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Uprite dub Orchestra
12+ albums
reggaeska
about
Manifesto: Where did all the music go? The last 50 years began as the most innovative time- rock music peaked, soul and funk were reborn into HipHop, only to be capped off by a constant regurgitation of the same putrid gumbo the machine had force-fed us from birth to adolescence. Somewhere a horn was blowing, then a sound worse than silence. Surely pop will continue to eat itself, but wasn’t there something left worth holding on to? And so a group of 6 brave individuals came together under the same ideals of passion for music and pride and ingenuity in its craft, striving beyond the grasp of the mainstream and commercial. Despite a greater accessability to American music, they took a starting point near Kingston, JA circa 1972. And as of 2001 they were known as Uprite dub Orchestra. Uprite bases their inspirations on a traditional design, Ska like the days of Desmond Dekker, Dub like when Tubby was King, and brings it forward with progressive music & lyrics. Armed with organic instrumentation, driven by tight horns, their live shows swing from clever instrumentals to conscious lyrics, rocking Ska to deep bassey Dub, haunting melodica melodies to punchy horn lines, from minimal to the maximum. The recent addition of MC Villain (credentials include Warsaw Poland Bros and Heavyweight Dub Champion) has opened up a whole new level for musical exploration and electrically-charged live shows. This is not a group that will end up on a big corporate major label, perhaps because t