Dubware

Dubware is a musical project created in 1998 by the Italian musician and producer Val (aka Valerio Riccelli), supported by its own label Arrayed Roots Sounds. The origin of this name is from the union of: DUB, a musical genre, and HARDWARE, the mixing desk and tape that provide the scaffolding for Dub music. If we look back to the roots of Dub music, we find the re-mix as the vehicle for DJs to promote and spread their styles to a waiting, receptive audience, and the new music's been mashing the dance floor ever since, influencing all current dance music's from house to trance. The first work from Dubware was released in 1999 with the title It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that skank! a five track mini-album. It don't mean a thing...