to the Factory 420 Open Air Festival - something warm with good
vibes.
Factory 420 Open Air Festival is a festival in Tampere, Finland,
the Saturday 31th of May 2008.
The Factory 420 Open Air Festival is a new happening in the city of
Tampere which aims for the development of the Urban cultures.
The programmation is oriented at the same time dub music, reggae
and hip-hop with on stage ZION TRAIN (UK), Kukan dub Lagan (Israel),
Asa & Jätkäjätkät (hip-hop / FIN), Dreadlock Tales (dub steppers - psy-dub / FIN)
Zion Train is formed in 1990 by the three members: David Tench
(production), Neil Perch (mixing live/production) and Collin Cod
(melodica/production). The basic trio, then joined by additional
members, has distilled for more of fifteen years a dub music with
the varied influences, which go from the original standards like
King Tubby to Dance music.
The originality of the music of Zion Train comes from this mixture of
the influences, recent and older...
Kukan-dub-Lagan
Israel
Kukan-dub-Lagan is an one man the project. Created by Itay Berger
an 31 years old dub producer from Tel Aviv in Israel.
Itay listens trance music since he was 16 years old. He spent over
two years working as a sound engineer...
Asa & Jätkäjätkät
Finland
Asa is a Finnish rap-artist. He has also made his debut album
Punainen tiili with the alias Avain. Punainen Tiili has sold over 14 000
copies. A single called Yhdes Iltaan made its way to the MTV playlist.
A couple of years after the spotlight, Avain came back with the alias
Asa. He published a single called Leijonaa metsästän...
Dreadlock Tales
Finland
Dreadlock Tales was created in year 1999 at Helsinki. At the
beginning, the collective is a studio project whose the goal is to
cimply accompanied recording sessions.
Nowaday, Dreadlock Tales produces his own music which is an
interesting and personnal mixing between dub stepper and psy-dub...
Voltti Selectors
Jere Dangerous and Rufus form together one of the most famous
sound-system based in Tampere. They are specialized in
reggae-roots and dance-hall with some very good rareties in their
dub-plates.
dub-a-delik crew
Dub-a-delik is a dub collective created in Tampere in year 2005.
Composed of 4 dj's selectors (Mefisto, Panu, Chicken-M@n and
Laurent C.), the crew proposes a dub sound from the roots to the
electro-novo-dub and through the stepper.