- Dublab
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dublab 
Type Public radio network Country United States Availability Global Founded 1999 Owner Future Roots, Inc. Key people Mark McNeill
Alejandro Cohen, Matthew McQueen and Jake ViatorOfficial website dublab.com dublab is a non-profit music public broadcasting internet radio station based in Los Angeles. They have also been involved with art exhibition, film projects, event production, and record releases. Their broadcast is open formatted and delivered via recorded sessions that are mixed by their collective of approximently 25 DJs. Twice a year they broadcast live for two weeks to raise funds which is known as their Proton Drive.
Their name is a portmanteau of dubbing and laboratory for the combined meaning: a place of experimenting with sampling music. Examples of this, besides their stream, is their film production Secondhand Sureshots where they gave producers, such as Daedelus, five dollars to buy albums from thrift stores and sampling the music to create new tracks.[1] Another in audio/visual form is Into Infinity a collaboration with Creative Commons.[2] It is a group art exhibition of around a hundred vinyl record sized circular artworks and more than a hundred eight second audio loops. The works are randomly dubbed together and is all made freely available for others to remix and sample, even on the project's website.
In January 2008, dublab formed a non-profit umbrella corporation Future Roots, Inc.[3][4] The name comes from their characteristic style of mixing traditional music, such as folk, with electronic sounds. It also refers to the paradox that oftentimes music that is actually really old can sound very much like it was made in the present. In that theme, dublab will often only be written as either all lowercase or all uppercase by those familiar with the collective. There are other such characteristic writing styles such as a heavy use of alliteration.
Forty percent of dublab's funding is raised through a bi-annual, two-week long live broadcast fundraiser[5] and the other 60% is generated through event production. Their sound system and DJs have been featured at; MOCA, LACMA, Art Center College of Design, Barnsdall Art Park, CalArts, Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits, The Getty Center, Disney Hall, UCLA, Hammer Museum, Hollywood Bowl, and El Rey Theatre.
They also have extended to releasing records such as; In The Loop series, Summer, Freeways, and Echo Expansion. They do many recorded sessions, Sprout Sessions, which they release freely as an audio RSS feed. These make their way to record releases such as the Feathers Sprout Session. In August 2008 they released their performance video project called Vision Version, which is available as an RSS feed.[6] They also have music-themed group art shows such as Into Infinity, Dream Scene, Up Our Sleeve, and Patchwork.
dublab was founded in 1999 by Jonathan Buck, Mark McNeill and fellow students from KSCR Radio at the University of Southern California.
Notable Guests, Artists and DJs
- Daedelus
- Flying Lotus
- Holy Fuck
- Mia Doi Todd
- Danny Holloway
- Lucky Dragons
- Dntel
- DJ Z-Trip
- Smaze
- Kozyndan
- Andy Votel
- J Rocc
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
- Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio)
- Nobukazu Takemura
- Smegma
- Tom Brosseau
- Terry Callier
- Thomas Fehlmann
- Devendra Banhart
- Morton Subotnick
References
- ^ http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/11/secondhand-sureshots
- ^ http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/8987
- ^ http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2007/11/dublab-turns-8-goes-non-profit
- ^ http://dublab.com/?id=997
- ^ http://www.scpr.org/blogs/offramp/2011/05/23/turning-tomorrow-dublabs-proton-drive-fundraiser/
- ^ http://futureroots.org/core
External links
Categories:- Internet radio stations in the United States
- American websites
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