Biography
read full storyThis is a dub assault! Hard hitting, bass heavy dub spliced with smooth, laid back minor key melodies. In your face effects processing transport your cerebral cortex into another dimension. Proceed with caution! Your brain might be reduced to mush after hearing these bone crushing, echo laden dub tracks.
Mystic Mike and Jah Son I have been playing all types of music together for most of their lives. They started off playing in metal and punk garage bands while still in Jr. High and High School with their skat ...
This is a dub assault! Hard hitting, bass heavy dub spliced with smooth, laid back minor key melodies. In your face effects processing transport your cerebral cortex into another dimension. Proceed with caution! Your brain might be reduced to mush after hearing these bone crushing, echo laden dub tracks.
Mystic Mike and Jah Son I have been playing all types of music together for most of their lives. They started off playing in metal and punk garage bands while still in Jr. High and High School with their skateboarding friends. For the most part, these bands never made it out of the garage. Soon they were to discover, and be highly influenced by the militant beats and spiritual lyrics of Reggae. To them, reggae had that rebellious characteristic they had always cherished in the music they listened to. They began to collect as much reggae as they could and began to work the infectious rhythms into their songs.
In the mid 1990's, they were playing music that infused metal, blues, jazz, reggae, afro-cuban and funk into one unique concoction. They listened to so many different types of music and wanted to incorporate all of these sounds into the songs they were writing. A few years later, while living in Austin, TX, a spiritual reformation changed the two and they soon began to concentrate solely on reggae. The two brothers moved back to Houston, TX in the late 90's and formed the Cosmic Force Band with long time friend Dizzy Simmons. Soon they began to tour across the southern U.S. and Mexico. They shared the stage with international reggae stars such as the Wailers, Culture, Eek-A-Mouse, Wailing Souls, Capelton, Itals, Cocoa Tea, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Thomas Mapfumo, Everton Blender and the Abyssinians.
Until recently, Dub was something they had always dabbled in, but it played "second fiddle" to their roots-rock reggae projects. They made over a hundred LO-FI demos on their 4-Track Tape Recorder for fun over the years and soon decided to release an all dubwise album in 2002 entitled "Los Estados Unidos Take on the Freaks of Frankenstein at the World Cup" (which contained 16 improvised tracks recorded before, during halftime, and after the 2002 World Cup games they were watching on the local Spanish language channel). In 2005, Mystic Mike and Jah Son I finished the newest release "Sunny Days" which was mastered at the legendary Lion