Reggae and dub's influences are so diverse they can be heard in almost every musical genre including punk, techno, hip-hop, and drum and bass to name just a few. Unfortunately, many uninitiated listeners to the ways of reggae and dub equate it with frat boys singing along to Bob Marley. Bay Area stalwarts DJ Sep, J-Boogie, Vinnie Esparza, Maneesh the Twister, and Ludichris have successfully broken that image for the past 11 years presenting dancehall, roots, reggae, and dub every Sunday night with Dub Mission.

Started initially as a monthly in 1996 by DJ Sep, Dub Mission was created, she says, "to present more than what people had heard in clubs and be an alternative to a typical reggae party." Eventually turning into a weekly, Dub Mission has become one of the most successful club nights in San Francisco, which Sep sees as a result of being "based in a open-minded environment where people became more and more receptive."

Floor rattling minimalist bass lines punctuated by echoes of vocals, horns, and guitars welcome visitors to the upstairs of the Elbo Room every Sunday night. With its liberal use of delay and sound effects Dub celebrates the manipulation of sound. Sep likes to describe it as something that “feeds the soul and the mind at the same time. It speaks to your heart with its lyrics, your body with its rhythm, and your head with its arrangement." Not many club nights can make such a claim about their music and back it up with crowded dance floors as Dub Mission has for nearly 11 years.

Dub Mission has always celebrated its anniversaries with style. With such heavy hitters performing in the past as Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound System, dub pioneer Scientist, and Dub Tribe Soundsystem - Dub Mission's 11th anniversary on Sept. 2 will not disappoint.

This year's celebration on Sep. 2nd will feature Brooklyn based collective Subatomic Sound System (SuBASS) headed by jazz and classically-trained EMCH on the mixing boards, dancehall vocalist Treasure Don, and reggae hip hop fusionist Jahdan Blaakkamoore familiar to many as the vocalist on Smif and Wesson's hip hop reggae classic "Sound Bwoy Bureill."

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Dub Mission's 11th Anniversary
Sunday, September 2nd 2007
The Elbo Room
647 Valencia @ 17th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110