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Umberto Echo is a Munich-based (music) writer, (dub) professor, (sound) hermeneut, and multi-instrumentalist. Umberto Echo seizes the raw musical backbone of a riddim -- specifically reggae -- and uses it to generate multifaceted dubs in the studio as remixes or live tracks. In the past he has worked as a sound engineer for Jahcoustix, Jamaram, Headcornerstone, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, and Dub Inc, and has produced international reggae vocalists and deejays such as Alborosie, Junior Kelly, Luciano, and Lutan Fyah, as well as remixing a host of artists, including Gentleman, Seeed, Steel Pulse, Sly & Robbie, Damian Marley, and Stereo MCs. Nestling between digital echo chambers and analog tape loops, his aim is to hop between Duke Ellington and King Tubby, opening up a new musical cosmos and consensus in the process. This is something he has achieved with his albums Dub the World (EB 074CD, 2010), Dubtrain (2007), and Elevator Dubs (2013), and it's a feat he has effortlessly and emphatically repeated on The Name of the Dub. As with his previous releases, the decisive characteristic of this album is the breathtaking international class and quality of the fundamental tracks. The cover art showcases Umberto Echo as a sound manipulator, sitting cross-legged on a bass speaker; a man who operates the mixing desk, software, and outboards with just as much musical virtuosity as when he plays keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums. While Umberto Eco is renowned for his novels, monographs, and essays, there is only one true language for Umberto Echo: to dub the world. This is how contemporary pop music should sound; not for hipsters, but exclusively for those who have always been hip. Includes dubs of tracks by Mellow Mood, Sista Gracy feat. Sugar Minott, Iba Mahr, Splendid, Dubmatix feat. Eek-a-Mouse, K-Jah feat. Runkus, Dub Inc feat. Tarrus Riley, Sara Lugo feat. Protoje, Jahcoustix feat. Horace Andy, Dactah Chando, House of Riddim feat. Keishera, The Senior Allstars feat. Tokunbo, Dub Syndicate feat. U Roy, Jamaram, Tackhead, iLLBiLLY HiTEC, and Dub Spencer & Trance Hill.
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Umberto Echo is a (music) author, professor, expert in (sound) hermeneutics and multi-instrumentalist from Munich. After collaborating as producer, engineer and musician on over 80 albums, ranging from rock to classical & jazz through to reggae; writing Bavarian reggae history along the way with Jahcoustix, Jamaram and Headcornerstone, and producing for a swathe of international reggae vocalists, including Junior Kelly, Luciano and Luton Fyah, Professor Echo finally revealed his true identity by getting on the Dub Train -- his debut album as sound scientist of the digital echo chambers and analog loops. The successor is Dub The World, featuring 15 versions of dub, roots and dancehall tunes from 13 countries, showing him as a sound manipulator whose virtuoso control of mixing desk, software and outboards is equaled only by his mastery of keyboards, guitar, bass and percussion. The album was mixed at top-notch studios in Berlin, Munich and New York, resulting in a clear, wide sound on this journey through hi-fi dub. The opener comes courtesy of the original Germaican Gentlemen with "Dem Gone." The riddim twins Sly & Robbie, performing here with the Polish band Rastasize, are featured, as are the veterans from Steel Pulse in combination with Damian Marley. Another act from the Motherland is Oneness featuring Buju Banton & Naptali, with "Rise Up!" The UK answers with the Stereo MCs and Up, Bustle & Out from Bristol, featuring Kalaf. The vibes from Katchafire (New Zealand) come from furthest afield, followed by the Australians The Red Eyes and Jiang Liang from China. Cultura Profetica represent Puerto Rico, Dub Inc. (F), Dub Spencer & Trance Hill (CH), Smoke (IT) and the Austrians from Dubblestandart (again with Lee "Scratch" Perry) allow Umberto Echo to pump up their Eurodubs, while German band Seeed featuring Cee Lo Green are featured with one of their classic tracks, "Aufstehn." Dub The World is an exclusive dub-set by one of the great, mysterious men in the background, and an outernational dub conference which emphasizes the power of Marley's universal integration message combined with King Tubby's sonic innovation. From roots to futuristic, from jam-rocking to ethnodelic, from Brooklyn to Sydney over Kreuzberg to Kingston and back.
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