Music - Children Of Dub
I spent a good few years writing and recording music, mostly under the banner of 'Children Of Dub' - producing a mixture of house, trance, ambient, ambient dub and drum n bass music. You can watch our music videos (1995-2020) on my Children Of Dub YouTube here and you can also find us on Spotify, Apple Music etc. Some of the orginal CD releases are still available, the rest is only available as downloads or second-hand CDs or vinyl. Also please heck out the website childrenofdub.org
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Re-issued in 2020 and repackaged with a gatefold cover, now featuring 2 CDs instead of 1with over 150 minutes of music, this collection now includes 6 exclusive tracks and more rare and deleted tracks from 12" singles and compilations albums.
Evolution 1993-2020 is a compilation of some of the best work of Children of Dub, includes 25 tracks off all of the 12" and CD singles, a handful of album and compilation tracks plus several previously unreleased tracks. This album brings together the best of the dance tracks produced over their entire career. EDM: consisting of trance, house, old-school, psytrance and ambient dub.
Released in 2020, this 5th and final album includes the singles "Stay With Me" and 'Fire' plus ten other tracks of varying styles. It is an homage to all things dance, all linked by the characteristic heavy bass and dub production techniques. Featuring contributions from vocalist Emma Stack, multi-instrumentalist Chucky Chrysal and saxophonist Anton Petelchits, This album explores house, funk, trip-hop, trance, drum n bass, break-beat and ambient as well as the expected dub influences. Contributors: Luke Eastwood, Emma Stack, Chucky Chrysal, Anton Petelchits, David Bell of Surge
Released in 1995, the debut album features versions of the singles Nemesis and Transcendental plus 9 other tracks, reaching 14 in the UK indie chart. It is a seamless journey through ambient dub moving up into progressive house and back to indian flavoured ambience. Finally, in 2012 it became available to buy online. We have a few copies on 2xLP and CD left and hopefully a re-issue my happen in the future.
Contributors: Luke Eastwood, Demian Castellanos, Katie Hecker, Chris Hunt, Andy Mowat, Mat Hill
Released in 1998, the 4th studio album was released to critical acclaim in the UK and European press. it combines themes from other genres with ambience and dub fused together in a unique way. Drawing on Eastern and jazz influences it marries the two with drum n bass and crunching beats, as well as a few trancey and ambient tracks. Includes the single 'Feeling Has Gone'. Contributors: Luke Eastwood, Lou Palmer, Saoirse Keogh, Surge
The 3rd album draws heavily on 70's dub, combined with trance and drum n bass influences. It includes a version of the single "Greed", with David Reilly on vocals, and two tracks featuring Demian Castellanos - "Herb" and "Strange News From Another Star". Also included is the original version of the single "Rhythm Of Life". This album has a harder edge moving away from 'ambient dub' and heading further into 70s style dub and trance. It finishes with three tripped out ambient landscapes on a darker, but still positive vibe.
Contributors: Luke Eastwood, Demian Castellanos, David Riley, Surge
Released in June 2020, this 2nd single from the '5th Element' album features 4 remixes: Dubstep/EDM artist Chinaskiz from Australia, Irish Breakbeat DJ Smit!, Reflector Fidelity Trap/Lofi artist from UK and a Jazz/Drum n Bass contribution from Chucky Chrysal (in Croatia) who also sang vocals on the main track (Fire).Contributors: Luke Eastwood, Emma Stack, Chucky Chrysal, Chinaskiz, Smit!, Reflector Fidelity
Released in 1996, the first single from the album 'Chameleon'.The title track was inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's book 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'. A four track EP featuring the original and a deep house remix by Children Of Dub of the title track. Also included are the drum n bass version of "Outer Space" and a dub mix of "Freedom". This EP scraped into the UK dance chart top 75 and also made the UK indie chart top 30. The vinyl is sold out and deleted, but a few copies are available still on CD.Contributors: Luke Eastwood, Surge
Released in 1995, the debut single. It was inspired by the increasing environmental destruction that we now refer to as 'climate change'. Nemesis is the Greek goddess of retribution, against those who exhibit hubris. 25 years after this record was released she has finally arrived to torment us.
Features some classic trance and house remixes by DJ Monkey Pilot of Whirl-Y-Gig, Bumpy Capers, Cyberia and Children Of Dub. Went to the top 20 in the UK indie chart, deleted in 1996 but a few remain on CD only. The vinyl is long sold out and deleted.
Contributors: Luke Eastwood, Bumpy Capers, DJ Monkey Pilot, Cyberia
Some musical history:
I have been playing music most of my life, starting with the recorder at 7. I moved through several different instruments and by the time I was at University I was writing my own (not very good) songs. I started out in Rock in a band called Eclipse with Demian Castellanos who later worked with me in Children Of Dub and also later formed psychedilic band The Oscillation. Although I love Rock, along with many other genres, I was keen to move into Dance Music fairly rapidly after being blown away by Acid House in 1987.
It took me a few years to figure out how to properly make House, Trance etc. and I was strongly influenced by my involvement in the underground London club night Zero Gravity. It was in fact me who found the infamous 'Clerkenwell Clock Shop' in 1990 when looking for a cheap or free practice venue for my band Eclipse. Our drummer Giles knew these crazy Croatian refugee popstars living in this big terraced house with an enormous workshop at the back. It wasn't quite right for us as a practice room but I thought it would be a perfect hidden away spot for my DJ friends to develop their embryonic club night - the very first Zero Gravity (which I was at) had been quickly shut down by the police due to noise levels.
I brought round my friend Chris (DJ Zach who was promoter for Zero Gravity) to The Clock Shop - he loved the place and soon after DJs Cloggi and Quark (Richard & Jono) moved in on the top floor and also met soon-to-be lighting/FX guru Denny Domingo who was already living there. That chance discovery launched one of the best and most popular alternative Dance clubs in the UK, which lasted several years, even after The Clock Shop was closed down and demolished (due to phosphorus contamination). During the first year of Zero Gravity at The Clock Shop I spent a lot of time with Denny and DJ Quark especially, who introduced me to a lot of new music. Quark's remixing of mine and Demian's demo 'Journey To The Inner Light' at The Clock Shop inspired me to explore fusing Rock psychedelia, House/Trance with Dub Reggae style bass and production - so it was out of Zero Gravity that Children Of Dub was born.
DJ Zach joined briefly as a member, including our debut at Whirl-Y-Gig in 1993. Katie Hecker joined a year later & Demian dipped in and out, while he did his own music. I was writer, producer & performer in Children Of Dub throughout, the 5th (final) studio album, featuring Chucky Chrysal & Emma Stack was released in 2020. This was followed in November 2020 by the compilation 'Evolution: 1993-2020" on 2xCD and download.
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