We often forget to evoke the originality of the French dub scene which, contrary to its English and Jamaican sisters, immediately privileged live music (real instruments progressively mixed with sequencing keyboards) over studio tricks.
For Kaly Live Dub, as their name says, live music is a second nature, giving free way to their taste for new experimenting, as well as their total artistic freedom and their talent in improvisation. So it’s on stage that the group first built a solid reputation before tackling a genuine technological revolution in the last uproars of the 20th century (mainly through the usage of samplers), and offering us a few masterpieces of their own. Thus, after three remarkable albums (Electric Kool Aid in 2000, Hydrophonic in 2002 et Répercussions released by PIAS in 2005), the group really took off, multiplying concerts and original collaborations. They wrote an album together with their cousins and next-door neighbours High Tone (Kaltone, Jarring Effects,...