Sunday, March 16, 2008
Dub Mission presents a night of live dubstep, grime and dub-flavored dancehall with
DJ COLLAGE (Masse-One/Jam Jam, Seattle, WA)
plus DJ SEP and MANEESH the TWISTER (Surya Dub)
@ Elbo Room - 647 Valencia Street - SF - 21 & over - club line: 415 552 7788
9 pm to 2 am - $6 advance/$7 door - adv. tix: ticketweb.com, jambasetickets.com

West Coast ragga toaster/producer/mc DJ COLLAGE returns to the Dub Mission stage with his own unique brand of dancehall toasting, chatting the mic over Dutty Larry's genre-mashing, dub-flavored dancehall & grime riddims performing some of his classics as well as newer material.

DJ COLLAGE has performed alongside Sly & Robbie, Yellowman, Amon Tobin, Kode 9, Karsh Kale, and been featured on top electronica releases by the Sofa Surfers, Stereotyp, Megablast, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Ghislain Poirier. And as a producer, he has remixed songs for Seattle based groups IQU, Truckasaurus and Vienna's club/pop group Blockwerk. With these collaborations, Collage has been able to fuse his dancehall vocal flavor with abstract dub, breakbeat, house and downtempo riddims and still nice up straight dancehall parties. He has also performed live extensively throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. DJ Collage began his musical journey by chatting on reggae soundsystems and with live reggae bands throughout the Midwestern US and Canada in the early nineties. He then relocated to California and began work with selectors and bands around the Bay area. He also formed the Masse-One Soundsystem, which featured him as the vocalist with two selectors (Bad Lt. and Bamboon) running the riddims. When the soundsystem dissolved, Collage took the Masse-One name and turned it into a record label and received favorable reviews for his first cassette only single "Worla' Destruction" released in 1996. But it wasn't until his five-song ragga/hip-hop EP "Uptown/Downtown" was released in 2000, did he really attract the attention of the masses. Now relocated to the Pacific Northwest, Collage runs a weekly reggae/dancehall night in Seattle called Jam Jam and is the official host of the Laptop Battle competitions that take place in the area. His new CD, "En route to Oz," is a fusion of distorted, futuristic hip-hop and dub flavored dance riddims complete with his unique toasting style. More info on Collage: http://www.myspace.com/djcollage or http://djcollage.wordpress.com/