non-profit
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music
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Los Angeles
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. They have also been involved with art exhibition, film projects, event production, and record releases. These Shows are archived and downloadable on the dublab website. dublab also broadcasts on KLDB-LP on 99.1 FM in Los Angeles.
Their name is a
portmanteau
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laboratory
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for the combined meaning: a place of experimenting with sampling music. Examples of this, besides their stream, is their film production ''Secondhand Sureshots'' where they gave producers, such as Daedelus, five dollars to buy albums from thrift stores and sampling the music to create new tracks. Another in audio/visual form is ''Into Infinity'' a collaboration with
Creative Commons
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. It is a group art exhibition of around a hundred vinyl record sized circular artworks and more than a hundred eight second audio loops. The works are randomly dubbed together and is all made freely available for others to remix and sample, even on the project's website.
In January 2008, ''dublab'' formed a non-profit umbrella corporation ''Future Roots, Inc.'' The name comes from their characteristic style of mixing traditional music, such as folk, with electronic sounds. It also refers to the paradox that often music that is actually really old can sound very much like it was made in the present. In that theme, ''dublab'' will often only be written as either all lowercase or all uppercase by those familiar with the collective. There are other such characteristic writing styles such as a heavy use of alliteration.
Much of dublab's funding comes directly via listener support, with other funds generated through grants,
Underwriting spots
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The Getty Center
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Disney Hall
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UCLA
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, Hammer Museum, Hollywood Bowl, and El Rey Theatre.
They also have extended to releasing records such as; ''In The Loop'' series, ''Summer'', ''Freeways'', ''Echo Expansion'' and ''Light from Los Angeles''. They record many ''Sprout Sessions'' at their studio in Los Angeles, which are released via their Live at dublab '
Podcast
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. These have made their way to record releases such as the ''Feathers Sprout Session''. In August 2008 they released their performance video project called ''Vision Version'', which is available as an
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feed. They also have music-themed group art shows such as ''Into Infinity'', ''Dream Scene'', ''Up Our Sleeve'', and ''Patchwork''.
''dublab'' was founded in 1999 by Jonathan Buck, Mark McNeill and fellow students from KSCR Radio at the
University of Southern California
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Carlos Niño
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(Ammoncontact/Life Force Trio)
*Cooper Saver
* Daedelus
* Danny Holloway (Ximeno Records/Blazing 45s)
*Derelict
*EDJ
*Farmer Dave Scher (All Night Radio/Beachwood Sparks)
*Friends of Friends
*Frosty (Adventure Time/Golden Hits)
*Ganas (Mas Exitos)
*Greg Belson (Divine Chord Gospel Show/45's of Fury)
*Hashim B (Disques Corde)
*Heidi Lawden
*Hoseh (Headspace KXLU)
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Brainfeeder
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*Michael Stock (Part Time Punks)
*Morpho ( The Masses)
*Nanny Cantaloupe (Golden Hits/KXLU)
*Nobody (Blank Blue/Low End Theory)
* Ras G (Poo-Bah)
*Rani de Leon (Soul in the Park, Radio Afrique)
*Slow Motion DJs
*Sodapop ( Anticon)
*Suzanne Kraft (Discothèque Records)
*Take (Innercurrent)
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Teebs
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Flying Lotus
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Mia Doi Todd
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DJ Z-Trip
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Kozyndan
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Figurine
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Busdriver
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Terry Callier
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Thomas Fehlmann
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Damo Suzuki
, better known as Damo Suzuki (ダモ鈴木), is a Japanese musician who has been living in Germany since the early 1970s and is best known as the former lead singer of the krautrock group Can.
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Dungen
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Dustin Wong
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