Dubware Roots of Dub Funk - 'Hot Get Hotter' 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, 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 DUBWARE project is to inject new life into this style. Instrumental Reggae Dub is the music that Dubware wishes to develop spread and promote. Val (Valerio Riccelli) created the 'DUBWARE' project in 1998, a musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer, from Naples, Italy. He is responsible for all of the tracks instrumentation, including custom built analogue synthesizers. Bizarre sound effects, tempo-matched delays form rhythmic joints within the track's frame, analogue and digital synthesized sounds arising from the real 'Roots' sounds of the 70's, - savage reverberations, the aural equivalent of a stone cast in still waters - these form the unique components of the DUBWARE sound. The first work from 'DUBWARE' was "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that skank!" a five track mini-album. It don't mean a thing ... is borrowed from Duke Ellington' the great Jazz composer who felt that even a great composition would be worthless if nobody could dance to it - and "skanking" is today's "swing". Thus 'DUBWARE' musically aims straight for the dance floor for complete audience satisfaction. "Visions of Babylon", a full-length CD album, forms the next step in the development of the Dubware sound. "Visions ..." broadens the base of musical innovation to include influences from the contemporary European dance club scene. Technical wizardry combined with a soul-drenched rhythmic sense, brimming with an uncommon sense of humour that's well ahead of the dance music of the day. To put it bluntly, 'DUBWARE' ROCKS. Since its debut, 'DUBWARE'S' work has been receiving favorable attention from DJs of varied musical genres, and its music has quickly entered the playlists of several European and U.S.A. radio stations, with positive reviews in music magazines such as: The Beat, Reggae Report, Dub Missive, Echoes and The Wire. Speak to Dubware