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Our first session for 2012

dragon — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:00:09 +0000

Ok here it is my first blog post in ages. Well I just want to start off by wishing everyone a happy new years etc. So I’m happy to announce that Dubway will have its first session for 2012 with special guests all the way from Sweden. DJ Irk, Bellaboo and Little Jinder. All three are set to take to the decks this saturday January 28 at Club Culture. DJ Irk has been pushing the dubstep sounds in Sweden for years, he also runs the All Out Dubstep label. Bellaboo host’s her very own show on ESS radio and Little Jinder has released an E.P on Drop the lime‘s Trouble and bass label. To say the least this night is going to be freakin’ heavy!

more info check out

www.alloutdubstep.com

www.troubleandbass.com

www.electricsoundstage.com

www.club-culture-bkk.com

Giant Swing

dragon — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:02:04 +0000

Giant Swing is Bangkok’s most cutting edge house night. The monthly event organized by DJ Masa and Hiroo has played host to numerous Japanese DJ’s visiting the Kingdom. However this time round as their guest is not a DJ but a graphic artist from Osaka called Qotaroo. We visited Qotaroo on our Japan trip earlier this year. His exhibition at Galaxy Gallery was extraordinary! So good in fact that his works are on display in Bangkok at the Hof gallery. So for this months Giant Swing session Qotaroo designed the artwork and will make a special live appearance on the night of the event. I was also invited to DJ on the night. So if your into the future house and future garage sounds please drop by glow on august 20.

Heres a link for Qotaroo’s exhibition:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154972404578159

Qotaroo’s website:

http://www.qotaroo.net/

Giant Swing event page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179627922103106

3 massive gigs and a podcast!

dragon — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:09:28 +0000

For this months podcast I selected tunes from Jamie xx, Ossie, Joker and rebel Mc. I know some peeps are expecting me just to play dubstep but I think from now on I’m going to keep things on the eclectic tip. If you’re checking out the show for the first time then I gotta warn you theres a bit of me chatting on the mic, I still love to host the podcast like a radio show. I hope its not too annoying for y’all. I also wanted to correct myself when I said the august edition of Giant swing is on the 22, its actually on the 20 of august. Gigs to watch out for this week are:

BKK evolution with Jiving Tribe saturday 23 at fish club

Phat Phunk 22 friday at Glow

The fit sound of Detroit saturday 23 at Glow

Last but not least download the July Podcast here:

http://soundcloud.com/hbcbkk/homebass-podcast-july-1

Check out the latest Dubway pictures here

dragon — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:40:46 +0000

Big thanks to everyone for making it down to the last DUBWAY party. It was an honor to have two of my heroes RSD and Gapi Dub kitchen come to play for us that night. Also big ups to everyone that made it down that night. extra thanks go’s out to Sinamon and Hiroo, Nin @ DJ Center, Chris Bowden and Katharina. Check out the pictures from saturday night here:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150711612100322.707158.350398430321&l=cccaaee135

RSD and GAPI DUB KITCHEN live at DUBWAY

dragon — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:10:28 +0000

Original artwork by Chris Bowden

One of the things I loved most about the early 90′s Jungle scene was the ragga. I always felt genres such as Jungle, dnb and now dubstep could fuse ragga lyrics together and not sound watered down. One such duo who are credited for championing the ragga jungle sound were More Rockers a production duo of Rob Smith and Peter D. Rose.

Another really cool genre of beats to come out in the 90′s was Trip Hop and like Jungle the genre was also able to marry the sounds of Dub reggae, Hip hop and Soul. Rob Smith the other half of More Rockers is also considered to be one of the originators of the trip hop sound. It was him and Ray Mighty that formed Smith and Mighty in the late 1980′s Bristol. To date they have released 3 ground breaking albums and a string of hit singles. They also have produced tracks for artists such as Fresh Four and Massive attack.

Fast forward to present day and Rob Smith is still very active in the underground music scene. Moving past the Jungle and trip hop vibes nowadays Rob Smith prefers to produce some of the heaviest bassbin smashing dubstep under the moniker RSD. To date he has released tracks on labels such as Black Box, Punch Drunk, R8, Ear Wax and Tectonic.

