During around 2006 I got really into King Tubby for the way that he would make dub productions. Back in the 60s and 70s he would take recordings, which bands had already made in his studio, and re-record them as he played around, turning the instruments up and down and adding effects over the top. Often he would leave just the bass and the drums playing while everything else dipped in and out. Dub was born, as a genre it wasn’t long lived, but more importantly with dub King Tubby had preceded remixing.
Remixing a band as they played appealed to me so I decided to make this performance, it’s also a sort of homage to King Tubby, who in my opinion is a massively underrated influence on electronic music.
We did a mixture of covers and original material. Only the covers were rehearsed so for the rest I would play my own pre-programmed drum loops to the band who would then jam along with them. Surprisingly the jams worked better than the covers.
The band were made up from friends from Dartington, who are now all members of different bands mainly being Yes Sir Boss and Ray.
Vocals: Kieron Allan, writer for Sky At Night mag. Kieron will be playing with me on my up coming project Touch It.
Guitar: Matt Sellors, lead vocals and rhythm guitar for Yes Sir Boss
Bass: Leon Boyden, bassist for Ray
Sax: Jehan Abdel-Malak, saxophonist for Yes Sir Boss (who will possibly be playing on Touch It also)
Percussion: Dan Truent, drummer for Ray
SUPERBEAT 