“Dub Echoes” is a documentary that traces the origins of the Jamaican dub music and it’s influence on the development of hip hop and electronic music.The film shows how the Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.
Sound
The mix itself becomes character—layered, manipulated, alive.
Direction
Natal lets the pioneers speak, no narrator needed.
Director
Bruno Natal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Bruno Natal spent years tracking down obscure footage of 1970s sound system battles, some of which had never been digitized.
The film reveals how British post-punk, German techno, and American hip-hop all unknowingly drank from the same Jamaican well—yet the originators rarely profited.