The Dub Workshop project was conceptualized as a vehicle for producers and musicians to collaborate and explore the rich roots of the performers and producers of the Jamaican tradition, as well as the sonic explorations of those inspired by the originators. For us, dub music encompasses both the aural history of stoned trippiness, the cosmic echoes and the insane reverberations, but also the implied process, stripping away the song to reveal the structure and carving away material and adding new material to create new, from the old. --- With this in mind, multi-tracked source material was offered to the producers, who used it to create their own works. There was no limitation, or expectation. They were free to add and subtract, cut and paste, mold and manipulate, at will. Instructions to the producers were as follows: "While we are rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth, fans of classic JA dub-maestros, we feel that there are bigger lessons to be gleaned from what they have taught us. We are interested in the studio as instrument, the producer as artist, the process as part of the product. We appreciate the sense of space, both physical and temporal, that can be created, and we are fascinated with how sounds can be stripped away to lay bare the structure of a piece and how parts that initially exist to support other parts can be bought into the foreground and exposed for examination. We are not necessarily looking for skanking guitars, snares splashed in reverb, or pianos bouncing on the off-beat, although we love all that, we’re looking for you to take the opportunity to explore the gift that some giants on a tiny island, gave to all of us as inspiration." --- The source files for these tracks were recorded live on Dec 22, 2007 at Atlantic Sound studio in Brooklyn. --- Performers on the source recordings: Yusuke Yamamoto – synth, Rhodes, FX -- Yoshio Kobayashi – drums, percussion, altitude -- Marihito Ayabe – live dub, hair & makeup -- Curtis Ruptash – Fender bass, electric upright bass -- Phillip C Hertz – drums, percussion, fatigue