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Kanka
Salle Diff'art / Association Diff'art
15 Rue du Président Salvador Allende
Apr 26, 2025
8:30 PM GMT+2
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KANKA
Kanka est aujourd'hui considéré comme le père du dub stppa français et a servi sa démocratisation auprès de nombreux publics. Dans les ann"es 2000, il est l'un des premiers acteurs à faire la jonction entre sound system et scènes de musiques actuelles en proposant des shows "live dub" avec sa console. Son style percussif et ultra efficace, avec ses basses profondes et hypnotiques, a fait de nombreux adeptes dans le monde depuis de nombreuses années.
ART-X
Art-X, quatre lettres qui symbolisent un homme et son instrument : le mélodica. Fidèle a son jouet fétiche, sa musique évolue à la croisée du dub et du reggae, où les émotions jouent un rôle central. Chacune de ses créations respirent la douceur invitant naturellement à la danse.
ONE A DEM SOUND SYSTEM
One A Dem est un sound system fondé en 2019 par trois figures du dub en Dub-Sèvres après 20 ans d'activisme. Porté par un projet global (studio, label, sono et émission de radio), il organise les Dub Side Sessions et les Diff’art Dub Club, tout en produisant des artistes via One A Dem Records. Co-organisateur du Dub Corner des Champs Sonores, il ambitionne de partager la culture Roots & Culture avec le plus grand nombre.
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Kanka Biography
Kanka is a French dub producer and multi-instrumentalist player: he plays drums, percussions, keyboard, bass, and machines.
He began his musical career in 1997 by integrating the reggae band King Riddim. With this band, he releases an album in year 2000. Then he promotes the album and participates to 200 concerts everywhere in France. It has been the occasion to meet bands such as The Gladiators, Pablo Moses, Horace Andy, Anthony B, tyken jah fakoly, Alpha Blondy, Max Romeo, Burning Spear…
In parallel to the band, Kanka decides to play dub music. To become dub producer.
In year 2003, he releases a first album, Every Night's Dub. This album is a self production and will never be distributed on a large scale. This one marks however an interesting collaboration with the vocalist Mc Olivia (from the Blackboard Jungle Sound System). The album especially enables him to take part in many compilation in France and Europe.
His name and his music were heard and the French dub label Hammerbass which closely watch his productions makes it sign afterwards. In year 2005, the album Don't Stop Dub is released.
In this album, the sound of Kanka is oriented "stepper", influenced by the British and Jamaican dub music but with a very dynamic rhythmic and a heavyweight bass line. Mc Oliva is still present but the British toaster Brother Culture, from the Manasseh Sound System, takes part in the album too. The forceful of the Kanka's music is also in the power of the vocal.
Kanka continues his work with the band King Riddim and another album is published in 2006.
This same year, Kanka proposes his third album, Alert! The bases of the stepper are reinforced, the bass line is still so heavy and also a lot of the hypnotic sounds appear and traverse the album as a whole. In this last album, the sound is a little bit more electronic.
Line-up
Kanka - samplers machine, keyboard, bass, drums
Mc Olivia - vocal
Brother Culture - vocal
Discography
Every Night's Dub (self production, 2003)
Don't Stop Dub (Hammerbass, 2005)
Alert ! (Hammerbass, 2006)
http://www.kankadub.com
Read MoreHe began his musical career in 1997 by integrating the reggae band King Riddim. With this band, he releases an album in year 2000. Then he promotes the album and participates to 200 concerts everywhere in France. It has been the occasion to meet bands such as The Gladiators, Pablo Moses, Horace Andy, Anthony B, tyken jah fakoly, Alpha Blondy, Max Romeo, Burning Spear…
In parallel to the band, Kanka decides to play dub music. To become dub producer.
In year 2003, he releases a first album, Every Night's Dub. This album is a self production and will never be distributed on a large scale. This one marks however an interesting collaboration with the vocalist Mc Olivia (from the Blackboard Jungle Sound System). The album especially enables him to take part in many compilation in France and Europe.
His name and his music were heard and the French dub label Hammerbass which closely watch his productions makes it sign afterwards. In year 2005, the album Don't Stop Dub is released.
In this album, the sound of Kanka is oriented "stepper", influenced by the British and Jamaican dub music but with a very dynamic rhythmic and a heavyweight bass line. Mc Oliva is still present but the British toaster Brother Culture, from the Manasseh Sound System, takes part in the album too. The forceful of the Kanka's music is also in the power of the vocal.
Kanka continues his work with the band King Riddim and another album is published in 2006.
This same year, Kanka proposes his third album, Alert! The bases of the stepper are reinforced, the bass line is still so heavy and also a lot of the hypnotic sounds appear and traverse the album as a whole. In this last album, the sound is a little bit more electronic.
Line-up
Kanka - samplers machine, keyboard, bass, drums
Mc Olivia - vocal
Brother Culture - vocal
Discography
Every Night's Dub (self production, 2003)
Don't Stop Dub (Hammerbass, 2005)
Alert ! (Hammerbass, 2006)
http://www.kankadub.com
Reggae
Dub
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