"Just follow the bass lines!"03 August 2008Factual, Music75 mins
“Dub Echoes” is a documentary that traces the origins of the Jamaican dub music and it’s influence on the development of hip hop and electronic music.The film shows how the Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.
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The history of the sound that provided the skeleton key for modern beat music - the riddims rubbery bass and vast echoing spaces of Jamaican dub reggae.
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