Artist Name?
Dubba Jonny
Where are you from?
Bournemouth, UK
What instruments do you play?
I (Brian) play guitar and keys and Nick plays drums (being the drummer!) and a bit of guitar.
What’s your favorite track at the moment?
Bar 9 – Piano Tune
What upcoming projects are in the works?
We’re currently working on some new material, trying to mix things up a bit, got some heavier stuff coming out as well as some much more chilled tunes. We’re also finishing up some new remixes that should be making their way out soon with a bit of luck.
What / when is your next release?
Our first original release – Home is coming out on the 16th (of June), which we’re really excited about, we’ve been waiting to get this out to people for ages!
How did you get into producing?
It all started when I was about 13, I asked my mum to get me some software to record my guitar on and I ended up with fruity loops, I started messing around with, trying to make piss take dance music, but got really into my IDM which developed into DNB and trip hop and then dubstep.
If you could work with any one artist, who would it be?
Maynard James Keenan – everything that guy gets involved in is just ridiculously awesome. I couldn’t imagine him being a big dubstep fan though!
What’s your take on the music industry at the moment?
It’s been in a really weird place for quite some time now, what with the net making it so easy for artists to get out there but achieve nothing. The amount of people who can get half a million people to follow them online but couldn’t sell out a pub gig is nuts. I wouldn’t complain about it though, it’s as much of a good thing as it is a bad thing in my opinion. At least on the internet things don’t get so political, I whine about how brutally political the dubstep scene is on a daily basis, it bores the shit out of everyone so I’ll leave it at that!
What is your favorite meal and who makes it for you?
Fry up. We do this thing when we’re hungover called double fry up day and we eat 2 fry ups each in one day and that is it. I make it, I get too scared if someone else cooks it, they’ll break the yolks on my eggs or mix the beans up with everything or something!
What’s one of your favorite plug-ins or pieces of hardware to use in your production?
It’s so standard I know, but N.I Massive. It can just do anything, I lose hours and hours of my life to it on a very regular basis.
If you could play at any venue or event, where would it be and why?
It sounds ridiculous, but the worlds biggest house party. We still play so many house parties where we live and they are just the funnest gigs ever.
Where do you find your main source of support comes from?
A lot of it comes from other artists, swapping half baked tunes, picking up tips off each other etc really helps you stay on top of your game. Our fans are so bloody keen too, that’s pretty awesome.
What does your family think about the music you produce, how have they supported you?They helped me a hell of a lot when I was younger, sorting me out with stuff I could just never afford, buying my CD’s etc. but I reckon they think I’m running around like this mental wannabe, trying to chase some crazy dream of getting really rich and famous through a genre they probably think I made up! “Dub – what!? You’re playing reggae??”
I’m sure it’s exactly the same with Nick too. We stopped off at his mums place on the way back from a gig the other day and she asked to hear some of her stuff, about 10 seconds into Home she said “…I’ll listen to it later!’
What are your goals and what do you expect to achieve with music production?
Just to be able to do this full time, no jobs, just loads and loads of music! I’d like to be able to say we’ve brought something new to the genre too, get a few people thinking ‘aaah I didn’t think of doing that!’ whether or not we expect to actually influence the scene at all I don’t know, but it would be pretty bangin!
What do you see being the next trend in the dance music scene?
I reckon dubstep influence is gonna start to creep into other genres, everyone will whine but that’s what I think is gonna happen, seems to be creeping in there already!
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We have a clever rework of Dolly Parton for free from Dubba Jonny.
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Dolly Parton – Jolene (Dubba Jonny Refix).mp3
And be sure to be on the look out for Dubba Jonny – Home droppin June 16th exclusively on Beatport.com through Velcro City Records with remixes by Deep Focus, InContext, & Rumblejazz
