Biography
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, Switzerland’s dub heroes have teamed up with Umberto Echo, one of the most sought-after dub remixers.
In 2007 Dub Spencer & Trance Hill released their Echo Beach debut “Nitro”, a sort of spaghetti western in dub with plenty of dynamite. Since then, the Swiss musicians have added three further notches
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to their list of releases – “Return of the Supercops”, “Riding Strange Horses” and,
most recently, “The Clashification of Dub“.
Little wonder that the band are almost constantly on tour. On their last European tour, the dubsters cooperated with the Munich-based mix master Umberto Echo, whose illustrious profile spans several pages. For his debut album DubTrain the jazz label enja (Chet Baker, Abdullah Ibrahim, Rabih Abu-Khalil) set up a special sub-label, enja19. Last year Echo Beach released the album “Dub The World”, which featured his distinctive, ultra-precise dub take on tunes by Sly & Robbie, Seeed, Damian Marley, Stereo MC’s and Gentleman.
At their joint club and festival performances the combination of live band and live mixer turned out to be the proverbial “marriage made in heaven”. On the decks, Umberto Echo transformed Dub Spencer & Trance Hill’s riddims and melodies into thrilling, transcendental sound collages.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.