Niz: Hello Vibronics
Vibronics : Hi

Niz : You came from England but where exactly?
Steeve : We are from Leicester in the middle of the country.

Niz: What looks like the local scene in Leicester ?
Steeve: Leicester is cool. Leicester is got a big history of reggae music and specialy sounds systems which is kind where we come from. I guess that we are influenced by this kind of local sound system/reggae scene (in the 60's and 70's); and now we are lucky enough to travel and take away with this.

Niz : So you start in 1995, that's right?
Steeve : Oh Yeah around that time. (Laughing) We have just discussing that. The first record came out in 98. But the first shows were in 97 and maybe starting build in first music in 95-96 so yeah ten years now.

Niz : What motivated you at that time?
Steeve: At that time again it was the kind of the sound system scene, hearing Sounds Sytems like Aba-Shanti and Jah Shaka.
Niz: You met Aba-Shanti.
Steeve: Yeah, yeah, we have a kind of work together and this here in music plate, in that kind of way, that kind of volume.
Maduu : Environment, loud.
Steeve : That's it.

Niz: and tonight this is not a full power sound system...
Steeve: The sound system is good tonight cause sometimes when we do a live show the sounds system is not so good. But here is good.
Maduu: Good bass and we can heard every thing then we can bring a sound system feel to the perceiving.

Niz: I have read that you have made a lot of collaboration with Iration Steppas, Jah Free, Djiins and wich influenced you the most?
Steeve: Hum ( hesitation ) Jah Free is a good friend of mine. I have not worked to them much recently but we spend a lot of time together a few years ago. Jeff is quite a few year older than me. He show few things, I guess but the big inspiration for are the big sounds system like Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti, Iration Steppas and Tubby. There's the one witch really influenced me and the music they play.

Niz : You speak about the 60's and the 70's, Don't you think that in dub there is a kind of frustration about this �golden age� of reggae/dub ?
Steeve : You see, I think that some people thinks that music stops in 1980 with the Tubby time. Some people don't take the modern dub seriously but everywhere we go we make people love the music we do.
Maduu:YES UK DUB
Steeve: 'Cause I understand the classic sound of the 70 does still sounds incredible today; It's amazing music but enough people appreciate what we do.
Parvez: We just make it in a different way today.
Maduu: It's just using modern tools.
Parvez: we have others opportunities now that's why it's different I suppose.

Niz: How French dub is perceive in England?
Steeve : To be honest, ten years ago people were maybe suspicious but so i don't really know about this French dub. But now some of he French dub is taking really seriously like Sounds Around, Zion Gate, Irie Ites, Uzina dub and hard stuff,new stuff like the control Tower (NDLR : inconnu au baitaillon).
Maddu : The collaboration with The French Sound System like Red lion are good. But we don't really heard the French dub as well. Dub is continuing anyway in many forms and many people appreciate. But French dub is different because how is it produce is different. It's good to appreciate the form where it is, you know.
Steeve : We've just speaking about the Jamaican dub of the 70's and it's got is own sound; The UK dub of now got is own sound, the French dub is got is own sound. It's a kind of different tangents to dub.
Maddu : It's the music of the oppressor, I suppose, and because it's hard feel a spiritual music and I think that on where you are if you are influenced by that music and take aspects of the music into your own form to make your own thing.

Niz: You have made 4 albums and such a huge quantity of singles,10� and 12� where come this creativity?
Steeve : I've always been interested in music, I've always wanted to make music and record it. It's come naturally. All of us enjoyed it. We have to work hard but we're lucky to do music.

Niz: How do you qualify your style?
Steeve : He ... It's a kind of, I guess UK dub sound system, UK roots, It's definitely very English.
Parvez : Concrete Dub !!
Steeve : We are really influenced by Jamaican music but we try to making just Jamaican music, trying to make an English UK version of it.
Maddu: it's the same here with the French that we've talking. It's came from Jamaica but because of the communities that were in England. There's now way to have the same Jamaican sound in an different environment. A lot of our sounds was develop inside concrete bunkers hall of community centre, and Jamaica music is create on the beach and trees blocks so it's why the sound system in the UK form is heavier in many way.
Steeve : It's more urban and more money, more technologies

Niz: Does the crew spend all your time?
Steeve : We don't do all the time, we work, we have families. I think that we love doing music all the time but it's very difficult to do it. The scene is very small as well. We are very tahnkfull for the progress that we have made but bringing enough money so...
Niz : It's to much underground!
Steeve : Yeah definitely!
Maduu: Underground of the Underground

Niz: What's your projects for the future?
Steeve: There will be a new vibronics album that we are record this year hopefully and then released next year. There will be new scoops records and releseases with Mr Parvez and Maduu and others artists. Just constant new production maybe some remixes for some people.

Niz : And what records are doing it for you at the moment?
Steeve: Records doing it for me at the moment... he he I really love Mongo Hi-fi, i love Babylon fall down, Kenny knocks.

Niz:That was the last question really really thanks you.

A big thanks to the Roots'n'Culture Team who allow me to make this interview

Big up by Maddu and Parvez from Vibronics

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