DUBMASTER CONTE

About

Born in Milan, Dubmaster Conte is a musician and producer who has worked on many musical projects throughout his career.

Starting as a teen playing bass guitar in a punkrock band inspired by The Clash he found his way to listening to some of the greatest dub producers such as King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Scientist and Mad Professor. This musical experience inprinted forever the musical roots that inspired his ongoing mixing techniques.

Later on, through the discovery of electronic and ambient music (The Orb, Massive Attack, Future Sound of London, Aphex Twin to mention a few), Dubmaster Conte refined his musical techniques and the use of synthesizers, samplers and sequencers. The melting between dub tradition and this new influence created the uniquely organic sound of all Dubmaster Conte’s musical productions.

“Ecotrip” from 2000 is the first solo autoproduced album, containing a collection of earlier dub/trip hop songs with an ambient flavour.

At the same time he began creating the foundations of Entheogenic Sound Explorers (ESE), an ambient electronic duo inspired by the music of The Orb, The Future Sound of London and various ambient Artists (Oophoi, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin,…). Entheogenic Sound Explorers has released 5 albums (2007-2016) and an EP (2014) for different labels in Europe and Usa.

In 2002 he moved from Milan to Amsterdam were he met Mc Tabbloyd, a Jamaican singer and producer. Together they started DMT Sound System which participated in different gigs and acts (finalist in 2004 Diesel U Music Award in Amsterdam). Back in Italy in 2006 they won the first prize as urban act in Diesel U Music Awards Italy.

From 2004 to 2009 he was the beatmaker and producer for the hip hop acts Hinterland Milano and for Il Buon Garzone.

In 2008 he started a new live band with the former member of Entheogenic Sound Explorers where Dubmaster Conte took back his first musical passion: the bass guitar. The band name is called Liquid Rainbow. The musical style is a mix of electronica, psychedelic rock and, of course, dub. Six albums and a dance single (“Just for Fun“) were published between 2009 and 2017. On the album “8×8” (Magnatune records) he mixed 8 dub versions of the original Liquid Rainbow songs with his unique style. Check also the “Acid Sessions, Vol. 3” 2013 album for truly psychedelic and musical vibes.

In 2014 with Magnatune, he released his second solo album “In Dub” were he played, mixed and dubbed all the tracks. A work completely dedicated to his first musical and genuine love : Dub Music.

In 2015, as a band member of the band Liquid Rainbow, he produced and released the album “Landscapes & Treasures” where he mixed, produced and mastered all the tracks. In the same year his music was broadcasted as a soundtrack at Expo 2015, the International Exposition held in Milan. Also the Liquid Rainbow song “White Lodge” featured on the Twin Peaks series playlist “Isn’t it too dreamy”.

In the same year he started a collaboration as sound designer with an american company specialized in beats, drum kits and sound banks.

Finally in 2016 he started working on the debut album from a reggae artist called Baltazzar. Dubmaster Conte recorded, played and produced the album that was released at the end of 2016 by the italian reggae label Love University records. Also an album composed of the dub versions of Baltazzar’s tunes is in development: a fine style album with Dubmaster Conte in full effect.

In the third quarter of 2016 the newly awaited Entheogenic Sound Explorers album was released. Called “The Fifth Dimension“, it is a double outstanding cd full of the typical ESE entheogenic aura: soundscapes, downtempo beats, hypnotic synth’s, tropical field recordings, tribal percussions and more is to be expected from this masterpiece.

On the 25th of December 2017 the Liquid Rainbow album “The Blue Rose Sessions” inspired by David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was released by the San Francisco Label “Bass Star”. Following the vibes and the echoes of “White Lodge“, the album was entirely recorded in the mountain woods to catch the secrets and the mysterious forces floating around: “Pour a cup of black coffee, cut yourself a slice of cherry pie and get ready for this Album for your daydream, share it with your best Friends”.

Last but not least, in 2019, Dubmaster Conte released his new solo album “TRIP HOP” with Bass Star records. A deep, meditative, dub, trip-hop, downtempo album, inspired by the layed back and lush sound of the early nineties, made with samplers and synths to keep that unique warm, trippy and groovy vibe.

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“How does a kaleidoscope sound? What kind of music emerges from the synesthesia?
In this series of seven eps named after the seven colours of the rainbow, you might find some answers” :

In 2020 Liquid Rainbow releases 7 EP‘s each one identified with a different colour: check this wonderful and colourful musical trip distributed by the californian label Magnatune Inc. based in San Rafael.

Also, since 2020 the only official Entheogenic Sound Explorers discography is available here: Entheogenic Sound Explorers (please support the Artists directly)

Finally on Spring equinox 2021 Entheogenic Sound Explorers release the new album with Magnatune Inc.: Path to Myth that carries on what the duo started in their previous works, by painting inner and emotional landscapes with the use of elements from nature, human art and meditation. However, it does so in a more detailed and precise manner than before, aimed at expressing a unique vibe and emotion for each song, thus weaving a common thread through this record.

The whole album is, in fact, a vibrating sonic path that guides to the more intimate and deep spheres of the unconscious, passing at times in tortuous ways in order to look beyond the darkness and beyond the light for something still undefined but consciously existing. It looks for something that goes beyond the conscious, in pursuit of Myth.

In 2021 a very special release fulfilled with a sense of hope “Abiogenesis” is released by Bass Star records in California. A single with different remixes made by friends and musical collaborators (Frank Wizardd, Piero Marchesi and Cruc. Play it Loud!

During the same year Dubmaster Conte starts also a collaboration with Jack Azzarà, an unique didjeridoo player, turning an entire didgeridoo album into a dub “The Woman The Maker The Master In DUB“” and remastering and remixing another Jack Azzarà creation with two exclusive Entheogenic Sound Explorers  (Jack Azzarà Begins)

as Jack Azzarà explains:

“At that time it was the first and perhaps (who really knows and who really cares?!) is still today the only Didgeridoos-Solo-Album ever made using and playing – only – didgeridoos longer more than 3 meters and with the fundamental-key below one or even two octave comparing to the commons frequencies-range of the most widespread didgeridoos.

Six years later, I was seeking something new about DUB-Music and I bumped into an extraordinary DUB Lover and Artist, Mr. Dubmaster Conte

We liked each other at first glance. We started slowly with the idea to create just the DUB Version of “Riding The Voice” the first track of the original album. But the outcome and the experience of working together was very great! So i decided to request him to dub the entire album!

In 2022 he returns as Dubmaster Conte with two major releases : Dub Coast Covers is an happy and mellow Journey with Dubmaster Conte’s musical interpretation of classic Tunes from Pink Floyd, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Ray Charles, Scott McKenzie and Mamas & Papas. Sonic Reflections is an acclaimed album that includes all the artistic influences (Electronic, Downtempo, Dub, Trip Hop, Jazz, Hip Hop….) in a musical melt that surprises and pleases the listener minute by minute, second by second, creating an unique and unrepeatable musical atmosphere that runs the length of the album.

In the beginning of 2023 the new Liquid Rainbow EP Albedo is released