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Dub Mission is a dub,
dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken ...
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party which occurs weekly on Sunday nights at
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's Elbo Room club in the
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district. Started by DJ Sep in 1996 as a monthly venue to fill a void in the
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's dub scene, Dub Mission has grown into a weekly event with a loyal fan base, and regularly features prominent dub and
reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Jamaican diaspora, diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first ...
musicians as guests. Resident DJs of Dub Mission include J Boogie, Ludichris, Vinnie Esparza, and Maneesh the Twister. Prominent stars who have performed at Dub Mission events include the
Mad Professor Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser (born 27 March 1955, Georgetown, Guyana) known by his stage-name Mad Professor, is a British dub music producer, engineer and remixer. He has collaborated with reggae artists Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sly and Robbie, ...
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Adrian Sherwood Adrian Maxwell Sherwood (born 20 January 1958) is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music. He has created a distinctive production style based on the application of dub effects and dub mixing techniques to other forms ...
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DJ Collage Lawrence Chatman,Lasar, Matthew (2000) ''Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network'', Temple University Press, , p. xvii better known as DJ Collage or Mista Chatman,Simonini, Ross (2008), ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', May 14, 2008, re ...
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Mungo's Hi Fi Mungo's Hi Fi is a sound system based in Glasgow, Scotland, which follows the original Jamaican sound system tradition. After working together previously, Tom Tattersall and Doug Paine founded the group in 2000, writing, recording, producing ...
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Tippa Irie Tippa Irie (born Anthony Henry, 1965, London, England) is a British reggae singer and DJ from Brixton, South London. He first came to prominence in the early 1980s as an MC on the South London reggae soundsystem Saxon Studio International. He f ...
, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System, and
Tino Corp Jack Dangers (born John Stephen Corrigan, 11 January 1965) is an English electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of Meat Beat Manifesto. He lives in San Francisco. Career Prior to founding ...
. Dub Mission has won awards including a 1999 Goldie Award and a 2004 award for Best Dub Club.


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