Another originator of beats and bass is none other then the legendary Gap T Bone. He is considered to be the Bob Marley of Thailand, well thats my opinion anyways. His band named T-Bone ( of course ) have been making music in the Kingdom since the mid 90′s. Go to any reggae festival in Thailand and you can best be sure that they are the headlining act. So good are him and his band that they have even been invited to play at Glastonbury in 2005 and 2007, Womad and Smiley festival. One of the side Projects of Gap T – Bone is Gapi Dub Kitchen. Unfortunately he’s had very little time to spend producing for his side project but what he did produce was a groundbreaking E.P

I am deeply honored to host a night with two very talented Producers. RSD aka Smight and Mighty and GAPI DUB KITCHEN aka Gap T Bone. Both are the Offspring of dub music but at the same time both represent a different style of DUB. RSD being completely on the DUBSTEP/REGGAE vibe and GAPI DUB KITCHEN will be Dubbin’ it up on the roots side of tingz. This the direction I want to take our DUBWAY PARTIES, I feel we need to educate all the massive about the beats in the past as well as show what is to come in the future. I hope all of you who are down with what we have been doing with the Thai Dub beats scene can come down and enjoy the vibes with us at Club Culture on July 9. Tickets are 400 baht at the door but entry is FREE BEFORE 11pm.

For more info check out

http://www.myspace.com/smithandmighty

http://www.myspace.com/dubrockers/music

http://www.tboneska.com

DUBWAY SESSIONS this friday june 24 at Cafe Democ

dragon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:01:59 +0000

OK guys sorry for being so absent in the blogging world. Well I guess I ‘ve been getting really into my Downhill mountain biking that I’ve just left all my blogging alone. Well just to let you know we’ve had to move Dubway from saturday june 25 to friday june 24. This is because in Bangkok will have its pre – elections on sunday so there fore it means that nothing will be open on saturday night. As for this months session we ‘re going to have just locals take care of the selecting. As for me I’ve tons of new tracks that I will play, this months set will definitely be on the future garage tip with some dub step thrown in for good measure. Either way the vibes will be on full throttle for sure. Peeps in the line up are Myself (dragon), Hiroo and new comer DJ Cut the Crap! This month’s artwork was designed by local artist Hoo Doll. He’s been a big fan of Dubway and vice versa and we all are thrilled to have him design this months E-flyer. Theres no entrance fee so feel free to join us on friday.

Heres the full line up

Dragon

Hiroo

Cut the crap

Hosted by Mc Sinamon

Artwork by Hoo Doll

ผมขอโทษสำหรับความตกลงขาดดังนั้นในโลกบล็อก ดีฉันเดาฉันได้รับจริงๆในการปั่นจักรยานเสือภูเขาดาวน์ฮิลล์ของฉันที่ฉันเหลือเพียงทุกบล็อกของฉันคนเดียว กันเพียงเพื่อให้คุณรู้ว่าเราได้มีการย้าย Dubway ตั้งแต่วันเสาร์ที่ 25 มิถุนายนถึงวันศุกร์ที่ 24 มิถุนายน นี้เป็นเพราะในกรุงเทพฯจะมีการ pre — การเลือกตั้งในวันอาทิตย์จึงมีก่อนก็หมายความว่าไม่มีอะไรที่จะเปิดในคืนวันเสาร์ เป็นระยะเวลาเดือนนี้เรากำลังจะมีเพียงชาวบ้านดูแลของการเลือก ทั้งสองวิธี vibes จะเกี่ยวกับการเค้นอย่างเต็มที่สำหรับการตรวจสอบให้แน่ใจ Peeps ในบรรทัดที่ขึ้นเป็นตัวเอง (มังกร), Hiroo และผู้มาใหม่ DJ Cut The Crap! ไม่มีค่าธรรมเนียมแรกเข้าดังนั้นรู้สึกฟรีเพื่อเข้าร่วมกับเราในวันศุกร์ที่

DUBWAY PRESENTS PINCH LIVE IN BKK

dragon — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:53:56 +0000

April 1 will be the date for the first ever show of DJ Pinch (Tectonic recordings) in Bangkok city. The Bristol native is also the founder of legendary imprint Tectonic recordings, to date the label has released tracks from artists such as Jack Sparrow, Skream, Benga and 2562. Pinch is considered as DON in the international Dub step scene and so to have him play a show in Bangkok is such an honor for me and the crew. The show will be held in the second floor of Club Culture. We’re also gonna make it a bit more lively by adding more sub woofers as well.We will also have limited edition Dubway T Shirts thee so if y’all want some then please make sure you get there early. Admission of course is free before 11pm but after that It’ll be 400 baht + 1 drink! I hope to see all the bass heads there that night but until then be safe

