The Interruptor Roots of Dub Funk 2 - 'Inner City Dub' The Interruptor: Daniel Bosshard from Zurich, SWITZERLAND. His music ranges from Ragga to Drum 'n' Bass with a strong affinity to the sound of seventy's DUB music. Further ingredients in his unique approach to dance music are Latin, Jazz and sometimes House. The Music 'I got first attracted to Jamaican music by Bob Marley's "Coming in from the cold". By the time of the mid eighties I knew a good share of his songs by heart. Gradually I found out that there was more to this music than just Marley and I started to listen to all sorts of classic reggae. My favorites at that time where songs like "Fire Man" by Burning Spear, "Ravers" by Steel Pulse or Black Uhuru's "Guess Who's coming to dinner". At the same time I started to record my own reggae riddims on a 4 track recorder using just a drum machine, a bass guitar, my mom's piano and my Saxophone. I eventually enhanced the studio with a computer, synth and sampler. Although I knew these new machines would offer a whole universe of new possibilities I still focused my attention on reggae riddims and natural sounding timbres. From the early nineties on I also began to soak up influences from Hip-Hop and Dancehall'. The Present During the last year I built my own small studio which gives me more flexibility in regard to sound creation as well as being available to me at any day and night. I'd like to go deeper into the vintage Dub sound and therefore started experimenting with seventies equipment like spring reverb and tape echo. The results of this can be heard on "Inner City Dub" one of the tracks on Tanty Record's new release "Roots of Dub Funk 2". I started working on this Dub when Manhattan was still covered with grey dust from the World Trade Centre. The horrifying pictures we have all seen on TV made their way into this almost painfully broken beat. The Equipment I am a big fan of the warm electric and acoustic sounds of the pre-digital era but I still would not want to give away the new recording technologies like hard disc recording, sequencing and mixing automation. I like to combine sounds and technology from the seventies with the possibility to edit all aspects of the music, thus allowing control over finer details, which would otherwise be left to coincidence. Speak to The Interruptor