High Tone is a dub

Dub music

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 band

Band (music)

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 from Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

, France. Formed in 1997, the band came with an emergence of the French dub music Scene, with bands like Brain Damage Sound System

Brain Damage Sound System

Brain Damage is a French dub band from Saint-Étienne.The band is made up by Martin, sound engineering, and Raphael, bass.Created in the year 1999 by two members of the dub collective and label Bangarang, Brain Damage play a very personal and particular dub music: dark, like their home city, and...

, Kaly Live Dub, Le Peuple de l'Herbe

Le Peuple de l'Herbe

-Members:* Dj Pee : machines* Psychostick : drums, machines* N'Zeng : Trumpet, Keyboard , Flugelhorn, machines* JC 001 : singing, human beatbox* Spagg : sampler, Bass guitar...

, Improvisators Dub or Meï Teï Shô

Meï Teï Shô

- Band's name :Meï Teï Shô - Musical description :Meï Teï Sho is a music to listen to as well as a music to dance to.It is the fruit of a multitude of cultures, reflected in the languages used, the lyrics, the style, the energy and the musicians themselves....

. Formed by five members, High Tone feeds their music with various influences, such as Drum'n'bass, Ambient, Trance, Vintage Dub with artists like King Tubby

King Tubby

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 or Lee "Scratch" Perry. After a few self produced vinyl EPs, the band signed at the label Jarring Effects

Jarring effects

Jarring Effects is a French musical label based in Lyon, south-east of France. Jarring Effects encourages musicians to be independent, produce the music themselves, be creative and to make music they enjoy rather than trying to make it commercially viable...

. High Tone members are now considered major actors in the French dub scene, and are known for numerous collaborations with other artists.

Actual Line-up

• Aku Fen : guitar, samples
• Flaba Stone : bass guitar, synths
• Selecta Dino : drums
• DJ Twelve : scratches, samples
• Natural High : Keyboards

Discography

• Opus Incertum (Jarring Effects, 2000)
• Bass Temperature (Jarring Effects, 2001)
• Acid Dub Nucleik (ADN) (Jarring Effects, 2002)
• Live (Jarring Effects, 2003)
• Kaltone : High Tone meets Kaly Live Dub (Jarring Effects, 2003)
• Higvisators : High Tone meets Improvisator Dub (Jarring Effects, 2004)
• Wave Digger (Jarring Effects, 2005)
• Wangtone : High Tone meets Wang Lei
  Wang Lei
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   (Jarring Effects, 2005)
• Re-processed number 1 (Jarring Effects, 2005) (Remixes Album)
• Zentone : High Tone meets Zenzile (Jarring Effects, 2006)
• Underground Wobble (Jarring Effects, 2007)
• Dub Invaders (Jarring Effects, 2009)
• Out Back (Jarring Effects, 2010)

External links

• Official Site (fr/en)
• Jarring Effects, Dub/Electro/HipHop indie Label (fr)