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For nearly two decades, Emch has been the producer, DJ/selector, and musician spearheading NYC’s Subatomic Sound System and the Subatomic Sound label. Subatomic Sound System connects the reggae roots of dub and the future of electronic bass music using a unique configurations of live instruments and electronics that in 2011 led Jamaica’s dub pioneer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry to make Subatomic his go-to band for reinventing his Black Ark studio sound. At that same time, Emch founded Dub Champions Festival in NYC with the goal of exposing the legacy and influence of dub through performances and education events by both originators and new school dub revolutionaries. Dub Champions Festival has expanded like wild fire to Europe and across the entire USA creating a chitlin’ circuit style network of dub artists and promoters across the globe.
Furthering the movement, Subatomic Sound System engineered an 80th birthday tour for Lee Scratch Perry across N America, selling out nearly every date, as part of the 2015 festival, performing Perry’s classic “Super Ape” album for the first time ever live, one of one of the crowning achievements of dub and reggae produced and by Scratch in Jamaica in 1976. Subatomic Sound System has toured throughout North America, Europe, Russia and Asia. In 2007, Emch was recruited by top ranking Viennese live dub band, Dubblestandart, to play guitar and melodica on their Planet Dub tour which led to producing the first dubstep mixes for Perry. Subatomic Sound System productions, remixes, and releases include a wide spectrum of established icons like Lee Perry, David Lynch, Elephant Man, Anthony B, U-Roy, and Ari Up of the Slits as well as next-generation torch bearers and pioneers like Jahdan Blakkamoore, Dubblestandart, Stereotyp, Frikstailers, Dub Gabriel, and many more.
The Subatomic Sound label releases on digital and vinyl with the most recent being “NYC-2-Africa-2-Brasil” mixing up dub, dancehall, African and Brasilian percussion; and a new single with Perry called “Black Ark Vampires”. Emch also works as a radio host for Brooklyn Radio and in the past for KEXP’s Radio New York broadcasts, label manager for Kingston-based People’s Records JA, Dubspot music instructor, and event promoter — essentially at work on every level in NYC and beyond, supporting the legacy of dub and forwarding the global community.
Subatomic Sound System has performed throughout the U.S. Canada, Europe, Asia and Russia including recent shows at Coachella & Red Bull Music Academy, Telerama Dub Festival, Ozora Festival, Infrasound Festival, and many more.