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DANUBE PRODUCTIONS/DAN UBICK

About Me

I grew up with music, my dad played jazz, my mom loved the Beatles and classical music and my older brother and sisters listened to lots of psychedelic rock and pop. I have been playing guitar and bass since I was 15 years old and have been lucky enough to have played with/recorded with many musicians I admire such as Aloe Blacc, Joey Altruda, Barrington Levy, Beat Junkies, The BEATNUTS, BIG DADDY KANE, BIZ MARKIE, Will.I.Am/Black Eyed Peas, Blood Of Abraham, BRAND NUBIAN, Breakestra, COMMON, CONNIE PRICE & The KEYSTONES, Craig G, DE LA SOUL, Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra, Dilated Peoples, Dwele, DJ Babu, DJ Format, GHOSTFACE KILLAH, DJ Greyboy, Guilty Simpson, EDDIE BO, E.P.M.D., Hepcat, Kate Havnevik, Kim Hill, Jurassic 5, L.A. Carnival (Lester Abrams & Leslie Smith), LILY ALLEN, Lonnie Jordan (WAR), MACY GRAY, MADLIB, The MARY JANE GIRLS, MASTA ACE, Maxim (Prodigy), Medusa, Mister Cee, M.O.P. (Mash Out Posse), MOS DEF, Mr. Scruff, Mulatu "from Ethiopia" Astatke, Mykah9 of the Freetsyle Fellowship, Noelle Scaggs, Oh No, Ohmega Watts, Orgone, Percee P, Peven Everett, Peanut Butter Wolf, RAKIM, Raheem DeVaughan, REDMAN, The Rebirth, Rhythm Roots All Stars, Leroy Sibbles & Barry Lewellyn (The HEPTONES), Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez, Rosey, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Sharon Jones, SLICK RICK THE RULER, The Soul Of John Black, Steve Spacek, Sy Smith, TALIB KWELI, Blue States/Thievery Corporation, TOO $HORT, Ugly Duckling, Bobby Watley (Funk Inc.), Weapon Of Choice, Jan Weissenfeldt (Poets Of Rhythm), Weldon Irvine, Wildchild, Wu-Tang Clan, DJ Z-TRIP. I have also done extensive work for FOX Television, Warner Brothers, MTV, MTV2 and did a handful of cues for the film "I'm Through With White Girls".

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/07/2007
Band Website: ubiquityrecords.com & stonesthrow.com/nowagain
Band Members: CONNIE PRICE & THE KEYSTONES/BIG DADDY KANE :: THE LIONS :: RHYTHM ROOTS ALL STARS/DE LA SOUL :: JEREMY SOLE'S MUSAICS :: JOEY ALTRUDA'S CRUCIAL RIDDIMS :: MADLIB'S SOUND DIRECTIONS
Influences: Richard Ubick, Gabor Szabo, Johnny Jenkins, Burning Spear, The Band, Sly & The Family Stone, Mustard, Little Willie John, Quincy Jones, The Kinks, Jorge Ben, The RZA/Wu Tang, the L.A. Carnival, Jerry Goldsmith, The Heptones, Lalo Schifrin, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Freddie McGregor, Martin Luther King Jr., Cymande, Fela Kuti, Public Enemy/The Bomb Squad, Baden Powell, Cadet Records, Parliafunkadelicment, Prince Paul, 70's Aerosmith, Norman Whitfield, Terry Reid, Jacob Miller, John Lee Hooker, Cornell Dupree, The Gladiators, Steve Smart, Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Booker T. & The MG's, Shuggie and Johnny Otis, Large Professor, Miles Davis, Art Pepper, The Beatnuts, Stan Getz, Bill Clinton, King Sunny Ade, Boogie Down Productions, Stax Records, Ennio Morricone, Santana (1st LP-Moonflower), Wailing Souls, Little Feat w/ Lowell George, the JB's, Coxsone Dodd, The Dust Brothers, The Staple Singers, Peter Green, ATCQ, De La Soul, Lee Perry, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Weller, Diamond D, Showbiz and AG-DITC Crew, , Led Zeppelin, Can, Thin Lizzy, Poets Of Rhythm, Abyssinians, Ry Cooder, The Meters, Luis Bonfa, Os Mutantes, Marley Marl, The Allman Brothers Band, Finley Quaye, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dennis Coffey, The Mighty Diamonds, Orchestra Baobab, David Axelrod, Soulful Strings/Richard Evans, Rotary Connection, ZZ Top, Howard Blake, Albert King, John Barry, Gary McFarland, Johnny Pate, Darondo.
Sounds Like:



