Zentone

Aquarius (Live - Cover) [feat. Jolly Joseph]

Zentone Chapter 2

Dub Revolution (Zen Mix) [feat. Nazamba]

Stone Cold (Live)

Counter Strike Dub (Live)

Open Gate (Zen Mix) [feat. Nai-Jah]

Dub Migration (Zen Mix)

Never Work in Vain

Never Work in Vain (Live) [feat. Jolly Joseph]

Hilltop Dub (Zen Mix)

Wild World (Live) [feat. Jolly Joseph]

Hilltop Dub (Live)

Zentown (Live)

Hotter Than Hot (Tone Mix) [feat. Rod Taylor]

Stone Cold Dub (Zen Mix)

Counter Strike Dub (Zen Mix)

Disobey (Tone Mix) [feat. Jolly Joseph]

High Tone feat. Oddateee - Liqor

High Tone - Spank

From the album "High Damage - High Tone meets Brain Damage"
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"HIGH TONE MEETS BRAIN DAMAGE"

Il y a presque 10 ans, High Tone lançait le projet In a dubtone sessions comme un instrument supplémentaire à leur présentation d'un nouveau style de dub, porté par la fusion et l'expérimentation sonore. Le principe était de collaborer avec les principaux activistes de la scène dub/mutant "à la française" : Kaly Live Dub, Improvisators Dub, Wang Leï, Zenzile.

High Tone invite aujourd'hui Brain Damage à écrire un nouveau chapitre de cette recherche musicale. Deux entités cousines liées par des références et une philosophie commune qui les a toujours porté à ne jamais clore de limite leur horizon.
Naturellement intitulée High Damage, cette nouvelle fusion est une véritable synergie entre une énergie presque organique et la régularité hypnotique de la machine. Habitués à tracer eux-mêmes les chemins de traverse, à sortir du cadre, les deux groupes ont ici créé à rebours, laissant libre cours aux premières intentions de chacun, aux ressentis, à l'émulation, et travaillant pour la première fois la matière brute du live pour générer l'album.

Vortex attirant dans son tourbillon dubstep, noise, hiphop, break beat, techno, ou reggae pour les transfigurer et les sublimer, les vibrations musicales d'High Damage génèrent une imagerie onirique obsédante. Leur musique est un regard, sombre, souvent lucide, quelque fois halluciné, qui porte son auditoire à voir dans ce monde uchronique qui surgit autour de lui les traces d'un passé presque nostalgique et les bribes d'un présent maquillé de futur.

Le voyage n'est pas seulement temporel : de l'aube au crépuscule, il s'affranchit des barrières ethniques et parle les langues de Babel, il marrie accordéon, wobble, sonorités chiptune et guitare surf, il révèle les défauts de villes désespérément froides alors qu'elles fourmillent, il fait basculer la boite à musique de notre enfance vers une horloge qui sonne le glas.

High Damage assume les paradoxes qu'offrent sa musique. Si le propos est dense et sans concession , reflet accentué mais pragmatique de notre réalité, les beats hyper calibrés et le groove sauvage des compositions nous entraîne pourtant dans une transe dansante.
Le nom de l'entité parle de lui-même. Mais il ne faut pas craindre l'électrochoc sensitif promis, il est peut être le sursaut qui réveillera ce dernier homme dont parlait Zarathoustra.

High Damage - High Tone meets Brain Damage - The Dusk

High Damage - High Tone meets Brain Damage - Shake Up (feat. Zeb McQueen)

From "Bass Temperature"

Despite these 12 Tracks, this record is no album but rather a compilation of the first 3 EPs of the band, until now only released in vinyl. It includes the most recent one " Bass temperature "(2001), with famous tracks " Echo Logik " and " Train to TranSylvania " filled with samples by Dj 12. 

Then comes " Low tone " - second EP released in 1999, with such jewels as " The Orientalist ", " Hempro 905 " and " N°1 station " a kind of frenetic dub-steppa-tekno. Finally, " Bot Bud Season " first record by the 5-piece (1998) is just as stunning.... Maybe the best of all three!!! Big up to " Dubiously " which still turns dancefloors upside down today !

High Tone - Echo Logik

From "Opus Incertum"

Début album by Lyon-based collective from Jarring Effects, Opus Incertum revealed on its release the emergence of a real new French dub scene.

Entrancing samples and oriental strings, reggae/roots sounds topped with undeniable electro/hip-hop influences, the five fellows deliver a perfectly trippy dub music, with deep basses, which sublimates its magic in live, the stage performances of the band being every time as stunning as ever.

