Marco Neves
About Marco Neves
Vocalist and founder of Treponem Pal and Elephant System. Other activities: Dub Action Sound System and Hammerbass Records.
Info on Hammerbass:
Since its creation in 1997, Hammerbass Records Works at the diffusion of Dub Music in all its forms :
roots, electro, steppa, ambient...
If we want to go back to the origin of Hammerbass, we have to remember the parties of the DUB ACTION community, regularly organized in Paris since 1995 by a bunch of enlightened connoisseurs of DUB music. They were already into musical circles and the first goal was actually to enjoy it as at this time there was very little DUB music on the French scene.
As pleasure is often about sharing, the next logical step was also to enable music lovers to discover this music born in Jamaica in the mid 70's. DUB music took its first European flight around 1977 in London thanks to the help of punk bands (Clash, Ruts, Slits..) to eventually come round almost 20 years later with the techno music that made the 'Remix'concept [the quintessence of DUB music] available to all.
Whether they took place in basements (Paris-Texas and Archipel in 95 and 96), in boats (Makara in 97, Batofar in 2000 and 2001), or in venues (Arapaho in 95, 'House of Dub' parties at the Elysée Montmartre, Glaz'art from 2000 to 2003), the DUB ACTION parties enabled many DUB fans to see their favorite artists - generally for the 1st time in France.
Therewith the neophyte had their chance to discover the French and international protagonists of this perpetually changing genre.
Those parties were thus an opportunity for the DUB ACTION crew to link up and work with some of the main DUB artists and DUB producers of the international dub scene : Adrian Sherwood & On U SOUND, DUB SYNDICATE, MAD PROFESSOR, MANASSEH, ABA SHANTI, the ROOTSMAN, IRATION STEPPA'S, JAH WARRIOR, DISCIPLES, TWILIGHT CIRCUS, ZION TRAIN, A&O, AUDIO ACTIVE, BANGARANG, DUB WISER...
As we were having difficulties finding the production of those artists in France, and facing the growing audience expectations (thanks to word of mouth as well as an effective promotion), the idea came to start a label.
Ideas of collaboration started to come out, particularly with The ROOTSMAN whose 1st album ('IN DUB WE TRUST !') as well as the rest of his productions were regularly burning our turntables.
During a memorable DUB ACTION party with him in 96, we decided to release a 4-track EP few months after. 'A matter of time' opened its eyes in 97...
HAMMERBASS RECORDS was born ! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Info on Hammerbass:
Since its creation in 1997, Hammerbass Records Works at the diffusion of Dub Music in all its forms :
roots, electro, steppa, ambient...
If we want to go back to the origin of Hammerbass, we have to remember the parties of the DUB ACTION community, regularly organized in Paris since 1995 by a bunch of enlightened connoisseurs of DUB music. They were already into musical circles and the first goal was actually to enjoy it as at this time there was very little DUB music on the French scene.
As pleasure is often about sharing, the next logical step was also to enable music lovers to discover this music born in Jamaica in the mid 70's. DUB music took its first European flight around 1977 in London thanks to the help of punk bands (Clash, Ruts, Slits..) to eventually come round almost 20 years later with the techno music that made the 'Remix'concept [the quintessence of DUB music] available to all.
Whether they took place in basements (Paris-Texas and Archipel in 95 and 96), in boats (Makara in 97, Batofar in 2000 and 2001), or in venues (Arapaho in 95, 'House of Dub' parties at the Elysée Montmartre, Glaz'art from 2000 to 2003), the DUB ACTION parties enabled many DUB fans to see their favorite artists - generally for the 1st time in France.
Therewith the neophyte had their chance to discover the French and international protagonists of this perpetually changing genre.
Those parties were thus an opportunity for the DUB ACTION crew to link up and work with some of the main DUB artists and DUB producers of the international dub scene : Adrian Sherwood & On U SOUND, DUB SYNDICATE, MAD PROFESSOR, MANASSEH, ABA SHANTI, the ROOTSMAN, IRATION STEPPA'S, JAH WARRIOR, DISCIPLES, TWILIGHT CIRCUS, ZION TRAIN, A&O, AUDIO ACTIVE, BANGARANG, DUB WISER...
As we were having difficulties finding the production of those artists in France, and facing the growing audience expectations (thanks to word of mouth as well as an effective promotion), the idea came to start a label.
Ideas of collaboration started to come out, particularly with The ROOTSMAN whose 1st album ('IN DUB WE TRUST !') as well as the rest of his productions were regularly burning our turntables.
During a memorable DUB ACTION party with him in 96, we decided to release a 4-track EP few months after. 'A matter of time' opened its eyes in 97...
HAMMERBASS RECORDS was born ! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Marco Neves Music Style
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