Dub (he will become Gary Clunk only after) was part of the Natty Breakz collective and was one of the creators of the French Dub Released netlabel. Subsequently, he founded the Storm & Break label with his buddy Hatman, and he set up the groups Uptown Rebel then Subvivors, always in a live Dub spirit inspired by Improvisators Dub. Dub Machinist and Gary Clunk are therefore two representatives of what is now called the Bordeaux Dub School, which directly descends from the experimental work of Manutension and Impro Dub. 

In 2020, our two accomplices isolated themselves ten days in the countryside to create an album with four hands for the netlabel Culture Dub Records. On the program of “Dub Machinist meets Gary Clunk”, twelve tracks in which electronic loops, digital keyboards and instruments played live respond to each other in a joyful fusion that does honor the French Dub Touch as defined by the pioneers of the 90s.  

After an introduction reminiscent of how machines have forever changed the way we think about music, Gary Clunk and Dub Machinist do their best, on punchy stepper rhythms, to juggle different atmospheres: horror films for 'From the grave' , digital with blues atmosphere on 'Saloon walk', melancholic accents on 'Do you hear', travels in Indian lands with a sitar on 'Dub Mahal', science fiction on 'Jaffa dance', at bottom of theremin, or still jungle on 'Jungle Land'.  The two artists sign the remix of ‘Mr Babylon', a musical tribute to their fathers with their vision from the original Improvisators Dub track resulting with a clear and distinct sound without embellishment. 

It is much more than the meeting of two emblematic producers of the Bordeaux Dub School, this album is a great moment of dub. Quite simply. Zagazai! 
 
Dub Inspector 

Production & Mix: Gary Clunk & Dub Machinist
*Track 06 Kete by I-Tist
**Track 09 Ravish Guitar by TaïBass
Mastering: Big KnoB at Supadope Factory
Artwork: TOM75
Biography: Dub Inspector
Translation: Margaux Dub
Label: Culture Dub Records
CDRNET025
2020

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