Tell Me Something LP (Ubiquity)
Feat. Percee P, Mykah 9, Aloe Blacc, Ohmega Watts, Soup, Wildchild, Blood Of Abraham
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Choices EP 1 / Featuring: "Thundersounds w/ Percee P" & "Thundersounds (Instrumental)"
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Wildflowers LP (Now-Again)
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Wildflowers 12'' (Now-Again)
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The Keystones feat. Malcolm Catto
Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Blood's Haul
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Stick and Stones EP
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ESL Remixed / Feat. Blue States "Golden Touch (Connie Price Remix)"
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DJ Format: If You Can't Join 'Em...
Beat 'Em Remix EP / Featuring "The Turning Point (Connie Price and The Keystones Remix)"
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Keb Darge Presents: Funk For The 21st Century / Feat. "The Badger"
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Sound Directions / Feat. Dan Ubick & Todd Simon
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Madlib "Shades of Blue" / Feat. Dan Ubick & Todd Simon
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Jungle Struttin' CD/LP
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THE LIONS / JUNGLE STRUTTIN 7''
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Record Label: Ubiquity & Now Again/Stones Throw
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Flea Market Funk's Ode to Blood's Haul and Doubledutch

"The Keystones feat. Malcolm Catto  Double DutchGood midweek to all the FMF peeps. I have been a bit under the weather as of late, but I wanted to talk about a record that Ive been digging a bunch a...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 09:53:00 GMT

THE LIONS at SIERRA NEVADA WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL!!

The Lions will be performing twice at this years SNWMF: On Saturday June 20th backing up Jamaica's Legendary HEPTONES and on SUnday June 21st right before KING SUNNY ADE with Alex Desert, Malike Moore...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:25:00 GMT

DAN'S MUSIC behind the stars of FAMILY GUY, 24, AMERICAN IDOL, HOUSE and MORE!!!!

Check this link for Dan's acoustic guitar work behind FOX's 2009 EARTH DAY "Green It, Mean It" campaign:http://www.fox.com/greenitmeanit/?src=carousel_on_h ome_page
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:07:00 GMT

DAN Interview's CADET Records Arranger RICHARD EVANS in the new WAX POETICS #34

Richard Evans was the man behind some of Cadet's funkiest releases including Dorothy Ashby, the Soulful Strings, Marlena Shaw and Terry Callier.  The man also grew up with Donny Hathaway and Curtis Ma...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:05:00 GMT

DAN UBICKs music in FOXs hit show "24" w/ Kiefer Sutherland!!

Go to WWW.FOX.COM/24/DOSSIER/ and look under videos (click on on "JACK BAUER IN DC") to hear Dan's heavy psych rock music as Kiefer Sutherland walks around the Washington Memorial. Dan also scored so...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:28:00 GMT

KEYSTONES sampled on new OH NO/GUILTY SIMPSON track "Piglets" for EA’s SKATE 2

The Keystones track "Attack of The Killer Penguins", featuring the incredible right foot of England's master drummer Malcolm Catto, was sampled by super producer OH NO for the song "PIGLETS" featuring...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:31:00 GMT

KEYSTONES on new GREYBOY LP "15 Years Of Westcoast Cool"

Todd Simon, Dan Ubick and string maestro Steve Kaye are featured on the track "Love" featuring Nino Moschella on DJ Greyboy's new LP "15 Years Of Westcoast Cool" on Ubiquity!
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:37:00 GMT

THE LIONS top AMOEBAs "Music We Like 2008" Reggae Charts!

The LIONS are very fortunate to have made it to the top of AMOEBA's "Music We Like" 2008's Reggae charts. Being the extreme music connoisseurs that they are, we consider this a huge kudos. That and ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT

DAN UBICK Interviews LALO SCHIFRIN in WAX POETICS 29 (Herbie Hancock cover)

DAN UBICK had the good fortune and backing of NYC's WAX POETICS to get the opportunity to interview the one and only film composer extroadinaire, MR. LALO SCHIFRIN and it's all documented in the new i...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:06:00 GMT

DAN UBICK's Converse featured in the new VAPORS Magazine

Dan is modeling, that's right modeling, Converse shoes in the new issue of Vapors alongside Orgone's Fanny Franklin and DJ Nobody.
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 15:26:00 GMT