JAHNO - Dubbin The Cave

Take a visit to www.jahno.ovh.org/ and take a look at French 'Dubbster' JAHNO.

J.A.H.N.O. was born in the mountains of Auvergne, France. Introduced to music in his childhood by his mother, herself a pianist and organist, she teaches him the essentials of keyboard. At the age of 5, he goes to music school and begins trumpet for 5 years. Then, he tries saxophone, continuing musical theory. At age 15, after 5 years of saxophone, J.A.H.N.O decides to beat the barrels (normal when you live in the rue des caves (= cellarstreet).
In 1998, after exploring the drums, inspired by the rhythms of Sly Dunbar, he falls in love with reggae drumming technique. At that time, he has lessons with Christophe Merzet, master of the Tambours d’Auvergne. In 2000, J.A.H.N.O. and some musicians from Clermont-Ferrand form the «Magwaman Riddim Section». This backing-band plays around the regions’ bars and parties during 3 years. They used to be support acts of U-ROY, BIG YOUTH & MAX ROMEO, ANTHONY B, SLY & ROBBIE, IMPROVISATORS DUB, ZENZILE a.o. The band splits in 2002, but will reborn under the same name with new electro-dub elements. From then on, J.A.H.N.O. pushes his own musical project of oldschool sounding dub forward.
From the center of France Jahno try to (re)produce some"rootsy" reggae music. 70's jamaican dub sound is his main musical & technical influence. Working with mid class and cheap studio equipment he try to recreate reggae riddims that keep that "oldskool" grainy sound.
Playin live drums, various percussions and recording it straight to multitrack, keybords and bass parts recorded live to the midi recorder, jahno dedicated his little studio to combines digital and analog technology with always in mind of soundin' different from others. Multitrack recording being done in digital and two track mixdown done in analog.
For the "rotten roots" track Jahno is helped by kemist kris of Reality Shock Records UK based artist stable & record label creation. Kris played kete repeater drum and guitar rythm.
Dub mixes are recorded and mixed only on a 4 tracks roland sp808 due to budget necessity. Dub mixes are done in one live pass, with sp808 parameters controlled live with a midi controller and combined with external analog FX.
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JAHNO LIVE IN THE MIX!!!

DON'T FORGET TO SWITCH OFF THE FLASHPLAYER BEFORE PLAYING!

STUDIO
Yamaha drums
Various percussions
DTX v.2 drum trigger & sound module
Oberheim B3² sound module
Atari st midi recorder & sequencer
Roland SP808 4 track recorder and sampler
Kenton midi controler
SPL gold mike dual mic preamp
DBX 386 dual mic preamp + A/D convertor
SPL Kultube stereo compressor
Symetrix 525 dual mono compressor
Symetrix 511 dual expander and dynamic LPF
SPL Transient Designer 4
SPL Qure dual mono 3 band parametric eq
Moog Mooger fooger Phaser
Home modified Orban 111b dual spring reverb
Home modified MAM spring reverb
Klemt NG51S "Echolette" tape echo
Yamaha Mix EM 200 8 track monitoring
Tascam BR20T 2 track 1/4" tape recorder
2 X Tascam 32 patch bay

Taken from http://www.tantyrecord.com/