Dub Spencer & Trance Hill

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Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill with Umberto Echo on the bus
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
with Umberto Echo on the bus
General information
origin Lucerne , Switzerland
founding 2003
Website www.dubspencer.ch
Founding members
bass
 Marcel “Masi” Stalder
Electronics, saxophone
 Adi Pflugshaupt
Drums
 Christian Niederer
Current occupation
Philipp Greter
Marcel “Masi” Stalder
Guitar , banjo , vocals
 Markus Meier
Julian Dillier
Live and session members
Umberto Echo

Dub Spencer & Trance Hill are a dub band from Lucerne founded in 2003 . The group itself describes their music as " instrumental psychedelic dub reggae with rock and trance influences". The band's regular tour companion has been the Munich-based sound and dub specialist Umberto Echo for several years . He is the fifth instrumentalist on the mixer .

history

The founders Marcel Stalder, Adi Pflugshaupt and Christian Niederer (from left to right)

From 2003 to 2006 Dub Spencer & Trance Hill consisted of Marcel Stalder (bass), Adi Pflugshaupt (electronics, saxophone) and Christian Niederer (drums). They released five EPs in self-distribution until the Hamburg music label Echo Beach signed the three Swiss from 2006. Together with the Cologne guitarist Manougazou, the album Nitro was created , which was named Dub album of the month by the German “reggae magazine” Riddim .

In September 2006, Pflugshaupt and Niederer left the band. They were replaced by Julian Dillier (drums), Markus Meier (guitar, vocals) and Philipp Greter (keyboard, organ, melodica, dubs), who as a producer also had an important influence on all other publications.

After the release of the album The Clashification of Dub , which was inspired by the punk band The Clash , the band played a live concert in Berlin for the radio station RBB .

In 2014 Dub Spencer & Trance Hill released the album Burroughs In Dub in honor of and for the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs , with official support from the William S. Burroughs Foundation in the USA. It is praised in reviews as a timeless recording that features psychedelic, eclectic dub. The hypnotically monotonous voice of Burroughs is closely interwoven with the band's instrumental music.

The experimental singer Bruno Amstad can be heard on some tracks on the ninth album Deep Dive Dub .

Appearances

Appearance in 2012 on the 24th Detmold summer stage

Dub Spencer & Trance Hill performed all over Europe and played at various festivals, e.g. B. on the Summerjam in Cologne, on the Fusion Berlin, on the Overjam Slovenia, on the Reggae Summer Chiemsee , on the Ars Cameralis Festival in Katowice , on the Gurtenfestival in Bern , on the Blue Balls Festival in Lucerne, on the Télérama Festival Paris and at the Willisau Jazz Festival .

According to Swiss radio SRF3 , with over 400 shows all over Europe and concerts on large festival stages as well as countless recordings, they are among the best-known dub formations in Europe.

Discography

  • 2006: Nitro (Echo Beach)
  • 2007: Return of the Supercops (Echo Beach)
  • 2010: Riding Strange Horses (Echo Beach)
  • 2011: The Clashification of Dub (Echo Beach)
  • 2012: Too Big to Fail (vs Umberto Echo; Echo Beach)
  • 2013: Live in Dub & The Victor Rice Remixes (Echo Beach)
  • 2013: In Dub Remixes (Echo Beach)
  • 2014: Burroughs in Dub (Echo Beach)
  • 2016: Physical Echoes (Echo Beach)
  • 2016: Deep Dive Dub (Echo Beach)
  • 2018: Christmas in Dub (Echo Beach)

Web links

Commons : Dub Spencer & Trance Hill  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audio: Dub Spencer and Trance Hill, interview with Swiss dub kings. In: Radio SRF 3. Retrieved on December 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Igloo Magazine: William S. Burroughs in Dub, Conducted by Dub Spencer & Trance Hill (Echo Beach). In: igloomag.com. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Dub Spencer and Trance Hill, interview with Swiss dub kings. Radio SRF 3 , January 26, 2016.
  4. ^ Radio SRF3 , January 26, 2016