DubRising July 11, 2007

You’ll hear some of the heaviest dub vibes ever when DubRising takes over The Plaza Nightclub (881 Granville Street) Wednesday, July 11 at 9 pm, bringing together three of the top-ranking dub operators on the planet: Adrian Sherwood’s OnU Sound System, Ryan Moore’s Twilight Circus Dub SoundSystem and west coast live crew Big Bass Theory for one great big night of space, bass and positive attitude. Be there when they take it to another level with the magic and mysterious live moments of beauty conjured by the performance artists of Nucleus and a live video mix by Chonka of nDimension Visuals.

DubRising is a part of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival’s 30th anniversary celebration and this dream of Dub takes the stage just as artists are arriving from the UK, Australia, and all over for the Festival weekend. Who knows who else may drop in to the mix that night?

Adrian Sherwood has created a universe of dub over the last 25 years – an original sound cutting hard-ass punk into some of the finest singers and players ever to move between the yards of Kingston and streets of Brixton. Into that mix came hip hop’s founding rhythm aces who created the crucial rhythms and riffs on the Sugar Hill records that broke it out of Brooklyn. When you mix together the three most powerful kinds of music on the planet - punk, dub and hip hop – with some of the most radical rhymers of the day speaking out, the result is a musical revolution that reverberated back and forth across Europe, Japan and North America and back to Jamaica. Twenty-five years later, he’s still a dub standard of excellence, fresher than the rest and all the places where dub has taken root.

Twilight Circus Dub SoundSystem is bassed – that’s right, bassed - in Amsterdam but the roots run back through time and space to Kingston, and to Vancouver. Twilight is the dubchild of Ryan Moore, a musical imagineer whose bass lines anchored bands like Animal Slaves way back. His dubplates reflect a love and respect for the originators in Studio One and the other labs where dub began. His musical vision continues to grow with each new release, and he’s earned global respect wherever there are listeners who love dub. In 1997, he created the first Jericho dub sessions at the Festival and 10 years later he’s back for another chapter.

Big Bass Theory is some of the heaviest local BC dub sounds you’ll experience. Based on Saltspring Island and led by Sean ‘SirBassa’ Hill, Big Bass Theory is rooted in solid riddims with serious bass frequencies. Full of soaring horns, steady bubble and skank, their music uplifts the soul with positive sound and vibrations with a defininte dancehall feel and reggae groove. Last year they were part of the biggest dub ever dropped in this town, shaking the foundations together with pioneering dub poets Lillian Allen and Clifton Joseph, Austria’s Dubblestandart, MC Jacob Cino and many other special guests. Everyone was shaking…and stirred.

Tickets for DubRising are $25 plus service charges online at www.thefestival.bc.ca and $28 plus service charges at Zulu Records and Highlife Records.

Official Website: http://www.thefestival.bc.ca