Catching the Waves:

The first sound on this five-track EP is a cool double bass, then a cooler dusty beat. Hmm, so Jack's Pot (Radio Edit) is trip-hop, surely? But no, here's a pulsing organ and swelling horns. Sit back and enjoy dub delirium. Rather appropriate for something from a madhouse.

A minute in to Odd Man's Planet Dub and what was an exemplary dub track gets a bespoke, crackly trip-hop drum beat that elicits a Neanderthal grunt of satisfaction from CTW. Play this (not the grunt) to your friends and watch their jaws drop when you tell them that you got it for free without resorting to a balaclava and sawn-off shotgun. Your friends may scoff at your claim, but you will remain calm and untroubled because your inner soundtrack is set to "trip-hop", permitting your yin and yang to enact a slow-motion duel between sitar and guitar. Satisfaction ensues. You've just been levitated by the Sitar Sensi (2007 Jah Crazy Edit).

Next is Wise Man's Dub, in which the narrator tries to find the path of enlightenment by bothering old age pensioners for the answer to life, the universe, etc. He gets nowhere until he talks to a nubile young lady. That's wisdom. And it's extremely wise of Dub One! to produce such a blend of trip-hop, light dub and rock guitar, not to mention a dusting of sitar.

We end the EP surrounded in a cloud of smoke with Dub One!'s whimsically titled "Sedative Gunjah Remix" of Knock Me Down by ETF. There's sax, flutes, organ, a soaring rock guitar solo, and a lithe young woman singing along - all it needs is a reverberating snare drum and you could file this remix in the dictionary under "Dub". And, would you credit it, the snare drum's there too. Somebody give the Oxford University Press a call.

I think this glimpse inside an asylum is the best thing that Dub One! has dub done. Each track is a head-nodding treat, and there's a professional sheen to the sound. If you want more of his stuff, you'll find it at ever-reliable Ideology, where he joins up to good effect on various releases with Authist, his usual partner in crime.

79Records:

Once again the iDEOLOGY label brings us another pearl, this time in a dub form. Dub One! is a Berlin based producer, hes release "Dubplates from the Madhouse" is a melting pot of musical influences geniously produced and mixed to perfection. We cant get enough of it and every time we find something different that catches our ears, it just hits you with enormous quality in every track. Blast this release at maximum volume, let your neighbours know about it.

Culturedub:

Premier opus en solo sur le label ID.EOLOGY pour le berlinois Dub One !. 'Dubplates from the Mad House' nous entraîne dans un dub teinté de jazz, de hip-hop et d'ethno. Un mélange d'influences culturels groovant aux multi-effets planants dont nous fait profiter Dub One ! en mettant ce 5 titres en libre téléchargement...

Tout au long des 5 titres que propose pour la 1ère fois Dub One ! en solo, il collabore souvent avec son collégue dubber Authist, on découvre les diverses influences reggae, jazz, hip-hop et la passion pour le sitar que Dub One ! mixe ici à merveille. Le tout avec des effets old school, Klaxons réverbés, orgue delayifié, agrémenté tout au long d'une contrebasse bien groovante et des mélodies vous rappelant la Jamaïque, le dub de Dub One !

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Dub One! has a unique global sense of musical madness. The five tracks on Dubplates From The Madhouse orignates from Berlin but teems with the sound of Jamaica. Hip-Hop, Techno and Reggae are shaken not stirred into a mesmerizing soundscape. “Jack Pot” and “Odd Man’s Planet Dub” turn out mellow and urban funky at the same time. However my favorite track is the raga/reggae “Sitar Sensi”, a hip-hop global contender if I ever heard one. Dub albums are usually not something I listen to regularly but this one may stay in the Ipod for quite a while.