The album will grow on you, every time you'll listen, through its multiple sonorities and surprising orchestration. Namely Delhi/Katmandou and its bewitching vocals and the great Dreadfull Bass that looks towards jungle. You know now what's left to do. 

High Tone - Mevlana in dub

High Tone - Bad Weather

High Tone - Taniotoshi

High Tone - Enter The Dragon Live

From "Highvisators" 

Originally planned as a 4-track EP, this 4-day studio collaboration between the precursors of French Dub and the famous Lyon dub makers seems to have been a singularly prolific one both in terms of quality and quantity. 

The nine initial tracks deliver the brilliant hybridism between the two formations where Improvisators Dub's steppas rhythms (thank you Knarfenstein and Nicolodub) bond with the ethnic scratch ambiances, the synths and drums breaks that are so dear to High Tone. 

Inside one same track, the guitar skanks by Manutension and Julio bring complementary ambiances and rhythms that brilliantly enrich the whole. The sitar of Fransax and the melodicas bring an acoustic touch that counterbalance the electro incursions providing colder and more crystalline ambiances.

Highvisators - High Tone meets Improvisators Dub - Early Dub

From Re-processed #1

With this new album of unreleased remixes, JARRING EFFECTS & HIGH TONE have prepared a series of surprises mostly enjoyable : Dub, Hip Hop, Electro, Drum'n'Bass, Breaks Beats, Jungle !!! At the crossroads of styles but never getting locked up into any. 

This opus (CD version) starts with REVERSE ENGINEERING with the remix of « Musical Bonzeye » (with BLU RUM 13/ONE SELF) where you can feel all the biorhythmic particularity of their music (already notable on their first album «Duck&Cover». 

Follow the throbbing basses of LE PEUPLE DE L'HERBE on « Echo-logik ». INTERLOPE, as for them, offer 5 remixes including 2 versions of « Head Line », with a heavy and powerful 100bpm electro breaks beat or a furious drum'N'breaks version faithful to the live performance. 

Two versions also for "Bad Weather", one remixed by HYBRID SOUND SYSTEM who juggles with syncopated rhythms, the other by L'OEUF RAIDE in a more down tempo approach, faithful to his latest album. A medley titled "High Stone" ends the compilation. Here is the proof that when human encounters are sincere, it does show in the end! High Tone remixed with elegance. 

High Tone - Dragonkat - Dehli katmandou Remix by Dragongaz

I first listened to this CD when I was in a jazzofunk - alternative bar in the Greek island Skyros. I asked the DJ about it and eventually heard the words "Zentone" and "Hightone". It didn't take much to locate the source of this dub diamond online..

Incredibly inspirational, dark, and atmospheric music, a fabulous combination of many different elements and influences. Words really can't describe.. If you like dub and electro vibes buy it without second thought! Those of you who don't, perhaps listen to tracks 1,2,3 and 9 and you will seriously consider getting it, it's a diamond!!!!

Yannis Theocharis (London, UK) 

Zentone - High Tone meets Zenzile - Crash Test

From "Underground Wobble"

In 2005, the album Wave Digger paves the way for two years of tour in France and worldwide, multiplying encounters and collaborations (Wangtone with Wang Lei, Zentone with Zenzile, Re-Processed remixed by their mates) and diffusing their tribal electro-dub, blending heavy breaked bassline and nervous scratches. They come back in 2007 with "Underground Wobbles" : their fourth opus seems more calm, far from Jungle, Hip Hop, Electronica or Dub experimentations, typical of Wave Digger. Entering more downtempos spheres, machines and programmation left space for instruments. Narrative and often complex compositions absorb the listener in a psychedelic and misty trip (Understellar, Round Trip...), highly-seasoned here and there by nervous and fickle tracks (Freakency, Ask The Dust, Speed 110).

As far as harmonies and melodies are concerned, they evolved too, taking High Tone to a sound more accomplished than ever, recognizable anywhere, possessed by teeming influences... To cut a long story short, with his so personnal style, High Tone mixes with a disconcerting talent electronic musics, ethnic samples and surgical scratches. Underground Wobble assert itself as the cornerstone of the works, in constant evolution, of a group tirelessly guided by clearing up new horizons, by the opening of new ways, with as line of sight the willing to never paraphrase oneself. That state of mind is the privilege of the great and the good. 

High Tone - Glowing Fire

04 Earth Breath

03 Oh Why feat Yehaiyahan

02 Conspiracy

01 Over your mind


Urban Dub & Electronic live band

Aku Fen - Guitar & Keys
Twelve - DJ & Samples
Fabasstone - Bass & MS10
Dino - Drums
Natural High - Keys

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