Dub Incorporation

Biography

Roots and influences

Dub Incorporation is founded in 1997. Originating in Planfoy in the Loire (42), composed of seven musicians (two singers/percussionists (derbouka), two guitarists, a keyboard, low, a battery), the Stéphanois group practices a métissé, merry and conscious, original reggae by the sounds, energy and the topics approached. From the crossroads of the musics, the instruments borrow from traditional Dub, Reggae and Ragga while renewing the kinds. The reverberation and the strong construction of the pieces in slow rises, evoke the dub influences. A dynamic dub, supported by technical virtuosity and the quality of composition of the musicians, richness which makes it possible to associate with this base influences a priori dissimilar like the ragga and the Eastern music. Hakim Meridja, singer Reggae/Ragga of origin Kabyle cotoie Aurélien Zohou, singer Ragga and this marriage of two different votes still raise the singularity of the group, mixing the acute one with the low register, the softness and the variety of tessiture of the Eastern song to heat and the speed of the song ragga.

Musical production

Dub Incorporation carried out two 5 titles, two albums and live.

The first 5 titles (" Dub 1.1" incorporation;) left in version limited on Saint-Etienne will be very dub. It comprises the first versions of " Hard boy" , the song worship of the group and l'" échiquier" recoveries later in diversity. The other pieces are purely dub (without voice). The second 5 titles, " Version 1.2" will install when with him the interbreeding suitable for the music of dub incorporation. The song ragga is done more present and the sound gains in professionalism. The word of mount functions much and the group enjoys a strong local success. The promises of the two maxis will be concretized soon by the exit of " Diversité" who will confirm the change the statute of a group adulated locally with a group with the Nationale scale.

It is really the album Diversité which will explode the group with the eyes of the general public of which the featuring with the singer Man from the Ivory Coast Tiken Jah Fakoly on the song Life , but also the piece more appreciated fans " Rudeboy" , already present on the first 5 titles. For their second album, In the decoration , the group offered the services of the Sound engineer jamaïcain Samuel Clayton Junior and grows rich by featurings enfievrés with David Hinds of the group Steel Pulse, Omar Perry and the singer ragga Guinean resident French Lyricson. Dub Incorporation belongs to the collective Massa sound gathering the scene reggae-ragga-dub inhabitant of Saint-Etienne.

Performances live

National notoriety is mainly based on the quality of the services " live" through France. Particularly active in concerts, they carry the public by enfiévrées performances where the slow vibrations and planing dub marry with improvisations ragga of high intensity. They are appreciated for their simplicity, their texts which preach peace and a positive spirit without falling into the stereotypes, and for their strong propensity to imply the public of the rooms where they occur. Practitioner a conscious music, even committed they move away from the Loire, travel and install their success in France gradually. They foam all the areas of France, occur in the small then big rooms in concert of the Country (Palate of the Spectacles and Hall C of Saint-Etienne, Transbordeur of Lyon, Zenith of Lille and Paris), take part in increasingly important festivals (Solidays, Printemps of Bourges). They move abroad (Portugal, Suisse, Belgium, Germany, Spain) installing some at the same time buzz Européen. They also go to Africa and are implied at the sides of association " Survie" to testify to the devastations of the " Françafrique". The singer Man from the Ivory Coast Tiken Jah Fakoly true carry-flag of the fight against this system will make a " besides; featuring" noticed on " Diversité".

Members

Hakim " Bouchkour" Meridja: song percussions
Aurélien " Komlan" Zohou: song , percussions
Frederic Peyron: keyboards
Abdenour " Binour" Khenoussi: low
Greek Jérémie: Guitar lead
Mathieu Granjon: rhythmic guitar
Grégory " Zigo" Mavridorakis: battery
yacine " histahe" chouihed: song percussions

Discography

Albums

Maxis

Vidéos

Concerts live

See too

Official site
Interview of Dub Incorporation to the festival Esperanzah

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