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Echo Beach Products In Dub

Echo Beach Products In Dub

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Dr. Israel is a dub artist from Brooklyn/ New York City. For him, dub music - originally rooted in 1960s Jamaican reggae culture - is the starting point to explore a universe of sounds, including hardcore punk, rock, hip-hop, ambient, electronics, reggae, drum and bass. A global melting pot of a wild variety of musical styles. Douglas Bennett aka DR. Israel (Jamaicans gave him his artist name when he lived for a while in a Niyabinghi community and became a Rastafari) discovered what he calls "non-traditional" reggae while playing guitar in punk rock bands in his native Philadelphia. His inspirations and influences include punk/reggae hybridists Bad Brains and ragga/hip-hop pioneer Boogie Down Productions as well as 1980s Reggae stars like Sly & Robbie and Black Uhuru. In the early 1990s he began experimenting with sampling keyboards and beats. A few years later he and others like DJ Spooky and Skiz "Spectre" Fernando earned international renown for creating "illbient," a sound that mixed jungle and hip-hop beats with otherworldly dub, ambient and avant-garde classical tones. "We did a bunch of very dark, very strange music," says Dr. Israel, who released his debut instrumental EP, "7 Tales of Israel," on Fernando's WordSound label in 1996. Dr. Israel's journey has since taken him on tours around the world (U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan and has played major festivals incl. the Montreux Jazz Festival, South London's Royal Festival Hall, Reggae on the River in California, Transmusicales in France, Fuji Rock in Japan etc.) He has released several projects, including "Black Rose Leberation", "Inna City Pressure", "Patterns of War", "Love In The Time Of Violence" and has worked with Bill Laswell (as part of the supergroup Methods of Defiance), Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Last Poets, Rancid, Santigold, Sepultura, Laurie Anderson, Bernie Worrell, Easy Star Allstars, Alpha & Omega, and also with the rapper and Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest.
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Release Date:
2020-03-27
Publication Date:
2020-03-27
Publisher:
375 Media GmbH
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