Don’t know very much at all about house and techno, but people keep mentioning DJ Francois K a lot in terms of dub. I’m always a little suspicious of that cross over because I’ve heard too many dodgy attempts – yer usual 4 to the floor boom tish with a few bits of reverb and echo on the top and maybe a deejay sample in the intro. No thanks.

That said, there’s a lot of stuff which gets it right (Basic Channel being the best example).

So anyway, FK has started a club night for all sorts of dub in new york, called Deep Space NYC. And judging by the playlists it ain’t half bad. (King Tubby, Disciples, Shaka, Burial Mix, Scientist as well as the odd bit of Jazz, Yoko Ono, etc)

He has this to say on the message board:

“The Dub I am feeling right now is not frozen in time somewhere in a mid-70’s reggae wizard’s studio in Kingston, Jamaica. Rather, it’s looking for new extensions, extrapolations and mutant live recombinations of a culture which has otherwise slowly stopped making much deep emotional sense to many of us at all; becoming instead the safest lowest-common-denominator bland accessory to our designer-conscious lives, in its necessary alienation of anything deemed too ‘foreign’ for the sake of image and marketing. (shelf placement in the record stores as well as cutural correctness in a post-9/11 world)”

Also good to see they’re not afraid to play represses or CDs.