Dubway arena @ Culture one festival

dragon — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:36:39 +0000

Aite here it is y’all! After years and years of moaning and whining the good lord has finally answered my prayers and hooked Dubway up with our very own arena at the infamous Culture one Dance music festival. All tings are ready to drop this coming saturday. Our selectah’s for the night are DJ Seed, Masa, Orawan, Pichy, yours truly, Kik Crash and special Guest DJ Greg G (7even recordings France). We’ll also have our special limited edition tees for sale on that night so if you want some of that shizzle be sure to come and Join us. I’ll have more to say after the event is open so keep it locked on this blog aite !

* the dubway arena at the culture one festival turned out great. big ups to everyone that came down to party with us that night. Also big up DJ Masa, Seed, Pichy, Orawan, Greg G and Mc Sinamon.

check out the pictures here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=626296&l=d37ce77f70&id=350398430321

Club Triangle

dragon — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:22:03 +0000

I am very honored to have been invited to play at Club Triangle in Osaka Japan. I’ve played in Japan a few times but I’ve never been to any other city then Tokyo and in contrast to that city’s workaholic lifestyle Osaka’s inhabitants are so much more laid back. Right in the heart of Osaka’s downtown district is Club Triangle. This 3 floor venue blasts everything from underground to hip hop to drum n bass on its massive sound system. DJ wise selectah’s such as Rebel Mc, DJ Zinc and Laurent Garnier have graced the club’s decks. DJ Toyo – Club Triangle’s manager booked me to play on Friday night and even though the crowd was a lot different than what I am used to (it was a house/techno night) I still am very honored to have been invited by Toyo to represent Thailand and the Dubway crew over in Osaka. I reckon a lot of the stuff that I play nowadays isn’t that much dub step and more on the garage tip, it certainly did go down well with the ravers inside the club on that night. To top that I was joined by an army of my close friends, many of whom I met in Bangkok ages ago. We all got niced up on the two free bottles of Jack Daniels that Toyo kindly supplied us with. If y’all want to see the madness I uploaded some pictures on my facebook so please feel free to check out what went down on the frosty February night I also want to big up DJ Hiroo (oyampan), Quotaroo, Mami and Nobu, Fum and Ken, Naru and Fumi, Hiro, DJ Toyo, DJ Tuttle, Fat Boy, Galaxy Gallery Crew and all the wonderfull peeps I met in Osaka. BIG UPS TO Y’ALL!

Here’s a link to the pictures from that night:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=626885&id=784540018&l=98a55e3af7

Also my Thai/Jap expat friends who run DUDE mag just uploaded this Japanese version of my interview. Big ups to Ken and all crew at DUDE MAG

http://www.dude-magazine.com/intervew/artist_interview/djdragon-interview.html

Club Triangle’s website:

http://www.triangle-osaka.jp/

Tribal Touch

dragon — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:13:27 +0000

I’ ve just got back from the Pai reggae festival in Chiang Mai. I had a blast checking out all the local and international reggae bands. Local thai dub band Rahjasie I really impressed me with there live set. I’m glad to see that Thailand got so much young talented musicians. Being inspired by all the music I’m really in the mood to get back on the decks again. This coming Friday at Glow in Sukhumvit soi 23 will be our very first Future garage night. When it comes to the whole dubstep movement, there are many tracks that aren’t just half beat wobbly bass stuff. I’m not really that much into wobblers but I do love the nu school garagey/tribaly beats kinda stuff. I feel that its about time to create an outlet for those types of tunes. Expect to hear Rosca, Untold and F dropped at this event. DJ’s in the line up are DJ Hiroo, Dragon, Skygazing and visuals by VJ Gorb Tickets are 350 baht at the door. I hope to see y’all there
For more info check out

www.ubradio.net

www.dragonhb.com

also for pictures of the 2011 Pai reggae festival click on this link

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=613104&id=784540018&l=9fb3e0623b

* Tribal touch was a complete success! big ups to the Ubradio crew and much respect to everyone that came. Check out the link below for the pictures

https://picasaweb.google.com/homebasscommu/TribalTouch?feat=directlink