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About Me

Agency Dub Collective are a live 6-piece from Melbourne, Australia. Heavily influenced by the revolutionary musical styles born in Jamaica, their music ranges from poignant downbeat dub and cruisy skanking roots styles to lively dancehall and stepper rhythms. Bass-heavy grooves are dappled with echo-drenched guitar and keyboards, interspersed with synths, samples and the plaintive cry of the melodica. Sometimes chilled-out, beautiful and classic, at other times futuristic, Agency Dub are always fresh and ever-evolving. Their passionate and articulate frontman, 3oB, delivers a variegated homogeneity of vocal stylings, ranging from sweet reggae falsetto to rowdy rap and ragga. Seeking to reflect the interconnectedness of all things (I&I), the lyrics connect personal and global themes and express a vision of humanity beyond the current capitalist paradigm.

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Member Since: 10/5/2006
Band Website: agencydub.com
Band Members:

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"DNBBQ Compilation 2" - Out now on the ForeignDub Label - Distributed through Inertia in Australia and New Zealand, features an array of crews on the cutting edge of Australian Dub, Drum'n'Bass, Dancehall, HipHop, Grime and heavyweight beat production, including "Light it Up in Dub" - Agency Dub Collective, from the Insurgency EP
Sounds Like: You can purchase any of the tunes on the player for your pod right here in high quality 320kbps MP3 format... all purchases via secure Paypal.
Buy Undiscovered Waters MP3, from the 2007 Commemorative 'Bring Down Baldhead' Single (prelisten on player)

Buy Merdeka MP3, from the 2007 Commemorative 'Bring Down Baldhead' Single (prelisten on player)

Buy Comin Correct MP3, from 'Insurgency' (prelisten on player)

Buy Comrades MP3, from 'Insurgency' (prelisten on player)

OR Buy a CD copy of either of our two 7-track EPs:available from Northside Records, Obese Records, Greville Records, Collectors Corner (all Melbourne) and Landspeed Records (ACT) and Grooven (Byron Bay)
Record Label: Foreign Dub / Dub Agenda
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

signed to FOREIGN DUB / MGM - new album "SOS" out MAY DAY

Agency Dub is very pleased to have signed a deal to release our new album on the new Sydney-based Foreign Dub label, with distribution in Australia through MGM. The album title will be "$.O.$" ak.a. "...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

Tour Nth NSW Mar-Apr 08 - New album out soon

Yes-I!! - it is nearly there!!! - we have nearly finished final dubbing of our LP... We kick off touring to promo the album with a grass roots tour to NSW North Coast (& Brissie) 27th March - 6th ...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:16:00 PST

New album in the pipeline

Well, rhythm tracks are down and 3oB has done a great job with the rough mixes so far... The months ahead will be spent overdubbing, putting down vocals, bringing the system 100 back into the mix, plu...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:55:00 PST

Last Live Gig for now / Farewell Party

The end of an era is upon us, as our dubwise drummer/producer and foundation member of Agency Dub Collective leaves Australia in 1 month's time - thankfully we have recorded all our gold tracks so we ...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:43:00 PST

Nice weekend in the studio

Recording of our full-length album commenced last weekend with an awesome 2 days at Bakehouse studios, in which time we recorded 14 rhythm tracks... Very pleased with the results... we recorded live ...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:21:00 PST

Final 3 shows til End of an Era

2007 is a big year of changes for Agency Dub Collecitve... This autumn we begin recording our next full-length album, and we farewell Dub Ninja, our drummer/producer and one of the foundation members ...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:49:00 PST

Big thanx to all friends..

Hi guys, Dan Ninja here... I just want to thank all our friends all over Australia for all their beautiful comments and support over the last couple of months. We have had an amazing time travel...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:47:00 PST

Deep Roots Festival @ The Espy

Our last Melbourne show for the year is gonna be massive! A big roots vibe festival at the historic Esplanade Hotel in St. Kilda. 8pm til late, $12 entry. Great line-up over ther entire venue. We play...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:17:00 PST

Shout outs

Nuff Respect to all of yah who turned up on Fri nite at Bar Open.. So much love in the room, best vibes, we were feelin it! special special times..Thanks & Praises be to Sista Itations who niced u...
Posted by Agency Dub Collective on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:55:00 PST