Hardcover, approx. 260 pages
8.8 × 11.8 in.
Dublab: 20 Years of Future Roots Radio bends time and space through
sound. Founded in 1999, Dublab has been streaming far-out music since
the dial-up age. We travel back to the dawn of Internet radio--a
pre-podcast/smartphone/social-media era with infinite potential and
flash forward for premonitions of other worlds, other sounds.
Rising from the fertile Los Angeles landscape, Dublab enlisted the
city's visionary musical minds to broadcast to the world. This
ever-growing collective of deep music heads are at the heart of the
station's algorithm-free, human music experience. The book-length
20-year retrospective details Dublab's adventurous radio experiments and
examines its grassroots approach to building an international arts radio
network. Readers who approach the book with open ears will undoubtedly
enhance their own adventures in the music frontier.
Dublab's airwaves have provided an early platform for emerging artists,
such as Flying Lotus, Animal Collective and Julia Holter, while hosting
legends like Van Dyke Parks, Linda Perhacs, Egyptian Lover, and Lee
"Scratch" Perry.
Dublab: 20 Years of Future Roots Radio springs to life with scenes
from sad music parties, all-night ambient happenings, and multi-sensory
underground events. Stories of sleepwalking DJs, thrift store album
alchemy, and sizzling circuit boards fill these pages. Wise elders,
optimistic youth, and receptive listeners share their sonic worldviews.
By offering an alternative to mainstream music, Dublab aims to encourage
rich life experiences through deeper listening. This book is a door to
your destiny. Crack it open and ride these waves.
Edited by Alejandro Cohen, J.C. Gabel, and Mark "Frosty" McNeill
