Botanical Dub Club # 2

@ Βοτανικός Κήπος Πετρούπολης

Botanical Dub Club # 2

@ Βοτανικός Κήπος Πετρούπολης

El Paso Sound System is born in the winter between 2016 and 2017, from
the idea and the collaboration among DonnieDub and Rootsman.

After a couple of years selecting Reggae music and providing Jamaican
sound system culture in historical places such as RedSea Reggae Club at
Athens, DonnieDub meets Rootsman from Bergamo, Italy. Rootsman, back in
Italy, was part of crews like BergamoReggae and the I-Trees sound. The
main idea of the El Paso Sound System is to provide sound system culture
in the streets with the sound of Reggae galaxy, like the old years in
the 70’s and 80’s in Jamaica and England with custom build D.I.Y speakers
with heavy bass, scoops, midbass and such!

El Paso borns in the working class neighbourhood of Kallithea, Athens.
Its name derives from the football stadium of the neighbourhood, because
of his rocky field. El Paso was also one of the first sound systems in
the history of Jamaica, born in 1969 with the help of a real legend of
Reggae history such as Dennis Alcapone. This is a little bit symbolic
and honorable for us about the kind of music El Paso selects as Revival
of Reggae music like Roots, Foundation, Rocksteady, Ska and Dub from the
late 50’s until today.

Moreover, El Paso takes the name also from the town between United
States and Mexico and at a wider scale, brings back to idea of borders,
like the series of walls and fences preventing crossings, but also the
connections through spaces and cultures worldwide. El Paso Sound wants
to break the barriers with Reggae music first in our minds and our
consciousness, then in the field of the psychical opression caused by
Babylon system.

El Paso is a sound system but it is also a collective crew, formed by people with
different cultures and ideas, opened to every kind of positive
vibration.
El Paso stands firm against all kinds of borders, separations, divisions and
discrimination. El Paso will fight for the freedom of movement, freedom
of speech and freedom to be whatever we want to be.

During the construction of the Sound System a lot of other people join
the project and actively help to shape the concept of the sound, like
Luka, QRMind, GhettoRock, the “Soundman” Manos from Creation Soundsystem, the mighty Irie Action Soundsystem and the Holy-Mastoras wood carpenter Spiros from Megara city.

Also a lot of crews like Athens UnderDogs, Road Duck, Humble Brothers, Boavista Hip-Hop team lots of friends, musicians and artists.

El Paso soundsystem is a mobile disco, prefers analogic sound,
vinyls records etc. The dance will be brought in the streets and the city’s
squares, at collaborations places and self-organized projects, out in
the sea and the sun based on support and free contribution.

It is the musical reaction to complete devaluation! Soundsystem is one of the most dynamic way to entertain and simultaneously apropriate the use of public spaces by the youth, the working class and the city’s subcultures.

Irie Action Sound System

Irie Action Sound System based in Athens. It’s the first Reggae Sound System in that land. Started in 2005 as a URM with founding member Oldjohn through his love of Reggae music and drawing inspiration from the Jamaican culture of the Sound Systems.

Irie Action Sound System is an independent handheld audio system designed to play in every city of that land by transmitting the message and energy of Reggae Music. For Irie Action, Reggae Music is a mission and our mission is to provoke positive feelings in action.
Love And Creation

★ I’n’Ity connection (pronounced inity) was formed in Jan 2015 by two former members of THC Sound System, the oldest and longest-living selectors team in Greece.
Mat Shunyo (aka Rudy) was one of the founding members of THC (1989) and Collie Youth joined the team a few years later. They have played in numerous clubs, festivals and events pon the beach all around Attica and in Greece generally.
They transmit hourly broadcasts every weekend at 12 noon (UTC+2) on Dice Webradio (starting again in September)
?https://www.mixcloud.com/Shunyo13/
Collie & Mat feeling especially drawn to music that resonates to the beat of the heart, select rocksteady, roots and dub tunes from the golden era of reggae music, having a fondness for riddims..
Bless

Date : 28 / Ιούν / 2019
Time : 22.00 - 05.00
Address : Πλατεία Αγίου Δημητρίου, Πετρούπολη
Είσοδος Ελεύθερη
Botanical Dub Club # 2