From Sacramento, California, Justin DeHart, a.k.a. doctor echo began mixing dub music in 1992, while playing drums in Sacramento’s live dub band, the Defendants. The Defendants included guitar guru Tyler Pope, Justin Vandervolgen on live mixing/guitar/misc, Jason Dudley on bass, and many other special guests. Initially recording on a Tascam 4-track that he received as a gift, he eventually acquired more gear to build a 1/2” 8-track studio. 

Soundlab Studio was born in 1996 when frequent noise complaints from neighbors forced him to relocate from his flat at 1406 F Street downtown to a commercial building across town at 1821 17th Street. Sacramento’s reggae/rocksteady group Steady Ups, as well as roommate and artist Craig “Lab Assistant” Oliveira, collaborated in building the new studio. The space was outfitted with rehearsal rooms as well as full recording facilities. Living and working at this studio, the doctor laid the foundation for many future mixes. 

After the 17th Street Studio, doctor echo moved further downtown into a 3000 sq. ft. old abandon clothing store called Joe’s Style Shop. He left the front marquee untouched and set up a recording studio once again with rehearsal rooms. The place was spacious enough to build a stage in the front room and host art and music shows. With the help of Harley White Jr. and other community members, they set up a non-profit organization to give free music lessons to children. 

The next few years found the doctor busy recording and producing projects, such as the Sacto Storytellers, Filibuster, Frank Jordan, and the Original Heads. With the advent of an ADAT multi-track recorder, doctor echo began playing live shows mixing previously-recorded dub rhythms, sometimes adding live instruments. 

In 2000, doctor echo travelled to South India to spend nine months studying the traditional drumming and collaborate with various artists. In 2002, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music degree at CalArts while continuing to mix dub music live and in the studio. The doctor launched Anicca Records in 2004 to release original dub music born out of the various projects he was involved with.  Solo albums, and projects involving the Defendants, Steady Ups, and the Sacto Storytellers were released in addition to embarking on new collaborations with CHLLNGR, ALU, Solange St. Croix and Spoek Mathambo. In 2010, the doctor completed a doctoral degree in music from UC San Diego and now resides in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Eddie Da Bass / MONTY has been involved in the house music scene insince 1996.

In 2004/2005 he was resident DJ at one of the most famous party destinations in Greece and Europe, Hersonissos in Crete. And from there he travelled to Norway, where he has been resident since 2005.

In 2007 he signed up for MTV Selected. At that time this was the biggest DJ Competition in Scandinavia, and his mixing made him a finalist in Norway, handpicked by the jury which included The Swedish house Mafia, Eric Prydz & MTV. From this point his career has kept evolving!

Eddie Da Bass / MONDY/REC has travelled all over the world the past few years, sharing his dirty beatz with the dancefloors. This includes several gigs in Ibiza, Miami, New York, Toronto and also all over Europe, Norway & Scandinavia.

He recently completed the Ableton Live Producer Certificate Program at the highly renowned DUBSPOT in NYC, and is now working hard in the studio to finish up an EP, a studio album and several tracks & remixes.

Since 2010 he has been a part of a DJ/production trio called R.E.C., which is Ralph Myerz, Eddie Da Bass & Carina Faye.
Quickly after they started working together they hit the jackpot in a remix competition, and their first release was a remix for techno legend Abe Duque & Blake Baxter, with the track "What happened". The remix package got a lot of attention, and they received a lot of good feedback from highly respected names on the techno-scene.

Their EP "RECommended is due for release this August on Disco Piñata records, and their album titled "DiscoTech" is due for release in KLIK Records sometime this year.

He recently also signed a track together with Carina Faye, which will be released this summer on UnderTechnical Recordings.

Eddie Da Bass / MONDY is well known for his energetic DJ sets! He has also taken it to another lever by doing LIVE remixing during his sets in Ableton, bringing some extra flavor to the night. 

Needless to say MONTY is a name to watch out for in the music scene, there are great things to come in the future.

Electronic dance music has been a huge passion of mine since 1980. Italo Disco- circa 1983-1989/ New Wave & Alternative Rock- 1981-1989/ High Energy & Disco 1976-1988/ Vocal Trance 1996 to the present/ Synthpop & Futurepop 1992 to now. Indie with electronic & Synth & Nu Disco, love it all, I am blown away at all the new groups out now that have been influenced by all my favorite artist from the 80's- well done & so many of these groups have captured my heart- Ladyhawke-Metric-Shiny Toy Guns-Example-The Mary Onettes-Bunny Lake-Sound Of Arrows-Ladeside X-D/Vision-Haberdashery-Sally Shapiro & Johan Agebjorn- Queen Of Hearts- KieTheVez-Gravitonas-Beatrice ELI and a million more-endless.

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